Tucker

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🏳️‍🌈 in Chicago, baker, music nerd, I have a wonderful partner and an eccentric orange cat. The b&w picture is my grandma at a frog race

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Chicago: in November, for the first time in years, we will be electing a school board. But some of the candidates will be people who hate public schools, and only support charters. A few may be the nuts who try to ban library books. Some of them will have piles of cash for ads. So, brace yourself.

“The union is criticizing the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, which is expected to play a role in the school board election. INCS had about $2 million as of March and earlier this month got $1 million from James Franks, the Winnetka-based CEO of Wheels[dot]com.”

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🏳️‍⚧️ Millennial Horniness is Not a Crime

Hope this helps a little

A Religious Fable That Confounded Scholars for Millennia Finally Makes Sense Right Nowslate.com The story is perfect for our harrowing times. But we’ve been reading it all wrong.

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The Juneberries are comin in hot. Made me think of this interview with @electricalwsop.bsky.social from a few years ago. As soon as they’re ripe I’m gonna put on some loud/quiet music and eat a few handfuls, if you have them by you should do the same. Requiescat 😭

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Some advice after 25 years of work in Egypt/living in AL: 1) Liquid IV is best electrolyte/salt hydration drink (or Pedialyte) 2)If overheated, cool shower, then colder bath (slow temp decrease) 3) Freeze bottles of water. Put between legs (crotch)+ under armpits+ at neck. Will cool blood rapidly

Check on your people. Heat waves aren’t generally regarded as the most deadly of natural disasters but they often are.

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Happy pride! I wrote about the food that makes you gay, from jokes about ice cream to worries about soy, the long history of colonial fears about bodies and selves being able to change via food, and why that needn't be feared at all www.eater.com/24162871/foo...

The Food That Makes You Gaywww.eater.com Too many people grow up fearing what food might reveal about themselves. Maybe it’s time we embrace self-discovery.

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With the Pixies: Black Francis On his own: Frank Black On a gay cruise: Tan France

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You hate Grape Nuts? If you can't eat rocks without complaint, life has been good to you and you're not on my level

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This is beyond horseshit. Even if you pretend motive and intent doesn’t matter, you can’t deny that there are health impacts to forcing people into refugee camps, cutting off their access to clean water, sufficient food, and functioning sanitation.

DePaul fired an agent prof for giving her students an *optional* assignment exploring the “biological and health impacts” of “Israel’s war in Gaza.” www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

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it honestly just makes me so mad that a handful of greedy assholes have stolen all the creative work of every human being and all the wonderful and weird things people did on the internet and are now using it to take our jobs and make the internet a shitty wasteland

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Weirdly, this disturbs me almost more than anything we heard about Alito. It suggests someone very deep into MAGA world, not able to distinguish between reality and the outrage machine.

LAW DORK EXCLUSIVE: Justice Alito sold Bud Light stock amidst anti-trans boycott effort www.lawdork.com/p/alito-bud-...

Exclusive: Justice Alito sold Bud Light stock amidst anti-trans boycott effortwww.lawdork.com Alito did not respond to questions about the sale, but its timing raises fair questions — particularly in light of other ethical questions the justice has faced over the past year.

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I missed this over the weekend!! This is fucking huge.

Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good. The suit says it seeks “to abolish a modern-day form of slavery.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?www.bloomberg.com

Just saw a guy vape at the gym while doing a light jog on the treadmill. Whatever type of guy you might be picturing is exactly correct.

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What makes anything interesting, music, art, writing... is freaks. The weirdest people on the scene. NFTs, crypto, blockchain fabulists, that scene top to bottom is the dullest, most square, lecture-you-about-markets dudes on earth. Not just not-queer but not-weird in any way at all. Paste.

Not buying it. If NFTs were queer the art would be better.

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I wrote about how I've become obsessed with mangoes, just like every second-gen writer I've bristled at becoming www.eater.com/24150566/man...

