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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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I can HEAR this 🙃

WHY WOULD YOU WALK INTO A GAME SEVEN SITUATION LIKE “WHAT WE NEED IN THIS ELIMINATION GAME IS SOME OF THAT TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS MOJO,” VLADDY?! WHY!?!?

#WANTITALL

#CanesAfterDark

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

Glass seats are fun for the experience but it’s definitely harder to follow the game. Behind the goal is better than sidelines IMO - you can still watch plays develop and see the whole ice. Behind the bench is also fun & often cheaper than front row

If Dundon wants to do something for these *grown ass adults* (too many people are talking about them as kids), send him a check. Don’t coerce others to support your chosen charity case.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

I make my entire putting-two-kids-through-college living based on people clicking on things I write. And I assure you: you will
lose nothing by leaving Twitter. It won't make a shred of difference. If you're there because you think you need to be for professional reasons you are wrong.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Jules, this is Brian. Listen, I'm on an airplane that's been hijacked. If things don't go well, and it's not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to do good, go have good times. Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I'll see you when ..

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Screenshot of a map route from Horneytown to Climax - 28 minutes, 26 miles

Want to feel old? There is a ‘90s exhibit at the history museum.

I don’t want the NIH to be fucking profitable, I want it to cure cancer and Alzheimer’s

When you strip away humanity

It costs less to house the homeless than it will to criminalize them.

ICE is violating the rights and due process of thousands of immigrants.

It's incumbent upon all of us to stand up and speak out.

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

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Open Letter to the Guy with “Dad” in His LinkedIn Headline Dear LinkedIn Dad, When I scrolled past your LinkedIn headline, proudly announcing your “dad” status, I paused. It’s possible that, depending on ho...

"LinkedIn Dad, do you ever hide your status as a parent at work? Because I do, even as it continually announces itself via calls from daycare during the work day or the pacifier that fell out of my laptop bag at my annual review."

+Patches

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Amazing idea! $10/goal goes to @eff.org #raiseup