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Governor JB Pritzker

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

MK and I cherish the time that we got to spend with Rob and Michele Reiner — we were devastated to learn of their passing.

Titans of the industry in every sense, the Reiners' legacy is secured through works of art that impacted generations.

May their memories be a blessing.

December 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM

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Irfan Chaudhary

@irfan21.bsky.social

14 by Peter Clines is a clever, slow-burn blend of mystery and cosmic horror. What starts as quirky apartment oddities spirals into a chilling Lovecraftian reveal, driven by strong characters, humour, and an unsettling sense of the unknown.

#Audible #Bookreview #Booksky #Recommend

December 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM

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gu g e

@gug.bsky.social

a thief in the paint

December 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)

@merovingians.bsky.social

I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3d

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3d

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.

December 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM

Taiga! Has lost his marbles

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Ope intensifies

December 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM

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'Pritzker said he doesn't want anybody to think this will be an easy decision, as there is a lot to consider. He even brought the topic up during his visit with Pope Leo two weeks ago. [...]'

www.wandtv.com/news/stateho...

Pritzker still deliberating controversial medical aid in dying bill

Gov. JB Pritzker has not decided yet if he will sign the medical aid in dying bill into law, considered to be the most controversial plan to pass out of

www.wandtv.com

December 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱

@djinnandtonic.bsky.social

WHICH MESSAGE WILL RESONATE WITH DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTERS?

"Better angels of our nature"

OR

"Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger... I will punish the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pomp of the ruthless."

Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 6d

Once again, for 2028 I'm a single issue voter and that issue is post-Trump lustration. GTFO with "better angels of our nature" for once.

Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 6d

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM

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Trying not to vomit from the fact MPRE results are two days away.

December 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM

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Jonathan Ladd

@jonathanmladd.com

Abraham Lincoln said that an “electric cord” connects all our waves of immigrant generations to the founding principles of human equality and republican government. Commitment to these principles, not blood and soil, makes people Americans. www.uvu.edu/ccs/docs/lin...

We have besides these men—
descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our
people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who
have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—
men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have
come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all
things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection
with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry
themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel
that they are part of us, but when they look through that old
Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that "We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,"

and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day
evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral
principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they
were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote
that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.
That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of
patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic
hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men
throughout the world.

December 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM

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Aliette de Bodard

@aliettedebodard.com

Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video

🎄Aleigh Mac, Stitch Witch🎄 @aleighmac.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?

December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM