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Yooperann

@yooperann.bsky.social
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Retired public interest attorney, loves Chicago, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, waterfalls and all burbles, folk music, local history. Proud Democrat.

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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Subject to Fits robertreich.substack.com/p/subject-to...
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Subject to Fits
My epilepsy
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The New Death Panels Wear Red Ties marienewman.substack.com/p/the-new-de...
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The New Death Panels Wear Red Ties
The GOP fiction is now a reality
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Seems like a day to re-up our story on where things stand for two cities with the same name, sitting across an increasingly fraught U.S. / Canada border ….
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As Trump’s Tariff War With Canada Drags On, This Border Community Suffers Without a Voice
Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sig...
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Slush Fund Scumbags and Cowboy Cliffhanger open.substack.com/pub/stevesac...
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Slush Fund Scumbags and Cowboy Cliffhanger
Your tax dollars, hard at work rewarding a mob
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Your Daily Cartoon! open.substack.com/pub/jackohma...
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Your Daily Cartoon!
Papal vs. Bull...
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Proud of my town. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Urgent Care Clinics Move To Fill Abortion Care Gaps in Rural Areas - KFF Health News
When the only clinic that offered abortions in Michigan’s rural Upper Peninsula closed, an urgent care facility stepped in to fill the gap. Now, others are considering similar moves as brick-and-morta...
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ignorance and Ignominy. Damn. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Ignorance and Ignominy
Our Hormuz humiliation was not an accident
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Happy St. David's Day! open.substack.com/pub/amydicki...
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We all need to observe St. David's Day
I'll tell you why, and how
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It wasn’t even close.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Fascinating. Zohran Mamdani’s last name reflects centuries of intercontinental trade, migration and cultural exchange theconversation.com/zohran-mamda...
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Zohran Mamdani’s last name reflects centuries of intercontinental trade, migration and cultural exchange
Mamdanis belong to the Khoja community, who were categorized by the British in the early 19th century as “Hindoo Mussalman” because their traditions spanned both religions.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Death of Direct File open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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The Death of Direct File
Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
They were already living in one of Chicago's worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/i...
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They were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.
In what appears to have been a warrantless operation, the federal government will not say how many people were detained, who remains in custody and what happened to the children.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"We needed to do SOMETHING" open.substack.com/pub/rebeccam...
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"We needed to do SOMETHING"
in memoriam, Lori Cannon
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Northern lights are out! #906 #upperpeninsula
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
An important distinction between lying and bullshit. On Trump's Bullshit open.substack.com/pub/glennkes...
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On Trump's Bullshit
The danger isn’t Trump’s lies — it’s his indifference to truth itself
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Perfect. youtu.be/2XoHVYbZocI?...
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Keep Our Name Out Your Mouth #Chicago #Gospel #
YouTube video by TRINITYCHGO
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Duaa Eldeib @deldeib.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
He wanted to die. His wife fought for him. A psychiatrist was their last hope. www.propublica.org/article/ment...
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“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
May the soul of each and every child shot in school follow those with AR-15 pins on their lapels through the halls of Congress, poking them and demanding with the dreary repetition of a bored child on a long car trip to know Where are we going? What are we doing? What is the plan? Lynn Ungar
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
No notes
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Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak @alikodjak.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A data analysis by ProPublica shows the administration has cut federal health agencies deeper than it has acknowledged. Sec. Kennedy said he would add scientists. Yet agencies have lost thousands of them. @propublica.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...,
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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
An Invitation to Think Differently About Addiction Treatment open.substack.com/pub/annehele...
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An Invitation to Think Differently About Addiction Treatment
"Harm reduction is both a practice and a philosophy."
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Bullets in the windows open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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Bullets in the windows
Until now, it was only a metaphor.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New Law Firm Made Up of Former Federal Lawyers, Judges, and Others Formed Specifically to Take on the Trump Administration and Protect the Rule of Law! open.substack.com/pub/annepmit...
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New Law Firm Made Up of Former Federal Lawyers, Judges, and Others Formed Specifically to Take on the Trump Administration and Protect the Rule of Law!
And I love them already!
