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writer, story gatherer, once-upon-a-news chaser (Chicago Tribune). once pediatric oncology nurse (Children's Memorial). author of five (The Book of Nature; Slowing Time), mother of two. pullupachair.org/

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Out of his friggin mind…

22.02.2026 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

cruelty seems the ONLY point. god forbid they should lose hearing or sight or mobility, or cognition. oh wait, maybe they already lost the last one.

09.02.2026 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

can anyone confirm if the little boy to whom Bad Bunny gave his Grammy during halftime was Liam?

09.02.2026 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO β€œFor 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

β€œFor 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

08.02.2026 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6398    πŸ” 3560    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 202
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not β€œmove on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

08.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 44546    πŸ” 16963    πŸ’¬ 970    πŸ“Œ 965

I’m sure Yale Law School is so proud of him.

21.12.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does he not understand that his wife and children would not check a box for β€œwhite”???

21.12.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well done

08.12.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 941    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 7

i was a nurse with Dr. Diane DiMaggio a long time ago, and in less-distant years enlisted her as our boys' pediatrician: she's the best, and her frontline witness to the ravages of vaccine-preventable diseases is an imperative read. those with knowledge need to be heard above the din of the madness.

05.12.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A Battle with My Blood: Tatiana Schlossberg’s essay in the @newyorker.com is the most beautiful, wrenching piece I’ve read in forever. And, oh, it cuts mighty close to the bone. You are in my prayers, fervently, Tatiana. From someone who knows this terrain.

22.11.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes I think they spend all their time thinking if new ways to be depraved. No; scratch that. I think they do that almost all the time.

20.11.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Farewell, and thank you: A veteran Tribune writer retires after 50 years of witnessing history As a history professor, I told students stories that I read in textbooks. The Tribune sent me to witness historical events.

The @chicagotribune.com has been home to plenty of American icons and journalism legends, and some mighty fine humans as well. Ron Grossman is all of the above, and this column confirms that in indelible ink. Love to you, sir. Farewell, and thank you www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/v...

09.11.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices

08.11.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2298    πŸ” 1089    πŸ’¬ 321    πŸ“Œ 239

Clips like this are political gold

09.11.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6747    πŸ” 3020    πŸ’¬ 583    πŸ“Œ 154
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Sun, 11/09/25 β€˜Small acts have huge consequences’

another powerful piece from the @chicagotribune.com , this time from Andrew Carter. almost an essay on the essence, the resilience, that is Chicago in the face of the Midway Blitz: digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CH...

09.11.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my nightmares aren't this horrifying......

08.11.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

will sit waiting to hear how in the world this is explained. because to a non-lawyer humanist like me this makes utterly no sense, and seems cruel on the face of it. children who are hungry, with cupboards bare, cannot wait for the slow gears of justice to turn in their favor.

08.11.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nothing new here. Trump got in epic battle with @kaminblair.bsky.social years ago. Kudos to @chicagotribune.com staff for stirring trump’s wrath. That’s how journalism works.

07.11.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

by a long shot, @chicagotribune.com staff is telling the most compelling stories of this whole ICE horror show. so proud of their tireless work. if you want a close read of what's happening in Chicago, the place to turn is the Tribune. here's the latest on Broadview's hellhole:http://bit.ly/3Xcdv2B

05.11.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

and for that he was pummeled!

01.11.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thank you.

01.11.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i too am trying to figure out where the guy in the green coat comes in, the guy brutally assaulted. the woman i thought was the driver of the pink car. and at first i thought the guy in the green coat was the driver of gray van. anyone able to explain how this unfolded?

31.10.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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when war games are played on your streets ICE agents on the campus where my mama now lives there is nothing make-believe about it. the leafy lanes and brick streets of the little village where i live have been invaded this week. not by dis…

when war games are played on your streets pullupachair.org/2025/10/31/w...

31.10.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mon, 10/27/25 The easiest targets

@chicagotribune.com reporters doing great job telling the stories of ICE's Midway Blitz. huge kudos. digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CH...

27.10.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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can someone explain why these four "events" would be tucked in among the whitehouse.gov historic timeline of the white house?? pure filth. ours is now a pigsty.

26.10.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

21.10.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 13321    πŸ” 6375    πŸ’¬ 1017    πŸ“Œ 802

breathtaking. this is what democracy looks like.

18.10.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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scenes from NO Kings! Evanston, IL; crowd estimated at twice as big as June 14 No Kings!.....of all the signs, maybe the dark heavens and the colorless stripes and stars make their point most hauntingly....

18.10.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"under-babied"???? sounds like a commodity you pull from a shelf. i know the grief of miscarriage, infertility; i never considered myself under-babied. that grief belonged in the realm of the sacred, not a commercial enterprise to be remedied by those who show little regard for the sanctity of life.

16.10.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dear Karoline Leavitt, You really should take off that crucifix when you stand there spouting lies, condemning swaths of humanity, and spewing the seeds of evil hatreds. I don't know God personally, but I do know God must be weeping.

16.10.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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