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Wayde G

@waydeg.bsky.social
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Educator/Coach/Learner. Social Studies/History/Civics/Inquiry/Student Agency/Belonging. Chicagoan. Baseball Bison Birds Bikes.

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Wayde G @waydeg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Please share, and donate to the FoodBank of Northwest Indiana. Folks there have egregiously been without power for long over a week, due to summer storms/climate change. foodbanknwi.org
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Home - Food Bank of Northwest Indiana
FIGHTING FOOD INSECURITY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA Food for today.Hope for tomorrow. We work every day by helping our neighbors gain access to healthy, nutritious food while also advancing innovative solut...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The @chicagoreader.com is and has been consistently excellent. I really hope that they get the resources they need to continue for 50 more years. Why are rich progressives not funding local independent media? This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.
chicagoreader.com
The Cook County jail’s new $7 million visitation center
Cook County wants to create an oasis inside the infamous jail. But the renovation will do little to address the harm of incarceration itself
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Anyway, if you are rich and live in Chicago, support @chicagoreader.com. If you are in the city and connected to $$, tell folks to send it their way. If you don't have a lot of money & live in the city, consider a $10 monthly donation.
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Wayde G @waydeg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@atrupar.com Which of these things is not like the other?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Mullin told him.”
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Man shot and killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Sen. Angus King says
The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen.
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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
STFU About Chicago. We've got the Onion and Infowars.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2026
Mamdani: "We continue to be proud of being a sanctuary city. We continue to be ready to stand up for our immigrant neighbors ... ICE is a rogue agency that should be abolished"
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
All nine tribes in South Dakota have put out a unified call to Congress to return public, federal lands in the Black Hills to tribal entities. www.nativenews.net
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National Native News
News For All Americans
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Bleacher Nation @bleachernation.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
You don't see many starts like the one Jacob Misiorowski just put together. In fact, you might never see one quite like it again.
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Bleacher Nation @bleachernation.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Jacob Misiorowski's One-Hit Masterpiece Belongs in the Kerry Wood Conversation www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2026/06…
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.
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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is just heartbreaking. Demand better.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 07/06/2026
A bike planner died on his community’s streets, and I wish that this was a unifying moment for the transpo practitioner community to come together to demand networks of all-ages facilities for people on bikes. Not ITS or robocars or bulbouts. All-ages bike facilities. RIP Riley O’Neil.
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After driver doored CDOT planner Riley O'Neil, 35, on bike in Bridgeport, causing his death, advocates demand City install protected lanes to prevent such killings - Streetsblog Chicago
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Daniel @streicher.io · 05/06/2026
I would like Bike Sox to be at least one (1) visiting international soccer fan’s first tailgate. If you know people coming through Chicago for the World Cup please help make this happen
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I would consider driving 2 hours to DC to watch Trump's stupid name removed from the Kennedy Center.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another" U.S. Const. Art 1, s. 9, cl. 6
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
"An @apnews.com investigation found that at least 10 detainees, all men, have died by suicide since Trump took office in Jan. 2025, a pace that far exceeds the growth in the detainee population" Since Oct., seven suicides have been recorded, already the highest for any fiscal year in ICE’s history.
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ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an 'alarming' rate, an AP investigation finds
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that’s unprecedented in the agency’s two-decade history, highlighting what experts call failures in care and oversigh...
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City Bureau @citybureau.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
TOMORROW || Join City Bureau at Pilsen Community Books! We'll talk about how Midway Blitz impacted the safety and livelihood of Chicago’s immigrant communities and what can be done to support them now. bit.ly/496SKMd
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Public Newsroom 165: Sustaining Mutual Aid After Midway Blitz — City Bureau
In this Public Newsroom, we’ll learn how community organizations have stepped up to offer sustained support, shifting from rapid response to long term organizing, and what you can do to get involved. ...
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
ALWAYS, ALWAYS ORDER FROM BOOKSHOP.ORG OR @indiebound.bsky.social Used books from Thriftbooks or your local store. No to Amazon.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
trans rights might sound like a Big Ask to some people, but it's not a Hard Ask. the average person has to do literally nothing
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 27/05/2026
Do not let the White House convince you that they are dictating what happens for the 250th. They're doing a bunch of stuff, but it's all fleeting spectacle. There is genuine, thoughtful, history-focused programming happening all over the United States. Get offline and go find it.
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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Sooooo much this!
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 25/05/2026
On this day in 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin forcefully pinned George Floyd to the ground and held his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes until he died.
calendar.eji.org
May 25, 2020 | George Floyd Murdered
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Wayde G @waydeg.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Very informative thread re: Pullman Porters.
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Leopold and Loeb: The shocking crime that rocked Chicago 100 years ago. blockclubchi.co/43rvAg4
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NITA Chicago @nitachicago.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Biking and public transportation go hand in hand as efficient and sustainable methods of travel. 🚲 Our blog outlines all the rules and tips for how to ride the CTA, Metra, and Pace with your bikes: www.rtachicago.org/blog/2026/05/13/…
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 21/05/2026
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund for Jan 6 criminals is intended to generously reward the MAGA cultists most likely to commit violence on command for Donald Trump. This can’t lead anywhere good.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
FULL STORY: The Chicago City Council voted 28-21 Wednesday to approve a measure designed to rid the Chicago Police Department of officers with ties to hate groups and far-right extremist organizations. @wttw.bsky.social
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City Council Votes 28-21 to Rid CPD of Officers With Ties to Extremist Groups
“One proposal is not a silver bullet,” Ald. Matt Martin (47th Ward) said. “But we should do what we can, when we can.”
