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MKE -> CHI 😘 Recovering Congressional staffer DEI and Women’s Rights Advocate “You’ll have to speak up, I’m wearing a towel” Bruce Vilanch look-a-like Down with the gerontocracy!

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Shellmer @shellmer25.bsky.social · 20d

If you can tell me what museum this is from, you win a prize

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Linda Marie @lindam174.bsky.social · 8h

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: A lot of the free healthcare for illegal aliens you've been talking about is care provided in ERs, which are required by federal law to care for everybody. Should that law be changed?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. You're cherrypicking a tiny subset of the issues.

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Rachel Maria😎 @rachelmaria55.bsky.social · 8h

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P.Fitz @1pfitz3.bsky.social · 7h

Jack Smith was assigned as special council to investigate the docs case almost 4 months AFTER the Mar-a-Lago raid by the FBI.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

CUOMO: Why would you put yourself in a situation where you get involved with crypto and have the UAE as one of your big customers, and then they get AI clearance for chips from the US government? You know how that's gonna look

ERIC TRUMP: That can't be a serious question

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 7h

"I moved into Trump Tower the day after the election" should, in a normal society, be treated as confessing to bribery.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.

Bondi: What about the fires in California? Are the riots in LA serious?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 2d

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago:

Houston
Dallas
Lubbock
Amarillo
San Antonio
Corpus Christi

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Shellmer @shellmer25.bsky.social · 1d

Is he a physician specializing in pediatric immunology? No, then he can f*ck off

It pains me to say this but I’m so glad I was born when doctors were in charge of public health decisions

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Tudor Jones has said that stocks could surge sharply before a “blow-off” top, comparing today’s setup to 1999’s tech bubble.

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this.

White House has said that the US to take 10% stake in Trilogy Metals, $TMQ.

It is up 215% in after hours.

Did someone know? Looks like it.

There was an unusual $TMQ call today, expiring next week. Usually, it gets no options volume.

It was placed JUST BEFORE close.

Unusual.

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wirthling @wirthling.bsky.social · 1d

why not grover cleveland

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Leaked memo shows Trump plans to stiff 750k shutdown workers. Read the full story at bit.ly/48jk9uJ

#GovernmentShutdown #FederalWorkers #BackpayCrisis #TrumpAdministration #Shutdown2025 #WorkerRights #Trump #Politics #Politicalnews #News #Rawstory

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Shellmer @shellmer25.bsky.social · 1d

If I miss a paycheck, I lose my shelter. They need to find a way to make money so they can survive KILLmeade

Shellmer @shellmer25.bsky.social · 1d

Literal re-using racist, fearmongering tactics from the likes of William Randolph Herst.

Cannabis NEEDS to be studied ASAP

If this doesn’t happen, our “kids” will continue to use alcohol and opiates

Shellmer @shellmer25.bsky.social · 1d

As an actual citizen of Chicago, fuck off and get out of my city. You are not wanted, you are invading and using Nazi tactics to harass us into fear