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Pop culture enthusiast, movie/TV fan, atheist. #VoteBlue #IL14 #TeamJB She/Her
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Canadian Mountie: "Mr. Ness, I do not approve of your methods!"
Elliott Ness: "Yeah? Well, you're not from Chicago."
Elliott Ness: "Yeah? Well, you're not from Chicago."
It appears someone hacked into a Chicago Department of Transportation traffic sign in the Loop to display vulgar messages about President Trump and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Traffic sign in downtown Chicago displays vulgar messages about Trump, ICE
It appears someone hacked into a Chicago Department of Transportation traffic sign in the Loop to display vulgar messages about President Trump and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.cbsnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Canadian Mountie: "Mr. Ness, I do not approve of your methods!"
Elliott Ness: "Yeah? Well, you're not from Chicago."
Elliott Ness: "Yeah? Well, you're not from Chicago."
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
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So, to wrap up today's insanity:
President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...
President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...
February 11, 2026 at 9:45 PM
So, to wrap up today's insanity:
President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...
President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...
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To her credit, Bondi did not shoot the pup dead as Noem did. She was instead ready to use lawyers to break the heart of its four-year-old owner, though in light of ICE nowadays grabbing children off the street and incarcerating them without their parents, she was just in training.
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
To her credit, Bondi did not shoot the pup dead as Noem did. She was instead ready to use lawyers to break the heart of its four-year-old owner, though in light of ICE nowadays grabbing children off the street and incarcerating them without their parents, she was just in training.
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Thankful for these Olympians!
Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen:
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
February 11, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Thankful for these Olympians!
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Good thread.
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Good thread.
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How totally cool - a memory that will last a lifetime.
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 AM
How totally cool - a memory that will last a lifetime.
We need captions underneath all the celebrities on these commercials. They come and go so quickly. By the time you make a note of one name, two other people have flown by unrecognized
a close up of a woman 's face making a funny face while sitting in a car .
Alt: a close up of a woman 's face squinting while sitting in a car .
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February 9, 2026 at 2:59 AM
We need captions underneath all the celebrities on these commercials. They come and go so quickly. By the time you make a note of one name, two other people have flown by unrecognized
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Keep resisting, keep standing up, and keep speaking out, Illinois.
February 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Keep resisting, keep standing up, and keep speaking out, Illinois.
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I can only hope that they are stale and unsalted, as the sonsabitches deserve no better.
Just making sure that @audacityofdespair.bsky.social has seen these amazing photos. Much respect to the protesters that came up with this.
At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city.
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
February 7, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I can only hope that they are stale and unsalted, as the sonsabitches deserve no better.
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If you voted for Trump, this is on you.
NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:28 PM
If you voted for Trump, this is on you.
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Donald Trump just lost in court again to Illinois.
He’s never had the right to withhold child care funds for Illinoisans — and the District Court’s preliminary injunction tonight has only affirmed that further.
He’s never had the right to withhold child care funds for Illinoisans — and the District Court’s preliminary injunction tonight has only affirmed that further.
February 7, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Donald Trump just lost in court again to Illinois.
He’s never had the right to withhold child care funds for Illinoisans — and the District Court’s preliminary injunction tonight has only affirmed that further.
He’s never had the right to withhold child care funds for Illinoisans — and the District Court’s preliminary injunction tonight has only affirmed that further.
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These news orgs never capitulate consistently. Other news outlets published whole stories about the booing. If you leave it out and someone else reports it, people will notice and accuse you of being propaganda.
If you are watching the opening ceremony on NBC, you won't hear the boos of JD Vance because NBC cut it. Corporations working to keep Americans in the dark about how unpopular their elected officials are. The White House reposted the censored clip.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:53 AM
These news orgs never capitulate consistently. Other news outlets published whole stories about the booing. If you leave it out and someone else reports it, people will notice and accuse you of being propaganda.
Watching Brassed Off, a lovely film with Pete Postlewaite and Ewan MacGregor. Forgot about the powerful rendition of "Danny Boy", a favorite scene for both my late daughter and me. Why do I do this to myself?
a man in a white shirt and black tie stands in front of a painting that says ' united states ' on it
Alt: Pete Postlewaite in a white shirt and black tie conducts in front of a painting, in the film Brassed Off
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February 7, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Watching Brassed Off, a lovely film with Pete Postlewaite and Ewan MacGregor. Forgot about the powerful rendition of "Danny Boy", a favorite scene for both my late daughter and me. Why do I do this to myself?
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I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.
February 6, 2026 at 5:12 AM
I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.
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Thread:
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
February 5, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Thread:
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
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One way for the media to win back the respect of viewers would be for them to show us that they have some self-respect of their own.
When you let the president denigrate and humiliate your colleagues without saying a word, you're not really giving off a "holding the powerful to account" vibe
When you let the president denigrate and humiliate your colleagues without saying a word, you're not really giving off a "holding the powerful to account" vibe
Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 AM
One way for the media to win back the respect of viewers would be for them to show us that they have some self-respect of their own.
When you let the president denigrate and humiliate your colleagues without saying a word, you're not really giving off a "holding the powerful to account" vibe
When you let the president denigrate and humiliate your colleagues without saying a word, you're not really giving off a "holding the powerful to account" vibe
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I guess "ocean" isn't one of the words they test when the president makes his monthly visit to the dementia ward.
Trump: I hate even talking about ICE. 2 people out of tens of thousands and you get bad publicity.
Host: But it was 2 Americans who died—
Trump: We have the smallest trucks. We've been very tough on the waters
Host: The waters?
Trump: The waters where we knock out boats
Host: But it was 2 Americans who died—
Trump: We have the smallest trucks. We've been very tough on the waters
Host: The waters?
Trump: The waters where we knock out boats
February 5, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I guess "ocean" isn't one of the words they test when the president makes his monthly visit to the dementia ward.
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Donald Trump and his administration don't believe in science — that doesn't mean Americans have to suffer because of it.
ICYMI: Illinois has joined @who.int's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network to ensure we're prepared no matter who the President is.
ICYMI: Illinois has joined @who.int's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network to ensure we're prepared no matter who the President is.
February 4, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Donald Trump and his administration don't believe in science — that doesn't mean Americans have to suffer because of it.
ICYMI: Illinois has joined @who.int's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network to ensure we're prepared no matter who the President is.
ICYMI: Illinois has joined @who.int's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network to ensure we're prepared no matter who the President is.
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This country is going to owe a huge debt to Minnesotans. I hope they erect a giant whistle monument in the Twin Cities some day. I hope they make the whistle the state bird
A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers
The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...
www.mprnews.org
February 5, 2026 at 12:02 AM
This country is going to owe a huge debt to Minnesotans. I hope they erect a giant whistle monument in the Twin Cities some day. I hope they make the whistle the state bird