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Nick Ulivieri
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I'm an architecture photographer and Chicago is my backdrop. I post about weather, science, and urbanism issues, too. ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · Nov 15
When I'm not shooting projects for clients, there are few things I enjoy more than catching Mother Nature interacting with #Chicago. Lightning, snow, waves, ice, fog, shelf clouds — you name it, Chicago almost has all the weather // #WX #ILwx
The Chicgago skyline at the bottom of the frame is dwarfed by a massive, roiling shelf cloud A massive lightning bolt drops into the heart of Chicago. The city sits in darkness in the foreground, while rain in the background obscuring the city in the distance Massive waves crash along Chicago's lakefront. The Chicago skyline is in the distance on an overcast day as seen from 31st St. Beach. This photo was taken on September 27th when a storm system from hurricane Helen remnants made its way northwards Snow flakes, illuminated by a camera's flash appear s orbs floating across the scene. Behind them id the view of the Chicago River lined with bridges that reach to Wacker Drive. The warm tones were a creative choice to contrast other wintry images I shot that evening.
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It just got really fuckin' windy out there.
January 22, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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margaret.bsky.social
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
January 22, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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joealv.bsky.social
Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
discosaurus.bsky.social Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 18h
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained
January 21, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.
joealv.bsky.social Joe @joealv.bsky.social · 14h
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
January 21, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Gravamen of the Disclosure 4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows: a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency. b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Laying out my layers and charging my camera batteries
cbschicago.bsky.social CBS News Chicago @cbschicago.bsky.social · 19h
Chicago weather Friday will be severe enough that an Extreme Cold Watch has been issued for the entire area starting overnight, and frostbite could take hold in minutes.
Extreme cold watch issued for entire Chicago area starting Friday morning, frostbite possible in minutes
www.cbsnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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While not exactly the municipal device, these tessellated Y-shaped tiles in Wolf Point East’s lobby certainly allude to it
Silvery, Y shaped tiles interlock to create a shiny, shimmery tessellated
January 21, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Chicagoans are completely obnoxious about... well, everything. But especially our glorious Municipal Device. I made this pair of cufflinks for my husband a few years ago, but now I'm thinking I should do a pair with a version of the Device that goes harder.
Color photo of a pair of cufflinks featuring a black and white Chicago Municipal Device design.
January 21, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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"I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training."

Read this piece by @andreapitzer.bsky.social, then contact your representatives about the latest budget bill that would increase funding for 🧊
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
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January 21, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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America 2026 apnews.com/article/immi...
January 21, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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I wish somebody would build something on top of that godforsaken Target.
Birds eye rendering of the high rise proposal at 1060 W Van Buren in the context of the surrounding neighborhood. There is a very large big box Target store immediately next to it.
January 21, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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The fact that this post has meaning to so many complete strangers is the wonder of the Internet.
joshuaeaton.bsky.social Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1d
Live view of the Air Force One pilot.
January 21, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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Looks like the backup is in the air
Screengrab from Flightradar24 showing AF1’s path
January 21, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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He’ll be bigly sleepy tomorrow now
January 21, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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this is the best social media rule I’ve ever heard
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Jul 24
There should be a rule that if you are a Known Sports Poster you can say things like “holy fucking shit” with zero context but if you are primarily a Known Politics Poster that gets you like a two day ban
January 21, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Preaching to the choir, but if a president thinks it's "psychologically important" to him to own/overtake another country, it might be time to invoke the 25th amendment.
whetmoser.com whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1d
"Asked why ownership was important instead of just fortifying Greenland, he said, 'Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success.' Asked if he meant... for himself or... the country, he said, 'Psychologically important for me.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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This is my shocked face 😑
January 20, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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You can picture how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community www.welcometohellworld.com/we-must-love...
Clearly there's no shortage of horrors to choose from of late but for some reason this one in particular has really chilled me to the fucking bone. Last week a group of pigs had lunch at a Mexican restaurant called El Tapatio in Willmar, Minnesota. "Staff at the restaurant were frightened," an eye witness told the Star Tribune. You can surely imagine that they were. You can picture exactly how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community. There's one like it where you live too. In almost every town in the country. We love Mexican food here so much. They forced these people to prepare their food and to serve them all the while knowing that they were going to ruin their lives after. With full bellies. The threat hanging in the air. Of course they did ruin them. They arrested a dishwasher and the two owners a few hours later after the restaurant closed. Can you imagine being made to wash the dishes used to feed the men who are waiting to kidnap you or worse? Cooking and plating their meals? I wonder if they put the same care they usually do into it or if their shaking hands made the work suffer?
January 20, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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While shit is going sideways in the world, NASA is about 2.5 weeks out from launching (weather permitting) the first crewed mission to the moon - just an orbit for now - in more than 54 years!
January 20, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Here's a plastic party cup of thick milk.
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d
"Drink whole milk, you'll come in 5th place" is an incredible ad campaign.
Alt text: Screenshot of a post from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (@USDA) on X reading, “Nutrition shouldn’t be controversial. It’s common sense. #DrinkWholeMilk.” Below is a video still of a blonde woman in a dark blazer smiling and holding a clear glass of milk against a dark background. The post shows a 14-second video and notes 11.2 million views, dated Jan. 14, 2026.
January 20, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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o'hare forgot to drip the taps
stevegrzanich.bsky.social Steve Grzanich @stevegrzanich.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: Hundreds of flights have been delayed at O'Hare Airport in Chicago because of a burst pipe in a control tower. The FAA says the average delay is 82 minutes. www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_othe...
January 20, 2026 at 4:11 PM