John Dunlevy
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Chicago ✶ and Berwyn, Illinois. he/him
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Sledge. Matt Sledge. 🟦
about 5 hours ago
This Saturday! If you're local, be sure to be there. From the Butler County Historical Society: 97X reunion to spotlight alternative rock landmark in Butler County history
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97X reunion to spotlight alternative rock landmark in Butler County history
Music lovers and local history fans can celebrate the legacy of one of the country’s earliest alternative rock stations this weekend when the Butler County Historical Society brings its new
https://www.journal-news.com/local/97x-reunion-to-spotlight-alternative-rock-landmark-in-butler-county-history/article_40ab661b-d28d-5c49-a6ac-8186530d7523.html
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Laurie! Live!
about 3 hours ago
One of the interesting tidbits: when you see these metal grate cover things around a street tree, the concentric circles are so that portions of the cover can be cut away if needed as the tree grows 🤯
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“There are species uniquely adapted to these ‘soil’ conditions, the same plants found in remnant gravel hill prairies and dolomite prairies. And their seeds, whether blown in by the wind or deposited by birds, have taken root at Marian Byrnes.”
news.wttw.com/2026/06/16/s...
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Steel Slag Meets Prairie at Chicago’s Marian Byrnes Park, See This Natural Wonder in an Unnatural Setting
The singular beauty on display at Marian Byrnes Park is now more accessible than ever, thanks to new amenities added by the Chicago Park District.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/16/steel-slag-meets-prairie-chicago-s-marian-byrnes-park-see-natural-wonder-unnatural
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Celeste Pewter
about 10 hours ago
I said "oh my god" while I was reading that part about how Mandela is portrayed, so yeah. That feels about right for this administration. Gift link here:
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Brian Finucane
about 9 hours ago
A belated congressional rejection of Trump’s unauthorized war against Iran. Whether or not it is binding post-Chadha, significant as a political signal and marker of an institutional legal position.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
about 15 hours ago
This is like if that one Japanese soldier who kept fighting World War II for 29 extra years had been an American refusing to accept they'd won.
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CoolHandNuke
1 day ago
Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.
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Flags at the Chicago Fed at half staff this morning, I assume out of respect for former Chair Alan Greenspan, who died yesterday at age 100.
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Wordle 1,830 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Berwyn Tree Canopy Initiative
1 day ago
“Without many farm or wholesale options, most people are foraging serviceberries, even in cities like Chicago, where people can pick them along the Bloomingdale Trail, a popular running and biking path.”
www.wpr.org/news/service...
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Serviceberries are a sweet native fruit — and these Midwesterners want you to try them
Serviceberries, or juneberries, are a native fruit beloved by wildlife. But now they’re moving from backyards to farms, and some hope they’ll soon be on your plate.
https://www.wpr.org/news/serviceberries-juneberries-sweet-native-fruit-midwest
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“‘Our team was indeed flashy and after gathering three markers which [Bert] Patenaude crashed against the rigging … we rested on our oars to sort of save ourselves for the semi-finals,’ [manager Wilfred] Cummings said. “Yet FIFA’s official report disagreed…”
www.nytimes.com/athletic/734...
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The mystery of the World Cup’s first hat-trick – and how the truth emerged 76 years later (Gift Article)
American Bert Patenaude is recognised as the scorer of the tournament's first treble but that was only confirmed 32 years after his death
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7344264/2026/06/22/bert-patenaude-world-cup-hat-trick/?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.gDbD.X1gO00VswARU&source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_bluesky&smid=bsky-share-ta
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Jonathan Tannenwald
1 day ago
Great read here, for this line and many others: "Meeting people in the real space: this is pretty much an act of revolutionary dissent, a refusal to accept the loss of scale."
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Wordle 1,829 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs
1 day ago
Congrats to Messi finally tying with Marta for most World Cup Goals.
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Now Austria has Argentina right where the want them!
#ARGAUT
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“citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable” “states … are actively removing United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information.”
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Unreal Messi penalty miss in
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“The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status — and the more they favored return-to-office mandates.”
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Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/office-work-wfh-bosses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.K3Ms.qocizosAxtax&smid=url-share
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Larry the Cat
2 days ago
"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"
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Bill Savage
2 days ago
That's another baseball myth, but one with poetic reasons for enduring.
sabr.org/journal/arti...
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The Endurance of Black Sox Mythology: Narrative Conventions and Poetic Form – Society for American Baseball Research
https://sabr.org/journal/article/the-endurance-of-black-sox-mythology-narrative-conventions-and-poetic-form/
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Anjali Dayal
3 days ago
yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
3 days ago
"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.
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“Utopian, yet quintessentially American. These concepts weren’t always at odds. A World Cup has the rare power to get people of diverse backgrounds to unite – ‘Of all the unimportant things, football is the most important’ as the expression goes.”
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National Security Counselors 🕵
3 days ago
I know this isn't the point but I finally figured out what was bugging me about this chart. It used the height WITH antennas for the NYC buildings but the height W/O antennas for the Chicago building, which is a hilariously on brand example of how even the most mundane shit has to be petty with him.
