Keeley Sorokti
@sorokti.bsky.social
Chicagoan whose favorite question is, I wonder…
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#Chicago is magical. Unexpectedly came across #LincolnSquare #Christmas singers braving the snow and bringing joy to all with O Holy Night. Made me emotional after a year of trying to have faith that there is still more good in the world than bad. #winter #music
🇺🇦☕️A Ukrainian colleague from Ternopil told me about a new cafe in Lincoln Park #Chicago called Soloway Cafe. The beans are roasted in Ukraine. I highly recommend the srynyky (sweet & savory). Delicious!
In Ukrainian, Soloway means Nightingale
solowaycoffee.com/pages/solowa...
In Ukrainian, Soloway means Nightingale
solowaycoffee.com/pages/solowa...
December 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🇺🇦☕️A Ukrainian colleague from Ternopil told me about a new cafe in Lincoln Park #Chicago called Soloway Cafe. The beans are roasted in Ukraine. I highly recommend the srynyky (sweet & savory). Delicious!
In Ukrainian, Soloway means Nightingale
solowaycoffee.com/pages/solowa...
In Ukrainian, Soloway means Nightingale
solowaycoffee.com/pages/solowa...
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“Prose is vital to Democratic societies”
This is why:
1. Never stop writing. If you are using AI only use it as a light editor.
2. Politicians should write the first draft of all their speeches to organise their thoughts.
3. Prose is vital to democratic societies.
1. Never stop writing. If you are using AI only use it as a light editor.
2. Politicians should write the first draft of all their speeches to organise their thoughts.
3. Prose is vital to democratic societies.
I strongly believe that writing in single sentence lists as speeches are now makes them a lot worse. You need paragraphs to build arguments and ideas.
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“Prose is vital to Democratic societies”
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This is why:
1. Never stop writing. If you are using AI only use it as a light editor.
2. Politicians should write the first draft of all their speeches to organise their thoughts.
3. Prose is vital to democratic societies.
1. Never stop writing. If you are using AI only use it as a light editor.
2. Politicians should write the first draft of all their speeches to organise their thoughts.
3. Prose is vital to democratic societies.
I strongly believe that writing in single sentence lists as speeches are now makes them a lot worse. You need paragraphs to build arguments and ideas.
December 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This is why:
1. Never stop writing. If you are using AI only use it as a light editor.
2. Politicians should write the first draft of all their speeches to organise their thoughts.
3. Prose is vital to democratic societies.
1. Never stop writing. If you are using AI only use it as a light editor.
2. Politicians should write the first draft of all their speeches to organise their thoughts.
3. Prose is vital to democratic societies.
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My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
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Kristi Noem came to Chicago for a Christmas propaganda video at Navy Pier. We were ready with our signs and our chants and our own special carols! 🎵❌️🧊
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Kristi Noem came to Chicago for a Christmas propaganda video at Navy Pier. We were ready with our signs and our chants and our own special carols! 🎵❌️🧊
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Addressing the claim that America was built by "hard working people" by reminding everyone that America was *actually* built on the backs of enslaved Africans and on the genocide of Indigenous people.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Addressing the claim that America was built by "hard working people" by reminding everyone that America was *actually* built on the backs of enslaved Africans and on the genocide of Indigenous people.
Support my advocacy: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
Support my advocacy: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
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This conversation is almost verbatim the lesson I tried to share with my students who objected to Muslim prayer calls as “un-American” and that Islam is “new to America.”
Addressing the claim that America was built by "hard working people" by reminding everyone that America was *actually* built on the backs of enslaved Africans and on the genocide of Indigenous people.
Support my advocacy: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
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December 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This conversation is almost verbatim the lesson I tried to share with my students who objected to Muslim prayer calls as “un-American” and that Islam is “new to America.”
