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prairie-style socialism and postcards
https://www.postcard-past.com/
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gonna pin my little blog where i trawl library digital collections and traipse around with a camera to compare postcards (aspirational, semi-real) with the visible present
www.postcard-past.com
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Postcard Past / Present Photo
Exploring power, culture, & the history of cities through present-day photo recreations of old postcards.
https://www.postcard-past.com/
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Chris Steller
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Photos from the Replacementsā final show at Taste of Chicago in Grant Park on July 4, 1991 (closeups by Bob Ingrassia)
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one dozen rats at a keyboard
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it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years
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Grant Brisbee
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the vibes of the organization are rancid from top to bottom
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rev. howard arson
about 4 hours ago
getting married to Taylor Swift in MSG by Adam Sandler is something a 14-year-old Make A Wish kid would want
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jam
about 16 hours ago
to sum up
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LOWĻUFO šŗš¦šµšøš
about 19 hours ago
It's crazy Miley, Pence and Pelosi successfully pulled off a counter-coup and then... like... stopped?
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HOLY SHIT WHAT A GOAL
about 18 hours ago
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jamelle
about 20 hours ago
would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!
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are zoomers aware of the cultural power that gatorade had in the 90s and 2000s? like it was omnipresent in sport culture and now it's just one brand amongst many
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Grace Robertson š³ļøāā§ļø
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argentina were not this focused on messi when he was 28 lol
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Regime Accountant, CPA ā ļøš¢
1 day ago
When I say it's wrong to trade minority rights away for things like zoning reform, I don't mean it's morally wrong (it is), I mean it is wrong as in that's an offer that's not on and never will be on the table you fucking moron.
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Julian Sanchez
1 day ago
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation thatās always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
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Electrek
1 day ago
Tesla driver charged with manslaughter in Katy crash was Googling āFSD too timidā
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Tesla driver charged with manslaughter in Katy crash was Googling āFSD too timidā
Harris County prosecutors have charged the Tesla driver who crashed into a Katy, Texas, home and killed a 76-year-old woman with manslaughter, alleging he overrode Full Self-Driving to floor the car to 73 mph in a residential cul-de-sac. The charging document also reveals something new: in the weeks before the crash, the driver had been Googling that FSD wasnāt aggressive enough.
https://electrek.co/2026/07/03/tesla-fsd-driver-manslaughter-katy-crash/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Brandon
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The popeās requirement that the excommunicated must write a letter asking for forgiveness is evidence of papal support for the continuation of the USPS. In this essayā¦
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Robert Loerzel
1 day ago
Tonightās lightning, seen looking north across the Montrose Beach Dunes
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Sahil Kapur
1 day ago
Hello. Sen. John Hickenlooperās victory margin in the Democratic primary is down to under 6 points. A former two-term governor and institution in Colorado facing an under-funded progressive candidate who isnāt well known outside Denver.
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this is one of chicagoās best free outdoor concert series
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)
2 days ago
I can't believe Cristiano Ronaldo would be accused of rape and then hold his team back when he's totally washed, massive disrespect of Kobe Bryant's legacy
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Pride Ott 𦦠š³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļø
4 days ago
underrated sister tweet to this one
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Chicago Bike Sox
2 days ago
This Tuesday, July 7th, weāre riding with All Bodies on Bikes Chicago ā a group whose mission is to create and foster a size inclusive bike community. All are welcome! Roll with us at š 4:15 from the AIDS Garden bike racks or at 5:30 from Queen's Landing! Details at
chicagobikesox.com
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jamelle
3 days ago
the use of āperformativeā as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!
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columbus, indiana had its own little urban renewal spasm, demolishing this italianate block for a shopping center and parking lot ...but because it was columbus, they hired cƩsar pelli to design their renewal mall, the commons
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Robert Loerzel
2 days ago
A while back, I wrote this story about one of Chicago's worst heat waves ā a mostly forgotten one in 1916 that killed more than 1,000 people, by some estimates.
www.robertloerzel.com/2020/07/29/a...
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Another Deadly Chicago Heat Wave: 1916 ā ROBERT LOERZEL
https://www.robertloerzel.com/2020/07/29/another-deadly-chicago-heat-wave-1916/
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Rodger Sherman
2 days ago
Getting the boys together for this Austria-Spain matchup
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mtsw
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Project T.B.O.N.E.
