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@youknowlydia.bsky.social's longest ever article drops today. It's got romance, capes, fire dragons, duels for body parts, and a lot of welding. I mean, there's so much welding. There's foot welding! It's TikTok's Emperor of Welding, and it's FREE! 1900hotdog.com/2025/11/lear...

It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.

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. “We 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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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Okay but *he* doesn't mean it that way as far as I can tell.

Is the implication that these things are mutually exclusive? How is this even remotely a scandal?

That comma is extraneous and your point is nonsensical.

When educational institutions are promoting GenAI as innovation and imposing its use on students and faculty, they are by extension promoting all the heinous "creativity" that spawns from it as expressions of misogyny, racism, ableism, classicism...

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...

[selecting mr. game and watch on smash bros voice] MR. SUCK AND FUCK

These are crimes against humanity. None of us is capable of truly internalizing suffering at this scale. Elon Musk and many other members of the Trump Administration should be put on trial at The Hague.

Curtis Yarvin is planning flee the country.
Steve Bannon is worried about returning to prison.

Don't listen to anyone who says the fascists have already won.
The future is not yet written.

I have terrible, terrible news for red America SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the 2025 elections.

Hey yo here’s some blue meat from me on yesterday’s election results.
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Every single one of these is gold.

Clive Barker: hey steve where's your friend elon
Stephen King: he's not my friend
Barker: yeah sure so where is he?
Barker: haven't seen him allllll day
Barker: wonder what's up with that
Barker: sure hope he's not having a bad time
Barker: ha ha ha ha

The Billionaires Who Tried—and Failed—to Stop Zohran Mamdani Over 20 billionaires donated to super PACs supporting Cuomo or in opposition to the next mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

The thing about the billionaires failing to stop Mamdani is what they spent is about the equivalent as a normal person sticking a 20 in a slot machine and shrugging when it doesn't hit. Kind of a problem.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Sotomayor: your tariffs are raising money that American citizens are paying. They are not incidental; they are exercising an Article I power. "Your argument makes no sense."

We did it for you Dick Cheney

Waiting

Fellow bitter southerners,

North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote

If we get a lot of good news tonight, enjoy it AND remember that this is what we're seeing when low info folks are really only just barely starting to grasp what exactly the regime is up to

And yet they didn't get rid of "nighty night, knights." They didn't seem to have a total aversion to the camp.

the prosecution and border patrol did 1000 hours of trial prep for his testinony and “it got a little dribbly at the bottom” was the best thing they came up with.

but on the upside the border patrol guy ended up with sandwich-related ptsd.

Hey guys! New outdoor toilet just dropped.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Do something Dick Cheney would have hated and help a Palestinian family ❤️