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BRAK AND BLUE @yinkadoubledare.bsky.social · 12h

why don't the padres simply have a closer who can do 2-4 scoreless innings

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All the talk about the end of the Brewers game has me wondering what my own trajectory might have been had I not hit some obstructions myself, imagine how far I might have gone or where I could have landed if perhaps my own Padres had been different.

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That is the connection, yes

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What on earth is this statement? She accomplished complex projects, so we’re going to sue you if you repeat her allegations that she was sexually harassed?

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Capitol News Illinois @capitolnewsil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The alleged murder-for-hire plot surfaced days before trial in a case involving the death of 8-year-old Leland “Lee” Arnett and a family with an extensive history of involvement with child welfare services. buff.ly/y7rPEc5

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Prosecutors: Man charged with killing 8-year-old DeSoto boy tried to hire inmate to kill boy’s mother

Prosecutors say a DeSoto man charged in an 8-year-old boy’s death later tried to hire an inmate to kill his mother.

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Funky Cold Luda @funkycoldluis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

your TL is gonna be full of bleh. so i'll say something nice. ron coomer has become exceptional as pat hughes' radio partner. he perfectly threads the needle of "guy you wanna have a beer with" and "guy who knows ball." plus he has cool stories from his playing days.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026

Old friend Gavin Sheets

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"oversight" This is a good story. Evidence that the city council and mayor's office will do anything other than legislative or executive control, which, strictly, is their responsibility. You can add COPA, district councils, CCPSA, and 100 other things. CPD is still a city agency, city budget.

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CPD oversight body beset with division over follow-up to Operation Midway Blitz

The primary city agency mandated to act as a civilian-oriented check on Chicago police was divided as they sought accountability over Operation Midway Blitz.

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In which DCFS appears only to move in response to intense public pressure (a viral video) and can't provide basic historic data about its operations (wait time fluctuations for background checks.) By @meredithnewman.bsky.social illinoisanswers.org/2026/09/17/c...

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Childcare Access Is Strained in Illinois. The State’s Slow Background Check System Continues to Threaten It

Chronic understaffing at DCFS and an unimplemented state law are leaving some childcare centers short-staffed, turning away kids and in some cases risking their funding.

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Casey Toner @ctoner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our look at the buyers, sellers and recipients of Illinois' rapidly expanding film income tax credit program. Among those who got a tax break: Jennifer Pritzker, Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao, Billy Corgan @capitolnewsil.bsky.social capitolnewsillinois.com/news/lights-...

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Lights, camera, tax credits!

Illinois expanded its film tax credits to attract productions, but critics question whether taxpayers get a good return.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The White Sox blew it so badly.

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Capitol News Illinois @capitolnewsil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

DCFS says it intends to produce records requested by Capitol News Illinois after missing multiple court dates this year, and the director is required to appear in court next month. @benszalinski.bsky.social reports. buff.ly/ydVEoQM

capitolnewsillinois.com

DCFS tells judge it will comply with records request in 2024 death of foster child

DCFS says it will release records tied to a foster teen's death as its director faces an October court hearing.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/09/2026

Experts Advise Against Throwing Laptop Across Office Even Though It Will Feel Incredible theonion.com/experts-advise-against…

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Provided with numerous examples of the violent child abuse content and asked whether Meta [Facebook] would work to proactively take the material down, the company’s spokesperson declined to comment on the record'

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Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down

Facebook is hosting huge numbers of horrifying AI-generated videos of violent child abuse, and Meta is barely taking them down.

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 09/09/2026

A message of hope, direct from Nintendo to you

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

News: Federal investigators subpoena'd the IL Fraternal Order of Police last year for financial records and other documents relating to Chicago FOP president John Catanzara, per a copy we reviewed. W/ @samjcharles.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/08/f...

chicagotribune.com

Feds demand FOP president John Catanzara’s financial records from state union

Federal investigators issued a subpoena to the state police union late last year in an apparent probe into Chicago’s FOP President John Catanzara’s financial dealings, according to a copy of the docum...

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matt carmichael @mattcarmichael.com · 08/09/2026

Playing this like a “he campaigned on lowering taxes and fixing pot holes” story is an odd choice.

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Kinda bullshit Benetti isn't isn't calling this game

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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The shrinking of NFL stadiums in a nation with growing population at a time when demand for the product has never been higher tells me the league's goal is to make the in-person product strictly a luxury experience. They want to be F1 but running 16 tracks a week. The poors can watch on TV. Maybe.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” Jane Addams, born on this day in 1860

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kevin @redsoxredshoes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I can't FanDuel imagine why Kalshi Michigan got a PolyMarket second opportunity there brought to you by DraftKings

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Gotta say, the Cardinals of all teams mounting the most righteous protest against authority in baseball in recent history is something of an upset.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 06/09/2026

this is sports now

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It is hard to express how wild it is for a federal prosecutor to say this — let alone put it in writing. From ProPublica's Megan Rose and Andy Mannix: www.propublica.org/article/doj-...

Late on Tuesday, Matthew Evans, the assistant U.S. attorney in Minnesota in charge of the case, told lawyers for Sosa-Celis and other victims to prepare for Castro to be charged “only with False Statements,” according to an email that was reviewed by ProPublica.

That charge would likely carry a far less severe punishment if he were convicted.

“This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” Evans wrote in a remarkably candid account of internal deliberations. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.”

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As part of the plea, he has to give up "numerous thumb drives marked “SECRET U.S. Government Property.”"

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

RIP Wendell Berry, who died yesterday at 92. Poet, writer, agrarian, environmentalist. My favorite poem of his is "The Peace of Wild Things."

The Peace of Wild Things

Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just saw a video that censored the word “shooting” in a conversation about filming a movie. We really are just offering up our entire language to the God Algorithm, huh?

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I remember this guy, what a time to be a young fan

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/09/2026

New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles

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Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

35 years ago I read an essay, or maybe just a long quote, in which Wendell Berry advised that everyone should make some of their own food. Grow herbs in a window box, for example. I started baking bread. Did it for years. Took special pride in feeding people with it. RIP to a true sage.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026

4-Year-Old’s Optimism Just Making Things Worse For Area Family theonion.com/4-year-old-s-optimism-…

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 31/08/2026

I reiterate that my Supreme Court Expansion plan is to simply switch to a distinctively American Cicada Brood System where we have overlapping panels or “broods” of justices spread over the country, numbered I to XXIII, emerging periodically and consisting of panels of 13, 17, 19, or 23 justices.

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Rob Hart @robhartmedia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

2016 White Sox legend Justin Morneau!

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Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

3644 West Grenshaw Street

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Paul Kiernan @pkwsj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

California lawmakers debate tax credits for local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ. Would be paid for by eliminating a corporate deduction for executive salaries of over $1 million annually. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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California's new attempt to help struggling newsrooms faces key test

The bill will require approval from two-thirds of the Legislature in the coming days in order to make it to Gov. Newsom's desk.

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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 29/08/2026

"My midnight vigils can also be unnerving, a daunting walk through 'the valley of the shadow of death.'" Timothy P. Schilling on insomnia, the wolf, and the shepherd: www.commonwealmagazine.org/schilling-la...

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The Wolf and the Shepherd

"The blessedness of the night is something I now try to embrace. When I probe the darkness, I usually find God more present than I’d realized."

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