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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 5h

Today is the 154th anniversary of the end of the Great Chicago Fire, and the beginning of Chicago’s “Regeneration,” the title of this sculpture by Henry Hering on SE Du Sable Bridge bridgehouse at Michigan & Wacker. The I Will Maiden personified Chicago’s energy. We will need that energy again soon.

Bas relief sculpture showing the I Will Maiden, a Greek Goddess of sorts, in armor, a cape, and flowing skirt; in one hand she holds rolled up blueprints for, presumably, new buildings; other hand wields a carpenter’s square. She has a tiara on as well; she treads on an unhappy dragon (the Fire?) beneath her sandals. She is flanked on each side by muscular tradesmen rebuilding the city.

See first picture alt text. Closeup of the I Will Maiden.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 5h

Because they saw, and still see, America as something far superior to the tinpot shithole regimes we opposed. And there's nothing more insulting to them than seeing someone go and try to turn America into *exactly* that kind of country.

Binzie @binns.bsky.social · 6h

My boss is a Reagan Republican and has been enraged since this all started. I seem to remember being plenty angry at that group of Republicans back then but again, nothing like this.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 3h

On the set of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE w/ Paul Marco (Kelton the Cop), Criswell, and writer/producer/director Edward D. Wood Jr. #BOTD.

"He was so proud of it," Marco said. #FilmSky #EdWood

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Mrs. deWinter @mrsdewinter.bsky.social · 26m

God wants you to take care of yourself. You've got that great kid to raise!

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 8h

I had a biology teacher who regularly used to say he 'should get the Nobel Peace Prize here' for his work in quietening down the class. To my knowledge he never was recognised by the panel.

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Mrs. deWinter @mrsdewinter.bsky.social · 30m

I expect this to be magnificent.

Coming Up On TCM @comingupontcm.bsky.social · 46m

#ComingUpOnTCM

SUGAR HILL (1974) Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley
Dir.: Paul Maslansky 10:30 PM PT

When gangsters kill her boyfriend, a woman enlists a voodoo queen to raise an army of the dead.

1h 31m | Horror Action | TV-14

#TCM #TCMParty

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not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · 3h

as a free nation we will live forever or die by suicide

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, nothing says rock n' roll like middle aged men criticizing young people's appearance.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1h

Apart from undermining military readiness with the destruction of the CDC, national security is also threatened by a sick population.

Yes, to me the inhumanity of The Regime and the harm to the average person is most important.

But to many, the only thing they care about is national security.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1h

Public health is not partisan. It is health for the public.

That means all of us.

Defend Public Health.

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Mrs. deWinter @mrsdewinter.bsky.social · 55m

I think it was just a blip. They're too busy kicking people out to bother keeping people in. They want to decrease the surplus population.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 2h

Every shot of this Seattle crowd I see the classic PNW couple of “Librarian lady and mechanic man”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 2h

It's a two-fer, you get your antisemitic conspiracy theory AND the insistence that there is no such thing as sincere progressive opinion, it couldn't possibly be that people are genuinely pissed off so they must have been paid to protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

I too am nostalgic for the days when the distinction between people who knew shit and people who didn’t know shit still mattered.
youtube.com/shorts/AMe0Q...

Two Groups of People | Alonzo Bodden #shorts

YouTube video by Alonzo Bodden

youtube.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tron's evil twin brother Troff @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 1h

Counterpoint: Dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing might be the BEST fucking way to defy fascism what the fuck are you talking about you uptight ninny

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 11h

🤨 we know who’s terrorizing our country.
www.nokings.org find a rally 10/18/25 👊🏼

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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Mrs. deWinter @mrsdewinter.bsky.social · 1h

OMG. Watching #ThePaper on Peacock, and we're gonna have web press magic. Crank that baby up!

Mrs. deWinter @mrsdewinter.bsky.social · 2h

You don't know what words mean. Bye.

Mrs. deWinter @mrsdewinter.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, he very much is. And a Christian nationalist is the exact opposite of a libertarian. The latter want to be left alone, while the former wants to get all up in your business.

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Mrs. deWinter @mrsdewinter.bsky.social · 2h

WRONG.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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