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Dan 🌹
@drsqpd.bsky.social
Social Worker ❤️‍🩹.

Proud parent of 3 rescue pets 🦮🐈🐈‍⬛

📍Chicago
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Had a beautiful week on a 5,000 mile road trip from Chicago to Los Angeles and back with my husband and our high school exchange student from Italy. There is a lot of lovely people and places in America.
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Again it’s not good that the most prominent leaders of the party keep insisting it’s a trap to talk about “identity” when the Trump administration is pushing white supremacy.
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Such good news for Chicago
The Chicago Transit Authority board approved a 2026 budget with no service cuts, fare increases or layoffs, averting a feared doomsday scenario after the Illinois General Assembly came through with badly needed money to fill a transit budget gap.
CTA OKs Budget With No Cuts or Fare Hikes; Major Service Boosts Planned When New Public Funding Arrives
The 2026 budget makes permanent the regional day pass allowing a single, discounted 24-hour fare across CTA, Metra and Pace, as well as a program allowing paratransit users to ride for free on fixed r...
news.wttw.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Yea I’m out
The runtime for ‘AVATAR: FIRE & ASH’ has been listed at 3 hours & 15 minutes.

The longest film in the trilogy.
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Folks, the reporting is that Trump is making PERSONAL CALLS to Mace, MTG and others about the discharge petition. Would you be doing this if you had nothing to hide? Let's please all be serious here.
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
That is the best catch I’ve ever seen
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A previous Republican Party would be losing their minds about this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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After a certain age in your 30s you think “damn, maybe I’m unpleasant” and you’re perfectly fine with that possibility.
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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As of Halloween, annual homicides in Chicago are the lowest since 2014 and the second lowest since at least 2001.

No amount of murder is acceptable, but a 50% drop from the pandemic spike is pretty remarkable. And there's still a chance that we'll hit a 25-year low by the end of December.
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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It is, indeed, hard to make friends when you are openly disrespectful and cruel to everyone you meet just to prove an ideological point.
"No one likes me, I win."
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Prance my queen!
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Lmao
Mike Johnson: "The economy and healthcare are two of the primary issues in the country clearly, and that's why we are delighted to run on our record."
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Once more, for old times’ sake
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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stay tuned
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
ZOHRAN
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Hard to understate how massive of a night this can be for leftist politics with a Mandani win. Would follow Brandon Johnson’s DSA-aligned campaign in Chicago.
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Incredible that this has now reached the Vatican
BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty.

“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Received this from my Catholic Church after Mass today.
November 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
3 years together this month 😎
November 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
@robinvetskeptic.bsky.social we got our tie dye shirts! They’re awesome, thank you!
November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
ICE terror led to only two trick or treaters tonight 😕
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Really appreciate all the coordination among Chicago journalists to document the lawlessness.
November 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This is a very common experience I hear from folks on the Autism Spectrum.
October 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM