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horse massacre @torqpenderloin.bsky.social · 7h

carson kelly with the most cursed at bat I have ever seen

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 7h

They’re calling it the Cubs-iest half-inning of baseball ever.

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Richard Staff @richstaff.bsky.social · 9h

My sympathies to the biggest Philadelphia Phillies fans I know: Joe Biden, Samuel Alito, and Benjamin Netanyahu. I’ll see you in Valhalla.

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ᴀʟ ᴅᴏʀᴀᴅᴏ @aldorado.bsky.social · 11h

That Ethiopiques series IS damn good

Slim Hiney @timdaggerboy.bsky.social · 12h

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Toni Preckwinkle @tonipreckwinkle.bsky.social · 12h

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12h

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 15h

There’s a viral video reposted by a lot of news people nationally about an abduction at West Loop Elementary School, but there is no school with that name. The video seems to be of ICE detaining people near UIC yesterday. Details matter. We need to try to get them right before sharing.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 15h

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 15h

he's gonna crash out so hard. hello captain coritsol.

Kenny Mayne @kennymayne.bsky.social · 15h

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 16h

what idiot called him Butt-Head and not The Beavis Friend

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

So this is a pretty wild part of the TRO: mandating agents wear visible identification. Taking bets on how long before they violate it, lol

It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official

duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties, must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when wearing riot gear.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 16h

Feel like if circumcision caused autism, it would have made the signs at the intactivist parade.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago federal court chief judge says she has not requested National Guard for courthouse

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 21h

Marathon street closures on the route to my kids’ school are testing my Chicago homerism.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 23h

Good morning. A few overnight developments on the National Guard deployment in Illinois, including the filing of this document.

It confirms plans to have troops at the ICE facility in Broadview — AND to send troops to Chicago's downtown federal courthouse for Friday hearings.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

This lays out the situation in IL so far.

200 federalized National Guard troops in the state as of 3 p.m. on 10/8.

Two requests for protection support: 1. The ICE facility in Broadview, and 2. The Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Friday "due to two high profile cases involving DHS activities."

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 3d

Every Castelllanos AB

Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · May 20

Very spidery skittery death metal-style lettering above a drawing of a behornéd skull, all rendered in white on black. It somewhat illegibly spells out ‘Maybe it will happen today’

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ A’ja

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1d

Chicagoans still marching on Michigan Ave chanting "up up with liberation, down down with deportations!"

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 1d

There was a fucking Time feature-length cover story pathologizing him as the adult child of an alcoholic. But the Ben Terris Fetterman piece dropped this spring, and it’s one of the most damaging things I’ve ever read about a politician, and it just got sucked into the void.

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 1d

This came up on this week’s KYE, and it happened when I was finishing undergrad, so a weirdly sticky political memory: Trent Lott gave up his bid for Senate Majority Leader _in 2002_ bc he made some ambiguous remarks to celebrate Strom Thurmond’s 100th, which Thurmond definitely couldn’t understand.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 1d

Axl always understood what he was running from.

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 1d

I saw William Petersen in Endgame at the Steppenwolf (and, weirdly, ran into him and his pit bull at the dog beach here in Chicago) right after he quit CSI. As the lights were going down, the person in front of me turned to their neighbor and asked, “So what’s this about?”

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 1d

“Vlad Guerrero Junior-Junior”

Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 1d

Finally!

The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 1d

Good time to remember that there are no truly great coaches in any sport. Literally none, ever. There are shitty ones and decent ones and pretty good ones, but the good ones only ever look great when they have elite talent, and will look mediocre or even shitty as soon as they don't.

Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 1d

Lac qui Parle

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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