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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 1h

I'm on the edge of my seat over here. a journalist in South Africa is digging into the subject of my absolute favorite series of episodes of weird little guys -- the South African pro-apartheid terrorist who married an American klansman.

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The pipeline between US white supremacists and the SA right

Decades before Ernst Roets lobbied the US, a little-known Kempton Park woman linked the AWB to global neo-Nazis – a story that sheds light on international support for the farm murder cause.…

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✨ Spooky Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social · 1h

I AM A POLITICAL PROFESSIONAL! I scream into the ether as I create laminated quarter-sheet QR codes to vote for a neighbor's granddaughter to be 12-year-old "Athlete of the Year." (Nobody asked me to do this.)

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 2h

As a con law/federal courts scholar, it wasn't always true that when the first Monday of October rolled around I'd feel dread and gloom. But it's been that way for a long time, at least since Bush v Gore.

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Torts & Sports @tortsandsports.bsky.social · 2h

Aw man, that'll teach him lol

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✨ Spooky Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social · 3h

One of my law school classmates did this... during law school? Played linebacker for the Jerusalem Kings in the Israeli Football League.

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✨ Spooky Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social · 3h

Does this mean you are *in school* or like... applying: currently being considered for Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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🏳️‍🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟 @coleurbanist.bsky.social · 3h

Saw a Republican say that El-Sayed campaigning with Obama will lose him votes and… just lol

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h

He was two heartbeats from the Presidency for 8 years. He shepherded all of GWBush's destructive legislation through the House. And repeatedly said his experience as a high school coach, when he sexually assaulted children, guided his politics.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 6h

As a longtime Chicago journalist I want to say that if you fail to put Hastert's serial CHILD SEX ABUSE in the headlines about his death, you are doing it wrong. So far, this is the only headline I've seen that has been crystal clear about what the Illinois pol did to kids. Credit @reuters.com.

Dennis Hastert, former US House speaker and admitted child molester, dies at 84

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 5h

Ohio, today is the last day to register to vote for November’s election. Register online or drop off your voter registration form at your county board of elections office TODAY by 9PM. For more information, head to iwillvote.com/OH.

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I Will Vote

Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4h

Two things: A) It's the biggest blessing from party elders that Abdul El-Sayed can get to have Barack Obama campaign with him). B) You bring in Barack Obama when you need the closer. This is bringing on Jordan with the Flu. This is Ben Wallace in Game 5 against the Lakers.

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IL Politihub @ilpolitihub.bsky.social · 3h

New Chicago News Weekly Poll Finds Pritzker Up 20 Points, Democratic Candidates Leading Statewide Races

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4h

If your newscast says Hastert was 'tied to' a child sex abuse scandal, you're failing your listeners.

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Alicia Kraft @aliciakraft.bsky.social · 17h

We were robbed of an episode where all the counselors Jerri tries to hook up with at summer camp turn up dead before she can seal the deal (she is unwittingly the murderer)

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 4h

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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Jade 🪶 @nerdynurse.bsky.social · 4h

Patriarchy is when "I have a boyfriend" stops a man faster than "No." When an invisible man gets more respect than the woman standing right there.

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mitchell Berman, an ER nurse, could flip Paul Ryan's old seat. How sweet would it be for Paul Ryan’s district to become the place where Dems win a majority in the House?"

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PacifistCell @peacefulbrevard.bsky.social · 5h

This is SO COOL! And it's free. Popular Information is releasing PaidForBy.info, a web app that gives you unprecedented insight into who is really sending you mail — and who is paying for it. All you have to do is take a photo of the front and the back of the political mailer and upload it.

paidforby.info

Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 4h

29 days

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

What the Laquan McDonald cover-up guy advocating against holding people accountable for doing things like wantonly killing people under the auspices of public safety?!

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 6h

16% of all permits are in 47 bsky.app/profile/mich...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14h

I grew dis

me hiding my face behind a gigantic cannabis bud mid-trim. It’s longer than my arm

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

💻🩴Make a difference sitting at home in your sweatpants & flip-flops. With a computer & phone, you can talk to voters who live ANYWHERE 👐 Join us this week (& any week) for Michigan Mondays & Wisconsin Wednesdays. We train ➡️ You become a confident phone banker! indivisiblechicago.com/phone-bankin...

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 2026 was the warmest September on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. 🔥🔥🔥

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David Crowley @davidcrowley4wi.bsky.social · 18h

There will be no funding for Flock cameras in our community. Instead, I’m directing those dollars to support an eviction prevention initiative. Wisconsin communities need investment, not surveillance.

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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 15h

"You're afraid to debate me." No, it's a shitty method for, well, pretty much anything and everything.

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No Cartridge Trev @nocartridge.bsky.social · 15h

Clancy Wiggum asking his son, with some concern, “Tom Morello looked at you?”

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✨ Spooky Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social · 16h

@raf.bsky.social uh you're probably really smart about discord.... right (you're probably sleeping and can answer this tomorrow.)

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 17h

The cat, who doesn’t live here, wanted to see inside an empty paper bag. I opened the bag and showed it to him and he immediately left in disgust. I simply can’t win

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 21h

Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)

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Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools

According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 18h

get you a cool group of dudes to go to haunted houses and movies and grow old together with

Four cool middle aged men who are awesome standing under a tent.

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 20h

To be scrupulously fair to Alito, he doesn't really believe women are people, so I guess it isn't surprising that he doesn't think they have concrete reliance interests.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 17h

I LOVE MY LARGE ADULT TEEN WOLF SON

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...

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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics

Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.

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✨ Spooky Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social · 17h

Does the architectural weekend tour have an app?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

America.gov website. man standing on truck. query reads "Had to abandon my truck coz gas prices. Help?"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, dogs should not have the jobs of man

Parenting
American Television Shows
Paw Patro
Is it wrong for a 12 year old to watch
Paw Patrol with an 8 year old?

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✨ Spooky Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social · 17h

If you reply to something from 20 hours ago that people spent the past 19 hours telling people with suicidal ideations to go kill themselves about, but your post was because seven minutes before there was new context, but also you didn't include that part, I'm going to go ahead and mute you, FYI.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

sure, i guess it’s possible that jack buhring voted for biden on november 3, 2020 and by january 11, 2021 he was posting support for trump’s insurrection contesting the results of the election. but even if that were true, it belies some pretty complicated politics not articulated in the story.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 18h

I wonder if the local businesses will put two and two together here and advocate for more pedestrian activations

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 18h

The hasidim really have some hats. Check out that rabbi on the right's beaver tornado shtreimel. That's what I call a chapeau. (Sable or marten, apparently, but you get the drift.)

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Cole Wagoner 🦆 🏈 @colewagoner.bsky.social · 18h

Shoutout to Isbell for making kids tickets free!

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Vince Cima @vincecima.com · 18h

We are not a serious city, what is even the reasoning for the alderman deciding this?

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 18h

There are 154 permits for halloween block parties. Some are duplicates data.cityofchicago.org/Transportati...

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Transportation Department Permits - Block Party - Current and Future | City of Chicago | Data Portal

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 18h

Earlier today I posted this because I've never seen our mayor promote car-free Halloween events. Pulled the permits and it turns out there are actually more Halloween block party permits in Chicago than New York! BUT.... Look how inequitable that map is. All concentrated in a handful of wards

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✨ Spooky Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social · 22h

What are your interests, Monica? Staying at home to protect immigrants. Going exactly two blocks to the beach. Going exactly two blocks to the beach but with the dog. Staying at home, but to store my immigrant and dog supplies at home.

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