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30something | he/him. musings for amusing and disabusing. 🏴, wife guy, Policy Wonk, industrial engineer, angry punk / loving church dad in Texas

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On The Brink Of Extinction by Propaganda and Matt Osowski
YouTube video by St. Hedwig's Sessions On The Brink Of Extinction by Propaganda and Matt Osowski

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10.11.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. β€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. β€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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09.11.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 9217    πŸ” 5076    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 295

is it good when the dems in the house of representatives start calling for the senate to be abolished

09.11.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1517    πŸ” 301    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 6

Chuck Schumer and his people are collaborators

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

09.11.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 561    πŸ” 102    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

πŸ“· Thibault Camus via Associated Press

09.11.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 257    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

07.11.2025 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 11148    πŸ” 5382    πŸ’¬ 172    πŸ“Œ 1011

The move here for democrats is to make this the campaign ad for every single election but then also actually make it come true

KEY PART

07.11.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2100    πŸ” 346    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 4

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

07.11.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 13700    πŸ” 6908    πŸ’¬ 125    πŸ“Œ 101
Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.

Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said β€œwe should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

05.11.2025 05:39 β€” πŸ‘ 12215    πŸ” 4117    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 193
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Moms for Liberty (M4L) candidates lost 31 out of 31 contested races nationwide on November 4, 2025.

No M4L candidate won a single contested seat anywhere in the United States.

06.11.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
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FDA described as β€œclown show” amid latest scandal; top drug regulator is out FDA regulator accused of using position to exact revenge on old business associate.
05.11.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

05.11.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 47077    πŸ” 8190    πŸ’¬ 252    πŸ“Œ 220

those senate democrats are led by a man who refused to endorse his party's own candidate; a candidate who, tonight, we know will be the next mayor of new york β€” a democratic socialist, a muslim, a generational talent who relentlessly focused on cost of living and fairness

05.11.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 342    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Do you hear that noise? That's the sound of the tide turning

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

05.11.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 483    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

β€˜Those who have leverage over the UAE, and therefore the RSF, but allow the violence to pass without urgent action or pressure have blood on their hands. The majority of El Fasher’s population is trapped in a killing field. Every minute counts.’ ⁦β€ͺ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

03.11.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, I’m a small business owner running for local school board and I believe in 3 things:

1) pledge allegiance to Israel or die

2) kids don’t need to know how to read

3) bring back God in our communities

4) Everything I’ve ever seen on Facebook

Vote for me, Grawson Hamngley

03.11.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1351    πŸ” 183    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 4

And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.

03.11.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5605    πŸ” 2289    πŸ’¬ 125    πŸ“Œ 52

I’ve covered this in detail, these apps and particularly the DHS ones have a terrible record. This is especially true for Black people, who had a terrible time trying to get CBP one to recognize their faces.

29.10.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Most of the debate about working class politics in this country gets tied in knots because it's not actually class politics at all, it's just shuffling the distribution of scraps not getting rid of the system that allows one class to rule another in the first place

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

30.10.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Too much FA and too little FO

30.10.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pajama Pants Guy turns out to be a former prosecutor and gave an interview to the Trib

He really, really gets it

You have to envision yourself resisting so you're ready to resist when the time comes

archive.is/651BA

26.10.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 914    πŸ” 251    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

most of the last decade of my career was a frantic effort to warn as many people as possible about the dangers i saw coming in the near future

now that all the stuff i saw coming is here, i dunno what to do other than maybe start a Warhammer 40k podcast

27.10.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5734    πŸ” 424    πŸ’¬ 309    πŸ“Œ 21

Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"

25.10.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1043    πŸ” 313    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 35

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.

I had it exactly backward.

26.10.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6752    πŸ” 1748    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 46

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26.10.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 543    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 2

ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…

24.10.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1093    πŸ” 513    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 55

We all have that one homie who's been through the desert on a horse with no name

25.10.2025 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is β€œthe president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

23.10.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 32229    πŸ” 11018    πŸ’¬ 1868    πŸ“Œ 632

This is very funny

21.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

My favorite part of the newly released Amelia Earhart files is about her refusal to fly a Sopwith Camel loaded with human excrement to be dumped on the Bonus Army.

21.10.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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