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30something | he/him. musings for amusing and disabusing. π΄, wife guy, Policy Wonk, industrial engineer, angry punk / loving church dad in Texas
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 colleaguesβ 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. βWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,β 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 Shoβ¦
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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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 π 1517 π 301 π¬ 27 π 6Chuck Schumer and his people are collaborators
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
π· Thibault Camus via Associated Press
09.11.2025 14:20 β π 257 π 60 π¬ 3 π 2A 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 π 11148 π 5382 π¬ 172 π 1011The 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
"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 π 13700 π 6908 π¬ 125 π 101Photo of NBCβs 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 βwe should abandon the transesβ needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
05.11.2025 05:39 β π 12215 π 4117 π¬ 58 π 193Moms 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.
Good things are possible and we donβt have to settle.
05.11.2025 03:35 β π 47077 π 8190 π¬ 252 π 220those 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 π 342 π 42 π¬ 0 π 1Do you hear that noise? That's the sound of the tide turning
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
βThose 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 Fasherβs population is trapped in a killing field. Every minute counts.β β¦βͺ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
03.11.2025 13:32 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Hi, Iβm a small business owner running for local school board and I believe in 3 things:
1) pledge allegiance to Israel or die
2) kids donβt need to know how to read
3) bring back God in our communities
4) Everything Iβve ever seen on Facebook
Vote for me, Grawson Hamngley
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 π 5605 π 2289 π¬ 125 π 52Iβve 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 π 127 π 37 π¬ 2 π 0Most 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
Too much FA and too little FO
30.10.2025 17:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pajama 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
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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
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 π 1043 π 313 π¬ 3 π 35Nine 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.
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26.10.2025 02:42 β π 543 π 128 π¬ 17 π 2ICE 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 itβs like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202β¦
24.10.2025 18:57 β π 1093 π 513 π¬ 18 π 55We all have that one homie who's been through the desert on a horse with no name
25.10.2025 05:37 β π 84 π 4 π¬ 5 π 2Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is βthe presidentβs main priorityββ¦not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcareβ¦.building a ballroom
23.10.2025 22:36 β π 32229 π 11018 π¬ 1868 π 632This is very funny
21.10.2025 17:28 β π 80 π 9 π¬ 6 π 0My 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 π 135 π 19 π¬ 2 π 0