Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀
@bebopott.bsky.social
✶✶✶✶ devout Chicagoan || a blog called SILLY PRIZES || AudHD socialist rabble-rouser || doesn't have much plot significance but that doesn't stop him from chilling ||
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For my sophomore dispatch of SILLY PRIZES, I unmask 3 of the Chicago Aldermen who joined Ald. Silverstein for a late August vacation to Israel, with all expenses paid by their Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
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This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here.
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I laughed out loud to myself yesterday thinking that "some unseasonably early snow" was going to demoralize ICE like it was Stalingrad and it turns out I might have been right
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I laughed out loud to myself yesterday thinking that "some unseasonably early snow" was going to demoralize ICE like it was Stalingrad and it turns out I might have been right
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Michael Rabbit is my friend and the Cook County Dems Committeeperson for Chicago’s 45th ward blockclubchicago.org/2024/05/30/m...
That the Feds are after him is outrageous. Support Michael’s legal defense fund. GoFundMe here:
gofund.me/bfceefa9d
That the Feds are after him is outrageous. Support Michael’s legal defense fund. GoFundMe here:
gofund.me/bfceefa9d
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Michael Rabbit is my friend and the Cook County Dems Committeeperson for Chicago’s 45th ward blockclubchicago.org/2024/05/30/m...
That the Feds are after him is outrageous. Support Michael’s legal defense fund. GoFundMe here:
gofund.me/bfceefa9d
That the Feds are after him is outrageous. Support Michael’s legal defense fund. GoFundMe here:
gofund.me/bfceefa9d
good morning Chicago! you’re looking lovely on this frigid morning
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
good morning Chicago! you’re looking lovely on this frigid morning
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Coming to you live from the Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Coming to you live from the Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago
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An official position of DSA btw
Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
An official position of DSA btw
Former Republican and already passed from the world of the living? Schumer and the DSCC are proud to announce their preferred candidate to succeed Dick Durbin in the Senate:
@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 6:54 PM
Former Republican and already passed from the world of the living? Schumer and the DSCC are proud to announce their preferred candidate to succeed Dick Durbin in the Senate:
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They invaded my city (and others) with goon squads that have been kidnapping my neighbors and terrorizing us on a daily basis.
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
They invaded my city (and others) with goon squads that have been kidnapping my neighbors and terrorizing us on a daily basis.
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tbt to this gem from @katieprout.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
tbt to this gem from @katieprout.bsky.social
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it helps to understand the current moment if you internalize the fact that Chuck Schumer is a genuinely stupid man. like, not to IQpost but well below average intelligence, someone off the street might not get rolled like this.
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"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
it helps to understand the current moment if you internalize the fact that Chuck Schumer is a genuinely stupid man. like, not to IQpost but well below average intelligence, someone off the street might not get rolled like this.
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If @durbin.senate.gov caves, it’s time for @govpritzker.illinois.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov to pull him aside and have him retire now. Put @julianastratton.bsky.social in the slot. Illinois is under attack and it’s time for fighters.
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
If @durbin.senate.gov caves, it’s time for @govpritzker.illinois.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov to pull him aside and have him retire now. Put @julianastratton.bsky.social in the slot. Illinois is under attack and it’s time for fighters.
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
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Two months ago, before Bovino arrived and the Broadview ICE facility was transformed into an impenetrable fortress, regular people were out there every single day for weeks telling feds to get out. We think about this day a lot.
Since we've been out here observing, this small and growing group of neighbors (no organized protest planned today) have been repeatedly facing off with agents.
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Two months ago, before Bovino arrived and the Broadview ICE facility was transformed into an impenetrable fortress, regular people were out there every single day for weeks telling feds to get out. We think about this day a lot.
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I actually think what ICE is doing under Trump 2.0 is shaping up to be a world-historic campaign of human rights violations in an advanced industrialized ~democracy
I’m not sure I have many modern parallels. Japanese internment? Treatment of French-Algerians in the Algerian war? Those were wartime.
I’m not sure I have many modern parallels. Japanese internment? Treatment of French-Algerians in the Algerian war? Those were wartime.
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I actually think what ICE is doing under Trump 2.0 is shaping up to be a world-historic campaign of human rights violations in an advanced industrialized ~democracy
I’m not sure I have many modern parallels. Japanese internment? Treatment of French-Algerians in the Algerian war? Those were wartime.
I’m not sure I have many modern parallels. Japanese internment? Treatment of French-Algerians in the Algerian war? Those were wartime.
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How long must we endure this
Federal immigration agents have deployed gas in Little Village, on 26th between Komensky and Pulaski, per videos shared online after 11 am this morning.
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
How long must we endure this
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Our trash police department, welcoming in the invasion with a smile and handshake
credit to @ashleerezin.bsky.social and the @chicago.suntimes.com
credit to @ashleerezin.bsky.social and the @chicago.suntimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Our trash police department, welcoming in the invasion with a smile and handshake
credit to @ashleerezin.bsky.social and the @chicago.suntimes.com
credit to @ashleerezin.bsky.social and the @chicago.suntimes.com
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BROADVIEW - state and local authorities just arrested about 20 women who hopped the concrete barricades outside the processing center, sat down in the middle of the street and joined hands. Took maybe five minutes all told.
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
BROADVIEW - state and local authorities just arrested about 20 women who hopped the concrete barricades outside the processing center, sat down in the middle of the street and joined hands. Took maybe five minutes all told.
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I love that the ruling is “Chicago fucking rules, fuck the liars and the haters”
After reading Carl Sandburg's "Chicago' poem in full in open court this morning, Federal Judge Sarah Ellis says this about our city:
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I love that the ruling is “Chicago fucking rules, fuck the liars and the haters”
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Mayor Brandon Johnson responds to Bovino:
"No, Greg it is not. This city belongs to Chicagoans." @wttw.bsky.social
"No, Greg it is not. This city belongs to Chicagoans." @wttw.bsky.social
Lawyers play a video that was played for Bovino. In it, he tells agents "everybody fucking gets it if they touch you."
"This is OUR fucking city," Bovino tells them.
"This is OUR fucking city," Bovino tells them.
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Mayor Brandon Johnson responds to Bovino:
"No, Greg it is not. This city belongs to Chicagoans." @wttw.bsky.social
"No, Greg it is not. This city belongs to Chicagoans." @wttw.bsky.social
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Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.
![An ad for the Friend AI pendant that is, according to a post on Redditt, at the Fullerton CTA stop. The ad reads, "friend. [frend] noun. someone who listens, responds, and supports you." A person has written, "AI is not your friend" over the image of the pendant.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uufz3dvrdnbm6ptii46y7j7u/bafkreidv2q5m54fchg5zocga7igukl6rlss4mdzxlkkcklw5wnrc7sccga@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.
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Now's a good time for Illinois residents to take advantage of a unique right we have to be removed from Clearview's database. Scroll down to IL opt-out here: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Now's a good time for Illinois residents to take advantage of a unique right we have to be removed from Clearview's database. Scroll down to IL opt-out here: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...