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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 11h

He also looks like he's contemplating throwing himself down some stairs.

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BOO-foe @timbaffoe.bsky.social · 12h

Unsolicited Bic pic

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 13h

Hi Senator have you changed your mind since Wednesday?

Eric Michael Garcia • @ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a
precondition to rein in the government says "can't do that. It's gotta be health care all the way."
October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM @ Everybody can reply

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 13h

This is depressing as hell.

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 13h

Taylor Swift's 'The Life Of A Showgirl' broke a modern-day album sales record, thanks to 34 variants

Taylor Swift Sets Modern Day Sales Record With 34 'The Life Of A Showgirl' Variants

Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl is doing numbers. Upon its arrival last Friday, the pop star’s 12th proper studio album quickly broke the one-day vinyl sales record, and broke the record previou...

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16h

Happy Friday to you guys

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 15h

GN is a Nexstar property - wouldn't expect anything.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 15h

Huge hoist at the petard factory

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 16h

This image choice is made even more hilarious knowing that the Trib OpEd board is run by a bunch of Libertarian, never-Trump, respectability Republican nerds.

White House trashes Nobel Peace Prize committee for snubbing Trump

As Trump works to finalize a major diplomatic victory with the Gaza ceasefire deal, communications director Steven Cheung accused the prize panel of proving “they place politics over peace” b…

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 16h

Try butt chugging for a fun change of pace.

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 16h

People need to understand that the local cops agree with everything that is going on and think that it rules. That is why there are commercials on during every sporting event trying to entice them to quit that job and mask up to be able to get in on the action.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 23h

earlier this morning, cook county sheriff’s deputies kicked me and a couple other reporters who were standing by ourselves off a public sidewalk because it wasn’t “free speech” hours yet or something idk.

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 16h

Fuck Texas

Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 16h

STEERW.BMF

A cowboy wresting a steer to the ground. He looks, unnervingly, directly at the camera, as if to say, I dare you to try this. Dave studies the ad in the magazine. It’s for Marlboro cigarettes. He’s pretty sure the cowboy is his dad. Or at least, the actor playing the cowboy is his dad. It’s the mustache that convinces Dave.

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caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 18h

I Hate My Bitch Wife (1978)

Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 18h

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 17h

Hell yeah

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sure someone in Lincoln Square called them on her for them taking up a parking space.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 17h

now I understand why they pushed ads for this into every Tesla, the official car of cheering for Skynet

Slate @slate.com · 18h

The new Tron is like if a Terminator movie wanted you to cheer for Skynet. slate.trib.al/XZ9iQq4

One of Our Oldest Sci-Fi Franchises Is Back. The New Movie Is Woefully Out of Step With Our Moment.

Every generation gets the Tron movie it deserves. That’s bad news for the new one.

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 17h

Bluesky liberals - heavily influenced by libertarians and right-wing Democrats - love to treat the economy as a distraction from Trump's attack on democracy.

Look how Mamdani ties them together. He gets it.

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Matt McClure @mattmcclure.bsky.social · 19h

My desk at work is extremely close to our loading dock, where our guy likes to BLAST the divas radio station, basically all Whitney and Celine all day, so that the whole warehouse can hear. He is a gruff, barrel chested, late 40s Puerto Rican man.

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 19h

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this