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Nick Kohout
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Line-breaking passes, phenidone, and frame pumps.
The Kona Dew comes with a kickstand!
I have just learned that adult bikes don't come with a kickstand and I want to know where I register my complaint @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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"So if I get this ring, I'm in charge?" "Absolutely not, you have to run and hide" "Will using the ring help me hide" "Yes! Except not from the people who will kill you to get the ring, to them it reveals your precise location" honestly it's like the AI version of an artifact. It's magic Claude
October 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This stat certainly sounds horrifying, but you only need one game to go off-script every year. So, what the hell, this thread is going to take us back in time, one Bears season at a time, to see what went wrong. Spoiler: Rex Grossman was so damn close.
I don't know if this stat should make me laugh or cry.
October 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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clearly a bad idea to go after Cali then DC then Chicago because their flags are the easiest to Aura Farm with.
September 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:

"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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We've been seeing a lot of assholes attack bike lanes and micromobility lately, and I just want to remind some people how deranged that actually is.
August 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
June 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
June 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
June 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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To bring back my favorite Umberto Eco quote, "Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy"
they do not anticipate mass resistance because they cannot conceptualize the kind of person who would resist. they literally believe we are all NPCs. i think this is their fundamental weakness!
June 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history?

There's a simple answer.

The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
June 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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“he is one divine man who exists as three distinct persons”

the pope, explaining tamale guy
May 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Sharing this more broadly because when dude said the data shows improvement or even the team being on par, I had to try to figure out which data he could possibly be referring to

This is through the first 8 matches, this year and last
May 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Crazy how long this conversation has been going on
May 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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ngl i'm kinda ragy about this one, this was a clear setup by the front office. they never backed him or his style of play, refused to do anything this offseason despite saying they had a plan. vile, cowardly behavior.
Chicago Stars FC announce they're parting ways with head coach Lorne Donaldson.

Assistant coach Masaki Hemmi will serve as the interim head coach as the club searches for a permanent replacement.

galpalsports.com/db/chicago-s...
Chicago Stars release head coach Lorne Donaldson
By Lesley Ryder
galpalsports.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”
April 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT.

sincerely,

a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination
April 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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It may seem harsh to call for limits on cars, but the real loss was what car dominance took from us: walkable neighborhoods, freedom for kids, safety for everyone. What we’re advocating for isn’t restriction, it’s restoration.
April 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM