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Living just west of Chicago, sociologist in education, via Madison, Los Angeles, Northwestern, & San Francisco. Doing research in a large suburban public school district. 🏡🪴🌉📈📊👨🏫
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You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to this organization. youtu.be/EwdCIpbTN5g?...
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One reason why the MSNBC reporter may be trying to pin the blame on the sheriffs instead of LAPD is they his dad was the LAPD Commissioner from 2013 to 2023 and tomorrow is Father’s Day.
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Well he was the commissioner of LAPD from 2013 to 2023. Do you think LAPD was a force for good in that time? The officers working today were armed, trained, and equipped over the past decade
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His dad was the commissioner of LAPD until last year. It’s never mentioned
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Go for it. The “diy” kits sold at stores are massively overpriced, I went with instructions from OzPonds.com videos and it was about $600 for the pond equipment (liner, pump, plumbing). Scavenged landscape materials locally (which is the only reason it took longer than a day or two to build)
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Believe them.
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He glanced up from chomping on his Mr. Beast Feastable bar and his iPad and said “dad, stahp”
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I was lucky to grow up in San Francisco and be in high school when this song came out youtu.be/82QuFhr_ABc?...
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youtu.be/xxlx1WgV084?...
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Hinsdale has a version of this, where if you want to build an ugly house the village board will make you come to a public meeting where they chew you out about it and then put in the newspaper that your house is ugly www.thehinsdalean.com/story/2025/0...
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Spiderwort blooming alongside Goat’s Beard, another charming native plant
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Sad to see him move over to the Nazi bar. There are options.
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Lived in Boston for about 6 months in my mid-20s. Had some great lonely walks, and some great walks with company, all around downtown. This song always brings me back youtu.be/Rz8o6NR3kuI?...
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Kanye? Frankie Knuckles? John Prine?
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Prince was from Duluth?
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Kind of broke my heart when I learned that Tony Bennett wasn’t really from San Francisco he just sang about it. Otis Redding too. Gotta be these guys. youtu.be/e67T_kjc64A?...
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There’s the canon and then there’s also the full second canon of disgraced musicians (Kanye, R. Kelly, Michael Jackson)
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I haven’t been a big Metallica guy except for a few months back in seventh grade, but they do represent the city proudly and well youtu.be/dJ2ptrXZr8U?...