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“Faith leaders were turned away from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Christmas Eve morning after attempting to enter and pray with detainees.”
The Broadview ICE facility is an evil place.
The Broadview ICE facility is an evil place.
Faith leaders denied access to pray with detainees at Broadview ICE facility on Christmas Eve
The interfaith group has repeatedly sought entry to the building but has been turned away each time. During their latest effort, they said they wanted to offer “pastoral care” to Christians detained t...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“Faith leaders were turned away from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Christmas Eve morning after attempting to enter and pray with detainees.”
The Broadview ICE facility is an evil place.
The Broadview ICE facility is an evil place.
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Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Edward Hopper, Christmas card, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...
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WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
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Pancreatic cancer is still one of the deadliest cancers. However, there are promising strategies currently under investigation that have been delayed or harmed because of the Trump administration and Elon Musk's DOGE.
CDMRP cuts left no money for many forms of cancer research including pancreatic.
CDMRP cuts left no money for many forms of cancer research including pancreatic.
Former Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse on Tuesday said he was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer. https://to.pbs.org/49cDtIV
Former Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse says he has stage-four pancreatic cancer
Sasse expressed determination to fight the disease, highlighting advancements in immunotherapy and other treatments as part of his hope.
www.pbs.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Pancreatic cancer is still one of the deadliest cancers. However, there are promising strategies currently under investigation that have been delayed or harmed because of the Trump administration and Elon Musk's DOGE.
CDMRP cuts left no money for many forms of cancer research including pancreatic.
CDMRP cuts left no money for many forms of cancer research including pancreatic.
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THE MONTH OF DICK 2026 IS COMING IN JANUARY
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
December 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
THE MONTH OF DICK 2026 IS COMING IN JANUARY
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
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CHOTINER: and when you're in water you
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
December 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
CHOTINER: and when you're in water you
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
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The stadium grift is amazing. Just a bunch of humble, downtrodden billionnaires who are always suddenly short of cash to build more luxury boxes for them and their friends. But at least everyday working people get more heavily taxed.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Chiefs announce intent to leave their Missouri home of 50-plus years at Arrowhead Stadium and relocate to Kansas.
December 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The stadium grift is amazing. Just a bunch of humble, downtrodden billionnaires who are always suddenly short of cash to build more luxury boxes for them and their friends. But at least everyday working people get more heavily taxed.
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this one hurts me so badly.
chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
Layoffs at Video Data Bank shake the film community - Chicago Reader
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago laid off three of five employees at Video Data Bank, upending the nearly 50-year-old video art nonprofit.
chicagoreader.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
this one hurts me so badly.
chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...
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Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
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Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
AI is not going to go away
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
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I encourage people posting to stay mindful of the fact that countless real little girls and young women were horribly victimized by the Epstein network—and there are also MANY other survivors reading what is written here.
December 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I encourage people posting to stay mindful of the fact that countless real little girls and young women were horribly victimized by the Epstein network—and there are also MANY other survivors reading what is written here.
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A hill on which I will die: Calvin and Hobbes is one of the great pieces of 20th-century American literature in no small part because it was never turned into anything aside from a comic strip. Leave it be.
December 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A hill on which I will die: Calvin and Hobbes is one of the great pieces of 20th-century American literature in no small part because it was never turned into anything aside from a comic strip. Leave it be.
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Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care
The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
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Gregory Bovino's caravan just exited DuSable-Lake Shore Drive at Broadway: my neighborhood. Helicopter hovering above Broadway. Police escort, which pulled over a rapid-resoonder. Watch this space.
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Gregory Bovino's caravan just exited DuSable-Lake Shore Drive at Broadway: my neighborhood. Helicopter hovering above Broadway. Police escort, which pulled over a rapid-resoonder. Watch this space.
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Border Patrol is at the Evanston Home Depot. Community members here blowing whistles blowing, DHS chopper flying very low above us.
December 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Border Patrol is at the Evanston Home Depot. Community members here blowing whistles blowing, DHS chopper flying very low above us.
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It feels extra cruel and intentional for CBP and Bovino to come back to Chicago, especially hard hit immigrant nhoods, one week before Christmas. These are strategies to abduct people but also about psychological terror meant to keep vulnerable community members afraid.
December 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It feels extra cruel and intentional for CBP and Bovino to come back to Chicago, especially hard hit immigrant nhoods, one week before Christmas. These are strategies to abduct people but also about psychological terror meant to keep vulnerable community members afraid.
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Thank you Quinn Myers and Jeremy Battle of @blockclubchi.bsky.social for capturing our excitement around launching Quimby’s Ink!
Fire up your Google skills to read the article on Block Club and to see case studies on the Quimby’s Blog. Wanna’ chat about it? email [email protected]
Fire up your Google skills to read the article on Block Club and to see case studies on the Quimby’s Blog. Wanna’ chat about it? email [email protected]
December 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thank you Quinn Myers and Jeremy Battle of @blockclubchi.bsky.social for capturing our excitement around launching Quimby’s Ink!
Fire up your Google skills to read the article on Block Club and to see case studies on the Quimby’s Blog. Wanna’ chat about it? email [email protected]
Fire up your Google skills to read the article on Block Club and to see case studies on the Quimby’s Blog. Wanna’ chat about it? email [email protected]
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Bovino is back in Chicago with 200 agents.
Border Patrol Boss Bovino Back In Chicago As Agents Target Southwest Side
Bovino and about 200 Border Patrol agents have arrived in Chicago for more enforcement action, sources said.
blockclubchicago.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Bovino is back in Chicago with 200 agents.
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Updated AI policy, in effect starting with the January 2026 open submission window
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/ai-policy/
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/ai-policy/
December 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Updated AI policy, in effect starting with the January 2026 open submission window
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/ai-policy/
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/ai-policy/
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Institutionalisation is a part of the calcifying process of knowledge and power under capital. Which is why I believe in ecosystems as an alternative. We need healthy ecosystems not ivory towers.
December 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Institutionalisation is a part of the calcifying process of knowledge and power under capital. Which is why I believe in ecosystems as an alternative. We need healthy ecosystems not ivory towers.
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I’m not even going to publish a copy of Trumps comments about Reiner and his wife. But occasionally he reminds me that he is simply one of the worst, most degenerate individuals who has ever existed in American public life. Hard to think of any more vicious, vile and sociopathic.
December 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I’m not even going to publish a copy of Trumps comments about Reiner and his wife. But occasionally he reminds me that he is simply one of the worst, most degenerate individuals who has ever existed in American public life. Hard to think of any more vicious, vile and sociopathic.
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.