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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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Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

schumer will be able to make small talk with thune on the exercise bike again. So we have that going for us.

@schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov
Please do not cave on the shutdown. Healthcare is a human right!

Dissolve farm system, institute relegation.

The Best GPS Trackers to Keep Tabs on Your Kids & Their Stuff During Summer Camp and Beyond We tested the most popular GPS trackers, from watches to tags and key fobs, to find the best ones to keep track of your kids and all their belongings.

There are kid oriented gps trackers you can buy. Better than nothing.
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In the very near future a college student will write an essay about it, comparing it to historical works, like Twilight.

Merrick Garland slow-walked so Donald Trump could run.

Baby name rankings for the 1960s. Michael is #1. Jason is not in the top #14.

Ranking of baby names for the 1980s. Michael is #1. Jason is #11.

Ranking of baby names for the 1970s. Michael is #1. Jason is #3.

As a member of team Michael, Jason can lay some claim to Gen X due to its relative popularity in the 70s, but nothing was dominant like Michael was.

YouTube video by A Gift From Todd 🙃 (Hostile Government Takeover song from TikTok)

Felt like a good time to revisit this jam:
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Voters in California: Please vote YES on Proposition 50, the temporary redistricting measure that will fight fire with fire against cheating by the radical right in other states. Deadline to vote and to send in your ballot is Tuesday, Nov 4).

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

Probably should add that both of the mentioned stories are from Isaac Asimov.

💯 I recently read 'Foundation' and 'Nightfall' for the first time and there were several points regarding technology or society that threw me out of the story, and I'm a grown-a$$ adult who has read plenty of SF over the years.

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

Decades from now, what will we tell our children?

We are history's architects now.

Vote YES on Prop 50.
#Yeson50

Meme by Laguna Beach Democratic Party Club.

Correct. There is a buffer, but it is limited.

It's an FFRDC. Technically employees of Caltech, which runs the lab.

Ex-JPLer here. This round of layoffs( which is the ~4th in 2 years) was coming b4 the shutdown. It's about culling the science directorate and specifically the earth/climate focused missions. More to do with killing our ability to acknowledge climate crisis. Still current admin based.

To all my friends and former JPL colleagues: 🤞 for you and you can already reach out to me if you need anything.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

Thank you for giving me a reason to mute that two bit clown.

The "everyone is twelve now" theory gains steam.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I've never been closer to committing road rage than when I was taking my kid to school, waiting for a pedestrian in the cross walk so I could turn left onto the street the school is on, and someone behind me couldn't wait, drove around me (in the oncoming lane) to turn.

Image of MCU character Peggy Carter.

They got Agent Cater?

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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You seem to be pretty knowledgeable about this, so what do you think about the auto safety tools with seat belt cutters? Could they handle the flex cuffs?

Ballots are out, California!

Vote YES ON PROP 50!🗳️