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Chicago named best big city in US for 9th straight year: survey For the ninth year in a row, Chicago has been crowned the Best Big City in the United States by the Condé Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards.

Despite what that orange POS says #Chicago #MyKindofTown #CityinaGarden

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis ) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

Narrator: This is fascism.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

@stephaniemiller.bsky.social What’s going on in my beloved Chicago is breaking my heart. We are not okay. I love my neighbors & our diversity; ICE is destroying the fabric that makes this city so beautiful. We’ll persevere, we are the city of broad shoulders, but this is going to be a marathon.

If you live in Illinois, we need your help.

This will take less than five minutes and will truly pressure your local elected officials to stand with the people rather than ICE.

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

In Brazil, Romani people living in peripheral areas fight for recognition of their identities Brazilian Romani groups are fighting for recognition and for their rights, but prejudice continues to work against them

Brazilian Romani groups are fighting for recognition and for their rights, but prejudice continues to work against them

George Conway @gtconway.bsky.social on the Comey indictment: "This indictment is just quintessentially Trumpian: it is both breathtakingly corrupt, and mind-blowingly stupid."

Column | I got nose-to-nose with a mountain lion. It was scary – and magical. Restoring these big cats to their historical range in the United States could help the environment and us.

The animal most in need of "rewilding" is us. I spent some time tracking mountain lions in the Pacific Northwest, getting close to these frightening but magical apex predators. Here's why bringing them back to the East would be good for us. Gift link. wapo.st/3KksTqC

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Happy Mexican Independence Day, Illinois.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States: (a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip; (b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide; (c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law; (d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide; (e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: (a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants; (b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

My family escaped Ukraine from the pogroms and were lucky enough to escape to the US.

They took my family in — we had nothing and offered nothing, but a desire to get ahead and be free while being safe.

This is a country of immigrants, and we should be honoring that history.

Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.

Hiding the truth.

Cannot emphasize enough how attached our local fascists were to Kirk and how much danger protesters in Chicago are in right now. There's already an off duty cop stalking out the ICE facility and harassing them everywhere they go

It would be cool if literally fucking anyone cared

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

"It's an ignorance and a willful turning from the Constitution."

@frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social about his outrage at SCOTUS for allowing ICE to racially profile and eroding the 4th amendment.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

keep calm and believe in science is written in blue on a red background Alt: keep calm and believe in science is written in blue on a red background

Got my flu shot and Moderna covid booster today, because I believe in science. #VaxxedToTheMax

Dear @schakowsky.house.gov, @duckworth.senate.gov, @durbin.senate.gov:

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” - Charlie Kirk, 2023.

Died 9.10.25 while speaking about gun violence.

@stephaniemiller.bsky.social I miss the days when the nastiest listener responses were Road Flare Mary & Art from Chicago. Simpler, less fascist times.

www.savehhs.org

The ghost of Teddy Roosevelt should come back and beat Stephen Miller's ass.

In 1900, 31% of all deaths were children under the age of 5. Today it’s 0.7%. Vaccines, medications, and modern science are the reason why. Trust the science, it’s been proven to work safely and efficiently time and time again.