Fascinating article on Opus Dei, including their impact on US politics, in the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov Be more like this, please.

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I love her. Thank you @mcbride.house.gov

Fascinating insight into Maduro, and the potential ace up his sleeve. Thank you @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social

This is all true and accurate. Also the oppressive feeling when there are fleets of helicopters hovering over your neighborhood all hours of the day, for weeks. Chicago absolutely was occupied by a force that considered all residents as enemies.

Interesting how much it stands out these days when Republicans actually stand up for democracy. It's reprehensible that they have been threatened the way they have leading up to this vote.

Wait, is this a Republican with a spine? Wow!

It is a shame that Brazil’s judges are so activist that none of them stepped in to change the laws for Jair Bolsonaro. by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh)

A lot of us voted for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social specifically because he was looking for alternatives to the burdensome default of taxing homeowners. Chicago Mayor's Budget Rejected By Key City Committee Over Controversial Head Tax, Borrowing Plan blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/m...

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Today Feds tear gassed people, including young children, on the street near my house and roughed up my Alderperson for defending constitutional rights. This is not the America I know and love. Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

This:

It’s a beautiful day in Chicago at Riot Fest. I’m with people I love, there is punk rock in the air, and for today the world isn’t ending.

My Chicago neighborhood, Humboldt Park, is usually peaceful and relatively quiet, for a major city. This evening there are five helicopters hovering overhead. They are intrusive and unsettling for me, and I imagine they are terrifying for my Latino neighbors. This is all just so wrong.

JFC - what an idiot.

Spot on.

Find ways to cope, however you can. Archimedes’ nose Mohawk reminds me that not everything sucks.

Tiny slice of the massive turn out in Chicago.

My Chicago neighborhood had a big Puerto Rican festival every year, and it starts tomorrow. I’ve lived here 7 years and this is the first time there have been helicopters buzzing the area the night before. This administration knows people from PR are US citizens, right? Probably not.

This musk / trump feud was predictable, and completely hilarious.

Right, so were 100 days in to this administration and the radical right is voting to round up US citizens and ship them out of the country.

To the rest of the world: we are aware that the United States has been captured by insane sociopaths and apologize for this inconvenience. These policies are wildly unpopular and we will try to fix this in due course. In the meantime, carry on without us and accept our apologies.

Cruelty is always the intention with this radical party.

Pretty much.

This is completely insane. Need any more evidence that this administration is handing our country over to Putin?

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Anybody else suspect that the fascist felon and putin think they can just carve up Ukraine and pillage the resources by "executive order"?

Have you no shame, GOP Senators? At long last, have you no shame?

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I love my governor @govpritzker.illinois.gov

This sounds exactly like a story @stevesilver.bsky.social could tell but his would be about not letting them in the door.

Said goodbye to my darling Atticus. It's an act of love to give them a peaceful passing when they are that sick with no hope of recovery, and it's so hard when they are gone. “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
A. A. Milne / Winnie the Pooh

My tiny Atticus reminds me not to let all the chaos negate moments of joy. As we try to deal with what we know is coming, remember to notice and appreciate those moments.

I’ve been thinking about how my ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War would feel about the country being handed over to a morally bankrupt, narcissistic authoritarian who chose a cabinet designed to destroy our government.

"Once you vote in someone like Donald Trump, it’s hard to stop that process once it’s in motion. You buy the ticket, you get the whole ride."

Jarvis: His generals called him fascist. Joe Scarborough called him fascist, and now the fascist is in charge and it is journalism's job to cover it that way, not to back off and say okay, well that's it, we lost. Let the fascism happen. No

I've located many of the political, legal, and national security experts I followed on the toxic bird site, now I just need to curate my list for more dog pictures. Any bat rescues on here? Posting a chihuahua in a Riot Fest t shirt for luck (my Atticus).