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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 1h

Boy, the epic sigh I just let out.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3h

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, I'm fine. Heard some clanking and paused to look knowing for certain what had happened. At least I was only a mile from work and not marooned miles away from work or home.

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 4h

Two spokes broke on my bike's rear wheel a half hour after this photo was taken, so this morning took a nasty turn.

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely gorgeous morning in Chicago.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s video of the incident

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 5h

Big ass moon over the Wiener Circle.

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 6h

Are there GOP senators who are deeply in love with the filibuster in the way Manchin was?

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 7h

Stepped outside to walk the dog and muttered "That is a big ass moon."

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 17h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 14h

I don't know that this is the *most* unethical thing David Frum has ever done, but in terms of professional *journalistic* ethics? Whooo boy

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 19h

Pathetic in its predictability, but also, who is this even for at this point? The moldering corpse of the country club Republican establishment in the collar counties?

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h

A fascist dictator is ordering armed troops from another state to invade the city of Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune editorial board reacts by warning Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to avoid injudicious language. Really.

Editorial: We need our leaders to stay cool as ICE-related chaos gets hot

Provocateurs on the right and left were the story of a chaotic weekend in Chicago. Our political leaders need to reclaim the narrative and cool things down.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Alex Bean @abeanchi.bsky.social · 19h

Marlon Brando's career started on Broadway with the likes of Talulah Bankhead and his last performance was a single muttered line in a Gidfather game on the PS2.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 20h

It's arguably the most important sentence in the entire Constitution!

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 22h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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