Just Another Member of the Diaspora, Writing About Mangoeswww.eater.com I didn’t grow up eating them, but here I am all the same.

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FULL STORY: Internal Affairs did not interview anyone other than the 8 officers accused of belonging to the Oath Keepers — and they were each questioned by investigators for an average of 29 minutes, according to the 30-page report released by CPD. @wttw

Probe Into 8 CPD Officers Found No Evidence They Were Active Membersnews.wttw.com Investigators with CPD’s Bureau of Internal Affairs did not interview anyone other than the eight officers accused of belonging to the Oath Keepers, according to a 30-page report.

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Jair Bolsonargasm

he outed himself

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New favorite photo of 2024 just dropped

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me when i can feel it coming in the air tonight: oh lord

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The WBEZ cutbacks that have felled Vocalo, torpedoed the station’s podcasts, and laid off a significant number of reporters has a devastating impact on the health of Chicago. If you hope to see WBEZ change course, please sign this petition!

#SaveWBEZ #SaveVocaloactionnetwork.org Chicago Public Media says they want to reach diverse audiences, but cut the people who make these programs. Cut corporate greed and save @WBEZ and @Vocalo instead! #SaveWBEZ #SaveVocalo. Make your voi...

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Look, I searched deep within and came to the inevitable conclusion that I’m better at reposting than posting.

My timeline just got really weird… Oh, it’s just @marawilson.bsky.social reposting again.

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“At this point, Israel has reneged on its international obligations to a degree that warrants a call for sanctions,” Albanese said. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

She is the UN Special Rapporteur to the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Testimonies from the Occupied Palestinian Territory show new depths of Israel’s atrocities: UN expertwww.ohchr.org CAIRO (25 April 2024) – The Occupied Palestinian Territory is enveloped in a spiral of unstoppable violence, with stories Palestinians and other witnesses relay adding new depths to atrocities the wor...

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Shaking a bunch of protein powder into a wet sponge and sucking on it for a while as a snack

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Keep retweeting me friends your retweet is part of saving my family. We are getting close ❤️

This link can save my family life by evacuating them from gaza please share it if can’t support . Please retweet it’s will help so much www.gofundme.com/f/sspqf-10k-...

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone in Gaza, organized by Robyn Parsonswww.gofundme.com Hi, my name is Robyn and I am a British citizen living in the UK. I am fu… Robyn Parsons needs your support for Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone in Gaza

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*sprints through Bluesky banging pots and pans* BOOKSHOP DOT ORG HAS FREE SHIPPING THIS WEEKEND bookshop.org

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.bookshop.org A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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students at Northeastern were arrested under the premise that they were shouting antisemitic slurs and now video is surfacing showing that the slurs in fact came from outside people holding Israeli flags while the pro-Palestine protesters tried to de-escalate i cannot imagine this kind of evil

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My child was arrested in this unnecessary escalation. I am livid. I visited this camp twice in the past 30 hours. It was peaceful and inclusive. Students were praying when I left last night. The camp took up less than half of a huge lawn #Denver #auraria #freepalestine

it cannot be said enough that the students are literally just chanting and linking arms in an open field. there are no laws being broken. and they're nearly outnumbered by cops in riot gear.

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it can (so far) be turned off by turning off Instant Answers in the browser-saved settings, it's part of the Wikipedia Instant Answers thing: duckduckgo.com/settings

Duck Duck Go has generative AI in it. Not sure how intermixed with the search product it is, but be aware if you don't want that in your search engine spreadprivacy.com/duckassist-l...

DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssistspreadprivacy.com A new feature that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia.

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Ask Chicago Public Media execs & board to honor our public service mission and reconsider cuts to @WBEZ and @Vocalo! #SaveWBEZ #SaveVocalo

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Just dropping in to say the best mangoes in the world (kesar/saffron mangoes from Gujarat, India) are in season, and the season is SHORT. The pulp is saffron colored and they smell like nutmeg. It’s a pumpkin spice mango.