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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The downtown Neiman Marcus flagship was one of the first major Dallas businesses that broke with these practices. In 1961, the company desegregated its Zodiac Room, a swanky lunch spot frequented by Dallas elites. Later, they welcomed Black shoppers to come and buy clothes without restrictions.

The Zodiac Room restaurant on the sixth floor of Neiman Marcus in Dallas. The photo shows a bunch of tables covered in white tablecloth and leather covered seats.

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We lived in an apartment across the street from the NM flagship back in the late 00s, and even though we (obvs) didn’t shop there, it was always a weird joy because of the window displays. Especially during the holidays. RIP 😢

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When Betsy DeVos took over the Department of Education under Trump in 2017, she immediately began lobbying to make it more difficult to hold rapists accountable for their actions under Title IX. Many, many women wrote about it extensively at the time, including your truly.

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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

in related news: does my microwave need Zoloft?

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It was such a treat to find these gorgeous little green cup mushrooms in the forest this morning. Usually all I can ever find is the bright turquoise mycelia in the rotting wood. Finding the thumbnail size fruiting bodies is pretty rare for me. Their colour is unreal. 🍄🌿

Bright turquoise green little fingernail shaped mushrooms, growing out of a rotting log

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026

Another good find in my screenshots

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Possibly the most beautiful of all the 40 species of cat but it’s a high bar

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This visual presentation of wealth to average Londoners using poker chips is really interesting - might be cool to see what non-wealthy Americans have to say about seeing something similar. So many people don’t understand what a billion dollars looks like.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

some of this is about what AI is. it feeds on the knowledge-rich resources of the middle. The middle is aspirational. Ergo, AI EdTech affixes itself to the rich middle class vein of aspirational families trying to eek out opportunity hoarding in scarcity, instead of privilege.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What would you like to hold for your portrait? Maybe a little bird? Perhaps a cup-and-ball? A wee drum? No. Fetch my sword. (American, 1841, attributed to Henry Inman) www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2399684...

portrait of a young child (maybe 3 years old) in a burgundy dress, drawing a sword longer than its legs

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The total cost to Chicago taxpayers to defend and settle 16 lawsuits naming Guevara is set to reach at least $206 million on Wednesday, records show.

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 18/09/2026

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking east from the Skydeck atop the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millennium Park and Chicago Harbor with Lake Michigan beyond. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-17 19:06:11 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@earthcam // Current Temp in Chicago: 69 F | 20 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NNE at 13 mph | 20 kph // Humidity: 93%

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great show, watch it if you haven’t already!

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Peter Max has died. The US Information Agency (then the parent agency of VOA) commissioned him in 1970 to design a recruiting poster. Decades later I found and purchased a signed copy and donated it to the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in Ohio. apnews.com/article/peter-max-...

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 16/09/2026

"an ankle monitor for your mind" needs to immediately break containment and enter the vernacular

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The future is rife with possibilities! A little morning hopium…

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026

Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU. And create a common prosperity and economic security space.

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sina @rejectionking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

at the core of the ai doomerism narrative are a group of adults that have worn out their terminator two dvd to the point of tendinitis and acute dehydration

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The oldest Greek myth might have been written by a Roman. The six cm hump in the middle of the acropolis base was likely to prevent puddles rather than correct an optical illusion says Oxford professor. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

theguardian.com

UK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon’s optical illusions

Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s hard (for me) to get the perfect shot of something beautiful, but this one of the twilight from my windows is maybe pretty close.

iPhone shot of the northwestern skyline at sunset from my living room window. A deep and rich indigo sky blends from the east to the west, melding into the gold colors of the setting sun.

It looks more insanely beautiful in person, naturally.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Simply beautiful: clasped hands from group statue of Akhenaton and Nefertiti. Made of quartzite, 18th dynasty, ca. 1350 BC, from Amarna, #Egypt On display at Neues Museum, Berlin 📸 me

A close-up of clasped hands, both are broken off at the wrist. Made of a yellow brown stone.

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is such an important message. I - always having bad eyesight but that’s about it - was diagnosed with uveitis and macular degeneration two years ago.

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WBEZ @wbez.org · 10/09/2026

So far, 24 candidates have signed the pledge, which also calls for eliminating or reducing school screen time, depending on grade level.

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Chicago school board candidates sign pledge to ban AI use in schools

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Starting to get trashy fundraising spam from JB‘s Ready to Fight PAC.

We texted you yesterday.

𝗡𝗼𝘄, 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 “𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁” 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗽…

And as of 12:00 PM, we’re seriously falling behind on reaching our $50,000 Week One Grassroots Donor Goal.

Our chances of flipping the House and Senate completely hinge on whether folks like you step up in critical moments like this.

98.2% 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦. 𝘚𝘰 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦 $3, $10, 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 $25, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵’𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.

Can you give before midnight and get us back on track?

