Dave Clarkin
@daveclarkin.bsky.social
Husband, dad, nature lover, advocate. Uncomfortable truths.
“Off-color” is still code for “racist”, or does it now also cover misogyny and homophobia?
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 3h agoColumn: Mike Ditka was everything we like to think we are as Chicagoans — tough, funny, mischievous, outspoken, hardworking and fun-loving. And he was sometimes everything we don’t often admit to being — stubborn, loud-mouthed, off-color, oversensitive and occasionally rude.
How can you have a criminal investigation involving a dead man?
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2h agoFederal ICE agents raided Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington-area home before dawn this morning. The Trump DOJ confirms agents executed a search warrant as part of a criminal investigation reportedly involving immigration paperwork completed by Omar’s late father when she was a CHILD. 1/
When you’ve got a stupid-amount of money to spend on a race and only 30 days to do it, you spend it stupidly. Just how much available broadcast ad time did you think there was in Maine? Zero. Consultants only get paid for ads that run.
Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social · 2h agoYep. Defending Main Street PAC—a GOP SuperPAC focused on boosting non-MAGA Republicans—spent $20-25K on digital ads against Troy Jackson in Portland ... OREGON. Receipts: adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
Indigenous people are tremendous caretakers of national parks in Canada and Alaska, we should expand that program nationally.
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2h agoToday is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 💚 The places we love and fight to protect are Indigenous homelands long before they became national parks. Those connections are still very much alive.
MAGA is full of self-loathing. I’m with Talarico, my grandmother was a minister. But let’s start with “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” and “Thou shalt not bear false witness.”
Democrats@democrats.org · yesterdayJames Talarico: We have a spiritual struggle in this country. But I think we are on the cusp of returning to the teachings of 3,000 years ago to love thy neighbor as thyself.
The thing about dictators is they think whatever they say is the law. “Dictate” is right there in the name. Trump gets frustrated/angry whenever he says something should happen and it doesn’t. He thinks “Leader of the Free World” means “Omnipotent.”
I think retired Americans deserve answers. The Trump Administration’s annual COLA adjustment for Social Security for 2026 was 2.8%. Inflation jumped to 3.3% in March following the start of the Iran War by Trump, and the start of Tarriff Wars. Trumpflation is hurting seniors on fixed incomes.
Deisel - used for heating homes - is averaging $9 a gallon in rural Alaska. In some communities, Trump’s war in Iran has driven diesel to $12-$14 a gallon. Democrat @marypeltola.com has a very, very good shot at winning. alaskabeacon.com/2026/10/09/s...
State report shows heating fuel prices are at a record high in rural Alaska | Alaska Beacon
Another survey expected in January may reveal the full scope of the price spike in rural Alaska caused by the Iran war.
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Exclusive: Sen. Darline Graham, the Republican Senate candidate in South Carolina, has pledged to crack down on China. But her husband, Larry Nordone, has management roles in two companies that rely on Chinese manufacturing, company filings show.
Darline Graham opposes Chinese manufacturing. Her husband’s job relies on it.
The senator and sister of the late Lindsey Graham has said the U.S. must “stop depending on Communist China for things America can make ourselves.”
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The START of this clip made me do a double take: new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia sits on the board of White Rose Resistance, an organization that wants to *prosecute abortion patients for homicide* www.ms.now/opinion/abor...
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d agoWH Press Sec Katie Zacharia: The abortion pill has the same chemicals that they used in the extermination camps in Nazi Germany
If you FOIA @royalpratt.bsky.social , i bet you will see that the Giannoulias initiative to defund libraries that ban books was recommended through his transition planning portal when he was elected Secretary of State. www.banbookbans.com
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12 million Americans believe Reptilian aliens are secretly controlling humanity. 66 million believe in the Roswell UFO conspiracy. You wonder how Trump won with his Deep State Conspiracies? This is how Trump was elected.
