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Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 2h

Little unfair to the batter to face 8 guys

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 11h

two thing that annoys me about Lee Kuan Yew worship is that nobody who does it seems to care about *modern* singaporean politicians and American right-wingers who do it would never accept LKY's policies of, e.g., massive public housing projects in a country that makes posting racism illegal

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 15h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 14h

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 18h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 11h

So frustrating that it’s this difficult to build housing in Chicago

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Steven @stevevance.net · 11h

how to build an ADU in Chicago starting April 1, 2026

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

an ICE agent rammed a car and shot the woman inside five times for no reason. she only survived because she escaped

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

This is not going to end well. Sooner or later an American citizen is going to get killed.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18h

Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

Absolutely made up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 14h

Techno cult moment

Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 15h

Link 🙏🫣

Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 15h

THEY GOT SOMETHING LEFT

Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 18h

Cubs got nothing left. Another Brewer Cubs thread

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Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 15h

FLY THE W

Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 15h

1 out!

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Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 15h

2 outs

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Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 15h

3 outs to go. HANG ON CUBBIES

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

Specifically she was asked if she possesses pictures of Trump with undressed teens and she refused to say no

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

so theres a possibility the attorney general has seen evidence the president raped children and now the entire republican party is helping to cover it up?

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Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 16h

Now it’s 4-3. Games not over! Cubbies need to score at least one more time I feel

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h

The agenda is to punish Dems for standing up to Trump and reward Dems for capitulating, in part because they want the Dems to lose the midterms and don't want them pursuing politically effective strategies for that reason alone bsky.app/profile/them...

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22h

yeah...that's one of their favorite stories to tell: "Democrats stood their ground. Will this come back to haunt them in the midterms?" -- it gives them reliable copy they've already written many times over, so they can just search-and-replace

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 16h

Cruising through this game now. PCA screaming and shouting is something to behold

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Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 17h

I saw a political cartoon out of Japan with this theme: 2 younger people struggling with 4 elders on their shoulders.

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Politically_Illinois ⚾️ @pol-il.bsky.social · 17h

Thinking some more on this, not enough people are talking about the pensions. Real source of generational warfare. Plus the senior property tax freeze, if 40-50% of homeowners are over 65, the difference will be paid by the younger generation trying to get on the ladder with 4% effective rates

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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