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rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️

@rogueclown.bsky.social

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Chicago is home. 🌃 ICE can fuck all the way off. 😡 i play trivia. ❓ i boop snoots. 🏇 musclebound soap opera enjoyer. 🤼 denizen of the interstices. 🩷💜💙 your nu-metal trash dream boy, only older. 🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he)

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rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 7h

oooooh, i'll have to check that out.

rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 7h

LUCKY!!!!!!!!! i never got to see them live, but i learned about them through a Matchbox20 fan group online in the 90s and have been hooked ever since.

rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 8h

how Cool for August wasn't one of the biggest bands of the 1990s will always baffle me.

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rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 9h

okay - hearing the baseball stadium organ play the Seven Nation Army riff is weird. i'm used to those tunes being...old, not ones that came out when i was an entire adult.

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rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 17h

seriously. and like...no one is going to tell me that "Rattlesnake" wouldn't be just an amazingly dramatic lid-lifter for a show.

rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 18h

@citybureau.bsky.social has a great rundown of information about how to stay informed, get help, or be helpful around Chicago right now.

www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...

How Chicagoans Can Get Help and Help Others During ICE Raids — City Bureau

Local community groups are providing hotlines, trainings, legal support, community canvassing and other resources to keep people informed.

www.citybureau.org

rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 19h

i found them, the four words that would solve all of my problems:

Secret. Samadhi. Jukebox. Musical.

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Jeopardy! @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social · 20h

Join us in welcoming TJ Fisher to the Tournament of Champions 👏

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rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 20h

😍😍😍

rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 20h

songs i need to add to my karaoke rotation: "Bulletproof" by Godsmack.

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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 1d

if the founder of Antifa doesn’t at least slide into Monica’s DMs then what the hell is all this Internet for

Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 1d

If you are the founder of Antifa and single, I could become your girlfriend if you play your cards right.

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rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 1d

haha, i did not! it's probably because there's this People Doing Weird Things With Tools channel i watch sometimes, haha.

rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 1d

why am i getting youtube ads for "food-grade lubricants"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 2d

do you play #LearnedLeague?

if so, make sure to give my 1DS about DuMont a try today! even if you don't rabbit hole on old, generally-low-budget TV, you'll realise you know more than you thought about the forgotten fourth network! 📺🥰

rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 2d

i need to make a playlist of gloriously bad songs. songs so terrible they're incredible. like "Miserable" by Lit.

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 2d

Please scream this from the mountains. Do we really want them to be as efficient as the Nazis before responding?

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Police violence is part of our national fabric. You will not find us diminishing that. It's hard to believe any cops could be worse than a department who ran a torture black site. But DHS is entirely unleashed and unaccountable. They will kill more people by the end of this month if not stopped.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Federal agents have been intimidating us over our reporting since June. Attacks on the press didn't start this month.

In the last several weeks, we've witnessed a horrifying escalation of violence against protesters, neighbors, anyone who comes near these agents. They are out of control.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

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MASON メーソン @greatblackotaku.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve also purchased the rights to @bowensofficial.bsky.social Happy Jacksonville Pride!

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rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 3d

my fingers can't type today. case in point...no, the website is not called Google Skeets.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4d

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

dansinker.com/posts/202…

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

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Samantha Decker @sdeckerphoto.bsky.social · 4d

Alabama winner Nitrogen takes on elders today in the Grade I Spinster Stakes at Keeneland. The Mark Casse trainee is seeking her sixth graded stakes victory this year. #racingsky 🏇

Shot for The Saratoga Special

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 6d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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