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Mary Kasprzak

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Food writer and photographer. Chicago.

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 8h
There is an entire White House Gift Office whose job it is to acknowledge and catalog gifts to the President and transfer them to the National Archives, as they belong to the American people and not the President.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 13h
"That last night, for some reason, he left his hat and his Red Bull at the restaurant. He always drank Red Bull at work. The last thing he told me was, 'I’m gonna leave my Red Bull. I’ll drink it tomorrow.' I still have it at the restaurant. That’s what kills me."
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A year without Silverio - Chicago Reader
A Portage Park restaurant owner remembers Silverio Villegas González, the quiet, hardworking cook who was killed by an ICE agent.
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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“The administration has largely used Title IX to open dozens of investigations aimed at removing protections for transgender students, blocking transgender athletes from participating on female sports teams and eliminating gender-neutral bathrooms from schools.” But not sexual assault.
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Cornell Case Highlights Drop in Resolved Sexual Assault Cases Under Trump (Gift Article)
The administration has shifted its enforcement of a civil rights law from allegations of sexual misconduct to issues like blocking protections for transgender students.
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lots of crazy things happening these days, but the spy scandal unfolding in Germany at the moment about the former BND head handling out secret information seems quite high up there in the 'that usually only happens in a Le Carré novel'-list of events...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"...Bolsonaro will likely jump out to a sizable early lead that will shrink as votes are tallied from other parts of the country. The Lula-friendly northeast often comes in later."
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Bolsonaro Takes Early Lead Over Lula in Brazil Race
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026
INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out
Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.
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Mary Kasprzak @marykasprzak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans in congress have totally surrendered the power of the purse to the executive branch
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No one can fill this void left by the theft of basic research funding.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just announced: The Uptown Theatre has been added to the Chicago Architecture Center's Open House Chicago. "Visitors will enter though the main lobby and take a short guided tour of the auditorium. No photography will be permitted." 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 17 and 18.
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Uptown Theatre
The Uptown Theatre is the crown jewel of theater developers Balaban and Katz and renowned movie house architects Rapp and Rapp. Built in 1925, the Uptown is the largest freestanding theater in North A...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From the guy who actually talks to MAGA world every day - and I do love how they all blab to @swin24.bsky.social: "Lately, the behind-the-scenes, party-wide sense of terror has been growing conspicuously worse, almost by the day, as we approach November."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The fact that Pete Hegseth remains Defense secretary is a moral failing of our nation.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a pretty stunning thing to admit
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
It's remarkable (in a very good way) to see an elected member of the Democratic Party saying this. For decades, the Party has treated public higher education as a jobs training program, not a site for cultivating democratic habits of mind. I deeply hope that things are changing.
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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 29/09/2026
Retention races are one of the few ways voters can directly hold judges accountable. Ahead of every election, our reporters do the research so you can vote with confidence. buff.ly/jpBxfAa
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Cook County November 2026 Judicial Election Guide
Injustice Watch's guide to the November 2026 Cook County judicial elections.
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paradigm-of-life.bsky.social @paradigm-of-life.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
courtesy of @aerobrain.bsky.social , LMAO morg didnt post quinn simmons even once in his victory post
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some great news here: big majorities want to prioritize changing the system over just stopping Trump, including a quarter of Rs! But rather than target those entirely gettable and plentiful Rs, some Dems are still saying they want to work with him. It's madness.
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Papa Rides a Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Some good suggestions in the @chicago.suntimes.com today for how to improve public transit including from @lilybeansdad.bsky.social calling for bus rapid transit. Also some interesting ones like boat transit along the river/ canal or Lake. Subsidized Cargo bikes, and streets closed to cars.
Page 2 of the Sun Times. Readers write in to suggest ways to improve public transportation in the city. 

"Bus rapid transit on Western, Ashland dusableLakeshore drive and other arterials, creating a network of dedicated bus lanes that connect with bike and pedestrian infrastructure." TIMOTHY SHAMBROOK.
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
you can just say it's illegal when it is
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On so many level, this is an abomination, but my beat is Appropriations, and so: “Under the proposal, Venezuela’s gold revenue would flow into an account controlled by the U.S. Treasury, which would then dole it out” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w....
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Ned Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
German Eurosport (I am on my travels) just used the following phrase: "Tadej Pogačar will have been so pleased to see his teammate win, who, race after race, rips his arsehole out in the services of others."
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Katy M @writebikerepeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Morg teammate of the century.
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Mary Kasprzak @marykasprzak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
McNulty?
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Mary Kasprzak @marykasprzak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ben healy, what?!
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Mary Kasprzak @marykasprzak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anyone but Simmons
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Mary Kasprzak @marykasprzak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
roglic joining the leaders is bonkers
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Having written a TV show built on "deep dives on one bad rich guy per week" with one version 2008-2012 and another 2021-2025, I'll say that the OG evil rich guys were evil greedy assholes, and the new rich guys are mentally disordered perverts, and so do evil. And not the good kind of perverts.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 26/09/2026
Bullying works
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Mary Kasprzak @marykasprzak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Going to be the same podium as the Tour de France Femmes
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Mary Kasprzak @marykasprzak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elisa Longo Borghini flying
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robyn @robynemz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
KASIA NIEWIADOMA-PHINNEY AND ELISA LONGO BORGHINI HAVE CAUGHT DEMI VOLLERING
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 26/09/2026
Whether or not you agree w/Obama here (and there’s a lot to debate about his point), this isn’t unclear at all. As a religion and politics reporter, I can assure you: Obama is talking about a real thing, that candidates in *both parties* are playing with right now, with real political impact.
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Mary Kasprzak @marykasprzak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kim Le Court distanced in that crash, ugh
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026
America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I talked to some smart people and this is what they think Democratic Party leaders need to be prepared to do with their congressional majority come January if they want to accomplish much of anything: www.salon.com/2026/09/24/the-democr…
• No more cowering from veto threats. Democrats should dare Trump to veto
 popular legislation and make him own the consequences if he does.
 • Demand major concessions from Trump in return for passing a new debt limit and
 a defense spending bill, and shut down the government if necessary.
 • Drive a wedge between Republican legislators and their increasingly unpopular
 and irrational leader.
 • No more protecting "centrist" Democrats from tough votes.
 • Tell the lobbyists to take a hike.
 • Impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for malfeasance.
 • Impeach Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought for violating
 congressional spending directives.
 • Order the Capitol Police to arrest and jail administration officials if they refuse to
 honor congressional subpoenas.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
The entire US politics and news industries spend a large chunk of their waking hours on a platform designed to inflate the importance of that 18%. It's a big problem, and why you get stuff like Tammy Duckworth saying she's against impeachment because she wants to "find a compromise" on USAID $
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump has raised $850 million supposedly for campaign ads but instead he's keeping the money and billing U.S. taxpayers for a spot Pure Mafia stuff
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