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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 7h
the majority on the Supreme Court who continuously overrides stays with zero consideration of the merits does so BECAUSE they enjoy being able to inflict pain and torturous death upon people. Never forget that. If Alito could push the button, if Thomas could pull the switch himself, they would.
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Illinois Department of Transportation @illinoisdot.bsky.social · 15h
Help @nitachicago.bsky.social prioritize the improvements that matter most to you! Take the online survey and share your priorities for everyday transit service and long-term investments as NITA develops its first regional budget for CTA, Metra, and Pace.
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NITA Chicago @nitachicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More frequent service. Safer, more accessible stations and stops. 🚇 Tell NITA which improvements would make the biggest difference in your transit experience. Your feedback will help shape regional budget priorities. 🗓️ Take the survey by Oct. 16: bit.ly/4AJCzRe
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High Speed Rail Alliance @hsrail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Super important!
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Sierra Club Chicago @sierraclubchicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tell NITA we need more reliable, more accessible transit service that moves more people without cars 🫡
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?
jessica.substack.com
Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters
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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 24/09/2026
With the RLX in the news cycle again. May I suggest reading about how we got here?
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And a lot of this just boils down to elite projection, as @humantransit.bsky.social smartly points out. Most people just need good transit. Rich white people don't want to mix with people they see as beneath them, hence all the resources being plowed into what is, at the end of the day, a worse bus.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
with an atrocious safety & environmental record… www.fox5vegas.com/2026/09/16/c...
fox5vegas.com
Contractor hurt inside Las Vegas Boring Company tunnel
A contractor was hospitalized after an incident inside a Boring Company tunnel near Harmon and Paradise in Las Vegas, officials say.
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Left wing Willie Wilson ad on Instagram lol. What is happening?
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Left wing Willie Wilson ad on Instagram lol. What is happening?
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
👀 “Amtrak’s proposal would use portions of White Sox parking Lots C and G, according to plans presented to local officials and residents.” “Amtrak said there is a “railroad-owned easement” to a ramp in Lot G that would allow it to build on the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority property.”
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
👀 “Amtrak’s proposal would use portions of White Sox parking Lots C and G, according to plans presented to local officials and residents.” “Amtrak said there is a “railroad-owned easement” to a ramp in Lot G that would allow it to build on the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority property.”
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sick of these Vichy Dems. Good thing he’s retiring!
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I 100% guarantee you that if this was a story about the city removing trees that had been there already you'd have the same complaints. Good illustration of how a lot of nimbyism is just "I don't want any change at all I don't want any change at all I DON'T WANT ANY CHANGE AT ALL!!!!!!!!"
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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The two genders, diesel and catenary
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Unfortunately it’s not a matter of understanding. They just have a genuine ideological commitment to bigotry.
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Glad the funding wasn’t lost, but it should not take 2 decades to do this small of a project 🙃 www.galesburg.com/story/news/l...
galesburg.com
Chicago to Quad Cities rail line gets funding boost
Federal officials extended grant funding for the long delayed Chicago to Quad Cities passenger rail project.
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Has finally been posted on their website! mysouthshoreline.com/wp-content/u...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
a picture from the NY Post titled "	today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass!
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 02/09/2026
Ahead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about his brazen politicization of federal disaster relief aid, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and election results. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
Trump approves disaster relief funds for 7 red states, after denying aid to blue states
Ahead of the midterm elections, the president isn’t even being subtle about his scandalous politicization of disaster aid.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's so weird how "As Speaker of the House, I have no idea what's going on... Like, in general," is an effective way to deflect scandal rather than being a massive scandal in itself.
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This season of Veep is terrible
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 31/08/2026
One of these two candidates if elected will vote to give the Egyptian junta 3 billion dollars of free weapons every single year and the other one is the Egyptian-American.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One of my least favorite genre of news stories, where an outlet insists that someone is "facing scrutiny" from some unsaid place when in fact THEY are the ones inviting that scrutiny. If you're gonna run a story dredging up some dirt, just own it. The impartiality charade is annoying.
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 31/08/2026
The whole analysis starts and ends here. If you're fishing for other explanations, as The Times seemingly does here, you've missed the story about how baseless conspiracy theories infects right-wing urban planning.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
i assume(?) the right wing is successful in large part because they are naming enemies in a time where people are ready to square up, and the center-left opposition is too paid for to name a much more deserving and widely loathed enemy in the people funding these demagogues
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⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🎮 @purestinnosense.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026
Every day we stray further from God’s light
Poptart buzzballs in frosted brown sugar cinnamon and frosted smores
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High Speed Rail Alliance @hsrail.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Unlike other state agencies, the California High-Speed Rail Authority cannot issue ordinary permits for work conducted on its right-of-way. SB 1425 would solve this by creating an encroachment permit program. If you live in California, please take action:
hsrail.org
California: Tell Sacramento to Advance Senate Bill 1425 | High Speed Rail Alliance
SB 1425 would allow the California High-Speed Rail Authority to issue permits for work on its right of way and remove unnecessary red tape.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Jubilee is a crypto far right project attempting to normalize fascism under the guise of being a debate show
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I would argue this belief in scientific racism is in fact one of the main animating beliefs of "elite centrism" as practiced today. Important to realize this if you're trying to understand what motivates these people and how to deal with them.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think it was @mckay4senate.bsky.social who pointed out that if you don't believe in race science you are demonstrably more "woke" than most of the prestige media editorial class, and you're the person they're complaining about.
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 14/08/2026
2758 N. Mozart St - under review by @daniellaspata.bsky.social If you are a 1st ward resident, please send a note of support to zoning@the1stward.com blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/14/4...
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 14/08/2026
Hearing that this incredible proposal could be in jeopardy due to deference to local NIMBYs. Please overwhelm zoning@the1stward.com with your support.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
amazing article
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SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
IDOT wants to know if it's important that Illinois, the railroad capitol of North America, provide for passenger rail service.
Survey Research Office
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD

Which of the following statement best describes your opinion regarding Amtrak service in Illinois?

I believe passenger rail is an important part of the transportation system in Illinois and the level of service and the number of rail routes should be increased.

I believe passenger rail is an important part of the transportation system in Illinois and the level of service and the number of rail routes is meeting the needs of travelers.

I do not believe passenger rail is an important part of the transportation system in Illinois; however, with an increase in the level of service and increasing the number of rail routes, it could become an important part of the transportation system in Illinois.

I do not believe passenger rail is an important part of the transportation system in Illinois nor will it ever be
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High Speed Rail Alliance @hsrail.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Illinois Department of Transportation is accepting feedback from the public via its annual survey through tomorrow (Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026). Tell IDOT that Amtrak, public transit, and active transportation infrastructure should be expanded.
illinois-department-of-transportation.prezly.com
Public feedback requested for IDOT’s annual transportation survey
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I have no words. How is this real life?
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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"The White House [didn't say] who operates Freedom Fuel, or how it is offering gasoline at more than 30 cents a gallon below the national average. The stations are run by a private company and aren't part of a government program, nor are they receiving funding from the administration." come on.
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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Somewhere some retired federal white collar prosecutor just came to point like an old hunting dog who saw a particularly stupid and large duck out the window bsky.app/profile/rico...
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