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Disgusted to be represented by this coward. Sent a message to his office calling for his resignation and I hope fellow Illinoisans will do the same. We deserve better and so does democracy.

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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Never see cops in my town so of course the one time I go inside to pick up Dunkin, a cop walks in!

Yes that’s it! Very creepy.

The plant having vertebrae already feels pretty cursed…

Should have suspected he'd start micromanaging plans again after he found out my brother and I went to Collect-a-Con and a card trade show without him. Not allowed to hang out with my own brother without nephew supervision!

Once again discovering the 11 year old nibling has organized plans without informing my sister. He did ask her if they were doing anything tomorrow to make sure there wasn't a conflict this time, which is a swing in a positive direction.

As someone who works in manufacturing and hears a LOT of MAGA opinions, Democrats need to lean harder on the illegal tariffs angle. It's killing industry and even the Trump supporters are PISSED. A lot of "I didn't vote for THIS" going around.

Really seems like an obvious one. That there aren't more cheese, meat, and cracker combo advents is also strange to me. We must assemble delicious treats ourselves? In DECEMBER?

I'm coming up empty. How has no one made this yet?

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Hickory Farms makes a 12 days of charcuterie calendar. There has to be one out there that's all meats though! www.hickoryfarms.com/holiday/adve...

Fellow Pokemon Z-A players, do they ever stop leading you around by the nose? I wish to be unleashed on the city to catch pokemon and climb scaffolding at my leisure. Will they ever stop making me go through dialogue every thirty seconds.

Are you taking deep sea animal suggestions?

Last year I got the shortbread advent calendar to go with my jam advent calendar. Highly recommend it!

Last night I ate a demi baguette dipped in vodka sauce for dinner, so I’m on a good roll here.

Haven’t made it to the grocery store for a full shop this week and forgot I was out of bagels last night when I did a quick trip. Cup Noodles for breakfast it is!

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Every time I see that I laugh. Just say vegan or dairy free! It's far less weird than saying this plant is made of plants. 😂

The only thing I agree with Quentin Tarantino about is Gremlins 2. It is good! It has great gags! It gets better the more you watch it!

Boo. Gremlins 3 should be a campy revival, not whatever corny nonsense Columbus is going to come up with.

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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

The font size is also nailing that vibe. Has to be big or they won't read it.

that thing everyone said was going to happen is happening

Critics aren't giving him the monsterfucker credit he's due. He's earned it!

Mary Shelley: Describes how Frankenstein made the creature hot (Beautiful!--Great God!)

Del Toro: Makes creature less hot than Shelley describes

Critics: Del Toro made the creature too hot, it isn't what Mary Shelley wanted!

The way this trial is already going, I'm expecting the Defense attorney to submit a receipt proving there were no onions or mustard on the sandwich at all.

Post office just delivered a check to my office that went missing in the mail in May of 2024. Guess their new motto is neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the eventual completion of their appointed rounds within a 2 year time period.

Jeff Bezos is only so wealthy because he commits massive wage theft.

Oh no, my brain said, we’re starving the cloned cats I made up five minutes ago! You must wake up and solve it!

Very entertaining to me that my brain was fine with me explaining large chucks of fur could be grown into whole new cats but not accept that I haven’t purchased cat food since June!