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ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

i knew that new orleans is cool but i didn’t know that it’s “ride in 100 year old streetcars that are 1 of 2 moving national historical landmarks” cool

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ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

got to new orleans early today, so had a bit of time to hack this together - @ire.org IRE 2025 conference custom schedule app :) you can filter + create your own itinerary that will save locally on your device. apadejski-24.github.io/ire-2025-sch...

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IRE 2025 Schedule

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ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

anyone know what this is about? saw one on my gate and all around my NW chicago neighborhood

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ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

& let’s not forget it’s nonviolent, despite numerous attempts by the govt to incite aggression. the people, led by the student activists, checked each other to ensure peace. i can’t explain how healing it is to see a national identity transform so radically during my (relatively short) lifetime

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ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

in a country of 6.7 million… still waiting on full count - the highest reliable estimate i saw was 325k on streets of Belgrade. by far the largest turnout in Serbia capital’s history. in awe

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/03/2025

#ICYMI: We previously reported on Illinois’ “no-schoolers,” children pulled from public school who receive almost no education in homeschool. One 9-year-old told authorities he was beaten and denied food once his parents decided to be his teachers.

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His Parents Said They Would Homeschool Him. Lax State Oversight Kept His Abuse Hidden.

At 9 years old, L.J. started missing school. His parents said they would homeschool him. It took two years — during which he was beaten and denied food — for anyone to notice he wasn’t learning.

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ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

the saddest thing about this is the idea they’re cutting government spending. the american government is not a household - they have a sovereign fiat currency monopoly - they spend first and tax second. our (federal) taxes don’t pay for shit. it’s just the ticket price to the american economy.

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ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

this is the mindset we should start from - to transform the internet back into a public good. open source, design for the commons

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ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

not buying for a day won’t do much… however - a nationwide rent strike could really make an impact, especially as blackrock is the biggest landlord.

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ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

scrolling through bluesky trying to find a voice of reason (my mom)

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Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

From a story we published earlier this week on @wbez.org: We collected ~100 years worth of rent data to find that for thousands of low and middle income renters, Chicago now is likely the most unaffordable its been in nearly a century w/ @popkulturekills.bsky.social www.wbez.org/interactive/...

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Chicago rents are climbing fast. For many, there’s nowhere left to go. | WBEZ

Letonia Robinson has spent two years searching for an affordable home. She’s not alone — rents in Chicago are rising faster than incomes, squeezing thousands of families.

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ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

last year, we stumbled upon chicago factbooks - the only source of historic chicago rent data, going back to 1930. without the resources for a larger digitization project, we took the simplest approach: manual data entry. once we adjusted the rents for inflation, the facts really came to life… 🧵

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

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