Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀
@bebopott.bsky.social
✶✶✶✶ devout Chicagoan || a blog called SILLY PRIZES || AudHD socialist rabble-rouser || doesn't have much plot significance but that doesn't stop him from chilling || "an account" per Chicago Sun-Times
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For my sophomore dispatch of SILLY PRIZES, I unmask 3 of the Chicago Aldermen who joined Ald. Silverstein for a late August vacation to Israel, with all expenses paid by their Ministry of Foreign Affairs
sillyprizes.beehiiv.com/p/an-apology...
sillyprizes.beehiiv.com/p/an-apology...
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hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it.
my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...
my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...
Donate to Support Gene Park's Cancer Surgery and Treatment, organized by Gene Park
Hi, my name is Gene Park. I’m a games critic at The Washington Post, and I’… Gene Park needs your support for Support Gene Park's Cancer Surgery and Treatment
www.gofundme.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:44 AM
hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it.
my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...
my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...
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Analysis | President Trump has claimed he’s a dictator with unlimited authority to imprison and kill his enemies. Critics say that’s not entirely accurate.
January 22, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Analysis | President Trump has claimed he’s a dictator with unlimited authority to imprison and kill his enemies. Critics say that’s not entirely accurate.
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Orin is probably the preeminent fourth amendment scholar in the United States. He is also extremely professional. This is the way he says "I wish a bitch would try"
This DHS memorandum says that the DHS General Counsel's office has adopted a new position that the Fourth Amendment allows entry into the home to make an arrest just based on an administrative warrant.
I would like to see that argument.
documentcloud.org/documents/26...
I would like to see that argument.
documentcloud.org/documents/26...
January 22, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Orin is probably the preeminent fourth amendment scholar in the United States. He is also extremely professional. This is the way he says "I wish a bitch would try"
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I wish they'd drop this "teen curfew" idea.
The city is for everyone who lives here, including [not so subtly between the lines "Black"] teenagers.
The city is for everyone who lives here, including [not so subtly between the lines "Black"] teenagers.
FULL STORY: A proposal designed to expand the Chicago Police Department’s power to impose a curfew to stop large gatherings of teens stalled Wednesday after supporters of the push balked after a last-minute effort to revise the measure. @wttw.bsky.social
Push to Expand CPD’s Curfew Power Stalls After Last-Minute Revision
The new proposal does not mention the city’s curfew, but gives the city’s top cop the power to issue what it calls “a dispersal declaration” in areas where police leaders have determined they have pro...
news.wttw.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I wish they'd drop this "teen curfew" idea.
The city is for everyone who lives here, including [not so subtly between the lines "Black"] teenagers.
The city is for everyone who lives here, including [not so subtly between the lines "Black"] teenagers.
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No no it's saying that you should hurl insults at them, "e.g., loser patrol"
My photographer friend says Bovino riding around in a white Chevy with Louisiana vanity plate EGLRPTR, which translates to "Eager Leprechaun."
January 22, 2026 at 12:03 AM
No no it's saying that you should hurl insults at them, "e.g., loser patrol"
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In France, schools often have a poignant plaque on the wall near their entrance recounting how many students were kidnapped by the Nazis from that school during the occupation.
Four students have been taken from this Minnesota school district.
Four students have been taken from this Minnesota school district.
January 21, 2026 at 11:19 PM
In France, schools often have a poignant plaque on the wall near their entrance recounting how many students were kidnapped by the Nazis from that school during the occupation.
Four students have been taken from this Minnesota school district.
Four students have been taken from this Minnesota school district.
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Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
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“Here in America when kids walk around I have my goons murder them and cover it up myself, personally.”
@rahmemanuel.bsky.social reflects on seeing young kids walk themselves home from school in Japan. All kids deserve that—we need to invest in safer streets.
January 21, 2026 at 8:56 PM
“Here in America when kids walk around I have my goons murder them and cover it up myself, personally.”
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“What a humiliation, huh?”
“Lemon, it’s the first year of the century of humiliation.”
“Lemon, it’s the first year of the century of humiliation.”
I'm speechless. I can't find the words to describe how awful this is. A humiliation for the United States.
January 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM
“What a humiliation, huh?”
“Lemon, it’s the first year of the century of humiliation.”
“Lemon, it’s the first year of the century of humiliation.”
It does my heart good to see people still falling for ratlimit’s over-the-top style of performative rage-baiting in the year of our lord 2026
Saw this on reddit. Had to stare at it a while to make sense of it
This person belongs in jail
This person belongs in jail
January 21, 2026 at 7:26 PM
It does my heart good to see people still falling for ratlimit’s over-the-top style of performative rage-baiting in the year of our lord 2026
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Even if you think it doesn't go far enough I beg my liberal friends to follow and amplify @ramirez.house.gov and others on DHS accountability, not grifters and corporate Democrats who are using the horrors to get re-elected against their primary opponents who actually oppose authoritarians.
Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is proposing the legislation as a number of Democratic candidates become increasingly vocal in their calls to rein in or eliminate ICE.
Democratic lawmaker to introduce bill to cripple DHS' ability to detain immigrants
Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is proposing the legislation as a number of Democratic candidates become increasingly vocal in their calls to rein in or eliminate ICE.
nbcnews.to
January 21, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Even if you think it doesn't go far enough I beg my liberal friends to follow and amplify @ramirez.house.gov and others on DHS accountability, not grifters and corporate Democrats who are using the horrors to get re-elected against their primary opponents who actually oppose authoritarians.