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I've been on this bandwagon for a while. I gather it's the realtors who are the big opposition. Michigan hotel taxes fund tourism promotion. Should they also fund services? www.bridgemi.com/business-wat... via @bridgemi.com
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Michigan hotel taxes fund tourism promotion. Should they also fund services? | Bridge Michigan
Tourists use local government services but don’t directly fund them. Some people want to change that by redirecting some hotel tax revenue from tourism promotion to local governments.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Oops. Lawyers for Chicago Housing Authority used ChatGPT to cite nonexistent court case www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/17/c...
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Lawyers for Chicago Housing Authority used ChatGPT to cite nonexistent court case
In the latest headache for CHA, law firm Goldberg Segalla used artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT, in a post-trial motion and neglected to check their work, court records show.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
July 10, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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July 10, 2025
Just a week ago, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed the nearly 1,000-page budget reconciliation bill President Donald Trump demanded, and at the signing ceremony for the bill the next ...
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Good discussion of this part of the bill. Trump’s ‘big’ bill gives millions of taxpayers a new charitable tax break, but whether it will help nonprofits is unclear theconversation.com/trumps-big-b...
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Trump’s ‘big’ bill gives millions of taxpayers a new charitable tax break, but whether it will help nonprofits is unclear
A new broadly available tax break of up to $1,000 will become available for those giving to a charity if they file on their own. Couples filing jointly may deduct $2,000 from their taxable income.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Medicaid cuts: The how and why open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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Medicaid cuts: The how and why
Plain language translation of what the heck happened and where this will go
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
www.instagram.com/reel/DLnKetg...
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I love Chris Ware's work. #usps #oakparkIL www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/chri...
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Chris Ware Illustrates a Postwoman's Day to Celebrate 250 Years of USPS
Chris Ware's illustration for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Postal Service will be released on July 23.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
To Err Is Human, To Defy Bove-ine . Erez Reuveni is a true American hero.
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To Err Is Human, To Defy Bove-ine
A bombshell whistleblower complaint sheds light on who in the Justice Department is allegedly driving open defiance of the courts
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Their Iran Narrative Is Unraveling open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
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Their Iran Narrative Is Unraveling
We can’t trust anything the administration is saying or doing on Iran.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Fun.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Laura Washington: An iconic LGBTQ+ bar at Chicago's O'Hare Airport? Fabulous. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/18/c...
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Laura Washington: An iconic LGBTQ+ bar at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport? Fabulous.
If Sidetrack’s owners can get a location at O’Hare airport, it would be the first gay-owned, gay-themed bar at any airport in the nation.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Two civic leaders, one a judge and one a U.S. senator, stepped outside the normal bounds of discourse to condemn the utter lack of humanity now rampant in Trump’s GOP. It underscores the deep need not only to win the political fights ahead but to win the battle for America’s moral soul.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Exactly the desired result. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades (Gift Article)
Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Guardian story by Jose Olivares:
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US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants
Exclusive: Ice officers told to get ‘creative’ with arrests, including of undocumented people encountered by chance
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"We need to say, in a clear, loud, steady voice: “You can’t have our rights — we’re using them.” @neilsteinberg.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
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A parade for Trump, but the true patriots will be in the streets
"No Kings Day" is a chance for Americans who reject a totalitarian nightmare to raise our voices. We might not get many more chances.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. #906life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/s...
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Farming Was Extensive in Ancient North America, Study Finds (Gift Article)
A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Very thoughtful. What I’m learning from MAHA open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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What I’m learning from MAHA
And why public health needs to catch up with the curiosity-driven movement
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Thank you, Senator Peters.
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
White-breasted nuthatch at its nest. Gwinn. #906life
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A few from the bog walk at Presque Isle Park in Marquette #906life
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A Dubious Science History Lesson open.substack.com/pub/davideps...
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A Dubious Science History Lesson
The exclusion of "outsiders" isn't a strategy for scientific success
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Yooperann @yooperann.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A court blows the whistle on a fake ‘emergency’ open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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A court blows the whistle on a fake ‘emergency’
Words & Phrases We Could Do Without
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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Mon moment de gloire est arrivé.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"The Wake Forest Class of 1861 did not choose their time of calling. The Class of 1941 did not choose. The Class of 1968 did not choose. History chose them. And now history is calling you...." -Scott Pelley He was talking to all of us.
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