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Nick Ulivieri

@nuphoto.com

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I'm an architecture photographer and Chicago is my backdrop. I post about weather, science, and urbanism issues, too. ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ 📩: [email protected] https://linktr.ee/nick_ulivieri

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · Nov 15

When I'm not shooting projects for clients, there are few things I enjoy more than catching Mother Nature interacting with #Chicago. Lightning, snow, waves, ice, fog, shelf clouds — you name it, Chicago almost has all the weather // #WX #ILwx

The Chicgago skyline at the bottom of the frame is dwarfed by a massive, roiling shelf cloud

A massive lightning bolt drops into the heart of Chicago. The city sits in darkness in the foreground, while rain in the background obscuring the city in the distance

Massive waves crash along Chicago's lakefront. The Chicago skyline is in the distance on an overcast day as seen from 31st St. Beach. This photo was taken on September 27th when a storm system from hurricane Helen remnants made its way northwards

Snow flakes, illuminated by a camera's flash appear s orbs floating across the scene. Behind them id the view of the Chicago River lined with bridges that reach to Wacker Drive. The warm tones were a creative choice to contrast other wintry images I shot that evening.

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Megan Corcoran @megancorcoran.bsky.social · 6h

Neutral baseball fans watching this game: Wow, this game is incredible! Some great baseball!

Invested fans: I wanna die

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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 12h

Very cool we’re now doing “hide people from the nazis”

Gotta be coming up on Underground Railroad very soon

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 15h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 13h

YASSSSS

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 16h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 16h

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)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 19h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h

Great time to be an actual criminal of any kind because federal agents are busy hog tying children and grandmas bsky.app/profile/wash...

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Breaking news: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk.

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 1d

Simpsons “don’t make me tap the sign” meme where the sign says “first inning only”

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 1d

Why is second base on the score bug brighter than first or third? I can’t unsee it

Screeecap of a score if of an MLB game focusing on the bases

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 1d

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Jordan Bastian @bastianmlb.bsky.social · 1d

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 1d

Additional emails might already be designed and scheduled to go out. My guess is once a future eblast is scheduled, your address is already "baked into" that send batch despite opting out of further-in-the-future emails.

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 1d

That silence is deafening

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry begins her questions:
"The filing says that a minimum of 500 National guard troops have been deployed to Illinois. What is the maximum?"
"The filing says the troops will be deployed primarily in Cook County. I don’t see that as having any guardrails."
Hamilton has no answers.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 1d

Kind of wild for the chief judge to be like "nope, I didn't call up the military..."

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago federal court chief judge says she has not requested National Guard for courthouse

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Frustrated Fan @frustratedfan.bsky.social · 2d

Monday night: three first inning runs, two hits, no runs the rest of the way.

Today: four first inning runs, three hits, no runs the rest of the way.

a cartoon of homer simpson standing next to a hammock with the words make gifs at gifsoup.com

Alt: Homer Simpson makes a copy of himself GIF

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 2d

::asks a follow-up::

Or is this like a 'Je suis Antifa' situationship?

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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 2d

::raises hand::

Who's the founder?

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Chicago Architecture Center @chiarchitecture.bsky.social · 2d

🔥 On this night in 1871, the Great Chicago Fire began in the O’Leary barn. Cameras existed—but early ones were too slow to capture the chaos. What we have instead: Currier & Ives lithographs and a cry that still defines us “CHICAGO SHALL RISE AGAIN!” 💪 https://bit.ly/3ZIjjDI

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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