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Holy shit the Sun-Times profiled my trip to the Twin Cities with @bibliogrrl.bsky.social!
Shout out to @mostlybree.kitrocha.com and @courtneymilan.com and @hankscorpio.bsky.social and @dansinker.com and all the incredible folks printing whistles and spreading the word.
Shout out to @mostlybree.kitrocha.com and @courtneymilan.com and @hankscorpio.bsky.social and @dansinker.com and all the incredible folks printing whistles and spreading the word.
Chicagoans send 150,000 whistles to cities besieged by federal immigration agents
On Friday, Emily Hilleren and Lauren Vega ferried a care package containing whistles and instructional zines to Minneapolis, the focus of the latest federal immigration action.
chicago.suntimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Holy shit the Sun-Times profiled my trip to the Twin Cities with @bibliogrrl.bsky.social!
Shout out to @mostlybree.kitrocha.com and @courtneymilan.com and @hankscorpio.bsky.social and @dansinker.com and all the incredible folks printing whistles and spreading the word.
Shout out to @mostlybree.kitrocha.com and @courtneymilan.com and @hankscorpio.bsky.social and @dansinker.com and all the incredible folks printing whistles and spreading the word.
“What a humiliation, huh?”
“Lemon, it’s the first year of the century of humiliation.”
“Lemon, it’s the first year of the century of humiliation.”
I'm speechless. I can't find the words to describe how awful this is. A humiliation for the United States.
January 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM
“What a humiliation, huh?”
“Lemon, it’s the first year of the century of humiliation.”
“Lemon, it’s the first year of the century of humiliation.”
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Iceland at Davos
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Iceland at Davos
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with subzero temperatures on the horizon, now‘s a good time to revisit @katieprout.bsky.social’s 2022 piece about the lack of 24-hour warming centers in chicago.
four years later and nothing has changed.
four years later and nothing has changed.
Lukewarm welcome - Chicago Reader
The warming areas don’t just exist to warm you up—housed within DFSS community service centers, they’re also access points from which Chicagoans can be connected to other services that have the potent...
chicagoreader.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:30 PM
with subzero temperatures on the horizon, now‘s a good time to revisit @katieprout.bsky.social’s 2022 piece about the lack of 24-hour warming centers in chicago.
four years later and nothing has changed.
four years later and nothing has changed.
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I didn’t know that bus driver was also a pilot
INBOX: Air Force One (tail number 29000), which was carrying President Trump from Washington, D.C. to Davos, Switzerland, appears to be turning back. (h/t @PollTracker2024/X)
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January 21, 2026 at 3:49 AM
I didn’t know that bus driver was also a pilot
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I'm being told he drowned in the toilet. He was drinking from the toilet like usual but something went wrong. CPR was not administered because everyone thought it was too gross
October 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I'm being told he drowned in the toilet. He was drinking from the toilet like usual but something went wrong. CPR was not administered because everyone thought it was too gross
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Gaming doesn’t count as screen time. Gaming is books. Unless it’s on your phone - that is screen time. Movies are books unless they are Marvel, who produce screen time. Television is screen time.
January 20, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Gaming doesn’t count as screen time. Gaming is books. Unless it’s on your phone - that is screen time. Movies are books unless they are Marvel, who produce screen time. Television is screen time.
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WE SHOULDN'T USE POLLING TO TELL US WHAT OUR VALUES ARE, WE SHOULD USE POLLING TO FURTHER ADVANCE THE CAUSES WE VALUE.
January 21, 2026 at 12:58 AM
WE SHOULDN'T USE POLLING TO TELL US WHAT OUR VALUES ARE, WE SHOULD USE POLLING TO FURTHER ADVANCE THE CAUSES WE VALUE.
platonic ideal of celebrity news to me
January 21, 2026 at 12:57 AM
platonic ideal of celebrity news to me
We Exist
We're canvassing on inaturalist. 🪶 🐣
January 20, 2026 at 11:30 PM
We Exist
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The basic premise of centrist advice urging Dems to stand down on immigration has been the idea that Trump was *in some sense or other right* about the issue, but he was not and is not in any sense right and the public is recoiling in horror at what they're seeing
yes, both centrists & the admin (&, tacility, ice thugs on the ground) bought the 'post-liberal' narrative - that no one *really* believes in it anymore
they thought we'd cower in the face of violence & don't have an answer for liberalism's resilience
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
they thought we'd cower in the face of violence & don't have an answer for liberalism's resilience
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
January 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The basic premise of centrist advice urging Dems to stand down on immigration has been the idea that Trump was *in some sense or other right* about the issue, but he was not and is not in any sense right and the public is recoiling in horror at what they're seeing
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You can picture how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community www.welcometohellworld.com/we-must-love...
January 20, 2026 at 3:48 PM
You can picture how it must have felt in there. Four fucking Nazis with their shit-eating grins squeezing their fat asses into a booth at a family-owned Mexican place poisoning the entire room with their smug impunity. Desecrating a place of community www.welcometohellworld.com/we-must-love...
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Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Donald Trump :"Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off."
January 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Donald Trump :"Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off."