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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.

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I’m most annoyed at condescendingly reducing it to “feelings.”

Anyone have screenshots of Oates Musk posts to share?

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

He was never a progressive based on past actions or policies as people in the state familiar with him were telling everybody, but he and the media did throw around the language that he was during the election.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

I believe this 1000% now and I was a skeptic for a long time.

The bots are here to steal your life away 15 seconds at a time. You don’t get that back. The block button is an investment in your future

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

They’re cutting service to “major cities” which are all blue.

Live look at me in the workplace.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Tracking Senate Votes 2025

Four senators in the Democratic Caucus have voted with Trump more than 100 times this year:

Fetterman: 125
Hassan: 105
Shaheen: 104
King: 102

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Trump totally conked out on the job

sleepy joe

Flying (Australian) squirrel- aka sugar glider

Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.

Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

The huge swelling is an allergic type reaction to the bite, like some people get a huge welt from a mosquito bite whether they scratch it or not.

They broke the republican supermajority in the Mississippi state senate

respect to the organizers and power to the people

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.

If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

He gets to see Cuomo eat shit, for which I imagine, he’s proud

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.

Can’t think of a better encapsulation of US mainstream White House press than the fact that Trump has stated for literally YEARS that refugees seeking asylum means people from mental institutions are coming to the US and not a single reporter has pushed back on it

How to answer a loaded question.

(This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)

The way they still frame it that the primary issue is the democrats keeping the govt shut down and Trump et al.’s only error being that they thought they be reasonable and give in.

‘Nobody thought it was going to last this long’: Trump increasingly frustrated as shutdown approaches record length White House officials, at the start of the shutdown, were certain the Trump administration was better positioned to battle the left during a funding lapse.

Democrats in array.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...