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As long as we're all reminiscing about the hysteria that precipitated the Iraq War: Why was YOUR city/small town/region convinced they'd be the next target after 9/11? Mine was that we were 10 minutes from the Mall of America, a symbol of wanton consumerism with America right there in the name.

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The CBO estimates that Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” would kick millions of people off Medicaid. Health care providers in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, a region especially dependent on the federal program, are sounding the alarm on what it could do to patients, clinics and the economy.

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"CUT MY FROG INTO PIECES THIS IS MY LAB REPORT"

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Look out! @robmcelhenny.bsky.social you’re not the only Hollywood celeb to buy up a small British Football Club/Town now! youtu.be/ziUkqjv9OLc

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This is getting out of hand: even more celebrities are buying sports teams? youtu.be/ziUkqjv9OLc?...

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PRESIDENT KENNEDY: (gets shot) KENDRICK PERKINS: HE'S NOT GOING SIDE TO SIDE, HE'S NOT GOING DOWN HILL! I DON'T CARE IF JFK'S NOT 100%, IF YOU'RE OUT IN THE MOTORCADE, YOU NEED TO BE PRODUCING! HE LOOKS SCARED OUT THERE, LIKE HE'S ABOUT TO CHOKE AWAY THE DEMOCRATIC PARRY IN TEXAS!

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Imagine the violent outrage if a democratic president announced he was sending federal agents into heavily republican areas simply because those areas were heavily republican actually don't because you should enjoy life while you can here is a coupon for a free porno of your choosing. happy jerking!

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mumford & sons sounds like what they would play at a "cool" church

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the reason people think bluesky sucks is because you wish it was 2014 when we all had more rights and the world was objectively better, hope this helps

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We feed you. They hunt us.

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They are renaming a ship named after Harvey Milk - during PRIDE month! - and they will probably choose the new name to be a Decepticon (and not even a cool one like Skywarp but a lame one like Laserbeak) who owned slaves.

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Happy Pride! For the entire month straight people are not allowed to try to guess if two people are a couple or just friends

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Yes, AI is going to wipe white collar labor and we should all become HVAC repairs, plumbers, and mechanics because those sorts of things will NOT be automated even though every single AI commercial shows someone using it for those exact sorts of things.

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Cowboy Carter has been a terrific stimulant to the cowboy hat economy and the cowboy hat landfill

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Beyonce tickets are $300 plus another $100 for the cowboy hat you will never wear again

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ME (picking up a stray, unused plastic bag on the street for my dog): This is just like when Ulysses S Grant had Union Forces forage off the land in the western theater of his campaign

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The economy is not failing if you have no way to measure the economy is failing!

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Dogs and coyotes are like improvisers and standups to each other and I can tell you why. Actually I can tell you why any two groups are like improvisers and standups.

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Neighbors in Lakeview just approved 40 new homes — and that’s exactly what we need to fight rising housing costs in our neighborhood. Let’s keep saying YES to more housing, and make it easier to build. 🏘️💥 #YIMBY #chicago #affordablehousing

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First Floor Theater's production of Evanston Salt Costs Climbing by the incredible playwright Will Arbery opens tonight! I did the projection design and it's likely the last chance to catch a theatrical design by me in Chicago for a few years(!) www.firstfloortheater.com/evanston-sal...

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This photo I took of a McDonald's under construction has the aesthetic they should always have.

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Our approach leverages AI to leverage AI to leverage AI to leverage AI to offer our clients the benefits of the most cutting edge AI

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I don’t feel like working today so I am wheeling a TV into the conference room and showing my bosses a movie

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Little Caesars implies the existence of Little Conspirators plotting in the Little Senates

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Instead of celebrating Pete Rose, who is dead and sucked, can we instead lionize RANDY JOHNSON, who is alive and the most 1990s person ever? He had a mullet. He killed a bird with a baseball. And his name is RANDY. All who lived that decade knew a Randy Johnson, but the BIG UNIT is the epitome.

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the outfields and infields and dugouts continue to be ABUZZ with the renewed celebrations of PETE ROSE, a baseball player who was without a doubt a terrible human being

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My neighborhood association (South Lakeview Neighbors) will be voting on a rezoning for 40 new apartment units next Wednesday (5/21). The site is an 8 minute walk away from the Belmont train station. More details about the meeting below!

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Crime in America spiked with the COVID-19 pandemic, then plummeted. Here are four reasons why. open.substack.com/pub/johnkrom...

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I have been sick for a week. Crom, from his mountain palace, disapproves of all I do not accomplish. He laughs at my symptoms. He saves no spot for me in Valhalla as he doubts, at this rate, I will ever solve the Riddle of Steel.

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Resuming parking in Lincoln Square is going great

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gotta get all my chicago pope jokes in now before months from now when the most boring people in the city are still on it and trying to make a t-shirt where he's blessing the rat hole or some shit

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first Pope to have walked into a voting booth with a piece of paper in his pocket reminding him of his opinion on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioners

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“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

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"whats crazy is I went to Lane tech with Bob Prevost. hadnt seen him since sophomore year until 2 summers ago we got caught in air & water traffic on lake shore. he was lettin everybody cut in front of him! frickin guy. glad hes doing well i guess. not sure why anyone'd want that job."

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Pope Leo XIV

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FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VILLANOVA STANDING AT 5' 9" ORDAINED BY DIVINE FATE IT'S... POOOOOOOPE LEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOO www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HYj...

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"Comparison is the thief of joy," I remind myself, after I already compared myself and found out I suck

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Give parents this. We want Chicago's population to grow. We need to make it easier to be a parent here.

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I feel like the luckiest dude in the world. I had 2 friends show up last night to help me move heavy stuff, including @andymboyle.bsky.social. And I didn't even have to bribe them with my mineral rights.

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Just incredible

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Steven recorded a summary for how you can support abundant housing next week! 💪🏘️

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We Gotta Frickin' Martha Stewart Over Here: This 38-Year-Old Dude Just Sewed A Hole In His Pants All By His Frickin' Self

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The mental health professionals all tell me not to be informed. “It’s not worth it,” they say, leaning forward in their chair, pressing my phone to the table with white knuckles. “Not. Worth. It.” Tears roll down their cheeks. My phone vibrates harder and harder, the table shakes, the floor cracks

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🚨 New Working People @therealnews.com, new "sacrifice zone" investigation: I speak w/ residents of Granbury, TX, who all started suffering ill health effects after a 300-megawatt bitcoin mine moved in next door. This is "environmental euthanasia," one resident said. therealnews.com/a-bitcoin-mi...

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@mattstrick.bsky.social Congrats on Dick Durbin's retirement, you did it! (Now you can run for his seat)

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Ugh I’m getting so many of these

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Guns N Roses was the perfect bridge between hair metal and grunge in that they really were the worst of both

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