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Marilyn

@stealthbirder.bsky.social
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Retired, birder, native Chicagoan, seeking peace of mind, hotmail user since 2001

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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I've been doing social media all wrong. I thought you came to places like this to be social. What a laugh!
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Great article on the Gestapo invasion of Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz: chicago.suntimes.com/graphics/imm... #ICE
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Operation Midway Blitz by the numbers 68 days, 4,000 detained, 2,700 deported | Chicago Sun-Times
It’s been one year since federal immigration agents landed in the Chicago area to launch President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation campaign. The 2,700 people detained in those 10 weeks and then ...
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
TWO hummingbirds at my balcony flowers right now!
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It was probably not a great idea to get a high-dose flu shot, a shingles shot, and a COVID shot all at once. I was quite ill last night and am not doing all that well today, though I did get my chicken and dumplings into the slow cooker. #vaccination
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Julie the Crazy Cat Lady @juliecumberland.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Vote, anyone you know normally doesn’t vote. It’s time to pressure them. This is our last chance to hold onto our democracy, our last chance to try to rebuild it and live free lives.
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
truthout.org/articles/vot... We’re voting, the over 70+% of us.…
truthout.org
Voting Rights Groups Are Preparing to Confront ICE at the Polls
Trusted figures such as firefighters and clergy will protect Black, Latino, and Asian precincts that could be targets.
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Chicago Piping Plovers @chicagopiping.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We know there are so many incredible initiatives to support and are humbled by your charitable contributions to Chicago Piping Plovers. They allow for what is now generations of Great Lakes Piping Plovers to thrive in Chicago. 1/2
Picture of beach with sign on fence that reads, "Welcome Home Piping Plovers."
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Illinois residents experiencing homelessness need not lose their right to vote. Check this out and pass it along. #voting #elections chicagohomeless.org/vote2026/?so...
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How to vote if you are experiencing homelessness - Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness
All Illinois residents experiencing homelessness who meet standard voter eligibility criteria have the right to vote in all local, state, and national elections. People experiencing homelessness, whet...
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Remember what Gloria Steinem said during this time of great upheaval: "“Hope is a form of planning. If you don’t imagine what could be, you’re already defeated." RIP to a great lady. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Gloria Steinem, trailblazing feminist organizer, dies at 92
For many years she was the face of the women's movement.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Chimney swifts everywhere in downtown Skokie. #Birding #birds #Chicago
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Horrible news. 😥
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/09/2026
THEY DESERVE A HERO’S WELCOME 🇺🇸 A record 286 days at sea without a port call. Finally, relief in Thailand. The sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are scheduled to finally head home to the US on Sunday. When the Lincoln finally pulls into San Diego, I hope that waterfront is packed.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nighthawks at last!!!!! Maybe 30 seen so far over downtown Skokie. #Birds #birding
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Shuler: It’s time to put the full weight of the labor movement behind candidates who will actually deliver… We’re going to turn out union voters and their families on a scale we never have before. We’re training 50,000 election protectors to staff every battleground district in the country.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Finally got a shot of the hummer at my feeder. It checked out my flowers first. #birds #birding
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm a subscriber. Won't you join me in keeping honest journalism alive?
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have to stay in today because I'm sick, but I've been home sick for a few days now. I'm so BORED!!
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A spider working diligently to rebuild its web after rainfall destroyed it. I admire its industry, and the web it now full of morsels for it to eat. #spiders #spiderweb #nature
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm OK with Cheeto tearing down the White House. I think Americans need to stop clinging to our heritage and all the hokey mythology of the nation. We need a reset with regard to everything.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Can you all stop posting the idiot's rantings from X and Truth Social? If I wanted to read a horror story, I'd check one out of the library.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A hotmail user since 2001.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Prepare for a spike in antisemitic rhetoric. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
usatoday.com
The controversial John Galliano 2027 Met Gala theme is canceled
The Met Museum and John Galliano have backed out of the planned 2027 exhibition following backlash over the designer's past behavior.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It has been such a pleasure to see hummingbirds (one at a time) enjoy our salvia, basil, butterfly bush, and white whatever-it-is flowers, only rarely using the feeder. #birds #birding #containergarden #garden
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.inc.com/daniela-pier...
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Women Absorbed All of July's Job Losses. Here's What the Number Doesn't Tell You
Women bore all of July's job losses, and 845,000 have left the labor force since January. The numbers are a signal about what's driving women out and where they're headed.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Best thing I've seen in weeks.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just booked my flight for my birding trip to #Belize. #birds #birding
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Dragonflies are swarming outside my balcony taking care of the mosquitoes that have been having lunch on my arms.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 29/08/2026
Book
Skull drawing
"How to Succeed in Business and Then Die Anyway"
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026
Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.
goelect.txelections.civixapps.com
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Great news! www.usnews.com/news/world/a...
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Darla @darlastephen2.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
47 is flooding the market with low grade, beef from Argentina. This meat is filled with chemicals that are banned in China. Costco seems to be the only retailer NOT selling this meat. Stay woke.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Supreme Court didn't decide anything. It just said nothing could happen until the regime promulgated the rule. Now that it has, the policy that has now been challenged in court.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Indiana and Missouri Republicans defunded the Dolly Parton library programs in those two states? Are you f*cking kidding me?
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
More than 1.2 million Texans' voter registrations are suspended www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...
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More than 1.2 million Texans' voter registrations are suspended
Some voters dropped from Texas voting rolls may not be aware until they show up to cast a ballot. More than 1.2 million Texans are on the state's Voter
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: we just filed to STOP the new USPS rule on mail ballots The Court only held that the injunction came too early. Now we HAVE a final rule & we are litigating it @democracydefendersfund.org & @campaignlegal.org are proud to represent LULAC, Madison WI & Travis County TX
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton looking glamorous in a silver and black, vertical stripe top with long sleeves and an architectural neckline.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Devastating news. Dolly, we will always love you! www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 also invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Check your Secretary of State’s website - they’ll have information for you. It seems like a lot of them are going to be letting you pick a ballot up in person and then mail it in after you fill it out.
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Women Forward ❌ 👑 @womenforward.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Late Friday night, #USPS announced it is moving forward with a final rule that could change how we vote by mail. The timing was deliberate. Bad news gets buried on Friday nights. This is not bad news you should let get buried. Here’s what’s happening, why it matters, and what we can do about it:
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24/08/2026
Happening now: A crowd is gathering outside a Target parking lot off 33rd and Damen on Chicago's south side, in reaponse to ICE agents who appear to have been involved with some kind of car collision earlier today. Press, elected officials also on scene.
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"They didn’t fear another flood. Connor told me earlier this year: “We don’t think a thing like that will happen again in our lifetime.” Because they believe that climate change isn't real. Of course, the climate doesn't care what you believe.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
While Target has stayed silent on ICE’s ongoing operations in MN, its own hometown.,communities across the country are fighting back, shopping local not Target for back to school This is our ad in the NYT today.
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The North Park Village Nature Park is giving away milkweed plants.
Small potted plants sit on the ground near a sign that says:

