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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Ottawa - Minnesota, PWHL takeover in Chicago. Charge wins! 🏒⚡️ #womenshockey #pwhl

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Illinois Football Focus @illinifb.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Caleb Williams x Celine Dion mashup

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I came across *the* example I have been hammering with these food delivery robots. A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Sunday snow and bright skies, I love Chicago winters

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

November 2025 shot from winter light show at Chicago Botanic Garden / It’s been a minute. Should I return to Flashes? #winterlights #christmas

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 05/09/2025

An ICE watch zine (Chicago edition) being handed out today.

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Illustration of a squirrel carrying a pile of books, walking towards a tree hollow full of books.

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valentine @dozygay.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/06/2025

LET'S GO QUEERS

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12/06/2025

Illinois follows the law — we expect the federal government to follow the law, too. We won't participate in abuses of power. We won't violate court orders. We won't ignore the Constitution. We won't defy the Supreme Court. We won't take away people’s right to peacefully protest.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Try this instead

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Jon is a Marine Corps veteran who served at Camp Pendleton. Here’s what he thinks of Pete Hegseth’s threats to deploy Marines in Los Angeles.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

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Climate and Transit @climateandtransit.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Anyone who is against building transit and bike infrastructure really hates their life cause these commute times within the city are absurd

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Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

‘Take away natural beauty, free access to books and support for the arts, and you end up with a less enlightened, more ignorant and less engaged public. That’s a public much more easily manipulated.’ Via @sulliview.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Parks, libraries, museums: here’s why Trump is attacking America’s best-loved institutions | Margaret Sullivan

The president’s funding cuts and bullying are about dividing Americans and tightening his grip on power

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Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Not my usual essay, but sometimes the world gives a writer no choice of subjects. When terror comes for your neighbors, you stand witness. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...

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Opinion | The Profound Inhumanity of ICE Raids

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Wtffffffff. More reason to wear your masks, folks. I for one enjoy not being sick.

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HudsonRiverCroc @hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Oh, it’s not just a jersey thing? What could have made this a national issue? What change at the FAA in the last 6 months? Impossible to tell.

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I got stressed and cut my own bangs again. 😞

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Ana Tijoux killin’ it at Sleeping Village. April 20, 2025 🇨🇱🎶 #livemusic #chicago #independentvenues

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Ahhhhhhh 🙏 Thank God someone is doing the work!

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Timeline cleanse. I went to Wisconsin, ate some cheese, saw some art. #wisconsin #roadtrip

The Mars Cheese Castle sign is iconic in Kenosha (a must stop on the journey from Chicago to Milwaukee).

Inside the lakefront Milwaukee Art Museum and the cathedral-like Windhover Hall, designed by Santiago Calatrava.

Olafur Eliasson’s “Rainbow Bridge” at Milwaukee Art Museum

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/04/2025

I hope everyone remains safe and also that people know that a corporate spaceflight of only women astronauts for a company owned by a deeply destructive billionaire who is enabling fascism is just public relations for fascism and has absolutely nothing to do with feminism

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The stupid coup's stupid energy policy--coal is just a dirty, expensive, moribund way to make electricity, and it's also some kind of symbolic Ye Mannehood of Olde stuff that the right gets all sentimental about, while screwing over actual coal miners.

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Titanique, Chicago style 😍

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Scenes from Taste of Iceland music events in Chicago over the weekend, including lúpína, a rare listen of an 11-year-old Bjork, and tracing the Iceland family music tree with @hermigervill.bsky.social from the ‘70s (more in comments bc can’t post multiple vids in main)

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Yesssssssss, inspiring to see so many people downtown today (and to see the other crowds all over the country). We have to keep the momentum going! Hands off! #Chicago #handsoff

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I recently learned that not only is Kroger (Mariano’s) defending DEI, but I can order groceries from Mariano’s and Kroger will deliver so I don’t have to use Instacart. Just tried it, and it was great! I don’t have a car and can’t always walk to the store and back with heavy things. Thx, Kroger! 💪

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

My 2nd year at Biophilic Leadership Summit at Serenbe (just outside Atlanta) is in the books! Was an incredible three days with inspiring speakers, so much data, walks in the woods, and even an impromptu light show at the labyrinth. Many wonderful stories to share! #serenbe #biophilicinstitute

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Warm Lake Michigan days in Evanston 🥰 Late March 2025

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Well, I hope a kraken swallows them 🐙 Leave shit alone.

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Dropped my phone and lost an earplug (quickly recovered) I was so excited. Finally got to see Refused, just in time for their “we’re done for good” tour. So glad I got to see them at @saltshedchicago.bsky.social #hardcore #punk #refused #chicago #livemusic 🇸🇪🤘😎🖤

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

So much fun at the new @elstonelectric.bsky.social @saltshedchicago.bsky.social today. Even had my fortune told by a Garbage Pail kid (sadly it wasn’t Luke Puke) 🤮😎 #chicago #arcade

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

hmmm don't think that's it

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Seriously people. STOP USING META.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

About to go out in a denim jacket sporting a Krampus pin because I CANNOT GET THIS PIN OFF! Year-round Krampus is a mood.

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Did a thing I haven’t in years—saw unfamiliar music by myself in a country where I don’t speak the language. Beautiful and moving, challenging and unexpected, in a good way. Seeing Søren Huss at the beautiful DR Koncerthuset was a nice end to two weeks in Europe. Mange tak! 🇩🇰 #copenhagen #solotravel

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Laura Rote @laurarote.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Wandering Berlin for a few hours was fun. I hate that this app only lets you post four photos 😭 #berlin #travel #solotravel

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