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Jacob E. Peters
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Lifelong Chicagoan, lived other places, & it just reinforced my desire to live here. My opinions are mine alone. Find me on the other sites, w/ the same handle.
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Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit Southside Blooms transforms vacant lots on Chicago’s South Side into flower farms that employ at-risk young people, is the 2025 CNN Hero of the Year. https://to.wttw.com/48UA8zn
The Partnership Behind Southside Blooms and a CNN Hero of the Year Award
Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit Southside Blooms transforms vacant lots on Chicago’s South Side into flower farms that employ at-risk young people, is the 2025 CNN Hero of the Year.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Wut!
🗣️ Because maybeeeeeee

Robin is in Chicago babyyyyyyy

And after alllllll

We signed Robin Lodddddddd 🗣️

We have acquired Finland National Team midfielder Robin Lod as a free agent. #cf97
December 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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The incredibly corrupt, lawless, & unconstitutional nature of the entire DOGE enterprise requires Elon Musk and lots of other people to spend the rest of their lives in jail.
The Wisconsin component of the analysis here is revealing. Evidence is consistent with DOGE strategically delaying contract terminations in WI until after the 2025 state Supreme Court elections to mitigate electoral risk.
December 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Posting through the holidays at that level is only possible if you literally aren’t interacting with your family members at all.
President Donald Trump gifted the world with nearly 200 Truth Social posts (and counting) on Christmas Day, where he amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.
Trump Posts Nearly 200 Times in Unhinged Christmas Day Spree
The president amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and called for a member of Congress to be deported.
trib.al
December 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
If you concentrate, you can tell what kind of camps they are creating.
December 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Corruption.
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Make a Bond film casual

Goldeneyeglasses
make a Bond film casual

Dr Yo
make a Bond film casual

License to Chill
December 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just saw someone parked blocking a stop sign, a crosswalk, & a fire hydrant simultaneously. I wasn’t sure whether to clap or key his car
December 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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👇🎯 Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of American Politics
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:

"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
There’s like a dozen things that are wrong about this statement.
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Not only does AJ LaTrace's writing for Streetsblog rock:
chi.streetsblog.org/author/adria...

As a founding member of local emo legends The Academy Is... so does his guitar playing! He appears on a new charity album by Chicago journalists.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/22/c... @latrace.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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It Wouldn't Surprise You If This Headline Was About 318 People Being Shot In 12 Different Public Places https://theonion.com/it-wouldnt-surprise-you-if-this-headline-was-about-318-1819574532/
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The entire cast of Bob’s Burgers (complimentary)
December 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Rep. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie tell CBS they're considering bringing inherent contempt charges against Pam Bondi for failing to release all of the Epstein files.
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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“With five deaths so far in 2025 from subway surfing, Lieber singled out Instagram — operated by Meta — as the platform where “subway surfing videos do get to live for too long.”
Meta Lets Subway Surfing Videos ‘Live for Too Long,’ MTA Boss Says
As more young people die feeding a social media frenzy for dangerous stunts, parents and officials plead to take posts down.
www.thecity.nyc
December 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Nearly run over on a sidewalk at a curb cut by a driver turning left & eyes locked on her phone. We need steering wheels that act as EMPa for any device within 2’ of us t while the car is in motion.
December 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A Boston Market that has been closed for more than a decade becoming a Panera seems about right.
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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49. The game isn't over by far. But make no mistake: we are winning. That's something to be proud of. It's something to accelerate. It's nothing to take for granted. And it's certainly no time to take Yglesias' advice and fumble the ball so the other team won't feel so sad. /fin
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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48. That exception of course is the fossil fuel producer. They are hostile to energy productivity for the same reason John Henry didn't like the steam shovel. They can't compete with it. Wins for consumers come at their expense. Wins for the climate come at their expense.
December 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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46. We are, in a word, investing in energy productivity, getting more economic value out of less input. That is great news, for the same reason that higher returns on capital are good or increases in labor productivity good. Make more useful stuff with less input and we all get richer.
December 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM