ChiLyd
@chilyd.bsky.social
Mom, voter, baseball lover, NYT word games, lifelong Chicagoan she/her
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WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
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Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
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Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 8, 2023 at 1:50 AM
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
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The Krystal Rivera family’s wrongful death lawsuit is a searing indictment of CPD
The Krystal Rivera family’s wrongful death lawsuit is a searing indictment of CPD
* ABC 7…
A Chicago law firm announced a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday in the shooting of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera earlier this year.
Rivera was killed in a friendly fire incident on June 5. She was shot by her partner, Officer Carlos Baker.
“Friendly fire”?
* Check out the lawsuit…
Any police officer shot in the [...]
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December 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Krystal Rivera family’s wrongful death lawsuit is a searing indictment of CPD
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More of this nationwide please!
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
More of this nationwide please!
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RT to scare a Chicago alderperson #PlowTheSidewalks
November 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
RT to scare a Chicago alderperson #PlowTheSidewalks
Carl Sandburg’s ‘Chicago’ poem finds fresh relevance in a city occupied by ICE chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Carl Sandburg’s ‘Chicago’ poem finds fresh relevance in a city occupied by ICE
Known for praising the city with “big shoulders,” the beloved 1914 composition recently was recited in a ruling addressing federal immigration agents’ use of force. Literary scholars say they were “as...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Carl Sandburg’s ‘Chicago’ poem finds fresh relevance in a city occupied by ICE chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Sometimes I think about how maybe these guys are the Titanic and Chicago’s gonna the the fucking iceberg.
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Sometimes I think about how maybe these guys are the Titanic and Chicago’s gonna the the fucking iceberg.
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Saturday's Start. This morning with the autumn colors scattered over Chicago's Lincoln Park.
October 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Saturday's Start. This morning with the autumn colors scattered over Chicago's Lincoln Park.
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"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
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"It’s reached the point where I spend more time engaging with undesirable, messy, uncreative, and soul-draining texts from Democratic strangers running for office than I do texts from friends and colleagues whom I actually know and like."
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charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats I Don't Know Keep Texting Me
Please stop.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
May 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"It’s reached the point where I spend more time engaging with undesirable, messy, uncreative, and soul-draining texts from Democratic strangers running for office than I do texts from friends and colleagues whom I actually know and like."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democrats-...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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Please, please, please join me in contacting your congressional representatives IMMEDIATELY to tell Congress to STAND UP AND ACT.
Call tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
Email tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
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Email tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
Reverse Funding Ban
Tell Congress to reverse the Trump Administration's decision to freeze all U.S. foreign aid spending on global health programs, including the delivery of lifesaving medicines to vulnerable patients.
act.pih.org
February 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please, please, please join me in contacting your congressional representatives IMMEDIATELY to tell Congress to STAND UP AND ACT.
Call tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
Email tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
Call tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
Email tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...
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![YOU: Hi, my name is [NAME]. I’m calling from [ZIP CODE].
YOU: I am calling on [HOUSE MEMBER/SENATOR] to speak out against President Trump’s actions on Monday in freezing all federal aid. This is blatantly illegal; the Executive Branch can’t unilaterally decide to ignore laws that were passed by Congress, especially when it comes to financial aid.
YOU: MOC must take action, and clarify how they will stop the freeze and ensure that the millions who are directly impacted by financial aid will not be harmed.
YOU: [OPTIONAL COMMENT]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vdabazxnghujbebpi2ektqgi/bafkreia6t55htxgj6v4nxv5uys3mklsp7lgba2qajqxb6c542lp2gf4gq4@jpeg)
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15 years after Citizens United, which transformed every corporate treasury in America into a potential political slush fund, we now see the result: government of billionaires, by oligarchs, for plutocrats.
January 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
15 years after Citizens United, which transformed every corporate treasury in America into a potential political slush fund, we now see the result: government of billionaires, by oligarchs, for plutocrats.
Are We Being Punished For A Feminist Utopia That Never Even Happened?
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Are We Being Punished For A Feminist Utopia That Never Even Happened?
And how long is this 'masculinity crisis' going to last?
www.wonkette.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Are We Being Punished For A Feminist Utopia That Never Even Happened?
www.wonkette.com/p/are-we-bei...
www.wonkette.com/p/are-we-bei...
Feminist revenge "Game of Thrones" Style
November 26, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Feminist revenge "Game of Thrones" Style
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Periodic reminder that while Chicago continues to try to figure out whether or not it’s possible, Forest Park has been doing municipal sidewalk plowing for decades
November 22, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Periodic reminder that while Chicago continues to try to figure out whether or not it’s possible, Forest Park has been doing municipal sidewalk plowing for decades
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Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.
Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
November 17, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.
Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
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For years now, the right has been accusing Democrats of running a shadowy conspiracy to protect politicians who are sex predators.
Democrats need to scream "WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?" until they force the report's release.
Democrats need to scream "WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?" until they force the report's release.
November 15, 2024 at 5:02 PM
For years now, the right has been accusing Democrats of running a shadowy conspiracy to protect politicians who are sex predators.
Democrats need to scream "WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?" until they force the report's release.
Democrats need to scream "WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?" until they force the report's release.
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'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
October 23, 2024 at 1:46 PM
'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
The first in an ongoing series of "Books you should read when you are so mad & sad you think you may actually burst into flames"
November 12, 2024 at 11:31 PM
The first in an ongoing series of "Books you should read when you are so mad & sad you think you may actually burst into flames"