Maureen Herman

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The exhaustive verbiage composed to present hypocrisy exhibits A-Z is riddled with “man shakes fist at cloud” energy. Relentless media pieces “translating” hypocritical political acts waste viewer attention when the focus is sorely needed on the blatant adoption of hypocrisy as policy strategy.

It makes me livid to see smug centrists and journalists mock Bluekyers as snowflakes who fled Twitter to be in a little club. We fled Twitter because it’s an active right wing propaganda apparatus, and that’s not me saying that, it’s the literal goddam owner!

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

Oh fuck you, Gmail. I’ve been a loyal Google advocate from back when my brother worked there and I got to use Gmail as a beta before it went public. In the past two days I can tell they changed something and/or started doing the AI training thing on my email. I was going to shut it off. This SUCKS.

I loved that Big Boy when I lived in Studio City.

Another reason I’m grateful to live in Illinois. Thanks @govpritzker.illinois.gov !

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Trump could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and Mike Johnson would say they deserved it

When Jamal Khashoggi was killed , all the TV networks were chasing me down to have me on to talk about Trump, Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia and the murder.

Now that MBS is back in town and being wined and dined by Trump, Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires?

I have not had one TV invite.

Live in Illinois? Take a minute for a civic action to protect the privacy of incarcerated citizens who, while serving their sentences, should be able to receive personal mail without the government digitizing and storing its contents.

Woke up in America.

Rows of 5 whistles printed in shiny golds and silvers

I'm bagging more whistles up into bags of 250! I have about 1500 right now, and I've got one or two printers just on 24/7 whistle duty now.

If you're part of an org bagging whistles, I will send them to you for free! 💕

White text: "72% of people killed by lynching between 1882 and 1968 were Black. 75% of people executed by the state in the South between 1910 and 1950 were Black." Light blue bold text: "The death penalty is akin to modern-day lynching." Red ACLU logo. "Source: NAACP and Equal Justice USA". Dark blue background.

The death penalty grew out of this country’s brutal practice of lynching.

When lynching became politically and socially unpalatable, the death penalty became the state sanctioned alternative.

No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unjust, and cruel death penalty is NOW.

Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.

Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

What this whole Epstein files saga has shown us is that despite the deep and bitter political divide within our country, a sad and sobering common denominator exists among all Americans—so many people have suffered sexual abuse.

Is there going to be an app we can use when we have a gunshot wound and need to determine which emergency room is cheaper tonight?

I think there's a decent chance that the Pope visits Chicago during this presidency and while there asks to see Broadview and I wonder how that plays out.

Report: Walgreens cuts hourly workers’ pay for 6 major holidays The hourly employees will only be paid if they work on those holidays.

I warned that private equity taking over Walgreens would be bad for workers.

This is the private equity playbook: they hollow out businesses, cheat their workers, and drive them into the ground.

Red Lobster, Toys "R" Us, and Joann Fabrics. Who’s next?

I’ll never understand the obsession with politicians.

When MTG goes back to her old ways my “I told ya’s” are gonna be lit

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say

"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

You know who fckd up America?

The rich.

Lou Malnati’s deep dish pizza (1/2 black olive). Because in Chicago we blow whistles at ICE goons, put the sauce OVER the cheese, and our pizza requires utensils. Unrelated-ish but also no ketchup on our hot dogs. I believe that’s by law.

Neo-Nazi cyberattack takes down Kenyan govt sites A largescale cyberattack has led to the defacement of several key Kenyan government websites.

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And for those with scarce humanity to begin with, I imagine the temptation to increase income by nefariously overstepping legal boundaries is going to be common. They’re likely ignorant to legal boundaries & obviously not trained for it on purpose. What a gross, gross day on every front.

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered public schools in Texas to remove displays of the Ten Commandments in their classrooms.

I wish we lived in a land where if journalists heard the president call one of their colleges "piggy" or suggest another of their colleagues, who was butchered for what he wrote, in some way had it coming, they would close their laptops, leave as soon as possible, and ask to be reassigned.

"The winter is long.

We'll spend it getting ready.

Chicago is a boxer. We rest, and we wipe the blood from our one good eye and we stand, yet again. There's always another round."