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Maria in Chicago

@maria-in-chicago.bsky.social
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Expert in tech and data privacy; follower of politics good and bad; cat lover

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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Just got this email from my alderperson. What in the f—-? Also heads up to people near North Center in Chicago.
Join us TONIGHT at Northcenter Town Square (4100 N Damen) at 6:30 PM for an
emergency_ community rally to demand that
ICE stay OUT of our schools..
Today, federal agents entered a private daycare and violently detained a teacher with parents and children present. Tonight, we'll come together to make our voices heard: our community will not stand for ICE terrorizing our schools and families.
RSVP encouraged.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I love when my cat clasps my hand as if she has just seen my future and it’s terrifying.
Gray Cat holding my hand with a genuinely startled and horrified look on her face. Eyes all black and mouth slightly open.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
My favorite sign of the day.
Blues Brothers shown saying “I hate Illinois Nazis”
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Chicago today. Timeline cleanse.
Digital picture of the Chicago shoreline two miles from Navy Pier. You can see the giant Ferris wheel in the distance.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I’m hearing Chicagoans are going to be insufferable now and that’s just not true we were always insufferable and yes we are still better than New York and LA as it has always been.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I honestly don’t think America has suddenly gotten worse. I think a critical mass of people have just come to the slow realization that this is actually The Bad Place.
Jason from the TV show The Good Place realizing it’s actually The Bad place.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I can’t think of any better way to celebrate 4/20 then to go to a local indie movie theater and watch a David Lynch movie. Which is exactly what I am doing.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
My cat is top shelf.
Cat looking down at camera from a high shelf.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I feel like every day on BlueSky I’m shaking a Magic 8 Ball of constitutional crises and the answers are becoming more alarming.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Protest just getting started here in Chicago.
Large crowd in Daley Plaza Chicago
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/04/2025
A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
There’s a cat in my cupboard!
Cat is sitting in kitchen cabinet on a stack of plates.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This was literally a line in A Fish Called Wanda. Also made by a character who was a total idiot.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Honestly how stupid do you think we are? Don’t answer. We already know.
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ceej @ceej.online · 12/03/2025
Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Honestly people need to read (or re-read) The Grapes of Wrath. None of this is new — just re-packaged. Our entire country has always been based on exploitation.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue. www.the-reframe.com/the/
the-reframe.com
The Worst and the Dimmest
It's not a coincidence that we're being led by the least qualified monsters available; it's a deliberate strategy. Facing the Worst - a series about directional alignment.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Honestly I’m at the point where I think it’s not just Republicans that need to be jettisoned into the sun, it’s Democrats as well - with a few notable exceptions. What an utter failure of leadership. What cowards they are.
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E C @thxithaspockets.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Some encouraging news about the power of comunity organizing: “They want to make an example out of Chicago… Well, I’ll tell you what: we do need to make Chicago an example—of people finding their courage and their backbone.” boltsmag.org/chicago-immi...
boltsmag.org
How Chicago’s Immigrant Rights Groups Plan to Hold the Line on Sanctuary Policies
As Trump threatens Chicago, organizers are bracing for raids but also hopeful that a vast suite of local protections and community trainings can limit the scale of deportations.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
With everything else going on, I still can’t stop laughing at how tech built a $500 billion dollar hammer and told us they needed more money and more infrastructure to make it work properly and then China came along and used an old book to pound the nail in place and walked away.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 28/01/2025
If you're in Illinois, you're on Section 8, and your landlord tries to evict you because of the government funding freeze, email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. My cases are pay-whatever-you-can.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is how it’s done. Chicago has a lot of problems but we are probably the most prepared out of any major city for what’s to come. abc7chicago.com/post/us-immi...
abc7chicago.com
ICE agents denied entry to South Side elementary school, Chicago Public Schools claims
Chicago Public Schools officials claim U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were denied entry to a South Side elementary school Friday morning.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/01/2025
Every family and child deserves to feel safe and secure in the place they call home. Every resident of Illinois should know their rights. I intend to protect those rights and ensure our state laws are followed.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
As a woman who has worked in the tech industry for 20+ years, DEI was never implemented anywhere seriously. It was always a smoke screen. Tech is as viciously misogynistic as it was in the late 90s.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
My heart goes out to everyone in LA dealing with this ongoing tragedy. The whole country is with you.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Caturday.
Ridiculously cut cat nestled in her cat bed.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I’m watching Season 2 of the Squid Game and loving how it demonstrates the illusion of choice when it’s presented by people who do harm. Also the last scene of Episode 3 felt like I was re-living the most recent presidential election.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I told my boyfriend I was upset we had an unelected oligarch running the country and he said “which one.”
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Imagine giving a billionaire the job of deeming what government healthcare programs are “unaffordable.” Did people really vote for this?
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
people say “you have to judge slaveholders by the morality of their own time, no one knew it was wrong” and then you read about some Quaker named, like, Mr. End-Slavery-Now who was also a feminist and a vegetarian and advocated the overthrow of capitalism.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I can’t stop thinking of that biblical quote: “He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.” Seems relevant given the storm coming our way in January.
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The Stick Girl in Trioth @thestickgirl.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Baron Halo’s dirty little secret revealed! (Chapter 21, Page 5): thestickgirlintrioth.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/22... #stickgirl #webcomic #webcomics #comic #comics #comicfury #freecomic #freecomics #girlpower #superhero #superheroine #graphicnovel
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Conspiratorial templates @mynamehear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
There is no more effective recipe for a country's failure than stripping rights from women. It's wrecked every country that's ever tried it. It will do the same here.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
After reading that ProPublica article about another mother’s death in TX due to the abortion ban, I asked my bf “how many women have to die before this changes?” He said, “Probably as many kids have to die before we get reasonable gun control.” Ooof, dude.
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
OMG this Bears game!!!! Watching from my local watering hole and people are going nuts!
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
It is now a part of my sacred and hallowed Sunday tradition to watch the Bears lose.
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/11/2024
Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Don't limit the political perspectives you read, instead have an open mind and read the political perspectives served to you by the algorithm controlled by the billionaire right-hand man of the billionaire president-elect of the United States of America
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My cat Zoe looking stupidly cute. That’s it. That’s the whole post.
Cute cat looking over railing
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’m genuinely concerned by how many Americans would unleash unimaginable violence and pain on their neighbors if it meant their 401k went up something like 2%
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Maria in Chicago @maria-in-chicago.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Honestly I’m ok with being on the “losing” side right now because it’s still the right side to be on
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