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Proud gay anti-fascist. Here in Chicago I sing, I prance, I fight fools with a dance; I most enjoy casting my ballot for the foes of a fascist named Vance. "We don't fight monsters because we think we will win. We fight them because they are monsters." .. more

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Henry Jones III 🚇 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @cylindricalsea.bsky.social · Mar 4

As a "Chicagoan" and an "Illinoisan", I stand with Canada and adore my nearby more North and more Free neighbor. I hope Canada will beat-the-sh1t out of the US trade-wise.

Here's the Canadian flag at Chicago's O'hare Airport:

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Henry Jones III 🚇 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @cylindricalsea.bsky.social · 7h

President Drool Cup

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 7h

Gunther's Store and Soda Fountain, Chicago c. 1890

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John D ❌👑 @everythingisjake.bsky.social · 7h

Chicago and all cities under assault by ICE should establish ICE free zones around schools… enforced by local authorities.

I believe LA did this, requested and coordinated by the superintendent of public schools…

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 7h

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van. Merica!

ICE Pins Chicago TV News Producer to the Ground, Hauls Her Off in Unmarked Van | Common Dreams

WGN producer Debbie Brockman forcefully arrested by ICE agents in Chicago. Video shows aggressive tactics used in the arrest.

www.commondreams.org

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Mike Davis • Feed After Midnight @mjdavis1988.bsky.social · 7h

Some of these stories are difficult to read, but it’s important that as many people as possible know what is happening. We are 100% living in a police state. SHARE widely.
mdavis19881.substack.com/p/reddit-thr...

Reddit Thread Details Horrific ICE Encounters

These stories are happening all over the country. We CAN'T look away and we must share them.

mdavis19881.substack.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

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Starry Time Podcast @starrytimepod.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Can you spot the asteroids photobombing this #hubble image??

For help on what is an asteroid and what isn't check out the source of the image: https://esahubble.org/images/opo1733b/

#astrophotography #Space #Science #asteroid #Science #Hubble #esa #nasa

Hubble image of galaxy cluster Abell 370, showing hundreds of galaxies, curved arcs of light from gravitational lensing, and faint white streaks from nearby asteroid trails.

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Nasa Astronomy Hourly Pictures @nasadailypicbot.bsky.social · 9h

NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2019-02-03: An Airglow Fan from Lake to Sky
#Astronomy #NASA #Space

Why would the sky look like a giant fan? Airglow. The featured intermittent green glow appeared to rise from a lake through the arch of our Milky Way Galaxy, as captured during 2015 next to Bryce Canyon in Utah, USA. The unusual pattern was created by atmospheric gravity waves, ripples of alternating air pressure that can grow with height as the air thins, in this case about 90 kilometers up. Unlike auroras powered by collisions with energetic charged particles and seen at high latitudes, airglow is due to chemiluminescence, the production of light in a chemical reaction. More typically seen near the horizon, airglow keeps the night sky from ever being completely dark. Follow APOD on: Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, or Twitter

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WGN NEWS @wgntv.com · 9h

Questions have been swirling for weeks over whether ICE agents might target the Chicago Marathon. The race, which happens Sunday, draws thousands of runners from around the world and is a major tourism draw for the Windy City.

Immigration crackdown stirs unease ahead of this weekend’s Chicago Marathon

Questions have been swirling for weeks over whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents might target the Chicago Marathon. The race, which happens Sunday, draws thousands of runners from aro…

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10h

Thiel’s main Antichrist argument is that politics should be framed apocalyptically, and that Silicon Valley—potentially an agent of the Antichrist—should be empowered to do whatever it wishes because it alone can save (or destroy) the world.

www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘

Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures

www.thenerdreich.com

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Nasa Astronomy Hourly Pictures @nasadailypicbot.bsky.social · 10h

NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2017-03-04: An Active Prominence on the Sun
#Astronomy #NASA #Space

In this beautiful celestial still life composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170 shines at the upper left. Reflecting the light of nearby hot stars, NGC 2170 is joined by other bluish reflection nebulae, a compact red emission region, and streamers of obscuring dust against a backdrop of stars. Like the common household items still life painters often choose for their subjects, the clouds of gas, dust, and hot stars pictured here are also commonly found in this setting - a massive, star-forming molecular cloud in the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros). The giant molecular cloud, Mon R2, is impressively close, estimated to be only 2,400 light-years or so away. At that distance, this canvas would be about 15 light-years across.

