Seth A
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Chicago based politics and photography enthusiast
Analysis: Boat strike scandal shows the limits of Hegseth’s news media crackdown | CNN Business
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December 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Analysis: Boat strike scandal shows the limits of Hegseth’s news media crackdown | CNN Business
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There was a tweet some years back that was like "Being a Democrat is like going to a concert where the band is telling everyone to calm down the whole time" and I think about it a lot
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
There was a tweet some years back that was like "Being a Democrat is like going to a concert where the band is telling everyone to calm down the whole time" and I think about it a lot
Rogers Park's New 400 Theaters Is Reopening As New Operator Revives 113-Year-Old Movie House blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/01/r...
Rogers Park's New 400 Theaters Is Reopening As New Operator Revives 113-Year-Old Movie House
The operator of three historic movie theaters in Michigan has leased the shuttered Rogers Park theater, which was the city's oldest continually running movie theater when it closed in 2023.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Rogers Park's New 400 Theaters Is Reopening As New Operator Revives 113-Year-Old Movie House blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/01/r...
Scarlett Johansson says she was pressed to remove Holocaust narrative from directing debut www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
Scarlett Johansson says she was pressed to remove Holocaust narrative from directing debut
A backer of Eleanor the Great, about a woman who pretends to be a Holocaust survivor, dropped out after Johansson refused to make changes
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December 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Scarlett Johansson says she was pressed to remove Holocaust narrative from directing debut www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...
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meanwhile, as many others have noted, the u.s. coast guard continues to interdict drug boats and arrest the occupants
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
meanwhile, as many others have noted, the u.s. coast guard continues to interdict drug boats and arrest the occupants
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...
The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes
New problems are plaguing old reels, putting decades of history at risk. One man, armed with hair dryers and a love of tinkering, is leading the charge to rescue them.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...
BLM Renews Grazing Permits With Little Environmental Oversight — ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/graz...
A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact
With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and…
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December 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
BLM Renews Grazing Permits With Little Environmental Oversight — ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/graz...
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Pretty sure Dee Snider was testifying to congress about that evil devil music before Slim Shady sprouted his first pubic hair.
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Pretty sure Dee Snider was testifying to congress about that evil devil music before Slim Shady sprouted his first pubic hair.
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Our photographer captured Chicagoans braving the snowiest November day in history. See more photos here:
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PHOTOS: How Chicagoans Spent The Snowiest November Day In History
From running on the 606 to being stranded at O'Hare Airport, here's how Chicagoans marked one of the biggest snow storms in recent memory.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Our photographer captured Chicagoans braving the snowiest November day in history. See more photos here:
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Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US | US news | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US
Tweaks to state laws mean many Americans will be able to benefit from small, simple plug-in solar panels
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November 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US | US news | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Language Log » Canting in Sinitic (and other) languages languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72137...
Language Log » Canting in Sinitic (and other) languages
November 28, 2025 @ 8:31 am · Filed by Victor Mair under False friends, Slang
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November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Language Log » Canting in Sinitic (and other) languages languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=72137...
The Durutti Column: The Return of the Durutti Column review – fragile classic that echoes far beyond its time www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
The Durutti Column: The Return of the Durutti Column review – fragile classic that echoes far beyond its time
The delicate experimentation of the band’s debut may not have chimed with the post-punk 1980s, but its durability makes this deluxe reissue thoroughly deserved
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November 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The Durutti Column: The Return of the Durutti Column review – fragile classic that echoes far beyond its time www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I wonder if Kris Kristofferson followed through with what he told Leonard Cohen in 1975?
#LeonardCohen #vinyl
#tombstone
#LeonardCohen #vinyl
#tombstone
November 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I wonder if Kris Kristofferson followed through with what he told Leonard Cohen in 1975?
#LeonardCohen #vinyl
#tombstone
#LeonardCohen #vinyl
#tombstone
The Dunning Read Natural Area Is Growing
Twenty years ago, neighbors fought to keep 21 acres of green space from being turned into a Home Depot. Today, the Dunning Read Natural Area is an oasis of natural plants and important wetlands. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/n...
Twenty years ago, neighbors fought to keep 21 acres of green space from being turned into a Home Depot. Today, the Dunning Read Natural Area is an oasis of natural plants and important wetlands. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/n...
Neighbors Fought To Save NW Side Green Space. Now, The Dunning Read Natural Area Is Growing
Twenty years ago, neighbors fought to keep 21 acres of green space from being turned into a Home Depot. Today, the Dunning Read Natural Area is an oasis of natural plants and important wetlands.
blockclubchicago.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Dunning Read Natural Area Is Growing
Twenty years ago, neighbors fought to keep 21 acres of green space from being turned into a Home Depot. Today, the Dunning Read Natural Area is an oasis of natural plants and important wetlands. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/n...
Twenty years ago, neighbors fought to keep 21 acres of green space from being turned into a Home Depot. Today, the Dunning Read Natural Area is an oasis of natural plants and important wetlands. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/25/n...
Convert text between file formats, including webarchives eclecticlight.co/2025/11/24/c...
Convert text between file formats, including webarchives
Convert between text, HTML, RTF, RTFD, Word .doc and .docx, WordML, ODT and Safari Web Archives using this command tool.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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But this part sucks: "without prejudice"
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
But this part sucks: "without prejudice"
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Pretty in Pink. Monday's sunrise in Chicago.
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Pretty in Pink. Monday's sunrise in Chicago.
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown apnews.com/article/chic...
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Happy Thanksgiving :: Doug Sahm And Friends – Austin, TX 1972
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'tis thee season
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'tis thee season
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Happy Thanksgiving :: Doug Sahm And Friends – Austin, TX 1972
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/23/h...
'tis thee season
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/23/h...
'tis thee season
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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This is quite the essay on MAGA Christianity, an insider lament about things I’ve observed from the outside, and things I didn’t know about.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is quite the essay on MAGA Christianity, an insider lament about things I’ve observed from the outside, and things I didn’t know about.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
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Look at this, a thing of absolute beauty
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Look at this, a thing of absolute beauty