chuff
@chuff.bsky.social
Fuck fascism in all its forms.
Pro abortion.
Email compliance and privacy, anti spam.
Chicago by way of the Bay Area (Go Cubs GO)
Just trying not to make things worse.
He/Him
Pro abortion.
Email compliance and privacy, anti spam.
Chicago by way of the Bay Area (Go Cubs GO)
Just trying not to make things worse.
He/Him
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chuff
@chuff.bsky.social
· Sep 12
He "could be bigoted" and "wasn't afraid of people who disagreed with him."
Call me crazy, but I don't think the world needs more fearless bigots right now, or ever.
These are fearless bigots. Is the Boston Globe applauding them as well?
Call me crazy, but I don't think the world needs more fearless bigots right now, or ever.
These are fearless bigots. Is the Boston Globe applauding them as well?
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It’s the all caps that convince me.
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
It’s the all caps that convince me.
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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This was ten months ago.
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This was ten months ago.
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McGovern: Republicans are literally subsidizing an entirely different country instead of keeping families in North Carolina or Minnesota or Texas or Indiana from going bankrupt if they face emergency hospital bills.
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
McGovern: Republicans are literally subsidizing an entirely different country instead of keeping families in North Carolina or Minnesota or Texas or Indiana from going bankrupt if they face emergency hospital bills.
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first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know
Is this good? It doesn't seem good.
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
Walgreens Cuts Pay for Hourly Store Workers After $10 Billion Buyout
Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know
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if you say things like this w/r/t a public figure like Sarah, part of building trust in the platform is *providing evidence that this is the case*
bsky.app/profile/pfra...
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I unfortunately can’t comment on moderation decisions, but I can echo something Aaron said: it was due to a post that violated community guidelines
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
if you say things like this w/r/t a public figure like Sarah, part of building trust in the platform is *providing evidence that this is the case*
bsky.app/profile/pfra...
bsky.app/profile/pfra...
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If you’re up in the middle of the night tonight and have a view to the northeast, it’s worth a glance, maybe you’ll be lucky
A severe geomagnetic storm is heading toward Earth, with waves likely to hit late Tuesday into Wednesday. Depending on timing and other variables, Chicagoans could be treated to another spectacular display of the aurora borealis.
https://to.wttw.com/47LdLMl
https://to.wttw.com/47LdLMl
Severe Solar Storm Hurtling Toward Earth Means Chicago Could See Northern Lights This Week
The national Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a "severe" alert as solar particles speed toward Earth. The geomagnetic activity could produce auroras visible as far south as Alabama.
to.wttw.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
If you’re up in the middle of the night tonight and have a view to the northeast, it’s worth a glance, maybe you’ll be lucky
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Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
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This is a great, simplified explanation of how the assessment process “works” in Cook County & how it’s skewed in favor of commercial real estate owners.
Everything with the assessment process is confusing but I’ll try to make it as simple as possible.
The city and county set a property tax amounts each wants to raise. A dollar amount divided across all properties.
The assessor sets the values for the properties.
The city and county set a property tax amounts each wants to raise. A dollar amount divided across all properties.
The assessor sets the values for the properties.
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This is a great, simplified explanation of how the assessment process “works” in Cook County & how it’s skewed in favor of commercial real estate owners.
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Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
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Remove the commercial real estate vacancy tax breaks that create an artificial floor for rents and Michigan Avenue will have 100% occupancy overnight.
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 6:15 AM
Remove the commercial real estate vacancy tax breaks that create an artificial floor for rents and Michigan Avenue will have 100% occupancy overnight.
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This is really something. Trump/GOP efforts to rig midterms running into serious trouble
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is really something. Trump/GOP efforts to rig midterms running into serious trouble
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Oh good I was worried some hungry people might get some food
U.S. SUPREME COURT EXTENDS PAUSE ON JUDGE'S ORDER THAT REQUIRED TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO FULLY FUND FOOD AID FOR 42 MILLION AMERICANS THIS MONTH AMID FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Oh good I was worried some hungry people might get some food
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They killed this service, because TURBO TAX and H&R Block, were losing money. money.com/irs-direct-f...
IRS Officially Kills Direct File, a 'Failed' Program That Offered Millions Free Tax Prep
A memo to states last week confirmed what many have long expected was coming: "IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future."
money.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
They killed this service, because TURBO TAX and H&R Block, were losing money. money.com/irs-direct-f...
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100 can still ruin plenty of people's lives.
But I doubt they'll send 1000, especially not if they're going to expand what they did in Chicago to many more cities, nationwide, as I've heard. That sounds like a number they made up on the spot to sound tough.
But I doubt they'll send 1000, especially not if they're going to expand what they did in Chicago to many more cities, nationwide, as I've heard. That sounds like a number they made up on the spot to sound tough.
"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insists “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” but the feds' immigration campaign is expected to begin winding down. However, one source said they could b...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
100 can still ruin plenty of people's lives.
But I doubt they'll send 1000, especially not if they're going to expand what they did in Chicago to many more cities, nationwide, as I've heard. That sounds like a number they made up on the spot to sound tough.
But I doubt they'll send 1000, especially not if they're going to expand what they did in Chicago to many more cities, nationwide, as I've heard. That sounds like a number they made up on the spot to sound tough.
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You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
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My local rural school district is set to lose over $700,000 a year under the new school funding formula, while the Governor is funding private religious schools with taxpayer vouchers.
What a scam…
What a scam…
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My local rural school district is set to lose over $700,000 a year under the new school funding formula, while the Governor is funding private religious schools with taxpayer vouchers.
What a scam…
What a scam…
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scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
Scoop: Giant Wind Farm Off New Jersey Coast Is Getting Killed
Leading Light can’t move forward, a legal counsel wrote to state regulators.
heatmap.news
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
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Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?
Sean Duffy threatens "action" against air traffic controllers who didn't come to work during the shutdown: "I'm concerned about their patriotism."
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?
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My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "If you’re hurting, struggling, or sputtering inside right now, I want you to take a moment to see what I see."
Chicagoans Refuse to Be Cowed in the Face of Unrelenting State Violence
Chicago is giving the US “a stellar example of how to fight back against these xenophobic pogroms,” said one organizer.
truthout.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "If you’re hurting, struggling, or sputtering inside right now, I want you to take a moment to see what I see."
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Reminder that pretty much everything Bovino has told the press (and judges and juries) has turned out to be a lie. See what they do, not what Bovino says they’ll do.
"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insists “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” but the feds' immigration campaign is expected to begin winding down. However, one source said they could b...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Reminder that pretty much everything Bovino has told the press (and judges and juries) has turned out to be a lie. See what they do, not what Bovino says they’ll do.
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Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE
Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants detained by Suffolk for ICE
A federal jury found the county and the Sheriff's Office violated the Constitutional rights of 674 people.
longisland.news12.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE
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Those of us who remember the Afghanistan War will recognize this as the Fighting Season having Ended
"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insists “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” but the feds' immigration campaign is expected to begin winding down. However, one source said they could b...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Those of us who remember the Afghanistan War will recognize this as the Fighting Season having Ended
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You