Hyde Park Trish
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Writing about history when I'm not gardening. #Chicago #HydePark #UglyDogs (iykyk)
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
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AOC: How can we, as members of congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people? That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham said he was going to seek well over $1 million from the American people, from this.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
AOC: How can we, as members of congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people? That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham said he was going to seek well over $1 million from the American people, from this.
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"It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 members of the United States Senate over $1,000,000 a piece and we are robbing people of their food assistance and healthcare to pay for it. How is this even on the floor!?"
Rep. AOC
Rep. AOC
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 members of the United States Senate over $1,000,000 a piece and we are robbing people of their food assistance and healthcare to pay for it. How is this even on the floor!?"
Rep. AOC
Rep. AOC
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everyone living around light pollution and clouds right now:
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
everyone living around light pollution and clouds right now:
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The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
(Published October)
(Published October)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
(Published October)
(Published October)
People with real cameras who went out before it clouded up got spectacular shots, but this is what my phone captured looking north, then east. Then I went walking away from the lights to see if that helped and bumped into a local citizen. We decided to just walk away from each other. lol
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
People with real cameras who went out before it clouded up got spectacular shots, but this is what my phone captured looking north, then east. Then I went walking away from the lights to see if that helped and bumped into a local citizen. We decided to just walk away from each other. lol
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As many as 267,000 U.S. veterans will lose their healthcare because Congress has failed to extend the health care tax credit, which expires soon.
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
267,000 U.S. Veterans to Lose Their Coverage without Health Care Tax Credit
As many as 267,000 U.S. military veterans are set to lose their health coverage next year because Congress has so
americanscovered.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
As many as 267,000 U.S. veterans will lose their healthcare because Congress has failed to extend the health care tax credit, which expires soon.
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
Holy cow. I never expected to see this. They don't mention that repairing the 1936 bathroom is required of the OPC as mitigation for the damage to the integrity of the park. 1/n www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...
Jackson Park’s historic Burnham Building to undergo multimillion-dollar restoration
A deteriorating century-old comfort station in Jackson Park will undergo a multimillion-dollar restoration as early as next spring, the Chicago Park District announced Monday at a Jackson Park Advisor...
www.hpherald.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Holy cow. I never expected to see this. They don't mention that repairing the 1936 bathroom is required of the OPC as mitigation for the damage to the integrity of the park. 1/n www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...
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"Among their demands: That federal agents be banned from university property without judicial warrants and that the university’s emergency alert system be used to notify people of immigration enforcement on or near campus."
UChicago Workers Want University To Take Stronger Stance Against Feds On Campus
Unions of UChicago faculty, nurses and Lab School teachers called for the university to ban warrantless immigration operations. They also want the university's emergency alert system to notify people ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"Among their demands: That federal agents be banned from university property without judicial warrants and that the university’s emergency alert system be used to notify people of immigration enforcement on or near campus."
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No health care, no deal.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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The Trump regime is looking for new ways to kill people.
Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient
Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Trump regime is looking for new ways to kill people.
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It took a courageous Republican bucking his party to give America affordable healthcare and eight cowardous Democrats bucking their party to take it away.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It took a courageous Republican bucking his party to give America affordable healthcare and eight cowardous Democrats bucking their party to take it away.
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for University Press Week, I hope you'll check out our series Chicago Visions and Revisions, a growing peer-reviewed trade series full of great books about Chicago that you can cuddle up and read while it snows press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...
Book Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
The book series Chicago Visions and Revisions published or distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
press.uchicago.edu
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
for University Press Week, I hope you'll check out our series Chicago Visions and Revisions, a growing peer-reviewed trade series full of great books about Chicago that you can cuddle up and read while it snows press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...
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My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
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Why,
You grave but reckless senators
You grave but reckless senators
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Why,
You grave but reckless senators
You grave but reckless senators
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“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
Joseph Heller, "Catch-22," published on this day in 1961
Joseph Heller, "Catch-22," published on this day in 1961
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
Joseph Heller, "Catch-22," published on this day in 1961
Joseph Heller, "Catch-22," published on this day in 1961
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Banning Citizens United is the floor.
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Banning Citizens United is the floor.
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Almost completely, every single problem with higher education that folks think is mainly about something else is <primarily> about the massive decline in state public funding since the 1980s. Yes, including everyone's obsession with getting their kid into the "right" college:
"I'm obsessed with my kid getting into the right college"
Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.
Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Almost completely, every single problem with higher education that folks think is mainly about something else is <primarily> about the massive decline in state public funding since the 1980s. Yes, including everyone's obsession with getting their kid into the "right" college:
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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.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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.
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This is Gestapo shit and needs to come to the same end
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-...
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-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is Gestapo shit and needs to come to the same end
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Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.