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Mike Varak
@mikevarak.bsky.social
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Anti-filatelist, armchair enthusiast and shallow font of warmed-over and under-considered opinions. Chicago over everything.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 13h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 17h
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 1d
Current* conditions near Port Washington, WI:
One of various views of Lake Michigan from the Port Washington Harbor. // Image captured at: 2025-10-09 23:57:13 UTC (about 9 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Port Washington: 54.14 F | 12.30 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: SSE at 12.124 mph | 19.51 kph // Humidity: 70%
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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 1d
Has anyone told on themselves as much as the “Johnny Cash is uncool” guy?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
― Hannah Arendt,
The press release in which U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan announced the indictment is only three paragraphs long — remarkably brief for such a high-profile prosecution. “No one is above the law,” she says in the release. Halligan, 36, is an insurance lawyer with no prosecutorial experience who was a White House aide before Trump handpicked her to replace Erik S. Siebert, the U.S. attorney who concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge Comey. While she had served as Trump’s personal lawyer as part of his defense team in his criminal trial in New York, she seldom appeared in court and seemed to have a limited role in his defense.
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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 1d
there’s something so beautifully American about our democracy’s last line of defense being coronary artery disease
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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 1d
Can’t spell “Woke” without OK
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d
As Perry questions Hamilton about whether DOJ believes that threats against federal agents is enough to warrant the deployment of the National Guard, she says she started getting threats about 10 minutes after she was assigned to this case.
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d
Video: ICE agents clash with Forest Park cemetery workers attempting to help man in Des Plaines Rive
YouTube video by WGN News
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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d
"I support the military occupation of my own state" is a wild wild thing to say.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d
Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d
Also fuck you Texas for doing this, invading another state with armed troops; lone star Republic my ass
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d
Michigan Avenue right now.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d
The question isn’t whether ICE has become secret police or its functioning legally within very bad law. Very bad law made it possible for form secret police.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2d
This is the lesson of 2025
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
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Meghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social · 2d
Huge moment for Brad Keller, who strikes out Jake Bauers with the bases loaded to end the 8th inning. Cubs clinging to a 4-3 lead.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d
Quite the headline. Will be forwarding to everyone who told me I was "overreacting."
Reuters: National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders By Emily Schmall, Susan Heavey and Daniel Trotta October 8, 2025 6:47 PM CDT Updated 19 mins ago
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2d
More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.
Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."
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Mike Varak @mikevarak.bsky.social · 2d
Sweet Jesus
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d
ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.
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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 3d
Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing
Claude AI logo Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d
More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys
Homeland Security @DHSgov We're having an All Night Revival Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row 14:30 07 Oct 25 2.1M Views 5 Reposts 940 Quotes 42.2K 2,584 Bookmarks
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d
"Do something, bitch!"* Kristi Noem Dressed Russia's Useful Idiot Up to Cosplay CBP

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"Do something, bitch!"* Kristi Noem Dressed Russia's Useful Idiot Up to Cosplay CBP - emptywheel
DHS is increasingly using overt propaganda to justify its invasions of Democratic states. It's horrible in real time--and possibly designed to feed Trump false claims about the states--but it could ba...
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