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Schnickelfritz 🍻
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Authentically Kräusened. Husband, Father. Chicago Sports Fan & Sufferer. Native Plant Enthusiast. Zone 5b Gardener (54g Rock River Hills) Northern Illinois. DMs = Insta-block. Cheers! 🍻
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Worth sharing every year. Merry Christmas, friends. I’m grateful for your company.
Gary Giddins, on Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas” to soldiers in Europe during the war.
December 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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This is one of our favorites!
December 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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"José y Maria"

Everett Patterson everettpatterson.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
As if being forced to give birth in a stable wasn't enough, it must have been extremely frustrating for Mary to try and figure out how the hell she is going to regift frankincense and myrrh while some random street urchin is insisting on performing a drum solo for her sleeping newborn.
December 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Amazing: "when U.C.L.A.’s campus shut down during the pandemic… The beaks of juncos born on campus reverted to their wildland shape. Several years later, after the pandemic-related restrictions had been lifted, the distinctive urban beak shape returned…"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/s...
How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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RIP naturalist John Muir, died this day 1914.

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
December 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Christmas can be a beautiful season, but it can also feel painfully loud when your heart is quiet, tired, or hurting.

If you are alone this Christmas, or struggling in ways others may not see, please know this: you are not failing the season. You are surviving it. And that matters.

#EastCoastKin
December 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Are we sure these Santa Clause movies aren't a horror franchise?
December 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Skyline Sunset Spectacular. Tonight's end to the day in Chicago.
December 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Yes, it's ok to wish our animals a merry Christmas, except the meerkats who are agnostic or angry believers, condemned to a life lived underground, far from God's light.
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status.

These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas.

Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.

Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
December 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Henceforth this shall be known as the Shut the Fuck Up About Chicago decision.

@harebrained.bsky.social
#BREAKING The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the State of Illinois on National Guard deployment.

Under the law invoked by President Trump, he must be unable "with the regular military" to "execute the laws of the United States," it finds.

Full ruling here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/80/88/05a75e...
December 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I hate how we're all basically just living in a Paul Verhoeven movie now.
Trump’s new special envoy to Greenland Jeff Landry says he’s the perfect person to persuade them to become part of the US because his family has lived in Louisiana for 300 years and Greenland falls under the Monroe Doctrine and he going to bring them great Cajun food.
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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More of us than there are of them and just takes a few brave folks and now we got a stew going thank you for your service brave folks
it’s really fucking cool to see people working outside the system to expose the hacks running all of our crumbling institutions
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This is fantastic 👇
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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December 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
What does a guy have to say to get the 25th Amendment invoked around here for chrissakes?
Trump: "The US Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me, because I'm a very aesthetic person"
December 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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You cannot hide the soul.
December 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Sad news: someone stole baby Jesus from our anti-ICE nativity. But vandalism cannot stop us. We just adapt and keep on critiquing this administration’s cruelty on immigration. Where’s baby Jesus? We don’t know. He is being detained in a labyrinthian hellscape where his loved ones cannot find him.
December 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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THE BEARS ARE GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS BABY!
December 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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We start losing daylight in 182 days.
December 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This team's got no quit.

Save some Tums for the PLAYOFFS, Chicago!

Go #Bears 🐻 ⬇️
December 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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DJ Moore gets one of four game balls — and he’s wearing a cheese grater.
December 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM