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@PotatoesOGrady

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retired gum ball-machine technician @ctulocal1 @AutonomousUnion @33rdWardWorking

irving park, chicago
Joined March 2009
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can’t believe this is technically the same sport the giants and jets play
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it’s open season on italians. do you really think this is a coincidence?
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it's time
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love watching chicago’s low-rent thanksgiving parade on TV. the only character balloon was Felix the Cat, who hasn’t been in a cartoon in like 20 years. there’s a Falun Gong float.
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@cblatts Labour gained 30 seats. The Democrats have gained 0 seats. I'm the political scientist now. I just stole your glasses. Your son calls me Dad
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@ABC7 not just the headline, the whole article by @MeredithDeliso is abominable
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never gonna get over this flex
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extremely funny that their #4 expenditure was the loser who got washed by ilhan omar
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why on earth does israel feel emboldened to do these airstrikes?? cant figure it out!
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are we or are we not trying to bring businesses back to the loop
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shout-out to whoever decided to run a secret illegal narcotics lab here in the heart of america’s second-largest downtown
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why is justin timberlake dressed like a crust punk's dog
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given how much of his inner circle is committed to their blood feud with Warren, I'd say this is a pretty clear sign that they're starting to grapple with the reality that Bernie Comin'
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Obama talks up Warren behind closed doors to wealthy donors
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@queersocialism i mean to be fair he is also definitely a murderer and rapist
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Hyde Park has to be funniest possible neighborhood to pick here, masterclass
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is this “dudes rock” ?
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@owainanderson can’t believe how well you executed this, goddamn
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@crulge my name’s max shrayer and i’m here to say i think israel is cool in a major way
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Lol, the person who wrote this finds Refaat Alareer's poetry "banal and formulaic."
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first rule of effectively criticizing your opponent is to always compare them to the coolest and most talented person you can think of
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot dissing on Brandon Johnson: "That guy's got more bobs and weaves than Muhammad Ali."
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@molly_knight @SusanSarandon sanders was stronger on abortion rights than hillary
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cowards
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guy on an electric scooter just buzzed through the Celtic dancers, leading to this exchange from the presenters: “Guy on a scooter” “Guy on a scooter” “Don’t think he’s part of the parade”
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@ByYourLogic
Lead Actor from Pixar’s Sodas
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@sanjmovies Doritos Spain should have done more research but I’m just not going to have that be a part of my life. I will not be making regular checkups on Doritos Spain
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Her family showed Eyewitness News: - a note from her doctor that read, in part, "Every reasonable accommodation should be made to allow this patient to work from home." - the response from the district "denying your request for an accommodation to work remotely"
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Protect Cryptocurrency Investments
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@benshapiro ben you're so fucking short one would think you'd be used to that view by now
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@TPUSAatNCCU @TPUSAatKent looks like the free market decided who was worth what huh
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can say definitively that Brandon will be the first mayor of this city with kids who attend Chicago Public School since at least 1947. and would honestly be very surprised if he was not the first one period.
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looked at a house today that has a functioning toilet in the stairwell that goes down to the basement
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matsui taking a break from watching his impossibly large VHS porno collection to watch ohtani knock a different type of dong
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Shohei Ohtani broke Hideki Matsui’s record for homers in a season by a Japanese-born player with 32 and Matsui released a statement:
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68 years old and whiling away the days namesearching smh
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weird how malcolm gladwell shows up in the epstein flight logs and is suddenly spending 10,000 hours trying exonerate everyone who knew about and facilitated Jerry Sandusky’s systematic sexual abuse of children
@Deadspin
Deadspin
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Malcolm Gladwell's Penn State rabbit hole isn't very deep:
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@cushbomb my fantasy scenario for trump wrecking the gop is that they remove him from office and then he primaries pence in 2020 and wins
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cement mixer vaguely decorated to look like a turkey
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@snoopdoggescu they all are
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@JackPosobiec hell yeah jack prilosec
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@deep_beige small brain: false flag large brain: not a false flag because Red Guards did it galaxy brain: false flag BECAUSE Red Guards did it and they’re cops
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@NotTheBobbyOrr throwing a baseball professionally is a sign you need TJ
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SHE TRIED TO KEEP THE SCHOOLS OPEN IN MARCH 2020!!!!!! SHE KEPT BEACHES AND PARKS CLOSED WHILE RE-OPENING INDOOR DINING!!!!
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@Alli41164813 @snoopdoggescu “born in NYC” so you admit he’s italian
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This shot is brilliant and should be shown in any film study class.
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sy hersh reporting that israel intends to completely and fully raze Gaza City. depraved.
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“I love that every culture has drums” “A lot of hats in Chicago”
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this is the “mom and pop landlord who rely on rent for their retirement” that landlord organizations love to endlessly invoke
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This will end well
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@LoriLightfoot you’ve been mayor for 4 years and you couldn’t fill the vacancies! nobody is going to fill the vacancies! that’s the whole point. the money could be used for investments that prevent crime instead of sitting in a police budget doing nothing.
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trying to attack brandon johnson on chicago’s underfunded pensions immediately after spending the better part of a year trying to elect paul vallas, the guy who underfunded them, as mayor.
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Six of Chicago's pension funds are among the 10 worst-funded in the U.S. Johnson will now sit across the bargaining table from the government unions who fund him. Accommodating today’s ever-growing demands imperils the retirement security of tomorrow’s pensioners.
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we’ve gotten small scooby doo and hello kitty balloons. some live IP! very proud of you, Chicago thanksgiving parade
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@trouble_man90 wait was this post made earnestly lmfao
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italian beef, the food that dared to ask “what if we took a perfect good philly cheese steak but replaced the cheese with moisture”
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@nuckles87 @cblatts Labour won seats that have gone Tory for literally every election in living memory. Making shit up is a bad look.
