Megan
@mmckelly.bsky.social
Environmental chemist turned generalist turned higher ed admin with heaping portions of cats and hobbies
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Minneapolis: I am braving the elements and current air travel situation to do one show for you at the Parkway Theater on 11/23 (a week from Sunday)!!! Get your tickets: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
Josh Gondelman
Fresh from his new stand-up special Positive Reinforcement, Josh Gondelman returns to The Parkway for a hilarious night of stand-up comedy!
theparkwaytheater.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Minneapolis: I am braving the elements and current air travel situation to do one show for you at the Parkway Theater on 11/23 (a week from Sunday)!!! Get your tickets: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
Rus 👏sian👏 win 👏ter
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Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino and other federal immigration agents could be leaving Chicago this week, reports say. blockclubchi.co/4qT41qx
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Rus 👏sian👏 win 👏ter
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Please share with your food nerd friends and report back: I find myself in need of a workable recipe or thoughts about Velveeta crackers. like homemade cheezits with Velveeta. Is this inside joke doomed to never see the light of day??
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Please share with your food nerd friends and report back: I find myself in need of a workable recipe or thoughts about Velveeta crackers. like homemade cheezits with Velveeta. Is this inside joke doomed to never see the light of day??
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We took a moment to highlight in the Tribune that something deeper is happening than just people lining up and gathering whistles. We are outpacing them. We are breaking their image of authoritarian invincibility.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/o...
Sen. Graciela Guzmán and Gabe Gonzalez: There is something deeper at work in Chicago than residents blowing whistles
In Chicago a trifecta has emerged to fight ICE: grassroots mobilization, judicial accountability and united local governments.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We took a moment to highlight in the Tribune that something deeper is happening than just people lining up and gathering whistles. We are outpacing them. We are breaking their image of authoritarian invincibility.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/o...
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Ellis is concluding, with John Adams words to his wife in 1775 about the need to fight for the nascent American democracy.
"Liberty once lost is lost forever."
"Liberty once lost is lost forever."
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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This reminds me: A few CBP agents were recently overheard complaining about how much they *hate* the whistles. Apparently, in addition to the obvious, the racket makes it harder for them to communicate with each other.
Listening to CPD radio traffic from something last month and can hear the whistles in the background.
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This reminds me: A few CBP agents were recently overheard complaining about how much they *hate* the whistles. Apparently, in addition to the obvious, the racket makes it harder for them to communicate with each other.
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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-...
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Don't threaten me with a good time.
Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"
November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Don't threaten me with a good time.
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The surface danger zone for sandwiches really depends on the ingredients tbh. An Italian sub, for example, has a high frag rate because of the bread consistency but better aerodynamic range, while a croque monsieur and the Rueben have less range but more splatter.
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The surface danger zone for sandwiches really depends on the ingredients tbh. An Italian sub, for example, has a high frag rate because of the bread consistency but better aerodynamic range, while a croque monsieur and the Rueben have less range but more splatter.
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This has been such an Illuminating part of our current moment:
It’s revealed just how unwilling those with actual power are to even just ask tough questions, while highlighting how willing pajama-wearing suburbanites are to physically drive off guys armed with actual guns.
It’s revealed just how unwilling those with actual power are to even just ask tough questions, while highlighting how willing pajama-wearing suburbanites are to physically drive off guys armed with actual guns.
The assumption appears to be that ordinary voters will be cowed, obsequious, and unwilling to challenge autocracy, just like the billionaires, business leaders, media executives, and other leading institutions of civil society, which have decided that fighting back is “not worth the hassle.”
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This has been such an Illuminating part of our current moment:
It’s revealed just how unwilling those with actual power are to even just ask tough questions, while highlighting how willing pajama-wearing suburbanites are to physically drive off guys armed with actual guns.
It’s revealed just how unwilling those with actual power are to even just ask tough questions, while highlighting how willing pajama-wearing suburbanites are to physically drive off guys armed with actual guns.
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If your nativity scene doesn't have a FUCK ICE banner over the creche, you're doing it wrong.
November 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If your nativity scene doesn't have a FUCK ICE banner over the creche, you're doing it wrong.
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A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
BREAKING: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of raids across Chicago, Evanston and Skokie on Friday, does not have to report every weekday at 6 p.m. in person to the federal judge who has tried to rein in federal agents’ use of force, an appeals court ruled. @wttw.bsky.social
Appeals Court Rules Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino Does Not Have to Check In Every Day With Federal Judge
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of raids across Chicago, Evanston and Skokie on Friday, does not have to report every weekday at 6 p.m. in person to the federal judge who has tried t...
news.wttw.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston
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Not the prompt but it's the best I got right now
"I'm so fucking tired. I'm just sick of this shit. I just need to goddamn sleep already." - willet 🪶
October 30, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Not the prompt but it's the best I got right now
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Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
Or add a third blue bar: the great melt
the day we get ICE out of the metro area we should put a fifth gd star on the flag
October 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Or add a third blue bar: the great melt
anyway can't stop listening to metz.bandcamp.com/album/up-on-... (#7 never still again)
Up On Gravity Hill, by METZ
8 track album
metz.bandcamp.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
anyway can't stop listening to metz.bandcamp.com/album/up-on-... (#7 never still again)
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
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October 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Directly in the interest overlap of my two main friend/follower groups on this platform, my friend wrote about race and professional cycling:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Naa Oyo A. Kwate | At the Roadside in Kigali
In 2022, in celebration of Black History month, USA Cycling, the official governing body for competitive cycling in the...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Directly in the interest overlap of my two main friend/follower groups on this platform, my friend wrote about race and professional cycling:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
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People who got the 2024-2025 Covid booster had a 44% lower symptomatic infection rate and more than a 50% lower rate of death and hospitalization than those who did not receive the booster, and did not experience a higher rate of adverse outcomes. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Evidence, Opinion, and Uncertainty About COVID-19 Vaccines
This issue of JAMA Internal Medicine includes a Research Letter by Du and colleagues1 reporting findings that once again demonstrate that vaccination with a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine booster with an updated ...
jamanetwork.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
People who got the 2024-2025 Covid booster had a 44% lower symptomatic infection rate and more than a 50% lower rate of death and hospitalization than those who did not receive the booster, and did not experience a higher rate of adverse outcomes. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
This is, according to my boss, the wealthiest block in her neighborhood, in case you're wondering where we are on the "first they came for the ____" scale of things
Federal agents arrested three people, deployed tear gas and disrupted a Halloween parade Saturday in Old Irving Park, neighbors said. t.co/KmphoQHozA
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is, according to my boss, the wealthiest block in her neighborhood, in case you're wondering where we are on the "first they came for the ____" scale of things
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Unemployable goons arresting people with real jobs is exactly what they are.
October 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Unemployable goons arresting people with real jobs is exactly what they are.
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"ZOSO, Gossip Girl." - someone having fun recommending Led Zeppelin IV to Gossip Girl
Can we still do posts like this sometimes?
Can we still do posts like this sometimes?
October 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"ZOSO, Gossip Girl." - someone having fun recommending Led Zeppelin IV to Gossip Girl
Can we still do posts like this sometimes?
Can we still do posts like this sometimes?