Jeff Nichols
@backwardsriver.bsky.social
Chicago blueystorian, UIC ABD
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I queue up Chicago images and footage on days when I am multitasking or just burned out. If Trump has ordered tanks to roll over peaceful demonstrators in Los Angeles or anywhere else, my Chicago posts aren't some kind of passive aggressive message.
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A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
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Wow no wonder he knows the exact car Bladerunner, the hero of the popular movie Bladerunner, would drive.
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Wow no wonder he knows the exact car Bladerunner, the hero of the popular movie Bladerunner, would drive.
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I knew those cowards would leave after the first cold day here
CBS News Exclusive: Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say.
Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say
Some Border Patrol agents could soon leave the Chicago area, after taking a leading role in the Trump administration's controversial immigration operations in the nation's third-largest city, officials told CBS News.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I knew those cowards would leave after the first cold day here
Part of a memo from the British Consulate in Chicago analyzing Mayor Richard J. Daley's 1971 reelection.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Part of a memo from the British Consulate in Chicago analyzing Mayor Richard J. Daley's 1971 reelection.
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
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this was the most hilariously bad defense of Elon I saw in her responses
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
this was the most hilariously bad defense of Elon I saw in her responses
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Rescued this teddy from the sidewalk near Sheridan and Winona
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Rescued this teddy from the sidewalk near Sheridan and Winona
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner
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WTF?
@bebopott.bsky.social will love this -- looking for something else, I found that Citizens for Judy Baar Topinka is still active -- they filed paperwork for 3rd quarter 2025. Judy's been dead for more than a decade. Her campaign fund has $400,000 in it. They're only expense? Keeping a PO box.
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
WTF?
And to think that half of these guys were down on their luck last year, having been fired for pleasuring themselves over Ozempic YouTube ads in the parking lots of dead malls. Now, with safety in numbers, they are visiting the Bean for free.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
And to think that half of these guys were down on their luck last year, having been fired for pleasuring themselves over Ozempic YouTube ads in the parking lots of dead malls. Now, with safety in numbers, they are visiting the Bean for free.
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/3 It’s increasingly difficult to blame anyone for not trusting institutions and institutionalism, or for expecting the worst result.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
/3 It’s increasingly difficult to blame anyone for not trusting institutions and institutionalism, or for expecting the worst result.
How to become a professional communist agitator in three easy steps:
1) Get a master's degree in divinity from Princeton University.
2) Con the Presbyterian Church into hiring you as a pastor.
3) Fake doing pastor stuff while secretly plotting to set up a dictatorship of the proletariat.
1) Get a master's degree in divinity from Princeton University.
2) Con the Presbyterian Church into hiring you as a pastor.
3) Fake doing pastor stuff while secretly plotting to set up a dictatorship of the proletariat.
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
How to become a professional communist agitator in three easy steps:
1) Get a master's degree in divinity from Princeton University.
2) Con the Presbyterian Church into hiring you as a pastor.
3) Fake doing pastor stuff while secretly plotting to set up a dictatorship of the proletariat.
1) Get a master's degree in divinity from Princeton University.
2) Con the Presbyterian Church into hiring you as a pastor.
3) Fake doing pastor stuff while secretly plotting to set up a dictatorship of the proletariat.
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Roger Marshall owned a hospital. Patients he couldn't make money off of were referred to the very good nonprofit in the same town. Then the nonprofit went bankrupt and he ran for office to get a bailout when his hospital almost collapsed from picking up those patients.
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Roger Marshall owned a hospital. Patients he couldn't make money off of were referred to the very good nonprofit in the same town. Then the nonprofit went bankrupt and he ran for office to get a bailout when his hospital almost collapsed from picking up those patients.
I'm 100% behind "Trump-insiders" choosing to mutilate their faces to get the right Disco Duck look.
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D.C. plastic surgeons see surge in "Mar‑a‑Lago face" requests from Trump insiders
"[They] want to look like they had something done."
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November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I'm 100% behind "Trump-insiders" choosing to mutilate their faces to get the right Disco Duck look.
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Replacing "air traffic controllers" with "true patriots" seems like a good way to kill lots of people
‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’
‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’
But he promises $10,000 bonuses to controllers who have shown up without fail during the more-than-monthlong shutdown.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Replacing "air traffic controllers" with "true patriots" seems like a good way to kill lots of people
Halfway surprised these dickweeds didn't fire teargas at their own reflections. I hope the city checks to make sure none of them attempted to use bowie knifes to carve in their initials.
Disgusting. Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Halfway surprised these dickweeds didn't fire teargas at their own reflections. I hope the city checks to make sure none of them attempted to use bowie knifes to carve in their initials.
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This feels like a good time to remind everyone that budgets are moral documents
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This feels like a good time to remind everyone that budgets are moral documents
Muffs for sale, Chicago 1846
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Muffs for sale, Chicago 1846
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In 1893 Chicago police arrested a man for murder, starved him for four days, then gave him a bottle of whiskey. Once he was drunk they gave him an “alibi” form to sign. He was drunk and illiterate & didn’t know he was signing a confession. He was hanged. This is pretty much how Broadview operates.
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
In 1893 Chicago police arrested a man for murder, starved him for four days, then gave him a bottle of whiskey. Once he was drunk they gave him an “alibi” form to sign. He was drunk and illiterate & didn’t know he was signing a confession. He was hanged. This is pretty much how Broadview operates.
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Independent outlets like @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @thetriibe.com, @unraveledpress.com and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are doing a TERRIFIC job reporting on what's currently happening in Chicago. Folks should support and follow them.
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Independent outlets like @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @thetriibe.com, @unraveledpress.com and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are doing a TERRIFIC job reporting on what's currently happening in Chicago. Folks should support and follow them.
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"Trump babies."
But don't call them a creepy cult of weirdos.
But don't call them a creepy cult of weirdos.
Dr Oz: "We've dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies I'm hoping by the midterms."
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Trump babies."
But don't call them a creepy cult of weirdos.
But don't call them a creepy cult of weirdos.
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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The Democrats won several VA House seats where winning looked like a pipe dream going into the election. The Dems won these seats because they recruited candidates and actually campaigned. Important lesson for 26--the electorate is pissed--but you can only win when you run. Run everywhere!
Democrats contested all 100 Virginia House of Delegates races. Part of the party’s statewide success is due to the synergies between the legislative and statewide campaigns—even the losing ones. This is a big reason why Jay Jones won comfortably. This is a model the Dems should emulate everywhere
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Democrats won several VA House seats where winning looked like a pipe dream going into the election. The Dems won these seats because they recruited candidates and actually campaigned. Important lesson for 26--the electorate is pissed--but you can only win when you run. Run everywhere!