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Reconstructed exPat
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This whole thread, up and down, and this point especially.
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"Ravenswood" is a Dungeons & Dragons sounding name for a neighborhood. Chicago based individual, but still New Orleans related.
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Reconstructed exPat
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This whole thread, up and down, and this point especially.
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Reconstructed exPat
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I'm finally "looking for a yogurt cup with blueberries instead of a third consecutive brunch reservation" years old.
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Reconstructed exPat
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"But pat, you live in Chicago why are you still worried about hurricanes?" Hurricanes:
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Alli DeJong
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God grant me the serenity to make mildly frustrated posts about the things i cannot change, the courage to log off and change the things that i can in real life, and the chill to know the difference
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Dara Lind
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As good a week as any to challenge yourself to match the amount of time you spend each day reading/posting about candidates with time spent reading/posting about policy.
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Reconstructed exPat
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So many pundits acting like we need an "Democrats Got Talent" show must wish they had been TikTok influencers instead of political operatives.
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Manisha Sinha
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For all those on the path of Hurricane Beryl, Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Reconstructed exPat
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Defeat fascism at the ballot box using this one weird trick...
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Reconstructed exPat
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The best way to stop a weekend of gun violence is to build more housing security, food security, public education, healthcare, & job programs 20 years ago. The second best way is to build more of those civic programs today.
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Zappit
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Ignore the fucking pundits who push a doom and gloom narrative that far right rule is inevitable. People are sick of those dicks. The world is kicking them out.
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Link is coconut-pilled. đ„„ đŽ
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Amanda Smith
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âThey want to eliminate national parksâ is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.
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Marisa Kabas
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if youâre talking about project 2025 on tv you need to spell out what it means beyond an authoritarian blueprint!!
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Chris Hayes
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There's a world on the other side of this with a huge, vibrant, unionized and high-paying industrial base remaking the physical world for the post-fossil fuel age. It's already starting and I think even Trump can't *fully* destroy it, but he can slow it down and make us lag wayyy behind.
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Reconstructed exPat
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Let's check in on Chicago's north side air quality at midnight.
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Reconstructed exPat
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You use cube root of population to get your national legislature (about 693 in House). One added benefit? Increasing the membership of the Electoral College, which is Constitutionally tied to number of Congressional reps.
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T.C. Aurelius
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Watching the British election returns I feel compelled to point out that the 650 person House of Commons represents 67 million people and the 435 person House of Representatives in the United States represents 333 million. Replace the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. We deserve representation.
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Reconstructed exPat
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I'm so sorry. It is so tough to lose a fluffy friend. đą
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Reconstructed exPat
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My first thought was they're filming Spaceballs 2 in Chicago.
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Reconstructed exPat
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If you have an air quality tracker, today is one of those days you can get rather dramatic before & after readings. (Not exactly sure what's going on over in Edgewater right now but I can guess.)
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Reconstructed exPat
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Exactly right. Though more of those on duty deaths occurred during traffic stops than police chases. This is an argument against both chases AND pretextual traffic stops.
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Reconstructed exPat
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If only our politics reviewed police budgets & carceral costs with the same civic scrutiny of like public libraries or homeless outreach programs.
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Reconstructed exPat
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I'm so sorry. Chases are so dangerous.
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Reconstructed exPat
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You'd think the insane number of officer injuries would make *police* the leading advocates of the no-chase policy, but New Orleans had to have the whole US Dept. of Justice involved.
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Reconstructed exPat
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Especially in New Orleans. Aren't they on camera at the "Real Time Crime Center" down at 1st District? Come on.
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Reconstructed exPat
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That will depend on who gets to decide if the victim is important.
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Reconstructed exPat
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They ain't going to fix anything that deep in da bayou. That's at least a $90,000 loss (but we know Kenner taxpayers are happy to pay a premium for police to chase New Orleanians out of their town).
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Reconstructed exPat
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An 80 mph chase along a heavily used interstate, into residential neighborhoods of a city whose people have said "no more police chases," wrecking an $90,000 vehicle...
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Reconstructed exPat
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All of those quotes from the Kenner police read like caricatures of everything wrong with American law enforcement.
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Reconstructed exPat
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When "tough on crime đ" goes wrong. Police chases are almost always more of a threat to public safety than the crimes themselves.
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Reconstructed exPat
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Entitled, road rage drivers are everywhere and a threat to everyone.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Iron Spike
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WE WANT TRAINS
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Reconstructed exPat
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4th of July vibes this year coming in like
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Reconstructed exPat
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ICYMI: "Insurance costs are becoming such a large part of the budgets of affordable housing developers and managers that itâs forcing them to reconsider building new projects." - Moira Birss
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Katie Mack
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isnât the only thing that needs doing and it isnât enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isnât done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I donât even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.
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Shannon Mattern
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One thing I donât understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront â like book bans â they donât first look to see who is already tracking the issue, whoâs already working on education + organization. âWe need to do something!â People *are*. Find them. Help them.
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Reconstructed exPat
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Sad to think how accurate this is.
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Reconstructed exPat
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And there's almost always a group already doing the work you're interested in, and they need locals to help out.
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Alex Cruikshanks
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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.
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Reconstructed exPat
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It is an actual gun crime to fire warning shots in the air to demand bicyclists make way for your stupid car.
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Nails Nathan
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Anyhow the best time to address the shit was yesterday, the 2nd best time is today. Demand everyone asking for your vote to support packing the court, stop giving your resources to the police, demand public housing, healthcare, childcare, education, transit, food support and a right to privacy.
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Reconstructed exPat
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Amazingly, a lot of people already tried to do something like this back in the early 1900's. That's when cities like Chicago, Detroit, and LA doubled down on Jim Crow style authoritarianism and as a nation we're all still grappling with that legacy today.
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Reconstructed exPat
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This story probably has more to do with big suburban-style parking lots in the middle of a city than it has anything to do with the Pride Parade, but guess what makes it into the headline?
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Reconstructed exPat
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All y'all talking shit about people in "red statesđ" better pay attention to what happens when folks dare try to hold those governments accountable.
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Reconstructed exPat
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"Freedom isnât free. But itâs not armed conflict that pushes freedom forward. More often than not, itâs the person wounded by power at its most nihilistic who broadens the boundaries of liberty." - @brianlyman.bsky.social
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Max Berger
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American democracy is a good idea. We should absolutely try it one day.
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Reconstructed exPat
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The political impact of participation barriers & volunteer burnout does not get nearly enough attention.
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skooks
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You can either be active politically and spend your time working to stave off the coming societal collapse OR you can... you know... (maybe) have a job. Neat how that's the choice people have to make.
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