As Chicago White Sox head to a decisive Game Five, the weight of a city on their shoulders, I remind Chicagoans its our job to lift the team, and its a job we are made for. youtu.be/4FCtZGBMnK0?...
Harry Lennix reads Carl Sandburg's "Chicago"
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“inimitable spirit” is politically correct for FAFO. Or as Carl Sandberg put it: “Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking, Planning, Building, breaking, rebuilding, Under the smoke”
Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d agoICYMI: Chicago was voted the Best Big City in the nation for the tenth consecutive year. It’s a credit to what truly makes Chicago the best – the inimitable spirit of the people who call this city home.
My fellow Americans: it is time to take our country back. When Jeff Bezos tell you that he, Elon Musk, Peter Theil and others envision an AI-driven three-day work week, he leaves out it is making $2.55/hr + tips, with no benefits, and $6 gasoline. It’s the Death of the American Middle Class Dream.
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Dave Clarkin@daveclarkin.bsky.social · 2d agoEvery time you find yourself questioning The Grand Design, imagine the odds of a former prosecutor in the John Burge case, the most notorious case of prosecutorial misconduct in Cook County history, ending up federal judge in one of the most notorious cases of federal prosecturial misconduct ever.
Every time you find yourself questioning The Grand Design, imagine the odds of a former prosecutor in the John Burge case, the most notorious case of prosecutorial misconduct in Cook County history, ending up federal judge in one of the most notorious cases of federal prosecturial misconduct ever.
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 3d agoUPDATE: Judge April Perry denies the government's bid to keep all of this under seal — including the attorney's signature block. "The government has also publicly disclosed … that there is an OPR investigation in this case."
How to beat MAGA: Associate yourself with “Winners” and call MAGA “Losers” every chance you get. eg: “Donald Trump lost his bid for a Nobel Prize for the 8TH TIME. Trump lost the Tarriff War, Lost The Iran War, and now he is losing his mind again for losing the Nobel Prize to Navi Pillay…” 1/2
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 2d agoVibe shift update: Dems getting endorsements from legendary Texas high school football coaches
Someone please ask Fox to explain how Ukraine destroying refineries for oil that we supposedly do not want Russia to sell is a bad thing.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoWhite House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia nods along on Fox & Friends as Rachel Campos-Duffy blasts that "ingrate Zelenskyy who keeps blowing up refineries and making things more complicated for the president ahead of the midterms"
Mike and I don’t often agree on communications strategy, but he is right on this one. The mass psychology is straightforward. MAGA is not a political movement, it is a cult. External assaults reinforce cults. Cults must be destroyed from within, using their own belief system.
Mike Fragassi@refrag.bsky.social · 2d agoAnd attack Hegseth head on for his crap, too. Everyone seems to groan at it but I don't recall seeing any Dem movement giving him hell
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
The Verge@theverge.com · 4d agoOver the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
“Did you order The Code Red?” Yeoman’s work by @sophiesherry.bsky.social @jonseidel.bsky.social
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 3d agoGood morning. Federal prosecutors in Chicago filed partially redacted documents overnight in the "Broadview Six" case. The redactions appear to include the signature block (including the name) of one of the attorneys representing the United States government:
I am sorry, but how did advocating for AI become the job of Chicago’s Inspector General? Did we eliminate all of the fraud and theft, leaving Glockner with too much free time? Or does he fashion himself a DOGE type? chicago.suntimes.com/fran-spielma...
Newly appointed Chicago inspector general wants city to put AI to work for City Hall
Inspector General David Glockner said government agencies “tend to be on the lagging end of technology” and he wouldn’t be surprised if the city has barely scratched the surface when it comes to putti...
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I think the killer here is just how weak, infirm, and indecisive Susan Collins looks on stage with Troy Jackson.
SpiderDIEphenMan@spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 4d agoliterally the last words of the debate lol the music was already playing when he said it www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHWV...