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 21/05/2026
Record-holding runner to stay despite student visa woes
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Record-holding runner to stay despite student visa woes
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 20/05/2026
The well-designed Haven on Lincoln is Chicago's first totally non-congregate shelter, giving each resident their own private, bathroom-equipped room. And there are more to come, according to the city's housing department.
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Lincoln Avenue's once notorious Diplomat Motel becomes stylish new shelter for the unhoused
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/05/2026
Twin Cities residents also have been reporting a noticeable increase in surveillance ops in recent weeks:
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Is ICE ramping up? After slowdown, observers report more sightings across the Twin Cities
Observers report ICE agents watching neighborhoods and detaining inmates at county jails across the Twin Cities metro.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/05/2026
Another day of scattered ICE sightings in Chicagoland as feds continue surveilling neighborhoods + courthouses. The day started with an early morning detention in Carol Stream. This afternoon, video from Waukegan of agents surrounding a lone child in a car is circulating (guardian presumed taken).
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/05/2026
THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...
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Children's Colorado must resume care to transgender plaintiffs, state Supreme Court rules by 5-2
The Colorado Supreme Court, by 5-2, ordered Children's Hospital Colorado on Monday to resume providing certain medical services to a group of transgender plaintiffs, which it had ceased in the face of...
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David Powe @davidpowe.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Highlights of the new bike parking that CDOT just installed in/around Montrose Beach! They're already getting a ton of usage. The City is happy to be bringing this much needed amenity to the lake front!
New bike parking near harborBike parking by the beachNew daylighting bike parkingBike parking off trail
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/05/2026
Indigenous leaders say that in the Trump administration's rush to build border walls, contractors are desecrating Native American sacred places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace. to.pbs.org/4us64Dt
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Trump's border wall construction is desecrating sacred sites, Indigenous leaders say
TECATE, Mexico (AP) — White sage burning, Norma Meza Calles gathers guests at a Mexican wellness resort into a semicircle facing Kuuchamaa Mountain and asks everyone to close their eyes and feel its p...
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Wayde G @waydeg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“Civic engagement is not a lesson confined to textbooks but rather, it is lived, often bravely, by students who speak out against injustice. The time is now for school leaders to protect young people who are organizing and participating in school walkouts, and to affirm that their voices matter.”
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It's incredibly powerful, but I also think it runs the risk of distancing us from our own history. What we are seeing with the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act is part of the history of the United States and a story that predates the Civil War and the Confederacy. #CivilWarMemory
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Wayde G @waydeg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Mayor Johnson should be more diplomatic and give Da Pope a Cubs/Sox hat, à la Ray Rayner. IYKYK.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“The Sun-Times & WBEZ contacted all 12 public universities in the state and a dozen community college systems in the Chicago area & found that most don’t spell out protocols for documenting interactions with immigration agents & notifying students & staff if immigration agents are looking for them.”
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Illinois colleges failing to protect immigrant students despite new law, WBEZ/Sun-Times analysis finds
Advocates have touted the Illinois law that applies to public colleges as a model, but some colleges don’t make it easy to find information and don't have protocols for what to do if immigration agent...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193
A painting of a man and a woman standing in front of a red Chevrolet truck. The man is holding a hoe; the woman is holding a bucket with house cleaning supplies. The artist's two parents stand proudly in front of the painting.
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Amy Lively @mshistorian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Say the words — say the barrier he had to break! 🌈
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
BREAKING: Chicago should pay $3.5 million to the family of a Little Village vendor who was struck and killed by a driver being chased by Chicago police, city lawyers recommended, the latest massive settlement prompted by a police pursuit. @wttw.bsky.social
news.wttw.com
City Lawyers Recommend Paying $3.5M to Family of Little Village Vendor Killed by Driver Being Chased by Police
Jose Almanza-Martinez, 67, died in the crash that ended the chase on Aug. 2, 2020, near 26th Street and Pulaski Road, records show.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In the founding era, ”the new U.S. shredded treaties and treated Indigenous communities as obstacles that we needed to have erased.” Kimberlé W. Crenshaw (of @aapf.org) explains why she supports ZEP's Teach Truth About the American Revolution campaign: 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/kimberl...
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Kimberlé W. Crenshaw on American Revolution Myths
Professor Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, founder and director of the African American Policy Forum, explains why she supports the Zinn Education Project Teach Truth About the American Revolution campaign.
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Immigrants detained in Chicago military-style raid are seeking millions in damages. Propublica reports: blockclubchi.co/42AmJbG
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
BREAKING: Immigrants detained in the notorious Chicago apartment raid last fall have filed claims against the federal government for trauma, injuries and lost property. The 18 tenants, including children, are seeking $5 million each. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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Immigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages
New accounts from 17 men, women and children taken in a midnight raid paint a violent, terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ alleged actions. These descriptions form the basis of claims filed thi...
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