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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 12h

Keep Dinesh out of the Vice Presidents residence, he'll have a cow.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14h

This is a real post from Dinesh D'Souza. 🥴

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 12h

Enjoy the rest of the night.
Tomorrow Brewers win.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 16h

He had a long day of golf..well, not that long.

Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 21h

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21h

This is NOT making Chicago safer. And this must NOT be what America is.👇

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 23h

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking east from the Skydeck at top of the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millenium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-08 13:37:18 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 57.09 F | 13.94 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: N at 4.608 mph | 7.41 kph // Humidity: 75%

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

@meredithshiner.com is worth a follow. Smart energy we need today.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

"I cannot begin to tell you how difficult and unnerving it is to have been in Chicago these past few weeks; to exist indefinitely in the contradictory space between knowing and living."

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

good morning to the intern doing @schumer.senate.gov’s clips

Every time Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York-the Democrat with the most power in a shutdown because his withholding of seven senators toward a procedural vote keeps Republicans from proceeding-says that Democrats are looking to open the government through a negotiation around and deal on Affordable Care Act subsidies, he is acquiescing to the idea that a government in which Border Patrol agents paid with our tax dollars can shoot real bullets at protesters in Chicago after screaming "Do something, bitch!" can and should be deemed legitimate.
The truth is that Democrats can pay a million consultants to come up with a million different talking points on health care subsidies. They can keep holding press conferences in the Senate studio like every other press conference before it, talking to the same reporters, pretending like we live in a redeemable timeline where if they just keep on acting like it's 2007, we might fall through a time portal that makes it so. But we live here in a country with a co-opted executive branch led by racist, xenophobic idiots who do not believe in law, empowered by a slavishly devoted Supreme Court that has decided shoveling unlimited power to said executive is more important than the law it disregards, and where the president thinks he can send national guardsmen from red states to blue states just because people of color live here and Fox News hosts hate that.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

So a Florida state employee, wants to cut funding to Florida public universities, hurting Florida, it's cities, it's students, it's employment, is that correct. Winning.

Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Do you wear Depends or do you just piss yourself.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

I hope no animals were harmed in the creation of that weave.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Release the photos.

TheSnarkTank @thesnarktank.bsky.social · 1d

This should have been an easy “no”, right? Unless….🤔

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Talk to @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

“I wish I could be the guy who says, ‘everyone calm down; things have been just as bad before, and we got through it.’ But I can’t be that reasonable-sounding moderate floating above it all. Things are very bad. People should be far more alarmed than they are.”

open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

The Emerging Shape of American Politics

Dynamism v. Reaction / Open v. Closed

open.substack.com

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Woo them with doughnuts.

TheSnarkTank @thesnarktank.bsky.social · 1d

War is hell.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

How's rehab going Don?

Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

What account is this money in? Is it just a slush fund now.? How is this being accounted for? Media? Anyone in the media? Congress? Anyone?

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Why even bother have Congress at this point if they’re just going to stand idly by

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Knitler!!

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Riots really heating up over there

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

Shoutout to the Boomers, really showing everybody else up in 2025

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

This is how its done.

Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know Mr. Canada guy, does anyone in Canada go fishing anymore? Speak now or forever hold your peace.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 1d

How's that Iowa soybean harvest going for y'all Chuck?
You vote against the Iowa farmers.

Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 2d

Steve on Fox TV.

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 2d

The story is horrible. But it didn't end there. Next, Israel killed 10's of thousands of Palestinians, many women and children, buried under tons of rubble or simply blown to bits. Babies in their mother's arms. Most in their homes as the world watched silently. Next, forced starvation.
Never forget

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Midwest Jeff @midwestjeff.bsky.social · 2d

I'm hoping for the dam to break,

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