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Curious citizenšŸ¤”Radio guy & podcast dude for NPR's Here & Now: https://teapaw.org/t.co/B7FNh0LTz6 Making noise w/CDPROM, La Croix Mystique & more

Chicago, IL ✶✶✶✶
Joined June 2009
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund Ā Ā  alzresearch.org/giving/ Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources Ā  Ā  alzfdn.org/donate/ Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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Congratulations to Milwaukee. All people of the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Seaway System are brothers
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Couldn’t happen to a nicer town. Congrats Milwaukee
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Was excited about this Series, the teams seemed to evenly matched, but no
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I told this guy I met over the weekend that I work at npr and he told me that he puts on npr for his dog when he's not there
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ā€œLessons in Loveā€ by @level42official — total banger and a great needle drop for this Packers game 😹
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Who’s the ā€œreporterā€ in this clip begging Trump to send National Guard to Chicago, citing her Chicago Police sergeant dad and other CPD officers?
"I could set that up" -- Trump says he could "violate" Gov. Pritzker and send in the troops to Chicago
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Nancy Pelosi, who is regularly hammered for her perceived insider trading, has made 213 total trades since 2014. Trump exceeded that number in a single day, which just happened to precede his own tariffs announcement.Ā My latest on the mind boggling self-enrichment:
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Italian Sausage recieves congratulatory phone call from the president after winning first sausage race in World Series History.
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Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews): Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use. Iran-Contra 2 here (except with Iran-Contra, at least the US got some hostages released. Not clear what we got out of this one.)
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Huge influx of accounts on here that AI-summarize Reddit posts for engagement. Most of them are running dropshipping scams in places like Vietnam and Rwanda. Users on here are stupider than they used to be and spend a lot of time fighting with them as if the stories are real.
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What a lede from @TheEconomist
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Incredible scoop by my @WSJ colleagues: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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Great visual from @nytgraphics
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the more time i spend in chicago the more i feel that it is to the US what vienna is to Europe which is as a place forever tied to the birthplace of modernity in the arts, sometimes if not often to its detriment. neither city can escape 1880-1930
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Chicago is great but its problems are obvious: it was built over soggy marshland and, to this day, ancient amphibians, pale salamanders the size of train cars and toads the size of houses, slumber in the soft mud beneath the water table. One day, those monsters will wake up.
Chicago is an excellent city. Why isn't this more well known?
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Caleb Williams reposted this on Tik Tok 28 mins ago safe to say he’s back…. @CALEBcsw
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This is crazy. Tether was literally paying the guy in charge of making their company legal while he was in the White House and the WSJ has the actual signal messages and contracts to prove it because these criminal geniuses tried to stiff one of their partners out of the proceeds
SCOOP: While Bo Hines was leading the White House’s push to pass the Genius Act, Tether—the company with the most at stake in the bill—was steering millions of dollars to a company he co-owned. Right after the bill passed, Tether hired him as its U.S. chief. [Gift link] wsj.com/politics/policy/cryp…
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Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate-- then were told to lay off. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Facts don’t care about your feelings. Go Bills
Genuinely how do you build a model that says Buffalo, NY is the literal greatest city in America and think "sweet, yeah, this is good to publish"
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