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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 5m

Open House Chicago is October 18-19, and I will be volunteering at Four Star Mushrooms, 320 N. Oakley, on October 19 from 11:45-2:30. Come by and say hi! www.architecture.org/open-house-c...

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 24m

two women are sitting next to each other on a couch and talking .

ALT: two women are sitting next to each other on a couch and talking .

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 25m

shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 25m

Fourth Amendment to the United States' Constitution, being violated hundreds of times a day by this evil government and its camouflaged goons: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 29m

How is that allowed???!! I'm so sick of this government crapping on the Constitution!

dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 38m

I actually paid to have someone iron a few shirts and I feel both ashamed and elated.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 48m

I drove around and didn’t see anything.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 1h

Still there, an hour and a half later.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 2h

Just signed up for my volunteer shift!

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 2h

I dislike it more than usual here.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 2h

It's this guy.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 2h

That's probably all it is but they are still out there.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 2h

That was a complete accident! thanks for teaching me about bargeboard!

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 3h

Don't know if it means anything but there's a Sheriff's helicopter flying over Oak Park, Forest Park, Maywood this morning,

Sheriff's helicopter visible behind some trees

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 3h

Going Alpine in Berwyn, Illinois

Small one-story house with a partial mansard roof maybe. Attached to the front of the roof are two half-timbered gables, wood painted brown, wall painted white. There is a little wooden chalet-like roof over the front door at the left. The rest of the facade is covered in really bad faux stone in shades of tan, grey, yellow, and, peach. There is a double window at the right shaded by a metal awning. Two manicured shrubs are protected by the world's smallest picket fence,

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 3h

In the Western sky this morning

Not-quite-full gray Moon against a dark sky

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 4h

Gotta have hope somehow

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 4h

Last night's Moon over Chicago, shortly after it rose.

Almost-full Moon, tinged orange, against a black sky

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 4h

Not too far from where I live.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 15h

Please don’t say he is not trained. Border Patrol agents do this on the border all the time. Agents at my station used to throw rocks into car windows that sometimes made them crash. They think it us funny. It’s not training in the academy, but in the field.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us