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A pair of mismatched Mary Jane’s
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9/11 - Never Forget that “Things happened, but he knew nothing about it. And we can leave it at that”. - Thank you for your attention to this matter Donald J Trump.
A journalist in a large group of White House press corps in the Oval Office says “9/11 families are furious that you are in the Oval Office” Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman sits next to President Donald Trump looking uncomfortably at his hands. Behind them are cheep gold leaf plaster reliefs that have been sticky taped to the Oval Office walls. Trump replies to the journalist “Things happen, but he knew nothing about it. And we can leave it at that.”
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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As seen in Chicago on several places on my morning run.
A white paper tapped to a light pole in a park reads “"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families and torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." Anne Frank, January 13, 1943 - Report Ice sightings (855)435-7693
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Charlotte friends, get yourself one of these and start connecting with your neighbors.
A sliver whistle on. Black cord.
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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IYKYK
A still from 1984’s Repo Man of a young stock clerk with a crew cut looking downward, while his beige manager hassles him and a security guard looks on. The cans in the foreground are generic brand sliced peaches.
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Front and back!
Cardboard sign that says “Proud Americans fight fascism, just like my grandparents taught me!!!! No Kings!! Card board sign that says “Protest is Patriotic! What do you think all that tea in the habit was for!!! No Kings!
October 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Artemisia Gentileschi
A Baroque oil painting - “Judith Beheading Holofernes,” a naked man, covered in a red blanket is lying face up on a bed while Judith and her handmaid cut his head off with a broadsword. Blood spurts everywhere and Judith is putting some real muscle into it unlike male depictions of the scene where Judith seems to gently behead? Is that a thing? Holofernes.
October 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Let’s send this person to Congress! @katmabu.bsky.social
Screenshot from The Guardian, headline “anywhere but Washington: How Chicago is resisting Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown” with ICE agents in camouflage, guns and helmets, with their hand on the back of Kat Abughazaleh, a blonde white woman in her 20s, forcing her out of the way. Kat is protesting ICE at their Broadview center.
October 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I learned how to throw pots!
A blue and white bowl with apples inside. Two cooper colored bud vases with pink flowers in them.
September 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Wow…less than a year ago people were all upset about the price of eggs, and they thought this was the solution.
Guardian headline Israel launches ground offensive deep inside Gaza City with photo of utterly destroyed cement and stone apartment buildings. Guardian headlines about Trump suing the NYtimes for not endorsing him, a Russian Network of camps to brainwash Ukrainian children, and JD Vance and Charlie Kirk Guardian headline Progressive groups fear McCarthy Era attacks in wake of Charlie Kirk Shooting along with a photo of VP Vance - who threatens a crack down on “far-left” groups. Guardian headlines, Mississippi declares infant death emergency as CDC program that could have helped is halted. Trump official confirmed to Fed Board but court rejects Lisa Cook removal bid, Trump announces US Strike on another alleged Venezuelan drug boat.
September 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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I am running right now and you read this tweet and I nearly fell over into a sand dune laughing.
A sand dune covered in seagrass with a white flag pole at the top, a red flag indicating now life guards on duty, and a green garbage can below.
September 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Franks other children are happy and safe at their Foster Mom’s house where they have received lots of love and food.
Two 5 week old (now 6 weeks old) kittens slumber nest to each other on a bed of white towels. Boo, is all white short hair male, while his sister, Mismatch, is smaller, and calico with the black and orange being tabby.
June 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Frank has channeled her inner Tommy Lee and trashed her accomodations. She has received chicken as her reward. Later, she will be released to go care for her kitten, who is still at large.
Frank, a female brown tabby cat with a tipped ear and green eyes sits in a dog crate on a fluffy cream bed next to a litter box. She has the serene look of a cat hopped up on goofballs, having just returned from the vet.
June 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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What in the my grandma’s kitchen circa 1987 is this?
A small pamphlet with a drawing of the Ten Commandments saying “are you good enough? Have you kept the 10 commandments?”
June 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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It’s giving….
