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The Amazing Prizzini @amazingprizzini.bsky.social · 4h

Clowns are the natural enemy of the fascist. They understand force, they do not understand absurd resistance.

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 7h

Of all the news in this NYT survey of sitting federal judges - incl 47 of them think the SCt is mishandling its emergency docket - maybe the biggest is that 65 sitting fed judges (37D, 28R), folks circumspect for a living, responded to a NYT survey. Stunning. And a sign that something is very wrong.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 8h

I didn’t think resisting tyranny would involve ordering an inflatable chicken outfit, but I guess I really should have known.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 21h

Right before he said AI was based on fact.
Does the AI slop they’re feeding him about this matter, or would he be saying this crap whether he saw a video about it or not?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 1d

Bravo Neko Case.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 1d

Neko Case ends Tennessee show early after venue refuses to remove armed security guard

Neko Case Ends Tennessee Show Early After Venue Refuses To Remove Armed Guard

Neko Case played a show Thursday night at the Caverns in the tiny Tennessee town of Pelham — or at least she started to, before walking off stage after her first few songs. The reason for her departur...

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 22h

In a year's time we've gone from a dysfunctional but free society to "hide your neighbors from the Secret Police."

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 22h

Sister Jean was born just two months before the White Sox threw the 1919 World Series.

Sara Sanchez @bcbsara.bsky.social · 23h

A Chicago sports legend is honored on the Wrigley Field Marquee

The marquee reads Rest in Peace Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt 1919-2025

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

At 5pm I’ll be co-hosting Driving it Home with Patti Vasquez on 820am WCPT. Tune in!

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 1d

"Once Brockman was handcuffed and placed in the van, the agents pulled out, clipping the rear bumper off of a stopped car partially blocking their path and speeding away past an approaching elongated CTA bus and through the busy intersection."

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

With a hearty promise to return, he walked off like the end of a Chaplin movie.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

And he’s a dancing machine. Passersby are either delighted or just move on like they see dancing frogs on Clark Street every day.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Cops just rolling by.

Frog suit dancer as a Chicago cop stops at a stop light .

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Poster selfie with guy in inflatable frog outfit.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 1d

For future reference, Chicago: bookmark this page
thetriibe.com/2025/09/how-...

How to share your videos of ICE and other federal agents with The TRiiBE • The TRiiBE

The newsroom collaboration encourages Chicago residents to send in videos of federal agent misconduct

thetriibe.com

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump indicts John Bolton, it won’t be for the reason he deserves: his role in the Spider-Man “clone saga” of the 90s.

Professor Warren, who created the Spidey clones and is a dead ringer for John Bolton.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

That’s not it at all! Some stuff-shirts on the board know he’s wearing stunning lingerie under that robe and want to thwart his plans to whip off the robe like

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Lorado Taft’s “Eternal Silence” statue, marking the plot of Henry Graves at Graceland Cemetery, currently mummified for restoration work.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Dylan is one of only two Nobel Prize winners to have written a number one pop song; the other Evanston’s own Vice President Charles Dawes, who wrote the melody for what became “It’s All in the Game.” (Dawes is also one of two members of congress to write a #1 song, the other being Sonny Bono)

The Dawes mausoleum at Chicago’s Rosehill cemetery (tour Sunday; link in bio!)

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David Belbin @davidbelbin.bsky.social · 1d

The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing. A signed Jack Kerouac episode from On The Road, written in London, was found in the estate sale of a 40-year dead, murdered mafia boss. You couldn't make it up (and Kerouac didn't, he only changed the names). Here's page one. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

First page of 'The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing' by Jack Kerouac, the whole things is yours for six grand or so.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Okay Michael has GOT to an AI bot, right? Emphasis on the artificial, clearly.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 2d

If her fetus is "in her placenta," that woman is in a ton of pain and the pregnancy's a nonstarter anyway. Good lord, don't take medical advice from this man.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

I back this no bright headlights initiative and add no bluetooth speakers on float trips. No one made you DJ of the river!

dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 2d

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

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