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Mike Fragassi

@refrag.bsky.social

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He/him Chicagoan, stroke survivor, dev, moving further to the Left as I get older & more pissed off. I probably repost too damn much. And make too many grammatical errors & tpyos. Also @[email protected], but that's dormant.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 1h

Giddings, east of the plaza

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 4h

Bad news: meet the Chairman of the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board

wint @dril

go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The Fuck Up " at me. it only makes my opinions Worse

3/10/18, 13:09

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 5h

illinois state police arrested eight additional people at broadview tonight for a total of 15 people arrested today, per an update from cook county sheriff’s office.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 6h

My legs are getting numb

An orange & white cat, napping on my jean-covered legs, which are crossed and propped up on an ottoman just out of camera.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 6h

That said, Ds vocally *opposed* to the very idea - if I recall correctly, that includes Schumer - stink. But Ds simply keeping mum could be making the correct play.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 6h

2) as necessary as it is, the Senate is R controlled. There's a risk of having them respond to calls to expand the SC to 13, one per circuit, with them going "great idea! We'll do it ourselves!" So I'm not sure trumpeting the importance of this is a great idea.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 6h

Thinking about this some more, I'm not sure including court reform works. 1) Governors aren't expected to be pushing for it, as that is a Federal issue. E.g. JB is up for reelection, and it doesn't quite make sense to go off on that in his speeches when it's something he has no control over.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 6h

Los Barriles on Lawrence in Chicago is opening up their ofrenda to public contributions

Red sign in window, with line art of Mexican skulls and marigolds: "Celebrate Dia de los Muertos with us!
Honor the memory of your loved ones with a photo, a treat, a trinket. or write their name on a note.
This ofrenda is open to everybody!
Explore other ofrendas + Find food and Items to contribute

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 6h

Taking this photo made me realize for the first time how bad my phone's camera is, because that photo actually came out looking like this, which is nowhere as vibrant as the flowers really are. I had to adjust it in the Android photo app to get it to look right, which I've never really done before.

The same photo. The flowers look much more pinkish, and the leaves a paler green, than they are in reality.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 6h

🟪🌼

Nothing but dense, bright purple flowers, smallish, with thin petals, surrounded by dense dark green spiky leaves. I have no idea what type of flowers these are.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 7h

The Chicago Brown Line Western platform, looking West, at sunset

A large brick building to the left, with heavy white lines where support girders are. The building looms high, topped by grey cell tower equipment. Below it to the right, rails stretch away into a tree line. Stretching from the building is a close bunch of wires, touching a thin sliver of wooden platform, including the overhead lights, at the lower right corner. Above it all, mostly parallel to the wire, puffy clouds in thin lines, between which shows dusky blue twilight sky, tinged with weak yellow.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Quick update on what we just saw here—*before curfew*, ISP troopers, Broadview PD and CCSO deputies began menacing demonstrators outside the ICE facility. Several arrests.

Pepper ball guns at the ready, a bit of a standoff going with remaining protesters. All people are doing is playing music.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 8h

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 8h

I'll bet the group chats these guys are on are full of all sorts of very telling things about themselves

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 10h

lots of cops have been snapping photos of protesters. saw a couple sneaking pics from behind the trees earlier.

protesters still heckling cops and yelling at ice as they come/go.

unsure if the cops just think it’s funny or what.

(note the massive can on pepper spray on this guy’s vest.)

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Mr Fengi @mrfengi.bsky.social · 7h

Stanley Tigerman did this with a Jewel Osco in Uptown that include a set of 2 floor aparments with faux 2 flat home facades.

www.artic.edu/artworks/233...

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paul goyette @pgoyette.bsky.social · 15h

More than 200 students and community members are protesting outside of the Morton School District 201 offices on Cermak in Cicero this morning after Morton West HS staff chased away community members sharing know-your-rights flyers on 10/8.

About 100 students with anti-ICE posters and Mexican flags protest in front of the J Sterling Morton school district 201 building on Cermak in Cicero.

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Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social · 10h

I wonder what this means for its Michelin star

Kid Rock's Restaurant Closes to Avoid Trump's ICE Raids

A photo of Kid Rock behind Trump in the oval office

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 12h

I have never in my life seen anything like what is going on between the Broadview police force and ICE. These federal agents just do not give a shit about any kind of back the blue solidarity. Gas, verbal abuse, time wasting.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 7h

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 8h

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 9h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 9h

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 12h

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 8h

Knowing what he did to his costars in The Suicide Squad, this is literally true

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 8h

This ends with magas wearing gear with hammer & sickles

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. Nevadans have a front row seat to.. Trump’s transformation of the U.S. economy from a free market to a command economy, complete with the ability for Trump to manipulate the market.. in favor of his own investments, .. friends or family.”

@lasvegassun.bsky.social
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Love it

María Corina Machado
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 15h

guards ignore—but are trained—that withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent

the fact that they were *wrong* about this person’s emergency doesn’t make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.