NICO!!!!!!

Watching @Cubs play defense is like watching an opera! It is an art form!

Javy Baez!
He is still El Mago!!

2016 World Series Champion

OMG! PCA!

Shota!

Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis” at No Kings rally in St. Paul; LIVE VIDEO YouTube video by KARE 11

Hail to THE BOSS!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Ep...

ILLINOIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FINAL FOUR!!!!!!!!!!

an orange flag with the letter i on it and the words hail to the orange below it ALT: an orange flag with the letter i on it and the words hail to the orange below it

Man if BOTH my Division 1 #almamaters are in the #FinalFour I will be insufferable 😂 one in ( #Illinois), one to go ( #Michigan)

(I get the general sense there are way more Iowa fans than Illinois fans on BlueSky, sorry y’all)

ILLINOIS!!!

Baseball season's starting now
Well you'd better get ready for a brand new year
Hey Chicago what do you say?
The Cubs are gonna win this year!

Go, Cubs, Go!
Go, Cubs Go!
Hey Chicago, what do you say?
The Cubs are gonna win this year!

150 years of Cubs memories.

Baseball season is starting!
What could possibly be wrong with the world?
Go Cubs Go!

Salvador Perez kisses the World Baseball Classic trophy during a postgame celebration. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

5-time Gold Glove
5-time Silver Slugger
9-time All-Star
2015 World Series Champion
2015 World Series MVP
2020 Comeback Player of the Year
2022 Lou Gehrig Award
2024 Roberto Clemente Award
2024 Stan Musial Award
2026 World Baseball Classic Champion

That's OUR closer. #WorldBaseballClassic

FINAL OUT: Team Venezuela wins the 2026 World Baseball Classic! 🇻🇪 YouTube video by MLB

What an AMAZING World Baseball classic! The best of sports. Sad for Team USA--Congratulations to Venezuela--Well deserved.

AND: What about Chicago @Cubs star closer Daniel Palencia! Masterful pitching performance, closing it out for Venezuela

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz_8...

Proposal for a new law:

Medical subspecialists are not allowed to decide the threshold at which conditions they manage are defined as a disease

Jewish Cross-Denominational Statement Against Violent Immigration Enforcement - Central Conference of American Rabbis January 21, 2026 ואהבתם את-הגר כי-גרים הייתם בארץ מצרים Love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:19) Adding our voices to millions of others across the United St...

Statement from Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist US Rabbinic Assemblies condemning violence from the Department of Homeland Security

Proud of our Rabbinic leaders

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Geriatric Syndromes and Mortality Among Hospitalized Older Adults
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@ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social @alexsmithmd.bsky.social @kencovinsky.bsky.social @maliberti.bsky.social

Heartbreaking

We Shall Overcome, we shall overcome
We shall overcome someday.
Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe,
We shall overcome someday.

Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see.

Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him.

It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.

DA BEARS!!!!

Football season's underway
Well, you'd better get ready for a brand new day
Hey, Chicago, what do you say?
Da Bears are gonna win today!

They're singing
Go, Bears, Go!
Go, Bears Go!
Hey, Chicago, what do you say?
Da Bears are gonna win today!

Fernando Mendoza’s Mom, Elsa, Pens Him a Letter | The Players’ Tribune YouTube video by The Players' Tribune

Here is a feel good tear jerker!
Letter from Elsa Mendoza to her son Fernando on the eve of his Heisman Trophy Award
www.youtube.com/watch?v=STVa...

1907
1908
2016
2026

So proud of the reform Jewish clergy of Illinois calling for an end to the ICE mistreatment of immigrants
"It is our patriotic and holy obligation to uphold a just immigration policy and help protect our vulnerable neighbors"

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Special Pastoral Message on Immigration by the Bishops of the United States YouTube video by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Much gratitude to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops for their condemnation of anti-immigrant rhetoric and plea to recognize the spark the eternal one in all of us

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsMQ...

Hey Chicago!
What do you say?
We have 3 Golden Glovers on the Cubs!
The best defensive team in baseball!
Bravo Ian Happ, Nico Hoerner, PCA!

Wow. A World Series Game 7! There is nothing better!

At the behest of corporate lobbyists, Trump's CFPB will block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports.

This comes as the GOP allows ACA subsidies to expire – which could cause millions to go uninsured and medical debt to skyrocket.

A perfect storm of cruelty.

Baseball is an amazing and awesome game!