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Charlie Giovannetti
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1990 WMTA state piano champion, 4th grade division.
@tcmcg.bsky.social alright maybe we stick to running with Boe
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Bienen has just announced the agreement with the Trump administration to restore Northwestern's funding. He is also already misrepresenting it. For example, the FAQ he provides tries to minimize what the university has conceded regarding transgender care.
www.northwestern.edu/president/ne...
November 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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It's cynical for me to say this, but Northwestern bringing back an octogenarian whose name is already plastered all over campus with the implicit ask to be the dude who signs the Big Capitulation to the current administration in exchange for a bag of magic beans seems like it was the plan all along.
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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the food looks unappetizing too
That’s one repulsive turkey
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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West Point plaque: "Our code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law."
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Northwestern field hockey clinched its third NCAA championship in a double overtime thriller.
www.insidenu.com/northwestern...
Rapid Reaction: Northwestern field hockey claims national title, defeat Princeton 2-1
Northwestern field hockey clinched its third NCAA championship in a double overtime thriller.
www.insidenu.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Parents: are your kids talking about Lane Kiffin's employment history?
Know the lingo:

LoT: Left on tarmac
ADOP: Al David Overhead Projector
GPOITT: Guy Pissed on It's Time T-shirt
YABS: Yelled At By Saban
DIF: Divorced In Florida
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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The Northwestern field hockey team will play in the Division I national championship game for the fifth consecutive season Sunday.
Northwestern field hockey to play for national title for 5th straight year after topping No. 1 North Carolina
Northwestern’s Ashley Sessa was credited with a goal off an assist from Grace Schulze for a 4-3 overtime win over North Carolina on Friday in the field hockey national semifinal.
trib.al
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The Ladies Man movie is criminally overlooked in late 90s / early 00s dumb comedy
Tangentially I rewatched MEAN GIRLS on a plane recently and Tim Meadows is so funny in it, it’s crazy
obviously tim meadows is the absolute MVP of this movie. everything he says is hilarious.
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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They WERE NOT hype enough for my boi.

HE WAS GOIN DUMB ON THEM KEYS
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.

Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.

She was later released with NO CHARGE.

A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.

You decide…
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Commentary: As Americans, the desire to help our community has repeatedly led us into the same trap — beguiled into believing effort and good intentions are substitutes for government action on the most urgent of crises.
Rachel Jacoby: I help run a food pantry. We can’t do the government’s job.
I worry that our community donations may not meet the increased need we will see as a result of SNAP’s suspension.
trib.al
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Jake Tapper would have driven to the White House with a gun if Biden had said this
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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I find it immensely heartening that so many normal people are seeing and defying the obscenity of what ICE/CBP is trying to do in Chicago, but stories like this also make clear how much more disciplined those people are than the state violence worker guys. www.reuters.com/world/us/wer...
'We're not a violent city': Chicago locals take on ICE block-by-block
The immigration agents' tear gas grenades clinked and then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder.
www.reuters.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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If ICE agents believe they have blanket immunity or that citizens have no right to record them, it’s up to the rest of us to disabuse them of that error.

A free society depends on public oversight of government force, and on courts that uphold that freedom. @walterolson.bsky.social
There's a Right To Record ICE Raids--and There's No Blanket Immunity for Raiders
Notwithstanding pronouncements from leading officials of the Trump administration, the consensus of federal courts is that the Constitution protects the right to record immigration raids, and federal ...
www.cato.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Open your Photos app

Search "Airplane"

Scroll down to what you think is exactly halfway and screenshot it.

Post.

#AvGeek
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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My little Chicagoan heart is swelling with pride at the barefoot guy in Blackhawks pajama pants who clearly just ran directly out of his house to call ICE agents Nazis to their faces and scare them back into their cars
October 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The B1G West never died.
October 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Two weeks ago, we at WIRED published a video showing how a hacked casino card shuffling machine can be used for undetectable cheating in poker. Now it turns out the mob and a couple of NBA stars were already (allegedly) using exactly this trick to make millions. www.wired.com/story/how-ha...
How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA
WIRED recently demonstrated how to cheat at poker by hacking the Deckmate 2 card shufflers used in casinos. The mob was allegedly using the same trick to fleece victims for millions.
www.wired.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM