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Chicago area. Music, the arts and science inspire and employ me. I will not be a cat's paw for this autocracy; there will be no blind, repetitive acquiescence.

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We are currently outside the ICE Broadview concentration camp where Sunny Naqvi’s family believes her to be held after being detained in O’Hare by federal authorities.

07.03.2026 04:49 👍 7285 🔁 1466 💬 71 📌 21
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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

06.03.2026 08:57 👍 16867 🔁 5256 💬 447 📌 315
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VICTORY IN COOK COUNTY! ✊🏽💪🏾
The resistance shows up! Charges were just dropped against fifteen "suburban moms" and protesters arrested at the Broadview ICE facility. The regime tried to prosecute dissent and failed miserably.
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fail...

06.03.2026 15:26 👍 233 🔁 76 💬 1 📌 3
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WAPO: “.. Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

06.03.2026 11:14 👍 2272 🔁 1197 💬 243 📌 186
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Savage post by JB Pritzker.

I love my governor!

🔥

05.03.2026 19:29 👍 379 🔁 72 💬 9 📌 3

"As a senator, Mullin has vigorously supported the SAVE America Act, the most restrictive anti-voting bill in U.S. history. He has also repeatedly called into question the results of the 2020 presidential election and previously supported legal efforts to overturn its outcome."

Job criteria.

05.03.2026 19:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The president approved ahead of time you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently?” Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Noem during Tuesday’s hearing.
“Yes sir, we went through the legal processes–” Noem said.
“Did the president know you were gonna do this?” Kennedy interjected.
Noem answered again in the affirmative multiple times. “I’m not saying you’re not telling the truth. It’s just hard for me to believe, knowing the president, as I do, that you said, ‘Mr. President, here’s some ads I’ve cut, and I’m going to spend $220 million running them,’ that he would have agreed to that,” Kennedy said. “I don’t think Russ Vought” at the Office of Management and Budget “would have agreed to that,” he added.
These frustrations have prompted the president to privately express his openness to replacing her, according to a person familiar with the matter. One name he has begun floating this week as a potential replacement: Oklahoma’s junior U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin.

“The president approved ahead of time you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently?” Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Noem during Tuesday’s hearing. “Yes sir, we went through the legal processes–” Noem said. “Did the president know you were gonna do this?” Kennedy interjected. Noem answered again in the affirmative multiple times. “I’m not saying you’re not telling the truth. It’s just hard for me to believe, knowing the president, as I do, that you said, ‘Mr. President, here’s some ads I’ve cut, and I’m going to spend $220 million running them,’ that he would have agreed to that,” Kennedy said. “I don’t think Russ Vought” at the Office of Management and Budget “would have agreed to that,” he added. These frustrations have prompted the president to privately express his openness to replacing her, according to a person familiar with the matter. One name he has begun floating this week as a potential replacement: Oklahoma’s junior U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin.

Of all the bad looks from this week's hearings with Kristi Noem, it is not that she's NOT deporting the worst of the worst, that her fuck bunny signs contracts, OR that she has tanked his polling on most popular issue. It's that she claims he knew of her corrupt propaganda contract.

05.03.2026 14:11 👍 848 🔁 271 💬 57 📌 21

Trump swithches substances for his addiction to sycophants.

05.03.2026 19:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump considering pardons for the rats that breached the grease trap.

05.03.2026 15:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Dad was once the U.S. Ambassador to Qatar.

He was there when the bloodless coup occurred that put the Crowned Prince Hamad Al Thani in power in 1995.

He helped establish the U.S. relationship with the new regime, right when Qatar’s massive gas reserves were being explored & Qatar was becoming a

05.03.2026 04:46 👍 89 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 2
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 👍 17101 🔁 5967 💬 513 📌 493

Known as the
Complete Aerial Rejection of Drones System (CARDS)

05.03.2026 12:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Otherwise known as Zelensky's

Complete Aerial Rejection of Drones System (CARDS)

05.03.2026 12:28 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

Explosions are being reported in Abu Dhabi, UAE and Bahrain.

