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Biodigital novelist, mover of heavy objects, volunteer firefighter (retired), national treasure. "Sundman figures it out!" : https://johnsundman.substack.com/ JohnSundman.com

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ILLINOIS Candidate for Congress @abugai.bsky.social : “You said Prizker & Johnson need a history lesson - I’d like to give you one: when masked men are kidnapping entire families, naked, zip-tying their hands and throwing them into U-haul trucks… they’re usually not the good guys.”

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08.10.2025 07:11 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Good.

10.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Truth.

10.10.2025 13:23 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The genocide in Gaza has emitted more carbon than all the cars in the United States, but sure, let's focus on the emissions of the food aid that are roughly equivalent to twenty five Hyundai Elantras

10.10.2025 11:52 — 👍 112    🔁 17    💬 9    📌 0
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GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers' The Oregon Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America.T...

Fascist regime stuck on stupid.

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'

www.rawstory.com/trump-oregon...

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Mike Johnson: "Blah blah blah Epstein blah blah I am NOT in the Epstein files Blah blah blah grindr hoax blah blah I have never used grindr blah Epstein Epstein blah blah blah I do not care about raped children. I love Jesus blah blah blah Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein blah blah Jesus rent boy.

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Mike Johnson: These people think they have the right to our national currency !!!!!

They must be stopped.

Only oligarchs have the right to our national currency !!!!!!

10.10.2025 12:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The theme of the rally is No Kings, and it's hard to think of a more pro-American sentiment than that.

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A Compact for Control (opinion) No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.

If you want to know about Trump's compact for higher education read these pieces. 4/ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

10.10.2025 10:13 — 👍 56    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 0
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The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

Oligarchs are going to oligarch. Trump may love him, but we don't have to. He is a pernicious figure and should be scorned and mocked. Without his billions, no one would care what this man says. 3/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

10.10.2025 10:12 — 👍 84    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 0
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

10.10.2025 10:03 — 👍 440    🔁 131    💬 4    📌 20
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The Moral Authority of Marc Rowan The private equity billionaire is leading a boycott of an Ivy League oligarch factory over a Palestinian literary festival it held last month.

Here is the tale of how he ran one hospital chain into the ground. It's gruesome reading. He is not a good person. 2/ prospect.org/power/2023-1...

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Note: preparing 'alt' text is not difficult.

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alt text: photo of masked up goons in riot gear, some of whom are wearing 'Police' markings, beating up & kidnapping civilians on a street. There is tear gas.' Written above & below the image are the words 'THESE MEN AND WOMEN ARE WAGING A VIOLENT WAR AGAINST CIVILIANS . . . FOR A PEDOPHILE.'

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JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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hello from the ice detention center in broadview, illinois.

a small but growing crowd of protesters are gathering along 25th street in opposition to the masked agents who are kidnapping people across chicagoland.

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level of intensity - Russia is reactive, Ukraine holds the initiative. More drones against more Russian targets - especially the drone factories. One recent Ukrainian strike used 300 networked drones on one refinery attack. We’re entering new ground. Frankly I don’t think many in the West comprehend

09.10.2025 14:18 — 👍 47    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America The pain from trade and immigration restrictions cannot be postponed forever

"One study attributes 30-50% of American productivity gains between 1990 and 2010 to skilled migrants. When it shuts the door to mobile talent, America is giving up one of the main ingredients of its success."
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
From The Economist

10.10.2025 10:35 — 👍 39    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 1
front page of chicago sun times.

lead story:  Federal judge hits Trump administration credibility in siding with city and state against National Guard deployment
Judge’s order bars ‘federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois’ for at least 14 days.

front page of chicago sun times. lead story: Federal judge hits Trump administration credibility in siding with city and state against National Guard deployment Judge’s order bars ‘federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois’ for at least 14 days.

Some good news for Chicago: Texas National Guard troops ordered to retreat; Cubs win.

10.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 97    🔁 28    💬 3    📌 2

Moral clarity is such a refreshing change of pace

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Although initially pursuing him in relation to the deaths of the Pietzel children, investigators were overwhelmed by the discovery of HH Holmes's "murder castle."

"It was too complicated, so we fined him for zoning violations and released him," said police. "There was a third story and everything."

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DHS Fascism Barbie Tricia McLaughlin in response to a video of Pritzker literally walking the streets of Chicago: "Get out of your mansion. Go walk around Chicago. Go see the rampant crime."

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‘Little lungs are paying’: why the Dieselgate scandal is still running hot Carmakers accused of cheating air pollution rules have faced little punishment but trial brought by 1.8m UK motorists is about to begin

‘Little lungs are paying’: why the #Dieselgate scandal is still running hot

- Car makers accused of cheating air pollution rules have largely avoided punishment for a decade but a historic trial brought by 1.8 million UK motorists is about to begin

Story by me
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

10.10.2025 11:29 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

10.10.2025 05:19 — 👍 1949    🔁 528    💬 29    📌 3

Brava! to Maria Corina Machado and Bravo! to the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Tune in to Bari Weiss's CBS for up-to-the-minute reports on this competition, with a running leaderboard and expert analysis by knowledgeable pundits!!

10.10.2025 11:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Zack absolutely coming for them

10.10.2025 08:09 — 👍 355    🔁 68    💬 4    📌 0

Don't worry. AI & Cybertrucks will fix all the problems.

10.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates have come and gone. They’re still stuck here.

NEW: Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates.

Those dates have come and gone.

They’re still stuck here.

10.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 299    🔁 142    💬 11    📌 10

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