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Alex McLevy

@alexm247.bsky.social

critic at large. Ex-editor @ The A.V. Club. Send me your poor, your unsigned bands, your horror films, your screener links, your taffy-based candies. Chicago.

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1. This is kidnapping. 2. This can not be legal. You can’t ride in the back of moving trucks. 3. Budget Rental Trucks WTH!! This is not a good look for your company!! We will remember this for our next moves!! 😑🀬

14.10.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3

Even though I have trimmed my fingernails roughly 400 times, every single time I still take a beat before I start and think, β€œWait, how do I do this again? Which direction do I go?”

13.10.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FUCK ICE FOREVER

12.10.2025 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3467    πŸ” 798    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 11

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

12.10.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2880    πŸ” 1603    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 44

The President of the United States is a child rapist & batshit crazy malignant narcissist…

He doesn’t want to go to jail so he never wants to leave office…

He is trying to foment civil war so he can evolve a police state & forego elections…

BECAUSE. HE. IS. A. CHILD. RAPIST.

#NoKings on 10/18

11.10.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1683    πŸ” 612    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 33
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

09.10.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 55896    πŸ” 22725    πŸ’¬ 1881    πŸ“Œ 2165

a true fact which should be more widely known

09.10.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

09.10.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3105    πŸ” 1171    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 187

True but it’s more fun to imagine with Ozzy. Alice you can more see being a Steve Martin-esque β€œspends copious time debating abstract art over a fancy sherry” type

08.10.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Salvador Dali not only met, but made a 3D hologram of, Alice Cooper

08.10.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Son of a

08.10.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
07.10.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œTerrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

04.10.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 17113    πŸ” 8026    πŸ’¬ 256    πŸ“Œ 341
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

04.10.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7039    πŸ” 3389    πŸ’¬ 861    πŸ“Œ 967

Hmmm weird it’s almost like Jews are a fully developed population of individual humans and not a Borg-like enterprise of Netanyahu worshipping monsters with horns

04.10.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No way! Human Touch is abysmal and Lucky Town is liberating, just as they were created; this album is more Devils & Dust - a classic β€œI guess this is what I want you all to want” record that summons the spirits no one asked for yet has a weirdly invigorating souls amid the bad

04.10.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always and forever β€œShake It Off”

04.10.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements in human history.

A rich megalomaniac whose brain was partially eaten by a worm is trying to do away with them.

Somehow, this is real life, and not the beginning of a MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movie.

04.10.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I try not to be despairing or pessimistic, especially online where it does no good, but I’m really not sure how we come back from this. The further into this piece I got, the more it just…I dunno, man.

03.10.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A flyer that says hello ice, total chumps. Your job makes you sick trash. Chicago hates you.

A flyer that says hello ice, total chumps. Your job makes you sick trash. Chicago hates you.

When Chicago does not like you even a little bit, you are not gonna be in any doubt about that. #broadview #iceprotest #abolishice #broadviewprotest
this was at the table on the other side of the building, where great folks were handing out water, snacks, first aid, and resources and pamphlets.

03.10.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 128    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
no kings Seriously. Fuck these fascists. Join a No Kings protest on October 18 and stand up for our rights and our democracy.

Seriously. Fuck these fascists. Join a No Kings protest on October 18 and stand up for our rights and our democracy.

02.10.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1553    πŸ” 316    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 13

Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off

29.09.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2894    πŸ” 573    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 34
Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.

Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

27.09.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 18530    πŸ” 4520    πŸ’¬ 783    πŸ“Œ 341

Hey @nytopinion.nytimes.com tell me again how it’s important we all remain on X because it’s the liveliest marketplace of ideas and definitely not you mistaking manufactured nonsense for real movements every time

27.09.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, bagel places: I’m just asking you to make a sandwich the normal human mouth can fit around. I can’t unhinge my jaw like a damn python just because you think it looks badass to shove two pounds of turkey slices between your rosemary everything toasted

26.09.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Any Chicagoans want my ticket to Silkworm tonight at Sleeping Village? I’m sick as a dog and won’t be going anywhere

25.09.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

25.09.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3904    πŸ” 1679    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 98

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.

Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

22.09.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7244    πŸ” 2192    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 91
A shot from X-Men 2: β€œor, worse, the president could order the arrest of any X-men”

A shot from X-Men 2: β€œor, worse, the president could order the arrest of any X-men”

β€œOr worse - the president could declare a state of emergency - place every mutant in the country under arrest.”

21.09.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Beths, 'Straight Line Was A Lie' Album Review Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Forgot to talk about this when it came out two weeks ago, but I reviewed The Beths new album, and it’s my favorite of theirs since their debut. If you haven’t heard, take a read and a listen! A good album for an insane Friday.

12.09.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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