Here’s the best link: give-r4f.com/l/xNPggT

Let’s go!

- Ready for the Fight

Text STOP to quit

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 08/09/2026

You have to make making culture a priority. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/how-should...

What do we lose when software is our greatest cultural export? Doesn't it bother you that Al has made the signs in your neighborhood uglier and removed the quirks of human idiosyncrasy in the handwritten note stuck in the storefront window? Wasn't it better that people could choose whether to see the silly Wile E. Coyote movie instead of leaving a finished project in the vault to die in tax write-off purgatory?
Weren't you amazed to learn that the Circe scene in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" was shot completely in-camera, with prosthetics and no CGI? Aren't there different, more difficult stories out there that also deserve to get told, and to also get told well?
Don't people work hard enough and suffer too much not to deserve, in their short lives, to encounter beautiful and well made things?

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For a story i'm working on, if you're a trans voter in Texas with thoughts about James Talarico's stance on trans athletes or Gina Hinojosa's pronouns ad yesterday, i'd love to hear from you. I did this story 2 years ago with Colin Allred, time flies. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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Colin Allred won't use the word 'transgender.' That bothers some voters.

As Ted Cruz attacks Colin Allred with anti-trans ads, transgender voters and advocates see a "spineless" candidate.

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One day, all the life-optimizing bro-maxxers who are forcing this stuff on everyone will - while looking at the old and imperfect bodies they end up with anyway - weep because they couldn’t bring themselves to just be normal fucking human beings in their youth.

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Richman says she sees TV ads every day saying that drugs can cause side effects of stroke, death etc — and those still got approved. "I'm not sure why this drug would be any different," she said of mifepristone

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Chicago-area businesses lost $1.2 billion because of immigration enforcement, a report says. buff.ly/643nXbl

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This thread is absolutely horrifying and the parents who are forcing their children into these schools (along with the school officials themselves) should be arrested for child abuse. I really hope the City of Chicago will be investigating the presence of this “school“ here. 😡

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m curious if this school is actually operating in Chicago (this just appears to be a published press release), what enrollment looks like and… how is it operating? Are standards for opening a school really this non-existent?

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Alpha Chicago opens as city's first AI, teacher-free school

Alpha opened the first school in Chicago that uses artificial intelligence and has no teachers.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

no more books needed

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The new American oligarchs have completed the multigenerational project of reversing all the gains of the 20th century labor movement finance.yahoo.com/news/super-r...

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Super rich’s wealth concentration surpasses Gilded Age levels

America's richest of the rich just passed the Rockefeller-Carnegie cohort in wealth concentration, according to Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Iran has won the short-video meme war with Trump. Now consider this from our neighbors to the north. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SUA...

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Canadian Resistance Army - Trade War (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by demonflyingfox

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/09/2026

Zohran Mamdani just created an Office of Worker Power, and launched it on Labor Day

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Composite photographs of child laborers — Lewis Hine, 1913. Made while Hine travelled the U.S. for the National Child Labor Committee documenting child labor — in factories, textile mills, canneries, and coal mines. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l... #laborday

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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 07/09/2026

As we mark Labor Day, we're revisiting Elinor Langer’s classic Ms. investigation from 1976, which reveals how corporate interests, not just culture wars, have long been at the heart of opposition to women’s equality.

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Why Big Business Is Trying to Defeat the ERA: The Economic Implications of Equality (May 1976)

Why Big Business Is Trying to Defeat the Equal Rights Amendment: The Economic Implications of Equality (May 1976)

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

From 1976, but the entire article could be written today. “The economic consequences of equality for women is enormous“

And while we are both engaged in making these elementary proofs, what else is going on? Who benefits from our mutual self-absorption? Is it the corporate center. The beneficiaries of this old-fashioned diversion are the major business interests, splayed within both political parties, which have concluded that equality for women, coming on top of the decreasing flexibility in the hiring and firing of black people that has followed the civil rights movement, would introduce an inelasticity into the labor force that their profit margins cannot bear.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/09/2026

164 countries at the UN have voted to encourage the use of a better - because more accurate - world map than the Mercator projection. You wanna guess which ONE country voted against? 😂 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size

The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Medusa but her hair is an anaconda

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey chiton and stubbornly strides to the left, dragging the heavy snake, which trails sullenly along behind

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. It is completely coiled around her, leaving only her angry yellow eyes visible, and a single hand lifted to flip off the world

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey towel and is scrubbing the snake. A bar of soap sits in a small puddle off to the left

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She sits, drumming her fingers impatiently, while in the background the anaconda digests some large prey

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.

The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

not for nothing but of all the Confirmation classes I taught in the early aughts, one of the biggest hits was a session on Revelations it was basically "no we don't believe in the Rapture" / "the Left Behind books are trash" / "if a Catholic starts talking End Times shit to you, run"

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The train they keep warning us we’ll miss if we don’t hurry up and get on board.

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