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Old dad, fortunate husband, nonprofit marketeer, jaywalker, viajero, Chicagoan by way of many places.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug! - It's the Apocalypse!! And billionaire Hollingsworth Hound knows who caused it! Can you guess? - Great thanks to The Inner Hive, including long-time member Amy DG and new member Steve Track! Join us at tomthedancingbug.com/the-inner-hi... 👊 - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
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Maya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every profile in @injusticewatch.org #CheckYourJudges guide is worth reading but @danhinkel.bsky.social's companion story on the criminal court judge with the most reversals this year is especially compelling! Why are lawyers getting beaten up in her courtroom? www.injusticewatch.org/judges/judic...
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This judge up for retention faced a flood of reversals
The Illinois Appellate Court has repeatedly overturned and criticized decisions by Judge Ursula Walowski. Two defendants have also been charged with attacking assistant public defenders in her courtro...
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're less than an hour away from today's "Broadview Six" hearing. You can follow me here for live updates, but the @chicago.suntimes.com will also have up-to-date coverage here: chicago.suntimes.com/live/broadvi...
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'Broadview Six' case returns to court as judge weighs sanctions against feds: Live updates
U.S. District Judge April Perry is set to hear arguments Thursday over potential consequences for prosecutors in the politically charged case.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Years ago I worked with a great guy named Tim Hillman. Tim died in 2012, way too young. At the time, a man wrote this letter to the Baltimore Sun about how Tim’s kindness when they were kids changed his life. “Be Tim Hillman” is a lesson I’ll pass on to my son. web.archive.org/web/20250607...
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A lesson for life: Be Tim Hillman
When I was in junior high in Baltimore County 35 years ago, I would wake up in the morning and hold a thermometer over a lit match, hoping to fake a fever that would keep me out of school. I would …
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The northwest side approach to road safety.
Useless “slow down” Jim Gardiner sign. Hundreds of cars blow the stop sign at this corner every day.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My son is only 7 and the little league is already getting a little ridiculous. Today the team he played against had personalized jerseys and a parent programmed something to announce each player at bat via Bluetooth speaker.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Staff development day today at Chicago Public Schools so students had the day off. I took off work and took my son here. Very little has changed since this commercial, preserved in amber. youtu.be/8Kj_efqhab8
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Novelty Golf Commercial
YouTube video by Winchell Rabara
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every time I see it I see his face. Every truck blowing a stop sign or blocking a crosswalk. Every locker in a park. Every shitty product with gamed reviews. Every exploited worker running back to the van. Every search result. That self-satisfied smile.
The Amazon smile icon. Jeff Bezos smiling.
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 23/09/2026
i love this and post it every fall
caption: humpty dumpty had a great fall

four pictures of humpty dumpty enjoying fall activities
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘Sup?
A squirrel looks through my storm door to say hi.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My son learned about the history of our neighborhood this week in his 2nd grade class. In addition to covering its origins as farmland, post-Great Chicago Fire boom, annexation, and the area’s historic homes, I’m glad the lesson didn’t pull any punches!
THE KENNEDY EXPRESSWAY
A major change for Irving Park came in the mid-20th century with the construction of the Kennedy Expressway. It cut directly through the heart of the neighborhood, displacing residents and destroying many homes and businesses.
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/09/2026
Trump Claims He Was Falling Man theonion.com/trump-claims-he-was-fa…
Trump Claims He Was Falling Man
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New Column: My current hunch, as Labor Day approaches, is that this is going to be even worse for Trump and the R's than conventional wisdom holds. newrepublic.com/post/215132/... via @newrepublic.com
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Donald Trump Has No Idea of the Tidal Wave That’s Coming for Him
There are three groups of voters who matter in this election, and each of them is going to punish the president severely.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nursing: the most trusted profession.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He literally bankrolled your entire political career
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is a really really important piece. The ideas within aren’t simple, and require open discussion. But Kendall’s spot-on.
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Opinion | The U.S. Military Must Learn to Say No to Trump (Gift Article)
How senior leaders of the armed forces dodge accountability.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’m going to the Magnolia and Johnson Electric Co show at Lincoln Hall tonight. Was listening to some stuff on YouTube and came across this and it’s really sweet. youtu.be/lF6ARq4o6xM
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Jason Molina Lorain Schools Alumni Assoc. Inductee 2019
YouTube video by Lorain Schools TV20
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
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Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
From Boston…
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
14 years ago, Ken Paxton was caught on camera stealing a $1,000 pen from a security screening. The pen was recovered. The man to whom it belonged decided to not press charges. Today, that man is endorsing James Talarico.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I didn’t come anywhere near this when I was on the Roosevelt (‘87-‘90) - I think we hit like 85 straight days at sea. But even that was miserable. This is an abuse of the force and will have long term repercussions
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My wife and son are in northern Spain in the eclipse path of totality. She just sent me pics of people setting up.
Eclipse watchers in Cubillas, Spain, setting up cameras. Eclipse watchers in Cubillas, Spain, setting up cameras. Eclipse watchers in Cubillas, Spain, setting up cameras.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’ll say it again as the son of a submariner who went on several 6-month WESTPAC deployments: Even routine peacetime deployments (with port stops, family communication and reliable care package delivery) are very hard on sailors and families. This is horrible. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
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Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
For 15 years I lived right by this corner, moved to the NW side in 2020. It’s incredible how many improvements have been made in the 48th (and 47th) the past few years. Meanwhile the 39th is still just as dangerous as ever. blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/10/i...
