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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 17h

What are ya hearin

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 3d

one thing that’s definitely new over the past decade or so is the number of bumper stickers and signs threatening to kill you

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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 2d

Hey I used to work with that guy! I mean, his grandson

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Undead in Chicago @mosermostly.bsky.social · 5d

Rules for us, not for them. You can tell the real lawyers quit because now they just say it out loud.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 5d

Perry: How do you respond to the plaintiffs' contention that any unrest, any violence is the fault of how federal agents are interacting with members of the public? Does it matter if their conduct is why they can't execute federal laws?
Hamilton: No.

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 4d

"everyone wants a revolution, but no one wants to wash the dishes"

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 4d

My spicy take for this moment-

Too many of you do not understand the concept of infrastructure. How systems are built, how systems are maintained.

You want big bold action but haven't committed to the planning and the boring mundane tasks needed to make said action possible.

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 7d

Chat is it good that our president with significant dementia indicators is getting fed false propaganda by his caretakers and the wider news media (looking at you, cnn)

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 7d

Hey y’all! Welcome to our fair city! Thanks for stopping by. I assume y’all are here because of this outstanding achievement: www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago...

Chicago named best big city in US for 9th straight year: survey

For the ninth year in a row, Chicago has been crowned the Best Big City in the United States by the Condé Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards.

www.fox32chicago.com

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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 13d

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 13d

Federal agents are tear gassing police and first responders in Broadview, officials said.

"‘This is not Putin’s Russia." blockclubchi.co/3KvnbCg

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 13d

Struggling not to do the ‘now you notice!’ thing, which is rarely if ever the right move.

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Undead and Unbothered 🧟‍♀️ @thedazzlingone.bsky.social · 13d

This really was a time.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 13d

Allow me to be the first to wish y’all a very

Lori Lightfoot Happy October GIF by GIPHY News - Find & Share on GIPHY

Discover & share this Lori Lightfoot Happy October GIF by GIPHY News with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs.

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👻 Eastern European hard candy 👻 @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 13d

Not sure now I've never heard this quote before but it's perfect ❤️❤️❤️

Bob Schaefer @bobszilla.bsky.social · 13d

A fond welcome to my favorite month of the year. And the Algren quote on this print from @starshapedpress.bsky.social captures my thoughts quite nicely.

I do wish it wasn’t going to be in the mid-upper 80s for the next week though.

Chicago is an October sort of city — Nelson Algren

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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 13d

Felt cute, might delete later

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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 16d

It really does.

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 22d

*screaming impotently* THEY DO. THEY DO SPREAD THEM OUT! OVER LIKE 15 YEARS! IT'S A VACCINE SCHEDULE NOT A SINGLE VACCINE! I'M GOING TO {REDACTED}

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Q: Outlets are reporting you plan to tie Tylenol to autism

TRUMP: It's a big factor, but you'll see tomorrow. We want things to take effect immediately

Q: Links between vaccines & autism?

T: Children get these massive vaccines like you'd give to a horse. I've said spread them out over 5 years

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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 22d

It’s been a minute, but this finding has only gotten more important: democracyjournal.org/arguments/po...

Politicians Think Voters Are More Conservative than They Really Are

Legislators usually believe their constituents are more conservative than they actually are. Pick an American state legislator at random, and chances are that he or she will have massive misperception...

democracyjournal.org

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 23d

It's pretty amazing that 1) people successfully cleaned the pollution and 2) wow it takes a long time to un-fuck something, eh?

Marrianne McMullen @marriannemc.bsky.social · 23d

The first Chicago River swim in 98 years! The water is now clean enough. Congratulations to the hundreds of swimmers completing the swim this morning!

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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 23d

Being an only child is shitty, for lots of reasons. But one of the things they definitely don’t tell you is that parenting siblings is like landing on a strange planet, and the alien life there just
Can.
Not.
Stop.
Yelling.

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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 23d

a man in a knight 's armor stands in front of a fire with the words " you have chosen " above him

ALT: a man in a knight 's armor stands in front of a fire with the words " you have chosen " above him

media.tenor.com

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 24d

Anti vax stuff goes beyond just the big headlines www.reddit.com/r/legaladvic...

From the legaladvice community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the legaladvice community

www.reddit.com

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Erik Wallenius @erikwallenius.bsky.social · 23d

the Chicagoan’s bar mitzvah

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 24d

16yo "I used to not like giardiniera, but now I really grew into it. It's like Chicagoan puberty."

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 28d

I'm fairly sure that harm was not *self* inflicted

The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 28d

what the fuck, BlueSky

A photo of an enslaved man’s scars that BlueSky labeled “Self-Harm”

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👻 Eastern European hard candy 👻 @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 28d

The funniest thing about all this—even funnier than the thinking that Reddit is the Dark Web—is the idea that the Dark Web turns you into a radical leftist. You all remember when 4chan started targeting police departments after George Floyd's murder, right?

LIZ @lizrpg.bsky.social · 28d

When you definitely know what’s going on

Clearly, there was a lot of gaming going on, friends that have confirmed that there was kind of that deep, dark internet, Reddit culture and these other dark places of the internet where this person was going deep.

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 28d

9 years ago was when you should have realized you shouldn't register for oppositional activities to this admin. Encouraging it today is negligence.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28d

We need your help to make October 18 the biggest peaceful protest of the year. Please spread the word, register your local event as soon as you can, and start RSVPing for the local protests to help build momentum: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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👻 Eastern European hard candy 👻 @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 28d

It's really this easy

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