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Looking for a good #boardgame to give as a gift? Cartographers is what we are giving this year! We have played it so much this year. Really fun! Especially when you draw goblins on your neighbors map. 😈👿
Tonight’s hospital game was Cartographers
Flip & write where you’re creating a map with polyomino pieces drawing in terrain types on your map
It’s on sale for $20 amzn.to/4pKUC2S #ad
Flip & write where you’re creating a map with polyomino pieces drawing in terrain types on your map
It’s on sale for $20 amzn.to/4pKUC2S #ad
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Looking for a good #boardgame to give as a gift? Cartographers is what we are giving this year! We have played it so much this year. Really fun! Especially when you draw goblins on your neighbors map. 😈👿
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👏 This is the energy we like to see! While Amazon, Home Depot, Target, and others cave to Trump, Costco is showing how companies can stand up to this regime.
Costco sues Trump administration over sweeping emergency tariff powers
The wholesale giant claims the White House misused emergency authority and warns importers could lose refunds even if duties are ruled unlawful
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
👏 This is the energy we like to see! While Amazon, Home Depot, Target, and others cave to Trump, Costco is showing how companies can stand up to this regime.
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“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
December 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
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Social media feeds are full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped, but Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops helping ICE terrorize our communities. app.sosha.ai/s/T7ngbtyS
Spotify: Wrapped in complicity
app.sosha.ai
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Social media feeds are full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped, but Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops helping ICE terrorize our communities. app.sosha.ai/s/T7ngbtyS
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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Applications are open for CPL’s Renaissance Project $4,000 microgrants to support new scholarship and storytelling around Black history and culture. Each of the 10 grants is funded by @mellon.org.
Applications close Friday, January 7, 2026.
chi.gov/mellonmicrogrants
Applications close Friday, January 7, 2026.
chi.gov/mellonmicrogrants
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Applications are open for CPL’s Renaissance Project $4,000 microgrants to support new scholarship and storytelling around Black history and culture. Each of the 10 grants is funded by @mellon.org.
Applications close Friday, January 7, 2026.
chi.gov/mellonmicrogrants
Applications close Friday, January 7, 2026.
chi.gov/mellonmicrogrants
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What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.
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His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
Trump on Walz: "You look at what he's done with Somalia where Somalia, which is barely a country -- they have no anything, they just run around killing each other. When I see somebody like Ilhan Omar, I always watch her, for years I've watched her complain about our Constitution ... "
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
His obsession with me is creepy. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs.
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Also worth noting that from the time literally George Washington was president to 2021, Nashville was one Congressional District.
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Also worth noting that from the time literally George Washington was president to 2021, Nashville was one Congressional District.
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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In Chicago alone, more than 22,000 people are living with HIV.
Since President Donald Trump assumed office for the second time, the federal government has made major cuts and structural changes to both domestic and global HIV/AIDS funding. https://to.wttw.com/4rDw4uO
Since President Donald Trump assumed office for the second time, the federal government has made major cuts and structural changes to both domestic and global HIV/AIDS funding. https://to.wttw.com/4rDw4uO
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In Chicago alone, more than 22,000 people are living with HIV.
Since President Donald Trump assumed office for the second time, the federal government has made major cuts and structural changes to both domestic and global HIV/AIDS funding. https://to.wttw.com/4rDw4uO
Since President Donald Trump assumed office for the second time, the federal government has made major cuts and structural changes to both domestic and global HIV/AIDS funding. https://to.wttw.com/4rDw4uO
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This combination of words was not on my bingo card for 2025
December 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This combination of words was not on my bingo card for 2025
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Just once I'd like to hear a TV news anchor say, "Sir, that's not true, and if you keep insisting it is, we're going to end this interview to protect our viewers from further disinformation. And we won't invite you back."
HASSETT: Gas prices dropped below $2 a gallon in a lot of places
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
CORDES: Gas prices on average are still at $3 a galloon
HASSETT: For a few states they got below $2
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Just once I'd like to hear a TV news anchor say, "Sir, that's not true, and if you keep insisting it is, we're going to end this interview to protect our viewers from further disinformation. And we won't invite you back."
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On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
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we got about a jar of giardiniera worth of snow in Chicago
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
we got about a jar of giardiniera worth of snow in Chicago