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Dara Lind
3 days ago
Unfortunately this is the sickest possible burn Britain could give us on this year of all years
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Asha Rangappa
3 days ago
Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social
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Chicago Tribune
4 days ago
Illinois 250: From ‘The Jungle’ to Shel Silverstein, how the state has helped shape the printed word
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Illinois 250: From ‘The Jungle’ to Shel Silverstein, how the state has helped shape the printed word
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/20/illinois-250-from-the-jungle-to-shel-silverstein-how-the-state-has-helped-shape-the-printed-word/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-chicagotribune.com&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202606206a33a582c92c3e13d981a7f5
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MisterJayEm
5 days ago
Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.
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Greenwater—I mean it's right there in the name. “The contract shows that the National Park Service bypassed the competitive-bidding process that is typically required, and gave a $1.7 million contract to the firm, Greenwater Services of Brookfield, Ohio.“
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/politics/trump-donor-contract-reflecting-pool.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rlA.4YEY.RiLBPHJ8eBaM&smid=url-share
4 days ago
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Good to see Frank Klopas getting to speak at length about the
#USMNT's
performance today on
#FoxChicago
: always passionate, always a fan, always a coach, and always all about the support in the stands.
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Dustin Moskovitz
4 days ago
CNN has an up-to-date tracker in case you're wondering if any ships are moving during the MOU in its current form. (They are not.)
www.cnn.com/world/strait...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
4 days ago
Starting today, we’re bringing five World Cup matches to 200 LinkNYC kiosks in all five boroughs. This historic public partnership with
@noticiastelemundo.com
is bringing the beautiful game straight to our sidewalks.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL
4 days ago
pausa de hidratación
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Lynn Becker
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Eric Mallory Morgan
4 days ago
AMERICAN MALE STRIKER LEGEND OWN GOAL! WHAT A PLAYER! TWO GAMES, TWO OPENERS!
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Commentary telling me the sound is not from my television? 🤔
#USAAUS
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#USAAUS
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Chris Geidner
4 days ago
BREAKING: DOJ refuses to submit the declarations that were requested on June 12 and due by today to end the anti-weaponization slush fund litigation, citing “serious separation of powers concerns.” Further, DOJ says that what has already been provided should be enough (relitigating a lost argument).
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Trump claimed in an interview with the La7 network that Meloni had “begged” for a photo with him. She had been the only EU leader to attend his second inauguration. Don't like her, but I do applaud her and her government's response here.
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“On the night of his arrest, Paul Johnson says he lay for hours in a hospital bed in Minneapolis, woozy from the pain pills and addled from the head blows he claims he received from federal agents. He was alone … unable to communicate with anyone and strapped in place by the shackles on his leg.”
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ICE Protester Says He Was Shackled in Hospital for Days After Agents’ Attack
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/minnesota-protester-isolation-trump-immigration-crackdown.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rVA.T698.5lUIjeJ5eMxT&smid=url-share
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Heather Burns
5 days ago
"I also struggle with the persistent focus on privacy as the purported barrier to solving these issues, when we have most of the Epstein list walking around without consequences."
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Tariq Panja
6 days ago
Even at the airport when trying to leave the team was subjected to a second screening under the planes wings, with players, who had just finished a World Cup game, sat on chairs and asked to open bags and have their shoes checked. This picture below is of that scene.
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Tariq Panja
5 days ago
Iran have asked FIFA, in writing and verbally, to try and find a way for the team to arrive in Los Angeles tomorrow rather than Saturday. They say the midday start on Sunday leaves them with little time to prepare for the second game against Belgium. No answer yet.
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Tariq Panja
6 days ago
Exclusive: Iran were hustled out of the United States so quickly that the team’s players had to be iced and bandaged on the plane back to their base in Mexico. A team medic recounts details of a chaotic, pressurised 48 hours Iran endured at the World Cup.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/w...
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Team Medic Recounts Iran’s ‘Stressful’ World Cup Debut in L.A.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/world/middleeast/iran-world-cup-united-states.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rFA.aJgG.jhPa0aEnMIx5&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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MPR News
6 days ago
Human Rights Watch has released a comprehensive report detailing human rights abuses by the government during this winter’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, which the group alleges also violates international human rights treaties that the U.S. is signed onto.
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Report authors say feds violated Minnesotans' human rights during ICE surge
The 186-page report from Human Rights Watch in part highlights how federal agents stopped or detained thousands of people and alleges that many of the arrests were arbitrary and race-based.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/06/18/ice-surge-report-says-feds-violated-minnesotans-human-rights
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Robert Loerzel
5 days ago
Barack Obama talking now.
www.youtube.com/live/A87ohdX...
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Grand Opening Ceremony at the Obama Presidential Center
YouTube video by Obama Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/live/A87ohdXcJtY?si=79zgurfp-sHO0ahw
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Jon Seidel
5 days ago
For example, the vouching at the start of the session on 10/9/25 is blacked out in the original version the feds gave to Judge Perry (there also appear to be pages missing):
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Beautiful speech by Michelle Obama.
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