04.03.2026 23:07 👍 132 🔁 32 💬 3 📌 2
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Virginia Supreme Court clears way for voters to counter GOP gerrymanders The decision restores the referendum and allows election preparations to move forward immediately.

Good news!

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, for the second time, that voters can decide whether the state can redraw its congressional map — clearing the way for a referendum that, if successful, could help counter GOP gerrymanders nationwide. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

04.03.2026 22:31 👍 5382 🔁 1473 💬 67 📌 52
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[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

04.03.2026 22:05 👍 9214 🔁 4507 💬 1047 📌 1619
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Judge rules companies are entitled to refunds for Trump tariffs overturned by the Supreme Court In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supreme Court are due refunds.

In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supreme Court are due refunds.

04.03.2026 22:25 👍 317 🔁 107 💬 21 📌 15
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Iran shot down a US fighter jet over Tehran, north of the Lavasan mountains. The fighter jet was intercepted with Iranian air defenses after it was bombing Tehran

Confirmed by Yedioth Ahronoth it was indeed an American jet that was downed.

04.03.2026 16:14 👍 106 🔁 60 💬 14 📌 1
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Trump Quietly Invested Millions in Bank Securities, Late Ethics Filing Shows The President recently disclosed more than a hundred late trades made since May of last year, nearly all in banks and financial institutions.

SCOOP: Trump quietly invested as much as $20 million in bank securities last year and violated the STOCK Act by failing to publicly disclose the transactions. readsludge.com/2026/03/04/t...

04.03.2026 16:05 👍 64 🔁 40 💬 6 📌 8
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Trump administration waging illegal war on Iran, experts say Administration offers shifting explanations as it acts without congressional approval or legal premise

Stories about the illegality of the Iran War under both international law and the US Constitution and War Powers Act have featured on the front pages of Süddeutsche Zeitung, El País, Le Monde and papers all around the world. Not, however, in major US papers. Something is seriously wrong.

04.03.2026 14:21 👍 290 🔁 145 💬 10 📌 1

It would be interesting to compare this chart to Rate vs. Time for those without a diagnosis, i.e. is there truly no increase if no diagnosis - the control data.

Or, show the % increase vs. no Dx. Age normalized.

Rather than only comparing to the baseline of the same group prior to diagnosis.

04.03.2026 14:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Two headlines, both from this morning:

04.03.2026 13:09 👍 652 🔁 187 💬 40 📌 29

The correct word for killing a lot of people, destroying a lot of things, spending a lot of resources, and ending up back where things started is "failure." Or if you'll allow two words, "avoidable disaster."

03.03.2026 19:01 👍 1169 🔁 268 💬 45 📌 2

More footage from the fire

03.03.2026 19:36 👍 71 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2

User beware.
Apps are embedded with trackers from Facebook, Adobe & dozens of others, whether you have/use Facebook or not. Data is constantly collected, then analyzed, sold.

Duckduckgo, Proton etc. block, for a price.

e.g. 2514 tracking attempts occurred within my Bluesky app in the last hour.

03.03.2026 19:23 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A subscription to proton and/or duckduckgo, and similar services, are now a sad necessity.
With these you get a vpn, blocking of trackers embedded in apps and email, automated removal of personal info from online "whitepages" etc.

03.03.2026 19:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

02.03.2026 18:48 👍 847 🔁 356 💬 16 📌 19
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Happening now: anti-war protestors are gathereing in Chicago's Congress Plaza for a demonstration against ongoing U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.

Tonight's rally follows a similar protest in Chicago on Saturday; other anti-war actions are being planned across the city over the week.

03.03.2026 00:18 👍 1829 🔁 481 💬 6 📌 7
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Israel-US war on Iran live: fire at US embassy in Riyadh after drone strike; state department urges all Americans to leave Middle East Donald Trump says the war could go on for four-five weeks, adding US has ‘capability to go far longer’

US Embassy in Riyadh was just struck

03.03.2026 01:02 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Devastating.

02.03.2026 16:46 👍 3262 🔁 1656 💬 243 📌 198