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chaff @earthlikeplanet.bsky.social · 2d

The blackness u can see stretching from the beyond skyline out to the horizon is of course the antifa hoarde

Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 2d

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking east from the Skydeck at top of the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millenium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-14 02:06:16 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 64.95 F | 18.31 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: NE at 5.749 mph | 9.25 kph // Humidity: 77%

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · 8d

Now I wish I had waited to cancel my subscription so I could cancel it again

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · 14d

This residential neighborhood in southern Indiana has bunches of fairy rings of what appear to be Chlorophylum molybdates (spore print green)

#fungifriends

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · 17d

Circle of life in my own back yard. Unexpected but such is life
#birds

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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 20d

The American experiment itself is Antifa, and is organization comprised of every true American who honors the Constitution. Membership is our birthright.

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · 26d

Autumn is coming, whether or not we are ready

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · 28d

Note: sending me a screaming text 3 hours after the Kimmel news broke demanding money for some unclear use puts you on my block list permanently.

Cause if your first reaction to this assault on free speech is to start a fundraiser, you're doing it wrong

HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · Sep 16

That's my senator! She's doing us proud

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · Sep 16

My state senator!

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · Sep 16

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"

Unashamed to say this made me cry.

Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · Sep 16

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · Sep 11

Watching the Twin Towers collapse on 9/11, I remember thinking, "It was mostly air." Somehow it had never occurred to me that the inside of a building — even an enormous one — was mostly air. Having the same feeling now as I watch the Constitution collapse: Turns out... it was just air.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · Aug 30

Not all those who wander are lost

J.R.R. Tolkien

An oak tree seemingly appearing out of the mist

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · Aug 25

#happynationalparkday

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 25

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:

"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · Aug 24

And yet he's still hounding us for donations so he can fight for us 🙄

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hakeem Jeffries, standing in front of a wall: “These so-called ‘military death squads’ and ‘Trump Tribunals’ are just a distraction from <BANG BANG BANG>

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 24

Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"

HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · Aug 24

Handy perch right above the Batavia dam on the Fox river in Illinois
#birds

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · Aug 22

Oops #birds

HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · Aug 22

Just enjoying the last days of summer on the Fox River in Illinois

Heron and 2 teals standing on a riverbank

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · Aug 16

#birds

EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · Aug 16

Herons live in slow mo.
There's no hurry. We'll get there when we need to. In the meantime enjoy being here, right here.
#HeroneerTipOfTheDay

Djamila Knopf @djamilaknopf.bsky.social · Aug 15

Interlude. I painted this to wash away the summer heat. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · Jul 13

Beebalm indeed

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · Jul 10

Kankakee swamp mallow in bloom (Iliamna remota)
#nativeplants

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Jul 3

I'm with Emily Dickinson:

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all...."

Thank you for listening for that tune with us, Andrea.

AndreaLCSW @andrealcsw.bsky.social · Jul 2

I depend on your analysis to keep from losing hope entirely

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 30

Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?

The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….

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HalfofUTAB @pelecanus.bsky.social · Jun 23

#birds

Colin Boyle @colinbphoto.bsky.social · Jun 23

I spent my morning watching the 3 recently hatched piping plover chicks scamper about Montrose Beach alongside parents Imani and Sea Rocket! What a great start to the day, and another great chapter for the endangered birds.

STORY in @blockclubchi.bsky.social: blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/22/3...

One of the three chicks of Imani and Sea Rocket the piping plovers at Montrose Beach on June 23, 2025. Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago

Imani and Sea Rocket the piping plovers at Montrose Beach on June 23, 2025. Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago

Imani the piping plover at Montrose Beach on June 23, 2025. Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago

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