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Eurovision has allowed Israel to compete in 2026.
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition following the decision.
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition following the decision.
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Eurovision has allowed Israel to compete in 2026.
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition following the decision.
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have pulled out of the competition following the decision.
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This could be you when RATED Q presents GREMLINS!
Tuesday December 16th at 9:30pm
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
Tuesday December 16th at 9:30pm
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
a couple of gremlins are sitting in red chairs eating popcorn
ALT: a couple of gremlins are sitting in red chairs eating popcorn
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This could be you when RATED Q presents GREMLINS!
Tuesday December 16th at 9:30pm
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
Tuesday December 16th at 9:30pm
Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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I renew my request that you all stop showing me the worst people in the world morning, noon, and night.
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I renew my request that you all stop showing me the worst people in the world morning, noon, and night.
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The Chicago area is already starting to see more influenza hospitalizations than normal for this early in the season.
Chicago expected to experience worse flu season this year, officials say
www.wbez.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The Chicago area is already starting to see more influenza hospitalizations than normal for this early in the season.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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"They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving."
-Rebecca Solnit
-Rebecca Solnit
October 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving."
-Rebecca Solnit
-Rebecca Solnit
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Newsstands stocked with naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses, are now up and offering the medication to free to anyone in Uptown and Lakeview.
blockclubchi.co/4mwCRmQ
blockclubchi.co/4mwCRmQ
August 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Newsstands stocked with naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses, are now up and offering the medication to free to anyone in Uptown and Lakeview.
blockclubchi.co/4mwCRmQ
blockclubchi.co/4mwCRmQ
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Chicago!
Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby
Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual)
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby
Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual)
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
August 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Chicago!
Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby
Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual)
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby
Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual)
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
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He already does a great imitation of Trump (attacking trans people and the homeless)
Gavin Newsom is expertly trolling Fox News stars by mimicking Trump online — right down to the nicknames
Gavin Newsom is expertly trolling Fox News stars by mimicking Trump online
www.independent.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
He already does a great imitation of Trump (attacking trans people and the homeless)
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Good vibes are free, and if you have any on hand, it's your moral obligation to share. Besides, the factory-farmed vibes sold retail are known carcinogens.
August 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Good vibes are free, and if you have any on hand, it's your moral obligation to share. Besides, the factory-farmed vibes sold retail are known carcinogens.
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I hope the folks involved here can rescue this David Wojnarowicz mural. hyperallergic.com/1034063/a-40...
40-Year-Old David Wojnarowicz Mural Resurfaces, Only to Be Hidden Again
The stewards of the artist’s legacy hope that a work miraculously discovered in Louisville, Kentucky, now covered up by the building’s developer, can see the light of day once more.
hyperallergic.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I hope the folks involved here can rescue this David Wojnarowicz mural. hyperallergic.com/1034063/a-40...
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You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
August 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
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Don't set your cheese free. It will never come back, no matter how much you once loved each other.
August 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Don't set your cheese free. It will never come back, no matter how much you once loved each other.
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Thank you, Andrea. ♥️🫂
July 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Thank you, Andrea. ♥️🫂
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Gratitude to Debt Collective members and allies (especially ADAPT) who worked so hard to stop this lethal bill.
I wish I could say we'll live to fight another day, but the truth is not everyone will survive this monstrosity. We need to keep organizing to ensure as many folks as possible make it.
I wish I could say we'll live to fight another day, but the truth is not everyone will survive this monstrosity. We need to keep organizing to ensure as many folks as possible make it.
"all he wants to do is kill people with disabilities"
July 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Gratitude to Debt Collective members and allies (especially ADAPT) who worked so hard to stop this lethal bill.
I wish I could say we'll live to fight another day, but the truth is not everyone will survive this monstrosity. We need to keep organizing to ensure as many folks as possible make it.
I wish I could say we'll live to fight another day, but the truth is not everyone will survive this monstrosity. We need to keep organizing to ensure as many folks as possible make it.
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
theonion.com/protest...
theonion.com/protest...
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump administration any pretext for what they’re already doing and will keep doing no matter what. “Angelenos—don’t engage in violence and give the administration an excuse to inflict all the […]
theonion.com
June 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
theonion.com/protest...
theonion.com/protest...
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OPINION: "Opposition to their vision and to the presence of two, unapologetic lesbians in a Mississippi small town, made a good story for folks up north," Julie R. Enszer writes.
buff.ly/uX1cb0m
buff.ly/uX1cb0m
June 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
OPINION: "Opposition to their vision and to the presence of two, unapologetic lesbians in a Mississippi small town, made a good story for folks up north," Julie R. Enszer writes.
buff.ly/uX1cb0m
buff.ly/uX1cb0m
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One of Chicago's favorite movie palaces is expanding. 🍿
blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/29/m...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/29/m...
Music Box Theatre Adding A Third Screen To Historic Lakeview Cinema
A new 115-seat auditorium, funded in part by a $1.2 million city grant, will give the historic Lakeview theater more space to host independent films, local events and longer runs.
blockclubchicago.org
May 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
One of Chicago's favorite movie palaces is expanding. 🍿
blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/29/m...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/29/m...
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it's not every day that you can vote for an anarchist bookstore as the best independent bookstore in a mainstream publication, but it IS the next several days (you can vote for Red Emmas once a day)
10best.usatoday.com/awards/best-...
10best.usatoday.com/awards/best-...
What is the Best Independent Bookstore for 2025?
Voting for the Best Independent Bookstore is open! Cast your vote daily to help pick the 2025 10Best Readers' Choice Award for Best Independent Bookstore.
10best.usatoday.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
it's not every day that you can vote for an anarchist bookstore as the best independent bookstore in a mainstream publication, but it IS the next several days (you can vote for Red Emmas once a day)
10best.usatoday.com/awards/best-...
10best.usatoday.com/awards/best-...
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NEW: Illinois lawmakers ban schools from using police to ticket and fine students for minor misbehavior. This does not happen without the amazing reporting from @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social of @propublica.org and @chicagotribune.com.
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
Illinois Lawmakers Ban Police From Ticketing and Fining Students for Minor Infractions in School
The legislation comes after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that even though state law bans schools from fining students directly, districts skirt the law by calling on police to i...
www.propublica.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
NEW: Illinois lawmakers ban schools from using police to ticket and fine students for minor misbehavior. This does not happen without the amazing reporting from @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social of @propublica.org and @chicagotribune.com.
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
www.propublica.org/article/illi...
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Give me the AI plug in that does just one thing-- deletes and blocks all the other AI plug ins.
May 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Give me the AI plug in that does just one thing-- deletes and blocks all the other AI plug ins.