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Chicagoland. You had me at politics/baseball/road trips/tv/fast food/dad jokes.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The group behind this is a China-based biotech startup aggressively marketing that it identified a treatment target & designed a small-molecule therapeutic using generative AI This new study is aimed toward getting FDA-approval for “aging” as the indication, which could be incredibly profitable
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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
It’s frivolous with everything going on, but what is the #dumbest #rock #lyric you have heard? Can it top this, where the band obviously just wanted to get it over with: By God this blade is razor sharp! Do you know how to play a harp? youtu.be/XKSB6g8ZcRg?...
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Subway Terror
YouTube video by Starz - Topic
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lake county democrat @lakecountydem.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Repeating suggestion for Dems: Instead of Medicare for All, propose lowering the eligibility age to 62 *and* pitch this as pro-worker. It enables more people to take early retirement (matches social security), freeing jobs, relieves older workers with ACA plans of big burden.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 07/07/2026
On this day in 1946: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized by Pope Pius XII as the first American saint.
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Today in Chicago History: ‘Mother’ Cabrini becomes 1st American canonized by the Roman Catholic Church
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 02/07/2026
A cartoon about a hypothetical "pocket telephone," from 1919
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
10 years ago, Tad Devine helped Bernie Sanders ratfck the 2016 Democratic primaries. In 2018, Devine testified about working with Paul Manafort as media consultant for Russian asset Viktor Yanukovych. Guess who's releasing a new book next month to help leftists ratfck the 2026 midterms?
A picture of political consultant Tad Devine's new book "How the Democrats Screwed Bernie" set to be released in 2026
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Remains a critical point. People argue that whatever the plain text says the authors certainly didn't realize it cld be used to apply to anyone. In fact, the debates themselves make crystal clear they not only realized this but very much intended it to apply in this way.
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Chicago History Podcast @chicagohistorypod.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Dear @mayorofchicago.bsky.social - now THIS is the kind of gift you bring the Chicago White Sox-loving Pope. Classy move, Pierzynski. www.mlb.com/news/pope-le...
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Twenty-one years later, Pope Leo given last-out ball from WS game he attended
It's well known by now that noted White Sox fan Pope Leo XIV attended Game 1 of the 2005 World Series, which was won by Chicago en route to sweeping the Astros. And now he has a suitable keepsake from...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Pete Hegseth struggles to bench press one plate
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Gerard Cosloy @gerardcosloy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Strawberries, Kenmore Square, 1984. Newcleus. Over and over and over again www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Qd...
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Jam On It
YouTube video by Newcleus - Topic
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A lot of preexisting legal structures are limping along bc the administration lacks either the interest or resources to impose its will but are we not at a point where Trump *could* pick up a phone and direct a patent examiner to allow a particular claimed invention, or else?
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BlueBird @sun2stars.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
MAINE: David Costello is 1000X better than Graham Platner. David's a TRUE Democrat who supports & understands every Democratic priority. We don't need six years of scandals and BS from Platner! COSTELLO for MAINE COSTELLO for MAINE
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Home | Costello For Senate
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/05/2026
The son of a Supreme Court Justice seems to have gotten a nice job in the Treasury Department—while his father refuses to recuse himself in related cases. trib.al/2uJUqNF
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Why is this a private reprimand?
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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In Dublin 🇮🇪, a city councilor posted, and then deleted, a video on WhatsApp that said the world needs a “real final solution” to its “Jewish problem.” Philip Sutcliffe told reporters that he “probably just shared something that I shouldn’t have.” Probably?
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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I laugh and also wish!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The writing life, courtesy of Franz Kafka.
EXCERPTS FROM KAFKA'S DIARIES
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JANUARY 20. The end of writing. When will it take me
up again?
JANUARY 29. Again tried to write, virtually useless.
JANUARY 30. The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.
FEBRUARY 7. Complete standstill. Unending torments.
MARCH 11. How time flies; another ten days and I have chieved nothing. It doesn't come off. A page now anc hen is successful, but I can't keep it up, the next day m powerless.
MARCH 13. [.] Lack of appetite, fear of getting ba te in the evening; but above all the thought that I wr
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
*many people are saying* it sure looks like the White House wrote this for Pakistan’s PM, who posted it then quickly deleted the top part 😬
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lake county democrat @lakecountydem.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
John F. Burns, RIP - one of the great journalists of our era. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...
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John F. Burns, Prize-winning Foreign Correspondent for The Times, Dies at 81
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 24/12/2025
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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Thank you @bradleyperry.bsky.social! 💙💙💙🫶🏼
If civil war breaks out, meet me at the library.
They don't know where it is.
d@becbec.seeker
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Megyn R. Kelly
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
NEW @motherjones.com: When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Megyn Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now, with Epstein, she’s claiming it’s not quite fair to call him a a pedophile because he was “into the barely legal type” of minors. ⬇️ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Megyn Kelly suddenly finds pedophilia very hard to define
When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now she's splitting hairs about men "into the barely legal type."
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/11/2025
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
screenshot of an email exchange between Tom Barrack and Jeffrey Epstein. On March 9 2016 Tom Barrack said "Hope ur good. Let's catch up" to which Epstein replied a few days later "send photos of you and child.   -- make me smile"
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
There are so many more possible deep histories than we know or might most readily (conditioned by the present and the victors of the recent past) imagine.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Father: My son is 44 years old, functions at about a 2 year old level, and requires around the clock medical attention. SNAP initially gave him about $260 a month, which fed him. That's dropped in the last year to about $120 and now that's gone. Now I have to go out and find additional work
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lake county democrat @lakecountydem.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Thing is, Starbucks is better than nearly all these (we don't have Dutch Brothers. Tim Hortons is good for everything -but- coffee). Though this admitted coffeesnob would take Counter Culture or Stumptown over all of them.
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Mike Sington @mikesington.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Kristi Noem blasts “foreigners” for dangerous driving. According to the Rapid City Journal, that state’s court records show Noem had 20 speeding tickets dating back to 1989, alongside other violations, including failure to stop at an intersection and invalid license plates.
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lake county democrat @lakecountydem.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Trumpism comes to the Patent Office. Trump's head of the patent office just gave himself the right to kill administrative review of patents, no explanation given. x.com/IPLawAlerts/...
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IP Law News on X: "USPTO Director Takes Control of IPR and PGR Institution Decisions https://t.co/xqYj99oFIN | by @FoleyandLardner" / X
USPTO Director Takes Control of IPR and PGR Institution Decisions https://t.co/xqYj99oFIN | by @FoleyandLardner
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
If you can afford it, a *monetary* donation (it goes a lot farther!) to your local food bank would be a most excellent thing to do right now.
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lake county democrat @lakecountydem.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Microsoft Bob was ahead of its time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...
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Microsoft Bob - Wikipedia
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
"You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time." I didn't think George Stephanopolous had that gear, but good for him. That's how it should always be done.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.
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Michael St. James @michaelstjames.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Keep this in mind. Marcus Aurelius was born into wealth, he inherited it all, became emperor. He never had to pawn his guitars to get enough gas to get to work and make rent. He never had to steal to eat or pay his hospital bills.
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cherylcorgi.bsky.social @cherylcorgi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Part 1 here are the companies that advertised on Celebrity Family Feud last night which was aired in place of Jimmy Kimmel: boycott until Jimmy is brought back: Emirates Airlines America's Best eyewear McDonald's Cabenuva HIV injections Special K Disneyland
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Devin Duke, PhD @sirdukedevin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Eugenia @eugeniast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Nazis did not tolerate ridicule
Article clipped from The Montreal Star
* Herr Goebbels
Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit
Comedians Banned For Humorous
Remarks on Leaders:
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BERLIN, Feb. 4 - (U.P.)
When Propaganda Minister
Paul Joseph Goebbels yesterday blasted Germany's cafe society, he called it "society rabble and intellectual snobs," for laughing at comedians who make Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes.
Goebbels turned his anger upon the "society rabble" after announcing that live German actors had been banned from the stage for publicly rediculing Nazi party and state functionaries. He
بماسمفمسمنمطاللمطاparty and state functionaries. He denied that there was any lack 

