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Omg one been waiting on Chicago I didn’t know about Boston

Settler gunfire killed Palestinians in two West Bank villages as they tried to defend their land. In the aftermath, soldiers’ tear gas induced a cardiac arrest.

By Oren Ziv & Basel Adra @mekomit.bsky.social

www.972mag.com/israeli-sett...

Who needs reporters

Toad marches onward, but trouble drips from his hands. His precious ice cream, once towering and proud, now surrenders to the heat, cascading in dark, sticky ribbons over his face. From "Ice Cream" In *Frog and Toad All Year*

Toad walked faster. Many drops of melting ice cream flew through the air. They fell down on Toad’s head. “I must hurry back to Frog!” he cried.

Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act.'

Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.

Decorated Purple Heart tied to a tree

38 people have been taken in the last 3 months from a four block stretch of Central Avenue

Awesome competition

Which Other Olympic Mascots Could Italian Stoats Tina And Milo Slaughter In Cold Blood? | Defector Apologies to all otters, ferrets, badgers, ferret-badgers, weasels, fishers, polecats, wolverines, martens, and grisons, but the mustelid of the moment is the stoat. The mascots of the 2026 Winter Oly...

I wrote about the Olympics
defector.com/which-other-...

a Hebrew inscription in black paint on the whitewashed walls of the Old-New Synagogue, Prague

this bit of text on the wall of the Old New Synagogue in Prague (of golem fame) sent me down a rabbit hole involving gematria, Hebrew calendrics and Bohemian Yiddish. a thread

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

In Philadelphia, ICE will share office space with a DMV. A proposed ICE office in Portland, Maine is within walking distance of 8 places of worship. Today WIRED is publishing the locations of dozens of planned ICE offices across the US, part of a major expansion. from @leahfeiger.bsky.social

Chew on that Dr. al-Hashimi

US ski star Lindsey Vonn crashes in Olympic downhill race In an explosive crash near the top of the downhill course in Cortina, Vonn landed a jump perpendicular to the slope and tumbled to a stop shortly below.

In an explosive crash near the top of the downhill course in Cortina, Vonn landed a jump perpendicular to the slope and tumbled to a stop shortly below. n.pr/4qn1Yty

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Mishpatim (מִּשְׁפָּטִים) with this image of captivity. #ParashahPictures
BodleianLibrary, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.47r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

A duck is part of the decoration around the initial-word panel marking the beginning of Torah portion Mishpatim (מִּשְׁפָּטִים)
#ParashahPictures
BL Add MS 15423; Pentateuch; 1441 CE-1467 CE; Italy (Florence); f.49v

I love the Olympics

JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.

It's A 'New Era' For The Chicago Reader As Iconic Alt-Weekly Shifts To Monthly Magazine The Reader has struggled in recent years amid funding gaps and administration changes. Editor-in-Chief Sarah Conway says she plans to honor the paper's history while focusing on its future.

Thank you to @clintworthing.bsky.social for writing about the Reader’s return to print publishing for @blockclubchi.bsky.social! blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/04/i...

For better or worse, this was a go to reference for public librarians. One way the public could benefit from their tax dollars funding whatever evil shenanigans the CIA is up to at any given moment

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

Democracy dies of heatstroke.
What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

US to send ICE agents to Winter Olympics, prompting Italian anger The US federal agency says it will not play an immigration role at February's event in Milan-Cortina.

"two journalists for Italian public broadcaster Rai were threatened by ICE officials as the reporters drove around the city [Minneapolis] covering the agency's actions" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Italians protest ICE's presence at the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics, CNN's Antonia Mortensen reports from Milan, where around 8,000 people showed up to protest.

Mural of slain Ukrainian refugee, effort funded by Elon Musk, appears in Chicago

A mural of Iryna Zarutska, 23, who was fatally stabbed last year on a train in North Carolina, was painted on a building in North Center. Elon Musk and other supporters of President Trump, who blamed Democrat policies for her death, have led an effort to paint murals of her across the U.S.

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.

They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.

If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

They've advanced on the barricades.

why isn't there creamed corn with electrolytes? what are we afraid of

The American Folklife Center Turns 50 Today | Folklife Today The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (AFC) turns 50 today, January 2, 2026. To mark the occasion, AFC will sponsor public programs, special events, and other activities throughout t...

Learn more about the American Folklife Center and what is in store for its 50th anniversary: blogs.loc.gov/folklife/202...

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