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it really is nauseating how thoroughly the visual language of tv news coverage, and particularly coverage of war, is designed to evoke sports coverage
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@AotJjk @meatprison_ jews are italian
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banner couple of weeks for Joe Biden and his wretched administration - full throated support for a genocide, building the wall and ceding federal authority to a bloodthirsty governor who wants to install Saw traps along the border. they are who we thought they were.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced this week that the Texas National Guard is installing razor wire along the border of Texas and New Mexico on his orders.
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ground control to pepsi tom
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very cool that someone who would otherwise be standing outside an abortion clinic with a sign that says Pepsi is made from aborted fetuses gets to have near-dictatorial power in setting federal law
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In his dissent, Thomas claims that COVID vaccines were developed with the use of "aborted children."
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@bidetmarxman feeling old seeing so many people unfamiliar with this kind of move, guess it's been over a decade now since Bain Capital and leveraged buyouts were unavoidable discourse
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@nytopinion @bariweiss @evepeyser I think being able to chum around with cretins like david frum and bari weiss ultimately says more about you than it illuminates anything else
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the jesse white tumblers rock
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you're seeing it more and more
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Protest officially ends. #FreePalestine
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@mikeduncan tired: Mike Duncan’s “Revolutions” wired: Mike Duncan’s revolution
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@MailOnline she's underselling the United States' ability to commit atrocities; those three are like little babies in comparison
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“let me thank the ratboys for their music” - @BernieSanders
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@shonendump @Dauragon no im untouchable
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don't let any of these ghouls claim the high road
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@cmclymer she should have tried not losing
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at sacramento and devon, probably the actual worst possible spot in the city for trying to sell this, to the point that it seems intentionally antagonistic
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@bureaucatliu thank you for your informed perspective on what you would do if you were poor
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the context is extremely funny, real paranoid vibes here. interviewer: well, here’s what the union openly says they are fighting for lightfoot: no no no follow the money, they’re just out to get me
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@royalpratt
Gregory Royal Pratt
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In @nytimes interview Mayor Lori Lightfoot uncorks more explicitly her thoughts on @CTULocal1 : “I think, ultimately, they’d like to take over not only Chicago Public Schools, but take over running the city government.”
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they're about to liberate Bob Menendez
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Curiously watching an Egyptian Air Force C-130 off the east coast of the US at an inexplicable altitude…
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squeal piggies squeal
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@GlennKesslerWP wal-mart: a progressive success story lol
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we joke a lot about bringing back the guillotine but this dude is literally going to get himself guillotined and it's gonna rule
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inspiring that henry kissinger has managed to stay alive long enough to become a lobbyist for ISIS
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The Independent
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Henry Kissinger warns destroying Isis could lead to ‘Iranian radical empire’
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@i_zzzzzz jar jar in ISIS toyota
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@jacobkornbluh she told the truth and she won
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everyone’s really gonna land on “lol trump is bad at ~business~” instead of “trump is tax cheat who got away with aggressively gaming losses on his returns because we live in a world where the rich have total impunity” huh
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@IanSams truly the worst-run campaign in the race, an absolute joy to behold. keep up the bad work!
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as we all know, billionaires love sending their kids to state schools. i hate this fuckin guy so much.
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Astead
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Buttigieg making moderate case for student debt relief. Not cancellation, but refinancing, focusing on limiting infleunce of for profit schools, doubling Pell Grants. "I just dont believe all of us should be paying for the children" of billionaires.
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@IAmWillMarsh @lib_crusher It rocks, I love these moments when Chicago feels like a goofy small town that happens to have a massive downtown financial district
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calmly googling "killdozer specs" as the latest video about Trusting The Science from the PR team of Mayor Lori "Close the Beaches and Open the Bars" Lightfoot plays in the background
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@EliLake fuck Eli Lake comin straight from the underground/humpty dumpty motherfucker fell and broke his crown
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late counted Chicago ballots really seem to be skewing left. Vallas down to 33.24% citywide and Johnson up to 21.13% after being reported as 35-20 on election night.
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@laurie_wagner do you get how you being a white person telling a black woman that you better understand what black women experience is racist, yes?
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@stillgray went from looking like shit to looking like shit and balding, congrats 🤗
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@eiamtmet fuck off nazi
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glad he had to sit there and listen to guilty verdict for each individual shot he fired
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@culturecanceler no mechanisms for stopping you from generating new gmail address/google voice numbers and using the signup bonuses again and again. a dream. all the different stubhub knockoffs subsidized me going to many baseball games.
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@danielmarans someone say something about raising red flags?
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@Alex__Katz anti-capitalists don't view clinton and obama as imperfect allies, we view them as people with oppositional worldviews to our own. the fact that you can't process any of this outside of the lens of high school cafeteria social jockeying says a lot about who here is stunted.
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someone let me know if this gets retweeted by someone shitty so I can change my display name to something insulting toward them
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the thing is… i get it. the only real bathrooms are down in the basement and up on the second floor. these stairs are right next to the kitchen, so the plumbing was right there. someone had the audacity to say “why CAN’T I put a toilet in the stairwell,” and I admire that
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the cubs using “Respect Our Neighborhood” as the slogan on their city connect jerseys is so funny. about a half-step removed from using “We Call Police,” honestly it’s perfect
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@red_lipbatfish @cblatts I thought it was kind of tepid and try-hard tbh but we're in a political atmosphere where the People Want Owns
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@PaulVallas you’ve never been elected to anything and you’ve been fired from most jobs you’ve held
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