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prairie-style socialism and postcards www.postcard-past.com

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 3h
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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Remember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social · 3h
Jim Deshaies Pitcher Debut: 1984 - Retired: 1995 SFG - NYY - MIN - PHI - SDP - HOU
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Jim Deshaies at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Jim Deshaies
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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 11h
So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.
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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 9h
Oh shit
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writermusician.bsky.social @writermusician.bsky.social · 7h
The Devil's Monument, Apostle Islands, Wisconsin. Postmarked 1913.
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Max Read @maxread.info · 11h
for the new york times magazine, I wrote about why everything is "gambling" now (the short answer: actually everything is the statistical style now, and gambling is just how most of us understand that)
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How Everything Became Gambling
It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 8h
Support for two-state solution among Israeli Jews June 2019: 39% Sep 2023: 34% July 2026: 24%
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 11h
missed this when it came out (and there's a lot of depressing-for-sox-fans "wow the team will be good in 2021 stuff here), but this is an interesting read on the white sox logo and uniform rebranding in 1990 www.nytimes.com/athletic/248...
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Look good, play good: Tim Anderson and the White Sox are ready for their spotlight (Published 2021)
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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I knew it was happening but it still really stings to see Frank Ghery’s sculptural glass reception desk gone from the Inland Steel Building
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 12h
soldier field, october 10th 1988
A large lakeside sports stadium with red, blue, and yellow seating and a classical façade in the foreground, set against the Chicago skyline of tall skyscrapers and Lake Michigan dotted with boats, illustrating an urban waterfront sports venue.
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 12h
chicago.suntimes.com/art/2026/10/...
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Watercolors by Peace Prophet hang in homes across Chicago. But the artist has no home of her own.
Her paintings are coveted by collectors, who have tried to get her off the streets — but she says no to everything but payment for her work.
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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 13h
Kam showing his tech lobby’d ass twice with a slop image on a stupid proposal
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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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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh yeah that’s the good stuff
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Eric Vickrey @ericvickrey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Player of the game.
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
if that had happened to the cubs i'd be losing my fucking mind, what a shitty way to lose a game
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 04/10/2026
Waymo is not a last-mile solution, nor a transit solution. And most certainly should not benefit from any of the transit funding we won in fighting for NITA. It is a car-centric proposal that offers no real systems change, shares all the same geometry, capacity, and environmental ills of cars.
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
kind of a tough setup for a show (i imagine like 75 people max could actually see them), but still slow pulp sounded great and it felt like the mid 2000s at the monument
logan square centennial monument with orange lights and big crowd of people and a band that can’t be seen
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
survive long enough to become the thing younger people become nostalgic about
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
realization from the slow pulp set: the centennial monument in logan square is one of the last places with that classic chicago orange light to it
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
my grandmother sailed on it when she moved to the US in the 1950s, i had NO idea it was still in use until a few years ago
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
went to a match at the old spotted dog in 2015 and it's only gotten better, apparently
goalkeeper in a hat on a green soccer pitch bunch of fans with flags in the distance, red team vs. blue team
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Blank vintage postcard back labeled "Swedish American Line — Gothenburg Direct New York" for the MS Stockholm, with "Carte Postale" heading, dotted address lines, a rectangular stamp box, and small "Printed in Sweden" text.
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
MS STOCKHOLM
Colored tinted postcard of a large white ocean liner "Stockholm" underway near a shoreline under a cloudy sky, with a yellow funnel and Swedish flag on the mast, a small tugboat alongside and a buoy floating in the foreground.
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
defector.com/the-wupperta...
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The Wuppertal Schwebebahn Is Real And It Is My Friend | Defector
WUPPERTAL, Germany — When my friend in Cologne asked me if I might want to take a day trip, thanks to Cologne’s proximity to various other notable cities (Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Bonn, among others), I ...
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
we’ve got an early front runner for best take on a giant skeleton this season
two little skeletons staged to look like they’re operating a ten foot tall skeleton as a marionette from the second floor balcony of a home
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If a White Sox player hits a single, double, triple and homer in the same playoff game, it's now called an encyclical.
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
bunch of transit nerds from all over the country in chicago on a beautiful weekend, expecting a feast of complimentary content
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
literally next door
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What the F
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great story by @gillianbrockell.com about progressives on the Chicago city council forcing a private equity firm trying to buy city parking meters to divest from Omni Air International, the charter airline that did ICE’s longest & cruelest flights. The spun-off Omni is now in huge financial trouble.
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a city contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Blank vintage postcard back with dotted stamp box and horizontal address lines, printed Dutch label "AAN" and publisher note "Uitgave: J.A.Z., nadruk verboden.", a vertical divider, and visible age stains and smudges.
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zutphen, IJselbrug.
tinted postcard of a historic metal truss bridge labeled "Zutphen, IJselbrug" crossing a calm river on stone piers, with a riverside balustrade in the foreground and low industrial buildings and trees along the far bank.
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
barre seid more like siad barre
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
feel like i've been bonked on the head with a cartoon hammer, it's rich evil weirdo mad libs
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i am stomping around my house incredulous you’re telling me the biggest funder of climate denialism and the fascist takeover of the american judicial system are also paying their servants to create rat infestations in lincoln park is there a gas leak in here are you fucking kidding me
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
their ability to fly under the radar AND their commitment to living in chicago is absolutely bewildering to me
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
wait are you kidding me, the seids live in that modernist home at wisconsin & new orleans?!
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiNP...
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'Nutty' situation in Lincoln Park | WGN Investigates
YouTube video by WGN News
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the seids the most evil couple in the city of chicago www.propublica.org/article/dark...
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How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts
In the largest known political advocacy donation in U.S. history, industrialist Barre Seid funded a new group run by Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, who guided Trump’s Supreme Court picks and...
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
like if miriam adelson was covering vegas in bird shit by paying people to feed pigeons, what on earth
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
wait, the crazy rich lady creating the rat infestation in lincoln park is BARRE SEID'S WIFE?!?! WHAT?!?!
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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this is awesome
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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lord please go on strike over this…I need the chaos
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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I biked on Bryn Mawr Ave for the first time a few weeks ago. The new bike lanes were nice, but unusable. Cars were parked in the bike lanes on every block. Every single parked car in this picture is parked illegally
Road with cars parked in bike lanes
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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
chicago talks about 2013 as though it was a watershed moment at CPS but the truth is, the Board of Education has been closing majority Black schools for decades from 1976, Chicago Defender h/t @aoife.bsky.social
The board also approved closing of 13 more schools, 10 of which are in the black community. Earlier the closing of 13 others had been approved.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026
ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard
“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”
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