@jessicamuss.bsky.social
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I wish there was more public recognition of how batshit insane it is to call the president a dangerous authoritarian and then give him a $1 trillion military budget
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I wish there was more public recognition of how batshit insane it is to call the president a dangerous authoritarian and then give him a $1 trillion military budget
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Hey correct me if I’m wrong here but isn’t he just describing how health insurance currently works?
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Hey correct me if I’m wrong here but isn’t he just describing how health insurance currently works?
Great news!!
Sarah Conway, a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, has joined the Reader as the new editor-in-chief. She comes to us after eight years at City Bureau. Conway’s approach to journalism “is inventive, ambitious, and deeply accountable” Welcome to the team, Sarah! https://bit.ly/4ryDsHG
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Great news!!
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"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 AM
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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"This isn’t a maintenance bill. It’s a systems-building bill. And it positions Illinois to do something few American states have attempted: build a modern, frequent, interconnected railway network that treats mobility as essential infrastructure rather than a social service."
A striking innovation in the Illinois Transit Bill is the explicit embrace of “regional rail”—a term that signals a complete departure from the commuter rail model that has defined suburban train service for over a century www.hsrail.org/blog/illinoi...
Illinois Quietly Rewrote the Rules: Intercity Rail is Now Transit | High Speed Rail Alliance
This new bill positions Illinois to build a modern, frequent, interconnected railway network that treats mobility as essential infrastructure
www.hsrail.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
"This isn’t a maintenance bill. It’s a systems-building bill. And it positions Illinois to do something few American states have attempted: build a modern, frequent, interconnected railway network that treats mobility as essential infrastructure rather than a social service."
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@wanlittlehusk.bsky.social helped me put together a food/food donations resource sheet that can be distributed tonight at trick or treating for anyone in the greater chicago area - or any time after!
October 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
@wanlittlehusk.bsky.social helped me put together a food/food donations resource sheet that can be distributed tonight at trick or treating for anyone in the greater chicago area - or any time after!
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every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
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Clinée Hedspeth, Chicago’s cultural commissioner and an ardent ally of Mayor Brandon Johnson, has resigned from her post at the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. trib.al/H76PYtX
Chicago cultural commissioner Clinée Hedspeth resigns City Hall post
An ally of Mayor Brandon Johnson, Hedspeth’s 18-month tenure was marked by internal turmoil, with high staff turnover and bullying accusations.
trib.al
October 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Clinée Hedspeth, Chicago’s cultural commissioner and an ardent ally of Mayor Brandon Johnson, has resigned from her post at the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. trib.al/H76PYtX
I love you, Niko. (I also think the album is fine! I love nonsense and taylor)
anyway, TLDR, Taylor Swift is Paul Thomas Anderson for people who read too much Encyclopedia Brown
October 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I love you, Niko. (I also think the album is fine! I love nonsense and taylor)
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By reconceptualizing Josef Albers's modernist "Homage to the Square", Steve Locke's ongoing series, Homage to the Auction Block, argues that the slave auction block is the basic form from which many Modernist structures arose.
Homage to the Auction Block #70, 2020
Steve Locke
American, b. 1963
Homage to the Auction Block #70, 2020
Steve Locke
American, b. 1963
August 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
By reconceptualizing Josef Albers's modernist "Homage to the Square", Steve Locke's ongoing series, Homage to the Auction Block, argues that the slave auction block is the basic form from which many Modernist structures arose.
Homage to the Auction Block #70, 2020
Steve Locke
American, b. 1963
Homage to the Auction Block #70, 2020
Steve Locke
American, b. 1963
Dear @nikostratis.com, I started yr audiobook + was immediately waylaid bc the second you mentionedThe Waterboys, I had to listen- then I wondered “does Niko have a playlist or maybe many playlists on Apple Music?” And now it’s much later + I’m still on the same chapter. This may take a while. ❤️
September 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Dear @nikostratis.com, I started yr audiobook + was immediately waylaid bc the second you mentionedThe Waterboys, I had to listen- then I wondered “does Niko have a playlist or maybe many playlists on Apple Music?” And now it’s much later + I’m still on the same chapter. This may take a while. ❤️
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You tell em, Leo
September 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
You tell em, Leo
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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Tell your friends, family and anyone who will listen to follow The TRiiBE in Chicago.
thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...
thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...
September 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tell your friends, family and anyone who will listen to follow The TRiiBE in Chicago.
thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...
thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...
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Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
September 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
This is how the police dealt with them.
Literally beat the hell out of them.
This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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It's fun and popular to rail about untruth and spin doctors and conspiracy theories in right-wing media, cults, propaganda.... But quite a lot of people who consider themselves reasonable, well-educated, progressive and so forth are also liable to reach conclusions without a basis...
Stick With the Facts & Don't Be Like Them: Some Notes on a Spate of Recent Misreadings
On July 31, the Washington Post ran a story noting that the National Museum of American History, a branch of the Smithsonian, took down a portion of an exhibit about presidential impeachment concernin...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It's fun and popular to rail about untruth and spin doctors and conspiracy theories in right-wing media, cults, propaganda.... But quite a lot of people who consider themselves reasonable, well-educated, progressive and so forth are also liable to reach conclusions without a basis...
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Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
August 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
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During its "news" program America’s Newsroom this morning, Fox News spent twice as much time discussing Sydney Sweeney (6 minutes) as it did Trump firing the BLS head (3 minutes)
August 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
During its "news" program America’s Newsroom this morning, Fox News spent twice as much time discussing Sydney Sweeney (6 minutes) as it did Trump firing the BLS head (3 minutes)