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A low-lying fog of noxious fumes floating around Chicago behind a pair of huskies.
Is currently causing friction, as is required.

thisisnoir.house
There’s a bitter wind out there. Time to cuddle crash the big bed. I see an empty spot.
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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In stead of sending a link to old threads every time someone uses the term "Dark Ages", I decided to put it all in an article.

Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”.

Read it here:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/w...
or:
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-h...
Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”
This is not YET another article on why calling the early middle ages the dark ages is iffy, it’s a list of sources & references. These days most historians no longer use the term “D…
fakehistoryhunter.net
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Finn found a new ball. It’s pink. He’s very proud. Don’t touch it.
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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ICE is thug trash, chapter eleventy

www.wpri.com/news/local-n...
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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After seven years (and an hour’s worth of technical challenges), we are about to kick off the first drum marathon I’ve done in like seven years! 12 hours of drums! For Extra Life! Get in here! Twitch.tv/nextlander
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.

We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.

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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#Wisdom is back!
The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Snowy Owls still present at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary, Chicago.
11.19.2025
#birds
#owls
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said.

newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
ICE Agents Raid a Church With No Explanation
Operation “Charlotte’s Web” continues.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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except it’s not a preschooler, it’s a grown man, and that man is also the president, and it is deeply surreal and unsettling to freefall into the gulf between words that should come out of a president’s mouth and that word coming out of a president’s mouth
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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The internet does not have to stay broken. Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION walks through how we reached this point & what steps can move us toward a healthier digital world.
📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...

@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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When asked on Air Force One if there was anything "incriminating" in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger at the female reporter's face and said “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”
November 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”

Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Fired Bryan federal prison nurse says Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment — and she has the emails via BCS journalism treasure @rustysurette.bsky.social

www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
Fired Bryan federal prison nurse says Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment — and she has the emails
Noella Turnage was fired from her job at the prison last week. On Monday, she sat down with KBTX’s Rusty Surette
www.kbtx.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I'm off to get a working phone.

In place of the photos I couldn't take, here's a sketch of the coyote we saw on the sidewalk in front of the house yesterday.
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Went to this last night. It was a good time. Lots of powerful voices.

Shout out to the dood in Popeye's who wanted to throw down and called me a suburbanite. Sorry, I couldn't play; my wife wasn't having it. Also, I've likely lived in the city longer than you've been alive, young buck.
November 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM