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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-...

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This is the guy. No notes

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Laura Loomer tweeting WOKE MARXIST POPE

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a

08.05.2025 21:48 — 👍 707 🔁 123 💬 16 📌 5

Either show me a monkey doing syncopated blastbeats at 200 bpm or stfu

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@steamroom.bsky.social

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Happy REAL ID Enforcement Day to all who celebrate!

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@steamroom.bsky.social

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I’m at the Armenian restaurant. I’m at the gay bar. I’m at the combination Armenian restaurant-gay bar.

28.04.2025 19:16 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Sounds of Succulence Listen to Sounds of Succulence, a playlist curated by Dr Pepper on desktop and mobile.

Dr. Peppers ambient album isn’t terrible.

m.soundcloud.com/drpepper_off...

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@jon.wprb.com

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@troubleinmind.bsky.social Killing it this year so far

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even in loss the libs are still more upset with the left than the nazis

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YouTube video by Facundo Murias Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head (1977)

OC95

Ornette forever, now more than ever.
A harmolodic world is still possible!

Happy birthday, old man. And thanks for everything.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=23QV...

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Ha

24.02.2025 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I still think the Woodstock ‘99 doc is our most politically explanatory film.

Young white men, unhappy that women are on television, and unaware that they themselves are locked in an anarchocapitalist prison, generate sociality
by stewing in their own filth and eventually burning down everything.

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It’s been broken in, proper

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Absolutely. Solid table and that cart has very minimal hours. It was just too much for me.

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Almost positive that was mine at one point…

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Whoa

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Razzle’s revenge

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THIS. This is how you do it. @troubleinmind.bsky.social #facs

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I got my depressed friend a toaster that floats as a prank

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We need a youth movement right now, but I fear it was defeated 20 chess moves ago when the culture was homogenized to favor introverted ASMR I-just-can’t-adult-today-ism. Punk bands gripe about money. Every book/movie is a tentpole product. Feelings are emojis. I’m sorry we let this happen to you.

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