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Intersection Improvements Around Senn High School Nearly Done, City Says
The city has been redoing four intersections around the Far North Side high school, including converting two of them into raised intersections for better visibility.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I’m fascinated by Chicago drivers who go 45 on Irving and then slam on their brakes and go *below* the speed limit in the California-Rockwell camera zone. I’m glad they do it, but it’s hilarious.
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 05/08/2026
You're paying $2,358 in federal taxes for Trump's mass deportations. @epi.org 's new calculator shows what your community could have instead www.epi.org/deportation-...
Instead of spending
$1,760,726,880
or $4,810 per taxpayer on mass deportations, Fulton County taxpayers could fund
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Firefighters
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People on Medicaid
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Lainguor @lainguor.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
My dad recently gave me his childhood copy of the first issue of Sports Illustrated, published on August 16, 1954. The cover shows the Milwaukee Braves' Eddie Mathews at bat against the New York Giants. Before I get it framed, I want to go through it and post some of its contents.🧵
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you’ve been to Hawaii you might know about Zippy’s, a local chain that sells Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and American food. The menu would blow a “mainlander’s” mind. We left Oahu in 1986 and somehow I still have this old Zippy’s chili tub. They’ve redesigned their logo. www.zippys.com
40-year-old Zippy’s tub. Zippy’s Ohana Meals menu.Zippy’s Specials menuZippy’s Donburi menu
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s kickoff day for Lolla, AKA Mike Walks Around Downtown At Lunchtime And Feels Super Old Thursday.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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John Prine mural adorns Old Town School of Folk Music
Fellow musician Jon Langford and artist Darius Dennis teamed up to paint the massive mural on the Lincoln Square business.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026
See you in court, creep.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Well, this is depressing. But somehow completely expected. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
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An Admiral’s Rise Reveals the Politics Driving Hegseth’s Pentagon (Gift Article)
Before he was picked to lead the Navy, Adm. Daryl Caudle found ways to signal his support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s anti-diversity goals.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Well that’s a shame.
Chart showing SpaceX stock in the shitter. Chart showing Tesla stock down 30% this year, plenty more to go.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ha ha. They even left the toilet seat up. redf.in/HOuQwq
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1205 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL 60202 - 3 beds/2.5 baths
(MRED as Distributed by MLS Grid) For Sale: 3 beds, 2.5 baths ∙ 2040 sq. ft. ∙ 1205 Dodge Ave, Evanston, IL 60202 ∙ $618,000 ∙ MLS# 12710487 ∙ Quiet, End Unit Townhouse, set back over 100 ft from Dodg...
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Extra cool watching the lone-motorist commuters scream by when the air is toxic.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sunday reading: The glass is half-full. Or at least this is my attempt to argue it might be. We are confronted with a world-historic chance. I am taking down the paywall for this one, as I believe it remains relevant as a potential antidote to cynicism and declinism. This week’s piece:
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A World-Historic Chance
The Right is freaking out because we could be on the brink of proving that egalitarian, pluralistic democracy is possible. A glass-half-full interpretation of our moment.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
His ex-wife said “that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship,” and he asked her to lie for him. Exactly the kind of chud you’d expect to work for ICE.
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ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
‘Sup
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
LOVE commuting downtown for no reason and breathing wildfire smoke. 👍
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Unmikely @unmikely.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I got back from our annual Spain trip last week but my wife is still there with our son. They went to an Aldi in Gijón and saw these.
Trader Joe’s branded pancake mix Trader Joe’s branded cookies Trader Joe’s branded nuts
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Absolutely wild. They desperately want this to go away. It won’t.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 08/07/2026
For the 35 years his father lived in Houston, Salgado said, “you can find him every evening after work, resting on his porch, listening to music, petting his dog. That’s how I want the world to know my father, not as someone who got shot and killed, but as a family man.” he said through tears.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The feds just made it official: They won't fight a bid by members of the "Broadview 6" for attorneys' fees. They do "not concede that the United States has acted or done anything to warrant those fees." They also say there should be no discovery. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/dc/d1/e34a37...
I. Hyde Amendment Motion
Discussion
The Hyde Amendment motions are not ripe for decision and may never be. The United States does not intend to contest defendants’ entitlement to reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs in this matter as permitted by statute. (To be clear, the United States’ litigation decision not to challenge the defendant’s entitlement to fees, like in any typical settlement, does not concede that the United States has acted or done anything to warrant those fees.) The parties are currently attempting to work out the amount of recoverable fees and expenses. This court should take defendants’ Hyde Amendment motions under advisement while the parties attempt to amicably resolve this civil issue in good faith. The United States received the last of the former defendants’ fee submissions the day before this response was being filed, so the parties are now in a position to negotiate.
II. Discovery
Discovery related to defendants’ Hyde Amendment motions is not warranted under the circumstances of this case nor under applicable law. Defendants sought discovery, in their own words, to give them the “opportunity to demonstrate the bad faith, vexatious, and/or frivolous nature of this misguided prosecution.” Dkt. 206. But they will not be required to make that showing, so there is no reason or basis under the statute or otherwise to conduct that discovery.
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