2 days ago
i can't be the only person who thinks we can solve this with a late-night sober cafe/community center + queer free library that gets in trouble on Instagram for not paying its workers and closes after eight months
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today and sunday are your last two days to see the alma thomas exhibition at the smart museum if you, like me, have dawdled about getting down there
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are you not infotained
2 days ago
Exposing Germans to Chicago in summer is as close as we can get to the hypothetical medieval peasant + single Dorito experiment
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Sam
2 days ago
I know his term only has 6 months left, but Colorado Dems should impeach and remove Polis anyway
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Eric Allix Rogers
2 days ago
My big takeaway from following the Illinois Quantum project at South Works is that all sides are some combination of delusional and dishonest. Reading about it really just makes me long for the void.
chicagoreader.com/news/quantum...
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Inside the Pritzkersā āQuantum Prairieā - Chicago Reader
How J.B. and Penny Pritzker helped transform Chicago into a global hub for quantum computingāand the massive data center that comes with it.
https://chicagoreader.com/news/quantum-crossroads/quantum-pritzker-illinois-iqmp/
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it's so funny that one of things the german national team is blaming their bad world cup on is that they had such a great time in chicago it made their actual basecamp in winston-salem seem deadly boring and depressing in comparison
www.bild.de/sport/fussba...
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Certified Illinois Expert
3 days ago
The old Elgin National Watch Company Observatory was used to calculate scientifically accurate time. For decades since then itās been a planetarium for Elginās impressive u-46 school district
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mtsw
2 days ago
They like Trump. They want to help him rule us like a king
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Ed Burmila
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Spain-Austria: Spanish Republicans who fled to France after Franco seized power were deported en masse by the Nazis to the Mauthausen camp in Austria. Among the prisoners were Catalan photographers Francisco Boix and Antonio GarcĆa. They found SS archives of photo negatives of the camp and (1/3)
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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere
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PHOTO: Fireworks explode near Navy Pier during the biweekly summer time fireworks show, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times
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it's so funny that one of things the german national team is blaming their bad world cup on is that they had such a great time in chicago it made their actual basecamp in winston-salem seem deadly boring and depressing in comparison
www.bild.de/sport/fussba...
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maureen
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a slow burn is still a fire that needs to be extinguished. they can try to change tactics of spreading out to inundate more cities with their snatch-and-grab techniques but we need to be out there for our communities, because we remember what theyāve already done to us and others.
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gonna be interestingāand probably deeply unpleasantāto see how bosnia reacts when itās the other team trying to shithouse their way to a 1-0 win
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
3 days ago
šØ HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/ice-immigrant-arrests-surge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ulA.4-MU.0gsS0EAOfQGH&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Meredith Shiner
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I meant to say this in real time but you shouldnāt get to just keep your house seat and run for mayor of a large city. These are both full-time jobs and one (Congress) should not be an insurance policy against losing the other (city hall).
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Michael McLean
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Take away the cars and neighborhoods blossom
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absolutely hilarious company for dansby
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Sarah Langs
3 days ago
26+ RBI in a 10-game span, RBI official since 1920: 2026 Dansby Swanson 1939 Joe DiMaggio 1933 Jimmie Foxx 1931 Lou Gehrig 1930 Lou Gehrig 1929 Mel Ott
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i have been to so many professional baseball games in my life but i gotta say a 23-3 win is a new one
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one of the parts i love about being in wrigley for a game is identifying what pun the organist is making for opposing hitters tie a yellow ribbon for ty france
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i'd never connected montgomery ward's lakefront protection fight to the fact that his building stood on michigan aveāguy also just wanted to protect his views, he would've been a member of SOAR or ERRD today
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Why does Chicago have so little love for the āWatchdogā of the lakefront?
Aaron Montgomery Ward is linked to stores and mail-order retail. Thereās less fanfare around the tycoonās work to preserve Grant Park.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-history/2026/07/01/why-does-chicago-have-so-little-love-for-the-watchdog-of-the-lakefront
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shawn
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while iām glad at least one illinois elected official is actually warning about increased ice activity in chicagoland, giannouliasās scheme feels more like a political stunt en route to the mayorās office than an actual plan to stop masked feds from kidnapping our neighbors.
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Amid Increased ICE Activity, Giannoulias Urges Public to Report Illegal License Plate Tampering
YouTube video by Illinois Secretary of State
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eHu4hI9dh7Q
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Field of Schemes
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How many times do journalists need to be told: There's no law that just because somebody in a fancy suit issues a press release means you have to write about it. Especially when you ask to see the report the press release is about and are told, "No."
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Chiefs owners claim report they wonāt show you says stadium will create $8.4B in something or other
TheĀ Kansas City ChiefsĀ (actually the owners of the Kansas City Chiefs, but journalists like to refer to team management metonymically this way, even though, like calling the current leadership of the ...
https://www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/07/01/24431/chiefs-owners-claim-report-they-wont-show-you-says-stadium-will-create-8-4b-in-something-or-other/
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