Extra Miikweed
from Monarch-palooza
FREE! to good home
Plase take individual pots — inquire within for questions
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A must-read banger from @alexnitkin.bsky.social & @adquig.bsky.social
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hooray!
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JQP @bendtowardjustice.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Increase in activity this week: 1. Seattle, Washington 2. Springfield, Ohio 3. New York City, NY 4. Long Island, New York 5. Santa Fe, New Mexico 6. Greater Binghamton, New York 7. Rochester and Mankato, Minnesota 8. Baltimore, Maryland 9. Chicago, Illinois 10. Raleigh, North Carolina
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dennis Wolkowicz, a beloved silent film organist, has been honored with a Six Corners street sign. blockclubchi.co/4hHxMbT
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Austin HOPE Center has opened, bringing pediatric care to West Siders. blockclubchi.co/3Ss8mVt
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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Way to go compliance crew! www.them.us/politics/kan...
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Kansas Trans Guys Are Using Women’s Bathrooms, as Legally Required, as a Form of Protest
A group of transgender men who call themselves the "SB244 compliance crew” have been using women’s bathrooms in protest of a Kansas law that mandates that they do so.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home after our reporting exposing the horrific conditions soldiers faced overseas. We did it. You did it. This is the power of independent media. Subscribe to support my work: www.youtube.com/@aaronparnas1
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