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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 15h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 17h

Where is Dave Matthews Band when we need them

aaron adair @aaroninchicago.bsky.social · 11d

ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.?

#Chicago

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

thetriibe.com

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 5d

really disappointed that Taylor Swift hasn’t pivoted to shoegaze yet

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 6d

Has there been reporting about a Charlie Kirk connection here? It's not mentioned in the Post story or the ABC coverage

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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 6d

Quick look at the Uptown-Edgewater July Red Line station ridership. Lawrence and Berwyn returned to service on 07/20 while Argyle and Bryn Mawr moved into their new stations.

Stacked Bar Graph of July Red Line ridership from Wilson to Granville

Line Graph of July Red Line ridership from Wilson to Granville

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 7d

Today in Google death rattle: tried to find a female editor’s review of a male journalist’s book by searching their names together, and the AI summary informed me that my query was likely the “result of a misunderstanding,” as the male journalist is in fact married to a different woman

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Tonia Hill @tonia.thetriibe.com · 7d

I talked to staff members who work near where federal agents were seen on video choking a Black man on the West Side.

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Video shows feds ‘choking’ a Black man in East Garfield Park • The TRiiBE

“Why is you choking him, man? Why is he choking him, man?” a man says at the scene.

thetriibe.com

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, I don’t think Ezra Klein does any advocacy that is specific or well-defined enough to call him an activist. He’s a liberal ideologue caught in a lifelong Sisyphean effort to patch over the contradictions of his beliefs. And to the extent that you can be “good” at such a thing, he is

Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 9d

whereas Klein has this other project of actively shaping public opinion and constructing certain kinds of collective social agreement through what he publishes and highlights on the podcast / show. Not quite political activist, but actively seeking a particular outcome

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 10d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 10d

THE MEME IS REAL

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 11d

Crazy how you can orient your entire life around capitalism being the problem and still discover in new ways each day that capitalism is the problem

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 24d

Glad to publish this by Ben McCarthy about how mental illness came to be mischaracterized as a primary cause of homelessness in the United States—and how that misunderstanding obscures the most devastating impacts of the hypercommodified housing market

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The Real Cause of Homelessness

For decades, a misleading narrative about mental illness among the unhoused obscured the true source of the crisis: hyper-commodified housing.

progressive.org

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 14d

"Because here in Gaza, sometimes the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end."

The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Israel has issued new evacuation orders for the entire population of Gaza City to leave, in preparation for its full-scale ground occupation of the city by October 7, 2025. But for many, leaving is no longer a choice.

#Gaza #evacuation #iSrael #Palestine

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Nowhere to Run: I Am Choosing Death at Home Over Forced Evacuation

When ‘the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end.’

progressive.org

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 14d

not just in the sense that he was right to say it but that there's harm done in walking it back. If we can't acknowledge that the NYPD has a well-documented past and present of rampant racial bias what are we even doing

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 14d

Full support to Zohran as always but he should not have apologized for calling the NYPD racist

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 16d

A meme showing a still from The Office (US) with Michael Scott sitting in front of a whiteboard that says: ""Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. -Nemik" - JB Pritzker"

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 17d

this goes so hard

Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 17d

You might not agree with his logic, but you have to admire the moxie of this guy from Thursday's CTA town hall who went nuclear on the "gang of car manufacturers, real estate developers, single-families-only warlords and homeowners association authoritarians."
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/09/19/c...

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 18d

We’re all in the ‘cule now (sorry I’ll stop, it’s just a very fun “first ever” distinction)

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 18d

Willie Burnley of America's poly capital, Somerville Massachusetts! idk much about the situation out there but he does seem like a good candidate, public school GND and tenants' protections on the platform

Willie Burnley Jr. announces bid for Somerville mayor, challenging incumbent

Willie Burnley Jr. is challenging incumbent Mayor Katjana Ballantyne, a two-term mayor who was first elected in 2021.

www.boston.com

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 18d

I grew up in a town with zero public transportation of any kind and while I would never go back there for any reason it’s funny to think that as a non-driver I also kind of just can’t

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 18d

Hahahahaha

rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 18d

Other recent sentences I never imagined hearing include “they tear-gassed Daniel Biss”

rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 21d

Was not prepared to read the sentence “if elected, he would be the city’s first openly polyamorous mayor” this morning

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 21d

Was not prepared to read the sentence “if elected, he would be the city’s first openly polyamorous mayor” this morning

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 22d

love to procrastinate on solving present problems by imagining how I will solve impossibly distant future problems. I just caught myself thinking through how I’d go about trying to establish dual citizenship between the Great Lakes and New York if I’m still alive when the U.S. starts Balkanizing

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