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 was hoping the Louvre thieves would be hot, but this is ridiculous. He looks like Al.
He's so beautiful, he looks like he's FROM the Louvre. Guess he also stole my breath because I can't breathe. Come on.
The Louvre thief has been identified as Mr. Steal Your Girl
30.10.2025 23:41 — 👍 865 🔁 139 💬 41 📌 88
the bar is playing I Will Always Love You and when I tell you it took *everything in me* to not go for the high note in front of a room of people
30.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How Legal Gambling Set the Stage For Federal Indictments of NBA Stars.
The ease and access of online betting opened the door for some of the charges facing the NBA.
The latest HANG UP AND LISTEN is out 🎧
NBA gambling indictments
@megschuster.bsky.social on F1 and Verstappen's wild comeback attempt
NFL midseason checkup
@benlindbergh.bsky.social @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/han...
27.10.2025 23:09 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
JADEN!!!!!
Jaden McDaniels slams all over Yang Hansen
23.10.2025 03:00 — 👍 102 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 11
disagree!!
20.10.2025 21:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
18.10.2025 18:27 — 👍 15633 🔁 4510 💬 15 📌 2
ok I’m officially on the M’s bandwagon
18.10.2025 01:01 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
13.10.2025 17:58 — 👍 23921 🔁 4900 💬 1550 📌 1814
the best character on television
08.10.2025 22:25 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
possibly the greatest thing ever written
06.10.2025 17:09 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
yo, what?
04.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
fair
03.10.2025 17:14 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
can I mass-sue everyone who has made me aware of the Travis Kelce Penis Song
03.10.2025 16:18 — 👍 137 🔁 9 💬 17 📌 4
don’t forget that Leslie Odom Jr appeared in Gilmore Girls
03.10.2025 03:42 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With Sandy Brondello out, Cheryl Reeve has officially been on the job longer than every other WNBA coach combined.
Cheryl Reeve's tenure: 5768 days
Every other WNBA coach combined: 4529 days
23.09.2025 15:18 — 👍 158 🔁 64 💬 4 📌 10
Spanners told me before coming on that he didn’t feel the show today would be safe for him. He was correct
21.09.2025 15:18 — 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
we really need to establish a better bar for what’s “taunting” and what’s just … human emotion
20.09.2025 17:43 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
did I just see Pat McAfee adjust his junk on live television
20.09.2025 16:07 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Ferrari fans are experiencing despair, yes. but much more dangerously to us, Williams fans are experiencing hope
20.09.2025 13:29 — 👍 195 🔁 28 💬 6 📌 3
thank you for your service
12.09.2025 03:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
50/40/90 season for Napheesa Collier
12.09.2025 01:50 — 👍 149 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 7
amazing anthem
09.09.2025 00:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’d still rather listen to Buck and Aikman over any other football announcers
09.09.2025 00:04 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
damn given the cast I was really hoping we were getting Benoit Blanc Takes the UK
08.09.2025 13:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
the Packers have a legit pass rush again. never thought I’d see the day
07.09.2025 22:48 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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