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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.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

northernlion dayz streams to directing predator badlands

Fabraz Producer Banner

Excited to announce the start of our Producer Program at Fabraz!

As producers we assist games financially, act as general advisors and help the devs to get the game out there with as little friction as possible!

Check the thread below for the three games involved so far! ❤️

If you were a member of The Game Awards Future Class and can speak to your experience, I want to chat with you for The Guardian!

DM me, or email alyssamerc[at]gmail[dot]com.

Signal boost please!

My favorite comment on the FT story

Hialeah elects youngest mayor in city history. His name is Bryan Calvo In a landslide victory in a crowded field, Hialeah's previous youngest councilmember makes history as the city's youngest mayor.

Hialeah elects youngest mayor in city history. His name is Bryan Calvo (via @joshceb.bsky.social) www.wlrn.org/government-p...

Higgins, Gonzalez headed to Miami's first mayoral runoff election since 2001 The runoff election will take place on December 9th.

Higgins, Gonzalez headed to Miami's first mayoral runoff election since 2001 (via @joshceb.bsky.social + @danielrivero.bsky.social) www.wlrn.org/government-p...

Has anybody called Hakeem Jeffries?

The Mamdani Era Begins His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.

Zohran Mamdani’s opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.

Spoke to a 62 year old voter today in Miami who said he wants the government to eliminate property taxes (something Florida is considering)

When I asked how his city would then pay for services, he said Trump's tariffs would pay for them. He didn't understand when I said that doesn't make sense

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Miami mayor as well

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Are you guys planning to port to mobile?

The short version: Despite layoffs, buying the game still puts money in the pockets of the developers who worked on it. Which is doubly important because they're out of a job. Boycotting the game in solidarity with them by screwing them out of money won't help anyone!

I mean ... right on?

Would be really cool if @caseyexplosion.bsky.social could make this explode...

No costume no problem 🎃
#animation #lowpoly #halloween

Pyre is $3.99 on GOG buff.ly/aIdf1fO

You make great dad jokes

POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale

CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor

I decided a few years ago I wouldn't raise my kids in Florida and will have to move when that time comes. They've made schools too much of a battleground

Have you ever seen something you couldn’t explain, like there was something lurking in the shadows?

Six One Publishing presents Blue Ridge Hunting, an online co-op horror cryptid hunting adventure by Jade Meadows 🐺

Play the demo and support on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jad...

I'm sure brick breaker was also addicting when it was the new thing.

I'm planning to get this as soon as it comes to phones

Haven't used generative AI even once

Someone on here said "gamergate was the most important event in modern politics of the last few decades" and every day I see that play out more and more

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this