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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1h

This is such good advice. And, it's delicious!
I plan on doing exactly this in Chicago this weekend.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 3h

When they wake up Don the ketchup bottles will be flying.

Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 4h

Tom your music critic's are indeed scarier than your "facism" critic's.
The Who, definitely not "drug addled". Ask Keith Moon. Again, Boston was not a band. It was 2 studio albums created in a guys basement studio. The 1st album was a masterpiece and Tom Scholz is a musical genius.

Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 4h

Georgia, Texas, and Florida are states with high Obamacare usage and also who didn't expand Medicaid with public dollars.

Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 4h

I don't know what could be worse than trump. You don't even have a president anymore. They don't even put class up. They put makeup on his face.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe because Trump is not in touch with reality. Peter time to start addressing Trump's mental health.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 14h

Traitor to the US Constitution

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 15h

This can be explained quite easily should you like to report on Trump's severe narcissistic sociopathy. But nah, let's just pretend he is normal.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 18h

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social Trump is 79 and cognitively and psychologically impaired. Perhaps you should write about that. Seems important. If you can't, just write about why you can't.

Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 19h

Frank Nobel.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 21h

Bob, pull up tik toc on your phone and show us. Should be simple. No, not the porn stuff.

Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 21h

No fucking way, Dems finally have some issues, fund ACA and Medicare fully, get the National Guard out of cities. That's it.
Trump will never release the Epstein files with his name or picture in them. NEVER,

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 21h

There's a ranch??? I was promised 7 virgins.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 21h

"Did he say placenta? ,... I think I'm gonna be sick." - Lil Marco.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Keep Dinesh out of the Vice Presidents residence, he'll have a cow.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

This is a real post from Dinesh D'Souza. 🥴

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy the rest of the night.
Tomorrow Brewers win.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

He had a long day of golf..well, not that long.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

This is NOT making Chicago safer. And this must NOT be what America is.👇

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 2d

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking east from the Skydeck at top of the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millenium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-08 13:37:18 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 57.09 F | 13.94 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: N at 4.608 mph | 7.41 kph // Humidity: 75%

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 2d

@meredithshiner.com is worth a follow. Smart energy we need today.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

"I cannot begin to tell you how difficult and unnerving it is to have been in Chicago these past few weeks; to exist indefinitely in the contradictory space between knowing and living."

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

good morning to the intern doing @schumer.senate.gov’s clips

Every time Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York-the Democrat with the most power in a shutdown because his withholding of seven senators toward a procedural vote keeps Republicans from proceeding-says that Democrats are looking to open the government through a negotiation around and deal on Affordable Care Act subsidies, he is acquiescing to the idea that a government in which Border Patrol agents paid with our tax dollars can shoot real bullets at protesters in Chicago after screaming "Do something, bitch!" can and should be deemed legitimate.
The truth is that Democrats can pay a million consultants to come up with a million different talking points on health care subsidies. They can keep holding press conferences in the Senate studio like every other press conference before it, talking to the same reporters, pretending like we live in a redeemable timeline where if they just keep on acting like it's 2007, we might fall through a time portal that makes it so. But we live here in a country with a co-opted executive branch led by racist, xenophobic idiots who do not believe in law, empowered by a slavishly devoted Supreme Court that has decided shoveling unlimited power to said executive is more important than the law it disregards, and where the president thinks he can send national guardsmen from red states to blue states just because people of color live here and Fox News hosts hate that.

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