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Lawyerlen @lawyerlen.bsky.social · 10h

And the MSM refuses to report on this, just as they haven’t reported on the raid from the blackhawks. They are complicit in trumps takeover attempt

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10h

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Nancy Thompson @thmpsnnancy.bsky.social · 10h

MIT Rejects Trump’s Bid to Institute Trans Bathroom, Athletics Ban
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

MIT Rejects Trump’s Bid to Institute Trans Bathroom, Athletics Ban

“A government that can reward colleges and universities for speech it favors today can punish them for speech it dislikes tomorrow.”

open.substack.com

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Hart @theoneweis.bsky.social · 11h

A US citizen, a veteran, on his way to work, pepper sprayed and dragged from his car, surely appealing "I'm a US citizen!" and obviously no pause to consider his word only acted on his appearance, three days, no one knowing where he was taken...

Right,Tim, we can't look away.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Nasa Astronomy Hourly Pictures @nasadailypicbot.bsky.social · 11h

NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2025-06-11: 25 Brightest Stars in the Night Sky
#Astronomy #NASA #Space

Do you know the names of some of the brightest stars? It's likely that you do, even though some bright stars have names so old they date back to near the beginning of written language. Many world cultures have their own names for the brightest stars, and it is culturally and historically important to remember them. In the interest of clear global communication, however, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has begun to designate standardized star names. Featured here in true color are the 25 brightest stars in the night sky, currently as seen by humans, coupled with their IAU-recognized names. Some star names have interesting meanings, including Sirius ("the scorcher" in Latin), Vega ("falling" in Arabic), and Antares ("rival to Mars" in Greek). You are likely even familiar with the name of at least one star too dim to make this list: Polaris. APOD Turns 30!: Free public lecture in Anchorage TONIGHT (Wednesday) at 7 pm

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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This American Patriot 💙 @thisuspatriot.bsky.social · 11h

real #TRUTHSOCIAL:👇

PLS SIGN OUR Change.org PETITION👇, PEACEFULLY PROTEST & CALL to compel #Congress to impeach & convict wannabe dictator ever beholden to corporations, #Trump

If #GOP vetoes, we MUST VOTE THEM OUT in 11/2026!

www.change.org/p/with-this-...

TYVM @rbreich.bsky.social
#BlueCrew

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Sidebar: It’s wild that the guy making the arrest has an accent, and the guy being arrested doesn’t.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

REMINDER: American businesses and consumers will pay the 100% import tax www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is using our tax dollars to buy Argentine pesos to bail out the country's failing libertarian economy.

My friend Rohit Chopra explains how this will hurt struggling Americans here at home.

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Nasa Astronomy Hourly Pictures @nasadailypicbot.bsky.social · 13h

NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2018-10-29: Shells of Stars in Elliptical Galaxy PGC 42871
#Astronomy #NASA #Space

How do galaxies grow? To help find out, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed to image the unusual elliptical galaxy PGC 42871. How this galaxy came to be surrounded by numerous shells of stars may give clues about how it evolved. Embedded in the diffuse shells are massive globular clusters of stars -- stars which analyses show were born during three different epochs. This and other data indicate that PGC 42871 has been in at least two galactic collisions, at least one of which might have been with a former spiral galaxy. The remaining spiral galaxy on the far left is at the same distance as PGC 42871 and may have been involved in some of the collisions. PGC 42871 spans about 20 thousand light years and lies about 270 million light years away toward the constellation of Centaurus. Open Science: Browse 1,800+ codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library

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Henry Jones III 🚇 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @cylindricalsea.bsky.social · 13h

america is such a 4th world country.

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garci32 @garci32.bsky.social · 13h

PERFECT !!!!

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Henry Jones III 🚇 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @cylindricalsea.bsky.social · 13h

KEEP
IT
SHUT
DOWN

Henry Jones III 🚇 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @cylindricalsea.bsky.social · 13h

Ever since Clinton administration the democrats have been obsessed with 'polls'.

Now they literally cannot even function without having access to some dumbass poll that they pour money into.

I'm not optimistic they'll ever learn before we're all sent to the gas chambers.