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Leslie R

@chicagoredhead.bsky.social

Progressive Chicagoan, parent of teenagers, art quilt maker, critic of philanthropic foundations while running one.

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Ghost bus’d again, @chicagocta.bsky.social 49B 🀬

22.10.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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That South Shore building that was raided by CBP and ICE?

www.facebook.com/share/p/1D1X...

therealdeal.com/chicago/2025...

10.10.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's called civil war. No.

06.10.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Logan Square is a melting pot neighborhood β€” multi generational immigrants, younger people owning their first homes, a fair bit of gentrification, with some of Chicago’s best restaurants, bars, retail. Think maybe Greenpoint or Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn or Silver Lake in LA. Now with tear gas.

03.10.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2

U1

22.09.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

21.09.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 59134    πŸ” 16362    πŸ’¬ 1345    πŸ“Œ 634

What I would do is...

THEN DO IT. Fucking hell JUST DO IT.

15.09.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 274    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't forget the PSAs! This is your brain...this is your brain on drugs! <sizzle> The More You Know!

15.09.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Journalistic malpractice in broad daylight.

The phrases on the bullets refer specifically to groyper memes, meaning Tyler followed right wing hatemonger Nick Fuentes, who hated Charlie Kirk.

If CNN doesn’t know about right wing internet culture, it should just stop covering politics.

Kid is MAGA.

12.09.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Notes on the Crises Until Further Notice, Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025

Took me about 4 or 5 days longer than I wanted but I've finally written the first part of my series on Racial Segregation and the Federal Reserve. What's 4700 words between friends? Please subscribe so that the decision to take on this undertaking was not in vain

www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup

09.09.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

So, Chicago, it's your turn now and man, I am so so sorry. Nobody should have to go through this. This is awful. This is fascism. Organize. Step up. Don't think other people will do it -- the might, maybe even they will, but they need you, too. Be like LA -- be sand in their gears. 9/

07.09.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4158    πŸ” 682    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 37

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at sheryl@weikallaw.com if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

06.09.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4709    πŸ” 2653    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 85
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Sending National Guard to Chicago could cost taxpayers nearly $1.6 million a day, analysis says The estimated cost is based on figures from past deployments and on 3,000 troops potentially being sent to Chicago, though no official number has been made public.

Reminder the DOJ cancelled $16 million in *annual* contracts to violence interrupters on the ground actually making positive change in the city

Sending National Guard to Chicago could cost taxpayers nearly $1.6 million a day, analysis says - Chicago Sun-Times share.google/pnMxVRbchWQG...

05.09.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It hasn't changed. Come visit!

05.09.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A gentle fountain sprays water in a pond with an island of lush green trees under a blue sky with white fluffy clouds.

A gentle fountain sprays water in a pond with an island of lush green trees under a blue sky with white fluffy clouds.

The killing fields of Chicago.

27.08.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cracker Barrel is what you get when you take Southern cuisine and remove Black people.

21.08.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 6342    πŸ” 663    πŸ’¬ 349    πŸ“Œ 72

I had a Chicago baby bunny in my yard this spring! Watching them is the best. So simple and yet so rewarding. πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ

20.08.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Audra McDonald is the MVP of The Gilded Age finale and also everything.

11.08.2025 02:03 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But it’s finally nice enough to open the windows!! 😭

31.07.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ever since Monsters Inc I call each one Randall. But they still kinda freak me out.

31.07.2025 03:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When you lose Nick Fuentes

Nick Fuentes to Trump: "FΓΊck you. You suck. You're fat, you're a joke, you're stupid, you're not funny... This entire thing has been a scam. We're gonna look back at MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history. The liberals were right we will see Trump as a scam artist."

17.07.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2479    πŸ” 878    πŸ’¬ 328    πŸ“Œ 397

He wants Mexican Coke but won't admit it lmao

16.07.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1036    πŸ” 148    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 6
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Blood-curdling as it may sound, there was a widely accepted and celebrated trend at that time in America of White people openly using Black babies as baits to lure alligators and crocodiles for hunting and recreation purposes. 2.0 Trump administration revisits an old american tradition.

04.07.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

stripping 12M Americans of their healthcare BEFORE the Luigi trial is such bad pr I know they don’t care but holy shit are they asking for a revolution

02.07.2025 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 525    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 9

My friend, we didn’t have gun massacres in school back then. All we had to worry about were nukes from the USSR. Forgive me if I’m mis-aging you!

24.06.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes but have you tried pulling invasive morning glory weeds so carefully you get inches of root?

22.06.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œDEI” wth a hard R

20.06.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 10664    πŸ” 1945    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 26

"I'll simply mother them correctly" I used to think when I saw kids screaming in public. But nothing actually matters, children scream because theyre alive

19.06.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

What better way to observe the end of slavery than a rich old white man yelling to work harder.

19.06.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 16407    πŸ” 3190    πŸ’¬ 232    πŸ“Œ 104

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