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diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · Nov 13
pinned posts are kinda new and I haven't yet found the spoons to write an <about me> post so for now, a quick guide for new arrivals wrt getting follow backs & engagement:

welcome! great to see you here 🥰

✅ include a profile pic even if it's just something fun like mine

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atrupar.com
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores

You can’t make this shit up, folks
The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! “Just the News”
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
A lot of people when talking about Gough's economic record seriously underplay how beyond comprehension the 1973 Oil Crisis was.

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Chart showing the world oil price Jan 1960 - US$1.63bbl Dec 1972 - US$1.87bbl Jan 1974 - US$13.00bbl
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Never forget that the airlines were instrumental in reducing the Covid isolation requirements and paid time off.

Why? It was hurting their profits.

They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved.

Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy.

Profit over people.
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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mayoroffunkytown.bsky.social
Let me know when you see it.
Karoline Leavitt standing in front of the White House Washington DC sign, but she's blocking everything after the White and Washing
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL. The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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sleemo.com
Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth dive into the significance behind #Frankenstein ’s extraordinary costumes, brought to life by costume designer Kate Hawley.
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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openmedf.bsky.social
OMF's CRC at Montreal published a review paper on ME/CFS #genetics and #epigenetics. It provides an overview of the role of DNA in how likely someone is to develop ME/CFS (susceptibility) and in how #MECFS affects the body's function (pathophysiology).

📖 Read now: ow.ly/HjW650XpmeW
An image shows Dr. Moreau and another scientist in a laboratory. Dr. Moreau is wearing glasses and a blue blazer, is pointing at a scientific poster and smiling.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 14
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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strangerous.bsky.social
Don Farrell asked why after all this time, the #NACC still hasn’t made any major findings of corruption.
“That’s an indication that the system is working. There is no corruption, & I say that's a good thing!”

Appalling response. It doesn’t even make sense. Makes my blood boil.
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
The 8 Dems who voted against ACA are embracing eugenics.

This decision will disproportionately harm disabled people.

Many Disabled people have pre existing conditions & won’t be able to afford insurance.

Many live in legislated poverty.

Guess we aren’t dying fast enough for them
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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kendrawrites.com
DHS/ICE used an Olivia Rodrigo song for a video on Instagram and after calling them disgusting, Olivia's team allegedly pulled the song for use on Insta so the video has no background music.

This is the second time she's done this - previously it was a tiktok song.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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ianboudreau.com
Anarchism: Doesn't Sound So Silly Now, Does It? An introduction
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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theonion.com
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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katemessner.com
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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dansinker.com
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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kristenwixx.bsky.social
Taking Caturday to the next level...
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Things are fine.
Flying at 8000 feet today News Captain says flying at 8000 feet (!) Newark to Savannah today instead of 34000 because of air traffic control restrictions. Everyone has to say seated including flight attendants. Never in my 40 years in flying has this happened … wondering what the view will be 😀
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
There’s a disturbing lack of outrage over ICE’s aggressive tackling and arrest of a non verbal autistic man in Chicago.

Just like the lack of outrage over Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been held in solitary for months.

Disabled lives matter too!
Disabled People are Being Mistreated in ICE Detention Facilities
Why is no one talking about it? Where's the media? Where's the public outcry? Another example of the pervasive nature of ableism and how society views disabled people as expendable.
www.disabledginger.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social
Offshore processing is a cruel and secretive policy built on corruption, cover-ups and lies. It tortures people, destroys lives and drains hundreds of millions in taxpayer money for nothing but harm. #60mins #nauru #auspol #albanese #60minutes
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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ingridm.bsky.social
the nurses were sacked and are being prosecuted after speculating about imaginary Israelis to one person, who posted a video. The nazis making direct threats to Jews on the steps of parliament are not arrested, not investigated, not charged, and not prosecuted.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bankstown nurse sacked over viral video has charge of threatening to kill Israeli patients dropped
Sarah Abu Lebdeh yet to enter plea for other charges related to video in which she and a colleague allegedly said they would refuse to treat Israeli patients
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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ingridm.bsky.social
NSW police have extensive powers to stop nazi rallies and to criminalise nazis doing nazi things.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answers
Pro-Palestine and climate activists join Jewish voices criticising ‘entirely inconsistent police responses’ and ‘unfathomable approval’
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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mecfsskeptic.bsky.social
7) So rather than providing social safety nets, illness benefits, and medical services to people who have suffering in their lives, psychology participates in this bureaucratic effort to avoid those commitments.
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM