Brian Kelly

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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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,

it is right.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,

it is a strength.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,

it is unlimited.

They're both great but I like B just a little bit more.

Folks, I’d like to string together a bunch of videos showing the unconscionable abuses that are taking place, and play them back-to-back-to-back on a computer monitor. I’d like to be able to easily add videos to this lil presentation when I find more. Can anyone tell me the best way I could do that?

There’s a name for this.

C O R R U P T I O N

I love how one of the first things a guy does when he realizes he's unappealing to women is to get jacked. Congrats, now you're unappealing and scary.

And I need to work on "sexy ruby check if file exists".

Go for broke and ring up Brian Eno

Truly, where would we be without the ACLU? Please donate if you can afford to!
#Censorship #ACLU #BookBans #NoBookBans #AThreadOfHope

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I'm unable to make it to a protest today so instead I am donating to the following organizations:
- alarise.org
- www.aclu.org
- indivisible.org

#NoKings

Photo of yours truly at a previous No Kings protest in Fort Payne, Alabama. I’m holding a big American flag on a pole in my left hand and in my right arm, a sign that reads, “July 4, 1776, Patriots decided against a king with immunity from the law”

THANK YOU to everyone who will go out and protest tomorrow. You’re heroes.

I’m unable to go out tomorrow, but I’m working on signs for future protests, printing out things that I & others will post around our area, and offering to watch children for anyone who is going out to protest.

#NoKings

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Well, the thumbnail image is completely terrible, but here are my new, improved #Alabama / #Auburn Magnets - now in Alabama-shape!

#Handmade #WarEagle #RollTide #Football #Sportsball #HandmadeGifts #ShopSmall #ShopLocal #SmallBusiness
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I’d like to apologize for the terrible and hurtful things I was proved to have done, there is no room for it in society and I will reflect, grow and also leave the door open to the possibility people will believe the evidence was doctored.

Listen, I'm no stranger to Robert spelunking into mankind's worst moments, but even so this story left my jaw on the floor.

Hop in loser, we're witnessing some crimes against humanity!!!

🚘 beep beep

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

He posted a snippet of it somewhere. I've seen some headlines of the song being "leaked".

He hasn't actually released the song yet, anywhere.

Imagine believing in a literal antichrist and deciding that it's a little girl who keeps trying to feed starving babies, and not a world leader who has already managed to do sixty things from the bible story titled 'here are sixty-two ways that you shall know the antichrist'

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Just released a new song by Will Vallar and myself - Time to Shine!

I did the music and production while Will did the lyrics, melody and singing.

It's Halloween themed and just a little dark...

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Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

Hey!
Do you have a band/music project?
Do you have a Halloween/spooky song?
If you send it over to me, I will put it on the Halloween playlist that will be playing in my shop all month!

#SpookySeason #HalloweenMusic #SpookyMusic #SpookySeason #RecordingArtists

A screenshot of a Sora-generated Video of Michael Jackson and Prince

we will look back on the days before AI with desperate nostalgia, longing for a time when people released albums and books and movies. before the endless river of sewage was jammed into our eyes and ears and force-fed to us, until all movement and sound became repugnant.

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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

4 panel comic Panel 1: ICE “Agent” (thug) punches protester hard in the face. Agent: STOP Panel 2: ICE Agent viciously snaps protester’s arm Agent: BEING Panel 3: ICE Agent strangles protester Agent: POLITICALLY Panel 4: ICE Agent stamps on protester’s head Agent: VIOLENT

Subtly downgrade a band

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