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KWilde @flowerchildob1.bsky.social · 2h

#RIPChicago

The Night Chicago Died

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 2h

So good!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 2h

The outrage is so odd. I can't think of any Bad Bunny songs that I listen to, but a lot of people like him. This reminds me of the temper tantrum the MAGA people threw about Kendrick Lamar. If it's not your style of music, MAGA people, don't watch.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 2h

But also, in terms of star power, we're talking maybe just Beyoncé and Taylor Swift are in his class? And Beyoncé did the halftime show in recent memory.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 2h

Or maybe watch and expand your musical horizons?

I’m watching his Tiny Desk concert right now, and his singing and his band are so tight.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 2h

I mean, maybe before they got political …

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 3h

They play that song at the conclusion of navy boot camp during capping. It’s atrocious that a song so clearly identified with the republicans would be played for every new Sailor during a very emotional moment at the culmination of their basic training.

That shit has to stop.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 3h

Terrifying tbh.

Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 3h

Anyway, she does the bad faith “why do music and sports have to be infected with politics?!?” thing. But she also suggests skating between Lee Greenwood and Bad Bunny.

Which, like, Greenwood performed his one song at the 1988 GOP convention. Which is maybe a little political?

Please stop with the politics on both sides. Can’t we just watch football and funny commercials and be one nation indivisible for a couple of hours in February? Eat pizza and wings, watch someone perform at halftime who won’t light up the FCC’s obscenity, indecency and profanity hotline the next day? Isn’t there some middle ground between Lee Greenwood and Bad Bunny?

Football fandom is one of the few things in America that is not remotely partisan. Surveys have shown that roughly equivalent numbers of Democrats and Republicans say they are NFL fans.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 4h

There are still randos arguing in the comments pretending it didn't happen.

Real 'Charlie Brown had hoes' shit going on here. Yes, the shock collar was a shock collar, and he used it.

Shocking a dog is not acceptable unless it's seriously endangering someone. He shocked his dog for annoying him.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 4h

Good luck!

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 4h

My MAGA theory of the mind is they literally lack the ability to differentiate what they really care about from what they pretend to care about today.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 4h

But for real, why works the NFL possibly want literal one of the best-selling artists of the 21st century to play the Super Bowl instead of a middling country singer who had one hit to his name in the 80s or 90s?!?

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, MAGA seems to care deeply.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 4h

True.

Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 4h

There are a handful of classes of people I have literally no patience for. Near the top are people who abuse people whom they view as lower status. You do that and you’re a bad person. Full stop.

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 4h

Or literally any person of color.

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 4h

The answer has to be Trump's oldest enemy toward whom he has a level of animosity that drives him to complete insanity: Rosie O'Donnell.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

The question is who winning the peace prize would piss Trump off the most?

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 6h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 4h

This may have the distinction of being the worst-thought-out stu purest op-ed not written by someone named Bret or Ross text I’ve read, and it would give at least some of their op-eds a run for their money. (That it’s casually racist doesn’t help its case, of course.)

Perspective: The Super Bowl halftime show will be even worse than we think

There is a middle ground between Bad Bunny and Lee Greenwood that the NFL should have explored.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 5h

The unspeakable horror that is Chicago.

A nighttime vote of Chicago from the 12th floor looking south.

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Matthew Gardner @mindthegaap.bsky.social · 7h

Ongoing fun project: following quarterly earnings calls where corporate execs are asked to quantify the effect of OBBBA on their cash taxes. This generally only comes up when a industry analysts ask. The candor is, in turns, refreshing and horrifying. (1/x)

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Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit

Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 8h

U.S. District Judge April Perry's temporary restraining order is in:

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