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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 27d

"“We’ve become a party that too often trims its sails. Too cautious, too rudderless. Too attached to poll-washed, pundit-rinsed, and donor-dried messages,” he said. “What comes out of the wash is all bleached and blow-dried.”

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27d

Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City on Saturday and called on his party’s leadership to do the same, criticizing them for a delay that he said allowed President Trump to exploit Democratic divisions.

Van Hollen Criticizes Democratic Leaders for Delay in Endorsing Mamdani

At an annual fund-raiser in Iowa, the Maryland Democrat said he supported Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City and said people were sick of “spineless politics.”

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · Aug 31

Every single US city needs to do this, and enforce it.

NPR @npr.org · Aug 31

Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the city's police from collaborating with federal officers on civil immigration enforcement operations, and U.S. military personnel on police patrols.

Chicago's mayor pushes back as Trump administration readies immigration crackdown

Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the city's police from collaborating with federal officers on civil immigration enforcement operations, and U.S. military personnel on police patrols.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · Aug 27

A reminder that this is what the path to a full ban on vaccines looks like.

No one is banning vaccines for everyone overnight. Just like with abortion, they will carve off one group at a time and hope the those still eligible respond with gratitude and self-interest instead of anger and solidarity.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Aug 27

It's official: Updated COVID vaccines have been approved by the FDA, but with restrictions.

Moderna: 6 months and up if high risk

Pfizer: 5 years and up if high risk

Novavax: 12 years and up if high risk

Anyone 65 years and up is eligible for updated COVID vaccines regardless of risk status.

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tatiana 🌈 @caterwaul.bsky.social · Aug 22

one very real, concrete way to help feed Gaza right now is through donating to World Central Kitchen

World Central Kitchen @wck.org · Aug 21

WCK’s mobile bakery in Gaza is currently producing 45,000 loaves of bread every day. With more supplies, including flour and fuel, we'd be able to more than double that daily output and support more Palestinian families in need. #ChefsForGaza

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Anne Terpstra, Potter & Author 🏳️‍🌈 @aeterpstra.bsky.social · Aug 28

Let’s party!🎉

Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · Aug 28

Anthropic threatening us with a good time.

“If every author in the class filed a claim, industry advocates warned, it would "financially ruin" the entire AI industry”

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Aug 28

One extraordinary thing about Pritzker's speech: saying this won't last forever and justice will eventually find the perpetrators.

Shouldn't have stood out so much. But did, because way too many US elites in politics, media, business, etc. are acting like it's popular and permanent. It's neither.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · Jul 25

I think it's time for us to view Kennedy's actions as an attack not just on our public health but the country itself. He's an incredible monster.

Reuters @reuters.com · Jul 25

Health Secretary Kennedy to oust advisory panel on cancer screenings, HIV prevention drugs, WSJ reports reut.rs/452or6u

Health Secretary Kennedy to oust advisory panel on cancer screenings, HIV prevention drugs, WSJ reports

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Jul 26

As we celebrate #ADA35, we reaffirm our commitment to its vision.

Under my admin, we've made the largest investment in state history to support people with disabilities.

Illinois will keep fighting against those in DC who want to roll back the progress we’ve made.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Jun 23

There's going to war on faulty intelligence, then there's going to war in absence of intelligence, and then there's this:

Going to war in the face of contrary intelligence

Vice Chair of Senate Intelligence Committee asking one of the most important questions👇

Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · Jun 23

The Intelligence Community said a week ago that Iran had not moved towards a nuclear weapon.

Have they changed their assessment? And if not, what the hell is the U.S. doing ignoring our own intelligence?

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · Jun 12

Undocumented immigrants contribute nearly $100 billion in taxes every year.

Meanwhile, the wealthiest 1% dodge $163 billion in taxes annually.

The real drain on America isn’t coming from the border — it’s coming from the boardroom.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 11

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jun 10

But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · May 25

Even after all this, the @nytimes continues to normalize it

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · May 21

Yup. I continue to say that AI is for those who fetishize THE IDEA and dismiss THE WORK. It's for those people who come up to writers and say, "I got a great idea for a book, I'll give it to you, you write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50," as if the idea is the hardest and most important part.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · May 20

I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · May 17

Everyone deserves dignity and equality regardless of who they are or who they love.

On International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, know that Illinois stands with our LGBTQ+ community.

Hate has no home here in the Land of Lincoln.

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Anne Terpstra, Potter & Author 🏳️‍🌈 @aeterpstra.bsky.social · May 12

Bonkers thread!

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · May 12

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · May 1

Well yes that’s the plan. Also, not a secret. Also, never been so close to achieving it before.

Wealthy, powerful people are generally such because they never, ever let a good crisis pass without breaking their enemies and stealing their stuff.

Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · May 1

I've been thinking that, if there really is a big recession (as it looks like there will be), the resulting conditions will enable universities to get closer to their goal of fully eliminating expensive tenure-track faculty in favor of large pools of less expensive adjunct instructors

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 30

Trump said that he does have the ability to bring back Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, but is not willing to do so.

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · Apr 24

Absolutely deplorable. Don’t be confused. This administration knows what it is doing. This is a campaign of smear & intimidation being waged against US citizens & those lawfully in this country. DHS is trying to intimidate a family because it isn’t getting its way.

Wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia moves to safe house after DHS posts address online

Homeland Security shared copy of protective order from 2021 revealing family’s address on social media

www.independent.co.uk

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Anne Terpstra, Potter & Author 🏳️‍🌈 @aeterpstra.bsky.social · Apr 24

My kid’s college professor said students could use generative AI to create the outline for their final paper. My kid rolled their eyes and told me it would take longer to think up prompts to guide AI than to just write the outline themselves.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Apr 24

What people really don’t want to hear is that shaming people who brag about writing emails with AI would be just fine. Admirable in fact. Norms can sometimes do what law won’t.

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ACLU @aclu.org · Apr 23

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.

It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records

The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September

www.theguardian.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Apr 16

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

Bennie Thompson @benniethompson.bsky.social · Apr 15

In 90 years of social security, we have never had a check bounce or be late, but they want you to believe the system is broken.

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