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Shriketastic
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Wait, GWAR are democrats?
No, the children are wrong.
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Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
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in 1940, the Imperial Wizard of the national Ku Klux Klan purged the leadership of the New Jersey Klan for their association with the German-American Bund, and repudiated any ties between the Klan and the NSDAP. (interestingly, the purged NJ Grand Dragon later had this to say:)
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."
Shouldn’t the New York State Department of Labor be opening an investigation?
Articles like these are a recession indicator
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Don’t negatively engage with Yglesias‘s bad takes on issues and the “salience” of ICE tear gassing my city.

Instead, positively engage with this good analysis by @davekarpf.bsky.social

It isn’t about policy points but stories.
Such a good point here from @davekarpf.bsky.social: If Dems don't engage forcefully enough on Trump's terror raids, Trump/MAGA propaganda filters down to the "inattentive public" and risks persuading people this is normal and acceptable.

Check out our full exchange:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...
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It’s also not popular! Gassing (my) neighborhood before the kid‘s Halloween parade is definitely an issue worth making more salient!

He doesn’t have to live this way.
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It will be interesting if Jay Jones doesn't get the same grace from VA voters that so many lefty bro type media pundits are dying to give to Platner in ME. ...
We have a bit of a clearer portrait in #VAGov (unsurprisingly)

Roanoke College shows

-Spanberger leads Sears by 10 points (51%-41%)
-Hashmi beats Reid 42%-40%
-The BIG news is Jason Miyares now pulls ahead of Jay Jones after the text messages (46%-38%)
www.roanoke.edu/news/rc_poll...
Spanberger leads Earle-Sears by double digits; Jones now trails Miyares
Lieutenant governor race is close in latest polling.
www.roanoke.edu
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My favorite thing as a writer is when I start ranting about something on Bluesky, get it all out of my system, and then turn it into a real piece of writing.

On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic!

newrepublic.com/article/2023...
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Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
Cuomo isn’t the Democratic nominee.
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you had me at “end the undervaluation of vacant land”
Property tax bill: say it three times, if you dare. Repost this video and sign up to volunteer using the link in the bio to help keep this monster behind the mirror. #chicago #illinois #cookcounty #urbanism #propertytaxes #happyhalloween
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If you live in cook county district 10, shown here, you can vote for Drake Warren on March 17
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I believe that he has a collection of speech acts to his credit. No political record. No public service.

Some of those speech acts credibly speak louder than others. It is perfectly rational to question how aligned a person with a maybe Nazi tattoo might be with issues that stem from bias.
Having the right and ability to vote and choosing not to is the privileged position!