From The Great, Tsar Peter the third holds George’s head about to kiss her while her husband Grigor stands next to them in a fur hat awkwardly looking up.
May 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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A film that takes place where you are from.
Bob Hughes, a man in his late twenties wearing a dark blazer and v neck sweater, pretends to look at a display of sunglasses while casing a drugstore in the early 1970s.
April 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Evanston, Illinois. Speaker said they put this together in 5 days at the request of families and elders who could not manage going to Daley Plaza.
A group of older Americans with signs at the hands off rally in Evanston.
April 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#handsoff In Evanston, just north of Chicago.
A large crowd of people dressed for cold spring weather with home made signs that say “Hands of Social Security” wait for speakers to begin in Evanston, Illinois.
April 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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As seen in the RP.
A US Post Office priority mail address label used as a sticker with “our existence spans millennia” - a blue, pink and white trans flag drawn in highlighters- and “we will keep existing” written in black sharpie marker is affixed to a black light pole with lots of weathered residue from previous stickers and signs.
February 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Completely normal in a high functioning democracy.
A flyer attached to a light post with a Warning to stay inside on January 20 and 21 because ICE is planning raids in Chicago in both Spanish and English.
January 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Newspapers used to mean something.
Photo of the Oregonian newspaper from January 29, 1986 with a headline reading “President leads nation in mourning 7 victims of shuttles fiery explosion” and a photo showing the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding. “Teacher, astronauts die heroes” Photo of the Oregonian newspaper from November 10, 1989 with the headline “East German Communists open wall to free travel” with a story about the beginnings of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Photo shows East German refugees waiting in a shelter in the West. Also there is a story about Colin Firth’s new film, the stock market is down, and it was 50° and rainy. Photo of the Chicago Tribune newspaper from Wednesday, September 12, 2001. “Our nation saw evil. Hijacked jets destroy World Trade Center, hit Pentagon, Thousands feared dead in Nations worst terroist attack.” The image is of ground zero, smoke, ash and dust rise from the rubble and a piece of the iconic facade of the World Trade Center juts up into the air. Along the left side is a single column story showing a headshot of President George W Bush during his Oval Office address with a headline reading “President promises to avenge lost lives.” Photo of the Redeye newspaper from November 5, 2008. The only text reads “History” and the image is of President-elect Barack Obama arm raised in a wave to the crowd at his acceptance speech from Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois on the night he was elected President of the United States.
January 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I read this in a first year politics class back in 89/90. It’s amazing. Fucking puff skirts, man.
A book shelf showing several books including Shrewed, The curse of the good girl, Other People’s Children, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, and a well worn copy of Susan Faludi’s Backlash.
January 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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This is the most metal way to describe a meteorological event ever. Frozen fucking souls that go BOOM sounds like a Black Sabbath lyric.
A block quote reading: When the souls are frozen, and the water within them freezes and expands - because water expands as it freezes - what that can do is actually crack or fracture that frozen ground. And that can experience of either small shaking - in some cases, loud booms.”
January 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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What do Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Natasha Lyonne have in common with the UHC CEO shooting suspect?
Benoit Blanc, as played by Daniel Craig, is sat in the bath smoking a cigar in a deep blue embroidered hat with his laptop, iPad and rubber duckie on a bathtub tray. He looks perplexed. A photo taken from the perspective of Benoit Blanc in his bathtub of his bathtub tray. On the left is an iPad with Among Us playing, on the right is a MacBook showing a zoom call with Stephen Sondheim, Natasha Lyonne, Angela Lansbury, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
December 10, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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This holiday season, if someone on your list needs to be told to eat a bag of dicks, know you can buy a pack of jerky bull cocks at Costco for under fifty bucks. Also your dog will like them.
An image of Cadet Brand Bully Sticks, 12-count for $43.99 from the Costco website via Instacart. The packaging features a happy black and white boarder collie.
December 9, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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Dear neighbor, although we have a bit of snow - this is not dibs weather.
Screenshot of weather app showing Chicago, Illinois- currently 39° F with rain stopping in 36 minutes.
November 21, 2024 at 8:47 PM