Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist
@hknorton.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, policy wonk, natural science nerd, New Yorker in Colorado married to a southerner, avid hiker & camper, absolutely livid about the climate crisis. https://thisblogdoesnthaveanameyet.wordpress.com/
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mcsweeneys.net
"Candidate does not require assigned tasks to be amazing or even particularly interesting, and has been known to sidestep certain projects entirely as opposed to wasting time on a nonsense initiative that will, within weeks, be replaced by another nonsense initiative."
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the17thqueen.bsky.social
yup, he’s absolutely correct here
francesmeh.reviews
look you absolutely do not have to hand it to woody allen, but this still sticks in my brain
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?
section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver. 

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."
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mantatrust.bsky.social
Some of our ocean’s most iconic species are vanishing — whale sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks, manta and devil rays.

Join us in calling for action. Sign the petition today: only.one/act/cites-2025

#CITESCoP20 #SaveTheMantas
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hknorton.bsky.social
Sorry for the outcome of your sports ball game
hknorton.bsky.social
I may have made the most amazing argument of my historic preservation career tonight. I flipped the whole board who voted unanimously with my motion. I feel like Perry Mason.
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.
hknorton.bsky.social
Spending my morning in a historic cemetery. So many children. Anti-vaxxers are absolutely the stupidest humans privileged enough to still be alive.
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bencollins.bsky.social
The most important political thread of our time.
veryimportant.lawyer
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
Last week I visited Bulgaria, which was fabulous. The lovely people we met all asked that we tell our friends we liked it, they are keen for more tourists and lots of people don't think of it. People asked 'why are you going?' we said, because we've never been and it's pretty. A little 🧵
hknorton.bsky.social
Today is going to be a very long day and I am not looking forward to any of it.
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colorlessblue.bsky.social
@blackamazon.bsky.social btw I haven't been posting but this week Brazil approved a bill to raise the income bracket that doesn't have to pay income taxes, and raised taxes (a little bit) on the super-rich to compensate for it. A historic unanimous vote.
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brenthor.bsky.social
Why is everyone talking about mastadon? Leave those fucking loser nerds alone. They arent hurting anyone. Let them stay over there passively aggressively correcting one another and putting content warning on fried eggs or whatever
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ohlookbirdies.bsky.social
"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI
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noamlaw.bsky.social
want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how
mamamurphy.bsky.social
Here’s how you can close your account:

Call 1-800-TO-WELLS (1-800-869-3557)
Visit a Wells Fargo branch near you.
You can close most accounts immediately when:

The account has a positive or zero balance.
All deposits, outstanding and pending items are posted.
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jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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kpanyc.bsky.social
Newsflash: Either Trump breaks it all and everybody dies in a long series of horrendous wars, political chaos, and climate collapse, or we shut this shit down and do the fucking obvious: tax the rich, UBI, universal healthcare, K-16, sensible consumer protections across the board.
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petersagal.bsky.social
As Gov. Pritzker says in his opening statement, ICE and CPB are attempting to provoke a reaction by their actions in Chicago. And as he says -- more or less -- at the time stamp below, he won't order state police to physically confront them, b/c he can't.
laurie-merrell.bsky.social
If you still know anyone who imagines that Pritzker or Johnson will order police under their command to arrest federal agents, you can send them this (1hr12min42sec timestamp). They are explicit that they will not and they view courts as only venue for enforcement.

www.youtube.com/live/vqP4YFV...
LIVE: Illinois' JD Pritzker on Trump's use of National Guard
YouTube video by Reuters
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