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Tim Watts
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Me: passable martial artist, pedestrian photographer, talentless musician, obsessive tea drinking family historian, slowly recreating an obscure freight train yard in my basement. Don’t expect me to reply to DMs. 🚫Nazis Go Bills!
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My daughter with a birthday message on #NoKings Day in Chicago
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Good vibes on the north branch trail today
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It doesn’t get more Chicago than a Potbelly in Frank Lloyd Wright’s lobby at Burnham and Root’s Rookery Building
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The republicans’ fear of repercussions to any perceived disobedience to Trump is stronger than any other mechanism to their actions.

Because their party no longer has any guiding principle other than retribution.

Cowardice is the only thing they’re allowed to embrace.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
Taking a mental health break from the chaos today. Got work to focus on and need to protect my headspace for a few hours. If the world’s still here later, I’ll check back in. Thanks for your patience.
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#Macro #photography of a rusted bicycle front brake and fender
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SHARE THIS BRUTALITY W/ EVERYONE YOU KNOW! On 10/18/25 at the Portland ICE Facility a blind protester was seated in the designated area (DHS calls the seated man a "rioter") behind the blue line and violently assaulted by ICE for no reason. STOP TRUMP POLICE STATE! youtu.be/Ve9PODx8hOE?...
Blind man detained, dragged by federal agents into Portland ICE facility
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The Federal government will never hold them accountable. The Reconstruction period and Merrick Garland and Trump’s pardons all proved that.

But states can hold these assholes accountable without Congress or pardons mucking it up.

I’m proud of Illinois!
The Federal government will never hold them accountable. The Reconstruction period and Merrick Garland and Trump’s pardons all proved that.

But states can hold these assholes accountable without Congress or pardons mucking it up. ✊🏻
GOV. PRITZKER CREATES "ILLINOIS ACCOUNTABILITY COMMISSION" TO CREATE PUBLIC RECORD OF FEDERAL AGENTS' BAD CONDUCT

Illinois Governor Pritzker today signed an executive order creating the Illinois Accountability Commission,..
Only got out of the house to walk to the grocery store today 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Grocery store tricolor triptych photography
Accidentally set off my phone camera while phone was in my hoodie kangaroo pocket
and I momentarily feel like I was channeling Mark Rothko
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Just another chill Chicago rush hour in the Loop
#Hellscape my ass 😊
Great city
#Chicago #StreetPhotogeaphy
Podcasters who are on the Russian payroll in the Pentagon…what could go wrong
Every day it just gets fucking worse
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Triptych of stain glass depicting Saint Patrick
#DocumentaryPhotography
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There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.

There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.

There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.

There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.
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The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat.
And Congress is letting it happen.
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What we have here, in addition to Trump's gaudy, vacuous bric-a-brac he has glued to wall in the Cabinet Room, is our monumentally incompetent SecDef telling the most unhinged president in history about an attack on another civilian small boat, this time in the Pacific.
Ridiculous fee

When I wanted to send flowers to my mom I’d call a local florist. It was a bit less convenient than online, but 🤷🏻‍♂️