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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 1d

I think sometimes we are all Sherman.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 21h

Corruption aside, if this becomes normalized, foreign military presence inside U.S. stations ( that fund terrorists, no less ) may start being sold to the public as “joint training,” but the boundaries of authority & oversight can shift over time. That’s how power creeps. This is fucked up!

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 20h

I would like to reiterate that everyone - even those of us who don't usually protest - should go to a No Kings March on Saturday, October 18th. Find one near you at this link. You do not have to register to participate.

www.nokings.org

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 21h

a lone warrior

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 23h

There's a lot more disinformation in here than there used to be. Confirmation bias isn't good either.

The standard meme of the pie graph "Did this happen" with most of it blue for "no" and a pie slice in yellow for "no but in yellow"

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 1d

Using Lee Bey's great column (buff.ly/OKF5bVy) as an excuse to re-up my thread on this incredible building. Though often overshadowed by the nearby Avalon Regal, it deserves to have a line of folks prostrating themselves before it every day & throwing huge sacks of money towards its preservation.

Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · Apr 28

1/2 This 1928 building originally housed Raphael's, a 2 story 450 seat restaurant of such excess that it could only have been built in the 1920s. You entered through a space meant to mimic an outdoor garden, complete with trees & fountains. At night, colored spotlights bounced off the 60 ft minaret.

Extreme wide angle photo of a Persian-influenced building of tan brick and absolutely incredible polychrome terra cotta ornament. A minaret-like tower extends up above the roofline.

Color close up of the ornament above the entry. Inside of a large horseshoe arch formed by rows of intricately designed polychrome terra cotta fashioned into geometric designs in dark yellow, blue and green, is another incredibly complex circle/star element in a lighter yellow, green and blue terra cotta. Below this, twin designs in pale green and dark pink that seem to mimic in miniature the curving arches common in Islamic architectural designs. Even this element is made extraordinary as it is filled in with tiny, dark pink terra cotta tessellations.

Color close up of ornament atop the building. From this angle can be seen part of the minaret-like tower, which is made up of tan brick and layers of intricately designed pale green terra cotta. Beneath this is some gorgeous terra cotta cresting; a dark green on light yellow calligraphic design. The facade also features a row of five dark yellow terra cotta polylobed arches highlighted by dark blue tessellations and bands of pale green horizontal tiles alternating with tan brick.

Crooked color close-up of terra cotta ornamentation on the building's first level. Straight dark green bands alternate with lovely bands of stylized foliate and geometric designs in blue.

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 1d

This story made me happy yesterday: Humpback whales that live off the eastern coast of Australia have made a tremendous comeback. From just 150 in the early 1960s to 20,000 now. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

www.abc.net.au

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! And I actually looked at it and realized all the photos (at least that I thought were there) are gone. Sigh. So, I recreated it as a Substack. open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

Annie McClure Hitchcock

and Dwight Perkins--in honor of his new street sign

open.substack.com

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 1d

That's terrific. I've been a fan ever since I happened to write about Dwight Perkins' start in life when writing about Annie Hitchcock. www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...

Hyde Park Stories: Hitchcock Hall

Charles Hitchcock Hall, 1009 E. 57 Street, was built by Annie McClure Hitchcock (1839-1922) as a memorial to her beloved husband and to the power of books. Hyde Parkers often

www.hpherald.com

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 2d

Detailed journalism from a local not for profit weekly reporting a much fuller story than you'll get elsewhere. Please support local independent news or we don't get the full picture. There is so much that's broken right now. #chicago @southsideweekly.bsky.social southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 2d

At the age of 70 I found out I was neurodivergent by finding that conversation on Twitter and it’s transformed my life. I also have a wonderful time sharing my discoveries about my neighborhood with a lot more people than I know irl. It’s given me a meaningful project in my retirement.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 4d

I dunno if I'm the last one to hear about this? But the reason the president is sending the *National Guard* to Portland is because the city mailed the government's landlord...a zoning violation notice?

They are sending in the troops to avoid "a monthly code enforcement fee"??

Notice of Zoning Violation on official City of Portland letterhead

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 3d

"What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 3d

For sure! I've become a fan of Schoenhofen Beer. They created the first public rest room in Chicago apparently.

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 3d

I'm pretty sure that image is just AI slop so I'm using this one instead to illustrate the "struggle to get a beer."

Rich colored advertising lithograph of Germans at a picnic with a frog jumping on a bottle of Edelweiss beer.

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 3d

I really learned a lot I didn't know, which I always enjoy. Didn't realize for instance how many streets are named for German brewers and people invested in the breweries. e.g., Diversey, Wacker, Ogden #Chicago . chpv.org/content.aspx...

Zoom Drop-In — Chicago, Hyde Park, and German Beer - Calendar of Events - Chicago Hyde Park Village

chpv.org

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 3d

I keep trying to find the right title for my talk tomorrow...

Image of people in drindls and shirt sleeves drinking and eating under shade trees and a title: German Beer Gardens, Hyde Park Temperance, and the Struggle to Get a Beer

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 3d

The reporters are careful not to draw a direct line between Wells Fargo’s foreclosure on the property and the attack - the gun is only smoking - but the coincidence is striking.

One wonders how many other ICE raids are so convenient to specific business deadlines in this way.

The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property's receiver.
Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center's construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.
southsideweekly.com

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one.
The Real Deal, a real estate news outlet, reported that City inspectors visited the building two weeks before the raid. Ald.
Greg Mitchell (7th Ward) did not return the Weekly's request for comment.

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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 4d

This is so good. I sent a highlighted version to my teens. Thanks for taking the time to write this @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social
defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 4d

The U.S. soy market problem is going to cause massive problems with corn in coming years, as soy is rotated in the same fields with corn to keep corn rootworm populations low.

If farms switch to corn only, we’ll see pest resurgences and increased pesticide use.

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