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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 4h

Before 1919, the year Ole died.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 6h

I thought this was her.

a girl in a white dress is standing in front of stairs in a black and white photo

ALT: a girl in a white dress is standing in front of stairs in a black and white photo

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 7h

What happened to it?

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 8h

My great-great grandmother, Maren Christiansdatter, and one of her sons. She looks like a tough cookie.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 8h

He deserves zero credit for anything.

dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 8h

I was actually hoping Jane Goodall, but I guess they don't do posthumous awards. Maybe David Attenborough.

dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 8h

My pumpkins have commandeered the lawn furniture.

Several orange and green pumpkins sitting on lawn chairs and tables in a backyard.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 8h

Available. North Cicero Avenue, Chicago

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 9h

They are a cancer.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 9h

Day before Nobel Peace Prize announced

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah. Me, either. 😩

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 9h

There isn't one who has spoken out against anything, which is astonishing to me.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 9h

There is no way he's getting the Nobel Peace Prize, right?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

"It would #BeBest if I stays with the bad man if I wants to see any more jewelry and keep him shuts up about my green card."

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 12h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 10h

Where she says her name is Jocelyn and she's from Cicero?

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 17h

Comprehensive analysis of this complex story. I’m so grateful for the stellar reporting on this from local journalists at The TriiBE & elsewhere who will not let this be buried. Support local journalism!

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

NEW — Rod Johnson will never forget federal agents zip-tying his hands behind his back.

The night of the South Shore raid in Chicago, Johnson said he was detained for two hours.

“I’m an American citizen with no warrants,” Johnson said.

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South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities • The TRiiBE

Federal agent activity on Chicago’s South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 18h

Under a viaduct, Chicago

Black and white photo of the underside of a viaduct. The supporting wall has three rectangular openings in it. The wall is bisected at an angle by sun and shadow.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 18h

I remember that.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 18h

My maternal grandfather (arrow) with his siblings and parents. Two other brothers died in childhood.

Black and white photo of a white family, ca. 1918. There are five sons, dressed in dark suits, three daughters, two with large bows in their hair, a toddler sitting on his mother's lap, and the father, who has a large bushy mustache and is wearing a dark 3-piece suit with visible watch chain. The mother (my great-grandmother) is wearing a dark coat and has her hair piled on her head. No one is smiling. The oldest son is my grandfather and is indicated by a red arrow.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 19h

Chicago tire shops are excellent.

Two-story fram building decorated in black and white stripes with a red, green, and white sign that says Jose's New & Used Tires & Rims.

One-story orange brick building with a stepped parapet wall with an arch in the center. The door is in the center, and above it is a yellow square with a hubcap mounted on it. On either side of the door are two tires, painted yellow attached to the wall below yellow and black signs in English and Spanish.

One-story brick tire shop painted bright orange-red. There is a customer door at the left, topped with a painting of Jesus. Next to that is a large glass block window and on the right is the garage door. There are paintings of tires at various places above the garage door. "4 Brothers Tire Shop, Inc." is painted in black and white at top left.

One-story brick building with a flat roof. The brick is painted dark red, pale yellow, and brown. Pictures of tires, painted in black, white, and yellow, decorated the front. On either side are the words "TIRE SHOP", painted vertically. The address is painted yellow in the center of the building.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 19h

Shine on!

Gray Moon, beginning to wane, against a black sky

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19h

Nothing to see here, just Trump going for his second “yearly” checkup this year.

Anyone ready to admit that something is wrong with POTUS yet?

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Lena G R @lenagr.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago’s Irving park road is becoming a real hub of fiber arts these days! #knitting #weaving #spinning #dyeing studios, galleries, and more. When the world is full of horrors we need community & the arts more than ever. Check out some of these new spots

Map of Chicago’s Irving park road on the northwest side shows a dot near kimball on the east end and a dot on long to the west, with the route 80 bus connecting them.

View of the author beginning to knit from a white ball of yarn in front of a green woven table cloth and a coffee mug

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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