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Patrick Monaghan

@pkmonaghan.bsky.social

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Somehow still here. Chicago, films, MS, music, far too many effects pedals, Antifa Local 242.

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · Apr 26

Please donate whatever you can when you can. Even a tiny amount can make a difference to someone in dire need.

MARKET BOX
is a mutual aid project that sources food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago

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Market Box

Market Box is a mutual aid project that sources food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 13h

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 17h

It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 12h

Ludwig the coyote does a big stretch.

A coyote arches his back and closes his eyes.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 12h

A diseased population is easier to control

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 11h

So many eyes. So many

Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 12h

“However they were made, scallop eyes have some impressive functionality, warping their internal mirrors to bring light into focus like a telescope. So next time you are enjoying some garlic scallops, try not to imagine the mollusks staring back at you.”

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

What Scallops' Many Eyes Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Vision

Scallop eyes, which function similar to telescopes, are even more complex than scientists previously knew

www.smithsonianmag.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h

Do you think Corey Lewandowski, Kristi Noem, or Stephen Miller himself thought it'd be cute to falsely claim FPS asked for a Guard invasion of the courthouse?

Finally, the Court notes its concern about a third declaration submitted by Defendants, in
which the declarant asserted that the FPS “requested federalized National Guard personnel to
support protection of the Federal District Court on Friday, October 10, 2025.” Doc. 62-3. This
purported fact was incendiary and seized upon by both parties at oral argument. It was also
inaccurate, as the Court noted on the record. To their credit, Defendants have since submitted a
corrected declaration, and the affiant has declared that they did not make the error willfully. Doc.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h

Oh noooooo!

After a jury found Greg Bovino to be full of shit in LA, a judge found him to be full of shitshow in Chicago.

[This is Judge April Perry's opinion on her TRO.]

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This indicates to the Court both bias and lack of objectivity. The lens through which we view the
world changes our perception of the events around us. Law enforcement officers who go into an
event expecting “a shitshow” are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the
event prepared to de-escalate it. Ultimately, this Court must conclude that Defendants’
declarants’ perceptions are not reliable.6

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

Somehow a dead nun who liked basketball is more important than a super station journalist being assaulted and detained by federal secret police for no reason on ABC Evening News @davidmuir-abc.bsky.social

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 18h

CAMP+BELL’s Hair, Chicago 1874

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 16h

“OK. You first.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Greg Abbott tells Pritzker to "stop complaining and do some pushups"

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 18h

Neko Case ends Tennessee show early after venue refuses to remove armed security guard

Neko Case Ends Tennessee Show Early After Venue Refuses To Remove Armed Guard

Neko Case played a show Thursday night at the Caverns in the tiny Tennessee town of Pelham — or at least she started to, before walking off stage after her first few songs. The reason for her departur...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

DNC should hire this dude lol

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17h

also a sign of how far trump has checked out-there is zero chance in the old days he would countenance anyone else taking credit, even in a slip of the tongue

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 17h

The day after the above memo, seemingly authorizing limitless force, a federal judge in Chicago issued a temporary restraining order limiting their use of force.

I wonder which one they plan to follow.

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 17h

This doesn't seem great.

“The limits to FPS's authority off federal property are the edges of the constitution on one side and necessity on the other.”

"There is simply no legal barrier to FPS taking action off federal property where a reasonable nexus to protecting that property exists."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

Honestly hard to guess whether this wire flash is a joke, a typo or a direct quote. 🤡

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 17h

TRUMP: WE THINK OIL WILL BE UNDER $2 PER GALLON SOON

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20h

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

It is hereby ORDERED that Defendants,' their officers, agents, assigns, and all
persons acting in concert with them (hereafter referred to as "Federal Agents"), are temporarily
ENJOINED in this judicial district from:
a.
Dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, threatening or using physical
force against any person whom they know or reasonably should know is a Journalist, unless Defendants have probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.

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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 20h

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 19h

>> to break stuff, people, & communities about which they know nothing.

When you go around breaking stuff that REALLY MATTERS to someone, or many someones—particularly when they already don't like you—they don't get scared so much as mad.

We're going to win in part bc we know what we love.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 20h

(One of the prizes was dinner for two at The Pump Room, then one of the city's ✨fanciest✨ restaurants. I took my sister—she could drive!)

I think my point in providing a tiny bit of context is that the President is sending armed troops into places about which he & they know nothing,

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 20h

🧵WGN is a one of Chicago's most storied radio & TV stations. WGN = "World's Greatest Newspaper"—both were originally owned by the once-great Chicago Tribune.

We watched the Cubs on GN w/ the sound down, so we could hear Jack Brickhouse on the radio. I won prizes from Wally Phillips & Roy Leonard.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 20h

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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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1d

The word Orwellian gets thrown around a lot but holy shit man

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

earlier this morning, cook county sheriff’s deputies kicked me and a couple other reporters who were standing by ourselves off a public sidewalk because it wasn’t “free speech” hours yet or something idk.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 19h

Hopefully we can stop all these damn folks who are... (checks notes)... against fascism?

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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 19h

“Island of the Dead” (2000)
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Never disturb the dead - Island of the Dead 2000 - Horror film - Directed by Tim Southam

YouTube video by Cult Cinema Classics

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