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Patrick Monaghan

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Somehow still here. Chicago, films, MS, music, far too many effects pedals, Antifa Local 242.

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · Apr 26

Please donate whatever you can when you can. Even a tiny amount can make a difference to someone in dire need.

MARKET BOX
is a mutual aid project that sources food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago

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Market Box

Market Box is a mutual aid project that sources food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago

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Aadam Jacobs Collection @ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Edith Frost Live at Beat Kitchen 2004-12-30 https://archive.org/details/ajc01728_edithfrost2004-12-30

Edith Frost Live at Beat Kitchen 2004-12-30 : Edith Frost : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Edith FrostBeat KitchenDecember 30, 2004Chicago, IllinoisRecording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio ArchiveSetlist: (25:21)01 A Mirage02 Easy to...

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 12h

It was an honor to talk Saturday at the Sanfilippo Foundation about the Uptown Theatre — and to see the amazing collection at Sanfilippo, starting with the Uptown's chandeliers. There' s so much cool stuff — these pictures are just a tiny sample. Well worth a visit. www.sanfilippofoundation.org

A music machine with several statues of musicians and the words "Paris" and "Limonaire Fres."

A gramophone with an extra-long, shiny, gold-colored horn

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 15h

Appeals court on Saturday denied Trump administration request to stay judge’s order barring National Guard deployment in Illinois. But: “Members of the National Guard do not need to return to their home states unless further ordered by a court to do so." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/t...

Appeals court denies Trump administration request to halt judge’s ruling on National Guard pending appeal

A federal appeals court in Chicago on Saturday denied the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay of a district judge’s order barring the president from deploying National …

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 15h

“Alone in the Dark” (Sholder, 1982)

“People here aren’t called patients. They are voyagers.”

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 16h

Things To Do While Getting Well, illustrated by Mike Strouth (1971)

Practice your speech for when people ask, "How are you?"
Cartoon style depiction of a bedridden girl rehearsing an upbeat "Oh, fine!" response to the question "How are you?" as a humorous tip for handling visitors during illness.

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

My wife volunteers at CACC, and it is overwhelmed, so whatever

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 17h

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 17h

James Donald Bowman David Hamel Backpfeifengesicht David Vance is bad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17h

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 16h

Current* conditions near Michigan City, IN:

Western view of Washington Park Beach and the inlet to Michigan City Harbor in Michigan City with Lake Michigan beyond. // Image captured at: 2025-10-12 20:36:37 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Michigan City: 66.41 F | 19.12 C // Precip: scattered clouds // Wind: NE at 5.010 mph | 8.06 kph // Humidity: 64%

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 16h

October Moon Wrist Watch by designer Gene Meyer for ACME Studio

Orange circular dial with pink minute hand inside a black square case on a faux leather strap.
Started in 1985, ACME Studio is an international product design company, producing and marketing writing instruments and other design objects. Its products are the result of cooperation with the world’s leading architects, designers, artists, foundations, estates, and institutions. ACME Studio has a habit of producing limited editions and/or discontinuing products and destroying the molds – this causes items to become very unique and collectible.

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

Our Chicago: Local animal shelters desperate for fosters, overwhelmed with surrendered pets

Experts and local shelter officials say economic pressures are making it harder to own a pet.

ByJohn Klein

abc7chicago.com/post/animal-...

Our Chicago: Local animal shelters desperate for fosters, overwhelmed with surrendered pets

Experts and local shelter officials say economic pressures are making it harder to own a pet.

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dailysportscar.com Bot (Unofficial) @dailysportscar-com.bsky.social · 1d

2025 Petit Le Mans Resource Guide#IMSA

2025 Petit Le Mans Resource Guide

YouTube Live Stream ※ Not available in the United States, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, or Iceland IMSA Radio (Ch. 2) (SiriusXM Ch. 206 in the United States) Spotter Guide by Andy Blackmore Entry List Timetable Qualifying Review Starting Grid Live Timing via Alkamel Systems via Livescoring.us GTP Telemetry The post <a href="https://www.dailysportscar.com/2025/10/11/2025-petit-le-mans-resource-guide.html">2025 Petit Le Mans Resource Guide</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.dailysportscar.com">dailysportscar.com</a>

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a Getty photo (Michael Reeves), rather than a staff photographer, but still: This is a good one, Sun-Times.

The back page of today’s Sun-Times, which features a full-page photo of Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong standing in front of a row of the humanoid sausages that race at the Milwaukee ballpark.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 1d

Probably a mistake to have narcissistic billionaire children with petty-god complexes run the society and economy of a people taught from birth that empathy is evil and selfishness is patriotism.

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 2d

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 2d

Ludwig the coyote does a big stretch.

A coyote arches his back and closes his eyes.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 2d

A diseased population is easier to control

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 2d

So many eyes. So many

Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 2d

“However they were made, scallop eyes have some impressive functionality, warping their internal mirrors to bring light into focus like a telescope. So next time you are enjoying some garlic scallops, try not to imagine the mollusks staring back at you.”

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

What Scallops' Many Eyes Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Vision

Scallop eyes, which function similar to telescopes, are even more complex than scientists previously knew

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Do you think Corey Lewandowski, Kristi Noem, or Stephen Miller himself thought it'd be cute to falsely claim FPS asked for a Guard invasion of the courthouse?

Finally, the Court notes its concern about a third declaration submitted by Defendants, in
which the declarant asserted that the FPS “requested federalized National Guard personnel to
support protection of the Federal District Court on Friday, October 10, 2025.” Doc. 62-3. This
purported fact was incendiary and seized upon by both parties at oral argument. It was also
inaccurate, as the Court noted on the record. To their credit, Defendants have since submitted a
corrected declaration, and the affiant has declared that they did not make the error willfully. Doc.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Oh noooooo!

After a jury found Greg Bovino to be full of shit in LA, a judge found him to be full of shitshow in Chicago.

[This is Judge April Perry's opinion on her TRO.]

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This indicates to the Court both bias and lack of objectivity. The lens through which we view the
world changes our perception of the events around us. Law enforcement officers who go into an
event expecting “a shitshow” are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the
event prepared to de-escalate it. Ultimately, this Court must conclude that Defendants’
declarants’ perceptions are not reliable.6

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow a dead nun who liked basketball is more important than a super station journalist being assaulted and detained by federal secret police for no reason on ABC Evening News @davidmuir-abc.bsky.social

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 2d

CAMP+BELL’s Hair, Chicago 1874

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