Monica Carmean
@monicacarmean.com
📍Rogers Park #JobSeeker ⚖️ 🐕 chaos muppet “[S]he said in that great old Central Valley accent that isn’t quite an accent so much as a signal that they won’t put up with any bullshit, especially not from you.”
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This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
![“I was so happy when I got there [to Babson],” Lopez Belloza said. “I was just living the college life — going to events, going everywhere ... everything there was really great. I really loved the school."
She and her father also had a special shared aspiration. With her business degree, Lopez Belloza was going to help her father open his own tailor shop, they hoped.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u6ajzyiqzkzbppp2x2y7fpfu/bafkreib33kpkgmvas4z6avgq62styxbzrzuawjufqyddtoynqgbiwnhtzy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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I am really glad I live in Chicago because I have no idea what any of these no-doubt fabulous ladies are wearing: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/d...
Does New York Need Another Luxury Grocery Store?
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I am really glad I live in Chicago because I have no idea what any of these no-doubt fabulous ladies are wearing: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/d...
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If you didn't catch todays Daily Service, you can still join me for it on BBC Sounds. In today's episode I share a poem, and a story from my pilgrimage, reflecting on the kindness and generosity of strangers, in a more meditative episode than usual.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Daily Service - Letter to Corinth - Abundance mentality - BBC Sounds
Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Jay Hulme.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
If you didn't catch todays Daily Service, you can still join me for it on BBC Sounds. In today's episode I share a poem, and a story from my pilgrimage, reflecting on the kindness and generosity of strangers, in a more meditative episode than usual.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Oh, hey, yet another person on a Mamdani transition committee whom I photographed this year! @abbystein.bsky.social has been tapped for the Committee on Health!
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
@abbystein.bsky.social speaking at the Protect Trans Kids rally in NYC.
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Oh, hey, yet another person on a Mamdani transition committee whom I photographed this year! @abbystein.bsky.social has been tapped for the Committee on Health!
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
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Hey, @alexvitale.bsky.social, in the middle below, has just been named to Mamdani's Committee on Public Safety! www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
Calvin John Smiley, @alexvitale.bsky.social, and Cheryl Rivera at Another World at last night's @socialists.nyc event about "Policing and Public Safety Under a Socialist Mayor."
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Hey, @alexvitale.bsky.social, in the middle below, has just been named to Mamdani's Committee on Public Safety! www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
Okay Pluribus was too much
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Okay Pluribus was too much
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Really need Chicago legal community to come through with TIPS and info about these people running for judge!! The survey is confidential!
Most people running for Cook County judge seats in March are currently attorneys. Do you have experience working with them? Inform our next judicial election guide by sending your tips!
As we work on our next judicial election guide, we want to hear from you: What should voters know about these attorneys and judges? If you recognize any of these names, send us your tips. buff.ly/DlOqYRA
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Really need Chicago legal community to come through with TIPS and info about these people running for judge!! The survey is confidential!
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More generally, wherever you are in the world: if you have kids’ toys, books, clothes or anything else in just-about-giftable condition that you were thinking of decluttering some time soon, please do it now, this week ideally, and get them to your local charity shop.
Hey Ottawa folks: I gave some kids' books to Twice Upon a Time and they said they've receved fewer donations than usual for this time of year. So if you have any kids' books in good condition, or time or money to spare, here's the info:
Donate - Twice Upon a Time
twiceuponatime.ca
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
More generally, wherever you are in the world: if you have kids’ toys, books, clothes or anything else in just-about-giftable condition that you were thinking of decluttering some time soon, please do it now, this week ideally, and get them to your local charity shop.
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Definitely will snare me. I also cannot resist floor pie.
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Definitely will snare me. I also cannot resist floor pie.
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Friendly reminder that if you spy a suspicious pie on the floor, it may not be what it seems
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_7CC...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_7CC...
The Simpsons - Mmm...floor pie.
YouTube video by The Simpsons Throwback
m.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Friendly reminder that if you spy a suspicious pie on the floor, it may not be what it seems
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_7CC...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_7CC...
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As we work on our next judicial election guide, we want to hear from you: What should voters know about these attorneys and judges? If you recognize any of these names, send us your tips. buff.ly/DlOqYRA
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
As we work on our next judicial election guide, we want to hear from you: What should voters know about these attorneys and judges? If you recognize any of these names, send us your tips. buff.ly/DlOqYRA
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Wow, so true
Instead of watching Stranger Things, maybe we should start building stronger things, like the rule of law and a commitment to democratic norms
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Wow, so true
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For those who celebrate
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
For those who celebrate
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St. Paul police brutally assault locals defending their neighbors from ICE, then absurdly accuse the locals of being "professional agitators."
"We are not your adversary. We are your police."
They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.
"We are not your adversary. We are your police."
They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
St. Paul police brutally assault locals defending their neighbors from ICE, then absurdly accuse the locals of being "professional agitators."
"We are not your adversary. We are your police."
They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.
"We are not your adversary. We are your police."
They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.
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Clearly an ironworker high up on the John Hancock Center.
Iron Worker, Chicago, by Jonas Dovydenas
American, born Lithuania, 1939-2025
1968
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/154294
American, born Lithuania, 1939-2025
1968
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/154294
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Clearly an ironworker high up on the John Hancock Center.
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
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This is all I got
November 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This is all I got
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Hillbilly Hymn (Okra and Cigarettes)
YouTube video by Nathan Evans Fox - Topic
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Ok this is already great. (Pluribus.)
November 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Ok this is already great. (Pluribus.)
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This was two days ago.
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This was two days ago.
Im watching pluribus but I hope its like breaking bad and my mental tornado shelter puts me right to sleep.
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Im watching pluribus but I hope its like breaking bad and my mental tornado shelter puts me right to sleep.
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We are uncompromising in that. Lesbian, gay, bi/pan/+, trans/nonbinary/genderqueer, intersex, asexual/aromantic/agender, and all other kinds of queerness are not just permitted but *required* for the full reflection of the image of God and the accurate representation of the Kingdom come on earth.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
We are uncompromising in that. Lesbian, gay, bi/pan/+, trans/nonbinary/genderqueer, intersex, asexual/aromantic/agender, and all other kinds of queerness are not just permitted but *required* for the full reflection of the image of God and the accurate representation of the Kingdom come on earth.