of humor in Nazi Germany, but


said that it must be kept "good-


natured, decent and clean."


"There is plenty of humor in


Germany, more than enough," he
said in

three and one-half


column editorial in the Nazi

party's newspape
Voelkischer

Beobachter. "But
we do not per-


mit ourselves to be ridiculed.”


The five actors were W
Or-


ner Finck, actor-author: Pete


Sachse, vaudeville comedian, and


Helmut Buth, Wilhelm Meissner


and Manfred Dlugi, the latter


three members of a vaudeville

combination known
as. "The


Three Rulands." The five were


said to have been warned re-

peatedly to stop making
jokes

about the Nazis.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Crazy the amount of MAGA influencers who are going hard against Thomas Massie right now. All the same talking point.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
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Mike Lowe @mike-lowe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 29/08/2025
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 27/08/2025
How did a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery hand absolute power over to Hitler, someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following?
newyorker.com
The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers
The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Definitely making himself a main character (I agree with Don's block suggestion)
clearsky results showing that TP has blocked 3300 folks in the past 24 hours and has been blocked 8600 times
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Do betta, Meta.
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 21/08/2025
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Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 14/08/2025
Lost Boyz has had a significant amount of its grants dry up recently. It's a great cause: Their mission is to help inner city Chicago kids...through Baseball. ⚾ You can help! Buy this shirt and proceeds will go to support them. You can also make a donation on their site: lostboyzinc.org
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Lost Boyz Inc.
Decrease violence, improve the social and emotional conditions, and provide financial opportunities among the youth in Chicago's South Shore community
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 07/08/2025
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