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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 14h

Opening tomorrow night! Come see some impressive art and artifacts from the studio of a man who deeply influenced the visual vernacular of Chicago during the early 20th century.

The annual Historic Pullman House Tour is also happening this weekend, so you can make a full day of it on Saturday.

A photo of an art gallery whose walls are filled with framed design documents for Art Deco figurines and buildings, with additional objects shown in display cases.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 20h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Particularly Miffed @miffedinparticular.bsky.social · 5d

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 20h

If you say so!

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Phleum pratense 🌾 @timothyaschuler.bsky.social · 20h

"Defying gravity, piercing the heavens: not these projects. The installations want to be touched and held. Maybe you do, too."

@zachmortice.bsky.social is in superlative critical mode in his review of this year's Chicago Architectural Biennial www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

In Chicago, a Soft Architecture Biennial for Hard Times

Inflatables and fabrics dominate at the sixth edition of North America’s largest design exhibition, but gentle materials mask hard questions for architects and organizers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Cross-laminated & Skinned her 👻 🦇 🎃 @nickhasthoughts.com · 1d

this is so funny, dawg. North Koreans infiltrating the exclusive “clients won’t pay me” and “please redraw my restaurant patio” space. the next step is going into debt and existential regret. can’t wait until they quit and get into the real estate or construction management.

Files seen by WIRED also include floor plans and designs for a deck, a farm house, a custom tree house, swimming pools, and more. One text file appears to include a request asking if existing plans for a restaurant patio could be redrawn. WIRED could not immediately verify whether these plans had physically been drawn up by the alleged North Korean accounts or if any work was completed. However,

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Baby in a placenta I know I know, it’s serious

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

the comparative dearth of reporting on NSPM-7 is in part, speaking generously, due I think to how a lot of elite media looks at it like a rant. They are accustomed to things like that being serious legal documents for them to have impact, and in a saner environment, that would be the case. But…

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 1d

Dudes rock

Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 1d

Attention Dwight H Perkins nerds:

Green flyer with a photo of Dwight H Perkins just in case you thought this was about the guy you sat next to in third grade who picked his nose. It’s not that Dwight.

Text reads:
“Ald. Ruth Cruz cordially invites you to the
HONORARY STREET DEDICATION FOR
DWIGHT H.
PERKINS
(1867-1941)
Distinguished Chicago Architect
Designer of 40 Public School Buildings in Chicago Co-Founder of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 10:30 AM
on the northeast corner of Milwaukee Avenue and Addison Street, in front of Schurz High School”

Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 1d

This is notable b/c for the least reality-moored factions of the right, like the InfoWars crew, occupations by ICE and the National Guard are being explained as combatting child sex trafficking.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded.

“A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected.

“Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed”

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www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

www.wsj.com

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 1d

The colonial frontier of violence is getting re-settled very, very close to home for lots of folks who previously couldn’t see this machine.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 1d

Every parent I know is wondering if this is gonna be the scene outside (or in) their kids’ school today.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d

stellar investigation by 972Mag on IDF's manufactured videos that are reproduced uncritically in media. Truly a propaganda war."These videos are produced in-house by a small animation cell in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, working mainly in After Effects + Blender"
www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the French have strong opinions on wine and philosophy. They will also shut down entire cities if they're pushed too far.

Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 1d

If we had developed a pervasive culture of general strikes and civil disobedience like France or Italy, we would have a pressure release valve that could have saved us from the incredible pointless cruelty and brutishness of this moment.

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 1d

If we had developed a pervasive culture of general strikes and civil disobedience like France or Italy, we would have a pressure release valve that could have saved us from the incredible pointless cruelty and brutishness of this moment.

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking back to sillier times 🙃

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · Sep 5

BREAKING: Speaker of the House announces Trump was an FBI informant tasked with taking down Epstein.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 2d

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS www.wbez.org/arts/2025/10...

Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson among 22 winners of coveted MacArthur ‘genius grant’

The Englewood native, whose work focuses on inequity in Chicago, is among this year’s class of MacArthur Fellows. The list of international fellows receiving the $800,000 prize includes several artist...

www.wbez.org

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 3d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 3d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 3d

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 4d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

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