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Jean Giardina

@jeangiardina.bsky.social

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Bookish dabbler. She/her. Thinking about kidlit and dogs. Ask me about donating books to young readers.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 9d

Big news at Bernie’s Book Bank.

30 million books and counting! 💚

We hit our 30 millionth distribution!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 22h

There’s going to be an angry EO prohibiting inflatable frog costumes, isn’t there?

Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 22h

This weekend’s read is THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL by Philip Fracassi. Time travel. What could possibly go wrong? #BookSky

THE
THIRD RULE
OF TIME TRAVEL
PHILIP FRACASSI

Audiobook cover with a white paper butterfly on a white background

Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 22h

Interesting how they won’t say the name of the protest. 🤔

Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 22h

The GOP is getting quite comfortable describing people who use their first amendment rights as terrorists.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

"OK but what is your PLAN?" Bish I am sitting at the back of this plane. I'm just willing to point out that the driver is gargling everclear and flying directly at the ground while reading a book titled HOW TO FLY AIRPLANES INTO THE GROUND.

What is MY plan? What is OUR plan? You're here too.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 2d

Thrilled to share a clip from our funny new children's audiobook about the Stone Age. I had such fun writing and narrating this with the brilliant archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social

In this clip, join Homo Erectus on a scavenging hunt... but they're in for a nasty, LOUD surprise! (Sound on!)

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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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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 1d

Judge orders controversial fence around ICE facility in Broadview to be removed by Friday www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/j...

Judge orders controversial fence around ICE facility in Broadview to be removed by Friday

A federal judge ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the ICE detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to access its own land and ordered its remo…

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

I just really fucking love Chicago.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats! I loved it.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

Judge to Decide Whether to Block National Guard Deployment as Trump Sends California Troops to Illinois

Lawyers for the Department of Justice told U.S. District Court Judge April Perry the president deployed the National Guard because “levels of violence against federal law enforcement executing their l...

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 3d

Fools. You cannot conquer a city under the protection of a thrusting frog.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 2d

This man is a partially deflated Mylar balloon.

Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 3d

No one suspects me.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe if the Cubs go all the way, another passage will open in the wormhole we fell into back in 2016.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3d

Cubs win! Cubs win! Holy cow, Cubs win!

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 3d

I said this to my husband last week. I remember celebrating in 2016 and then the bottom dropped out of the country.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 3d

This does give me the chance to tell everyone again that Lee Greenwood once kicked me and my friends out of an elevator in a cheap hotel in Evansville, Indiana, in the 80s.

Because we were 7th graders at a basketball tourney and he was such a big star. 🤡

Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 3d

Lee Greenwood?! At least try to be plausible, my dude.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 3d

They are big mad that they don’t influence the pop culture and never have.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 3d

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 3d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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