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Kristen - loves Chicago, the Great Lakes, birds, bugs, critters, native plants, trees, rocks, old houses, and my chaotic dog Olive Elvis

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Kelly, Stratton Vow to Block Additional Funding for Iran War During WTTW News’ Senate Debate While U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton flatly ruled out supporting any additional funding for the war effort, U.S. Rep Raja Krishnamoorthi did not.

NEW: Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton and U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly vowed Monday to vote against any additional funding for the war launched by President Trump against Iran in the last debate in the intense Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, hosted by @wttw.bsky.social.
U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi did not.

09.03.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 12
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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

06.03.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 10188 πŸ” 2906 πŸ’¬ 175 πŸ“Œ 353

Early March in Chicago or, as I like to call it, the garlic doldrums.

02.03.2026 01:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A couple two...

20.02.2026 01:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

17.02.2026 11:41 πŸ‘ 21769 πŸ” 7744 πŸ’¬ 299 πŸ“Œ 637

Juliana Stratton is the obvious pick. I hate even having to weigh in here. It's plain as day, and the frontrunner is so bad. Folks, this needs to get turned around. Like desperately. Phone bank for Stratton, talk to your friends, anything, just please, Illinois, NO.

06.02.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

06.02.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 27702 πŸ” 8154 πŸ’¬ 432 πŸ“Œ 300
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Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.

We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.

Read more:

04.02.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 5936 πŸ” 3155 πŸ’¬ 120 πŸ“Œ 211
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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

03.02.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 25668 πŸ” 12018 πŸ’¬ 1000 πŸ“Œ 1095
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A resignation and call to conscience at company owned by Maga billionaires Uline employee says she can no longer work for people who helped β€˜America descend into fascism’

When you do business with Uline, you're helping fund fascism.

30.01.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 515 πŸ” 241 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 19

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

29.01.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 15554 πŸ” 6926 πŸ’¬ 793 πŸ“Œ 380

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed GonzΓ lez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.

They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.

If you have any information at all about these menβ€”please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

25.01.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 2773 πŸ” 1530 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 30
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DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

25.01.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 4776 πŸ” 3146 πŸ’¬ 122 πŸ“Œ 150

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

24.01.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 60616 πŸ” 18869 πŸ’¬ 1403 πŸ“Œ 741
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Flying over and above Lake Michigan’s frozen, fractured, and steaming surface.

#Chicago

23.01.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 208 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 10

"the most widely accepted definition of the working class" !!!! wow my eyes just bulged out of my head lol

and on MLK Day? right in front of my March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?

19.01.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 1061 πŸ” 210 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 3

If you want to actually help ID ICE agents today, might we recommend starting with these two (and no, don't do it in the replies):

14.01.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 652 πŸ” 340 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4
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Pro-Auschwitz Republican flips to Democrat in bid to win after California redistricting A Republican candidate for governor in California will instead run for Congress as a Democrat despite floating Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi concentration camp, as an "unemployment plan."In paperwork f...

Hey CA!
Vet out candidates closely!! There are going to be a LOT of these wolves in sheep's clothing this year.

www.rawstory.com/california-r...

12.01.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 1829 πŸ” 1194 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 198
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via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

08.01.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 7306 πŸ” 3164 πŸ’¬ 241 πŸ“Œ 431

"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"

02.01.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 2770 πŸ” 840 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 53

From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.

20.12.2025 00:05 πŸ‘ 3993 πŸ” 1028 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 30
Copies of Olivia Nuzzi’s book next to John fettermans on a shelf

Copies of Olivia Nuzzi’s book next to John fettermans on a shelf

well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

18.12.2025 00:14 πŸ‘ 3956 πŸ” 377 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 18
Color photo of modern stained glass, depicting an interpretation of a view of the main stem of the Chicago River from around Dearborn looking east to Lake Michigan. Real nerds will be able to ID more, but I see the old Sun-Times building, London Guarantee Building, Mather Tower, the Wrigley Building, and the Tribune Tower. In a green sky above, amidst a decorative lattice are clouds, factories with polluting smokestacks, and fighter planes.

Color photo of modern stained glass, depicting an interpretation of a view of the main stem of the Chicago River from around Dearborn looking east to Lake Michigan. Real nerds will be able to ID more, but I see the old Sun-Times building, London Guarantee Building, Mather Tower, the Wrigley Building, and the Tribune Tower. In a green sky above, amidst a decorative lattice are clouds, factories with polluting smokestacks, and fighter planes.

What if we kissed at the old Sun-Times building in the stained glass windows of First United Methodist?

14.12.2025 03:10 πŸ‘ 226 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4
Trey Stewart surfs under a supermoon at Montrose Beach Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Chicago. The air temperature at the time was 17 degrees. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

Trey Stewart surfs under a supermoon at Montrose Beach Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Chicago. The air temperature at the time was 17 degrees. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

Supermoon surf's up πŸŒπŸ„

Montrose Beach

04.12.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 279 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 5

According to this form you can upload 5Gb files.

03.12.2025 13:12 πŸ‘ 530 πŸ” 182 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 9

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, β€œSTFU.”

15.11.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 4387 πŸ” 1678 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 73

Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody.

Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).

And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.

12.11.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 189 πŸ” 201 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 6
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The Other Side of the Storm November 10, 1975: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in a massive storm on Lake Superior. But just miles away, a few fishermen are struggling in the same storm β€” fighting for survival.

Great listen for today

10.11.2025 16:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Other Side of the Storm November 10, 1975: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in a massive storm on Lake Superior. But just miles away, a few fishermen are struggling in the same storm β€” fighting for survival.

Did you hear this?

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