nb_alorakid
alorakid.bsky.social
nb_alorakid
@alorakid.bsky.social
baseball + art + the end of the world

I make stuff with The Neo-Futurists (neofuturists.org) and Swearwords (http://swearwordsmusic.com/) and other places too

Chicago | he/him
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Nothing gets fixed until citizens united is defeated
NEWS: Airlines whose profits were threatened by Trump’s flight reductions funneled huge cash to the Senate Democrats who voted to help the GOP end the shutdown without preventing huge cuts to Americans’ health care.
Airlines’ Favorite Democrats Just Voted To End The Shutdown
The Senate Dems who voted to end the shutdown without extending ACA subsidies took in a third of airlines’ PAC-driven election spending last year.
www.levernews.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Why are you pretending to know anything about Chicago while calling it the Miracle Mile?
May 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards.

Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them.

forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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truly disturbing video from palatine.

agents appear to drive onto a sidewalk in pursuit. as they wrestle to put a young person in the car, the driver starts to pull away. the person recording shouts, “they’re tasing him!”

unclear if they actually used the taser, but you can hear it charging up.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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in chicago’s austin neighborhood around 8 am:

this horrific video posted to social media shows at least four feds open a person’s car door, then handcuff and abduct them from laramie avenue.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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while most eyes were on greg bovino’s early morning photo op in downtown chicago this was happening 15 miles west in suburban melrose park:

video captured around 6:30 am shows a team in four vehicles detaining a person on lake street. one agent is seen rifling through the person’s car.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
no bless yous for Giacomo, indeed
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Same energy.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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retire you worthless fuck
President Trump said on the campaign trail that he had ‘concepts of a plan’ to make health care affordable.

More than a year later… we’re still waiting for it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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This is why they were in downtown Chicago today.

"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"

Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
and his office isn't even taking voicemails now
dick durbin genuinely might be one of the most damaging people to come out of illinois in the last century
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)

the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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if you're reading this, you should come out to The Infinite Wrench soon.. we're doing some special things over at @theneo-futurists.bsky.social these days and you'd probably dig it a lot
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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The bumper says 'rugged working man'.

But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’.

Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WALMART.

(This is real. I took the screenshots.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.

Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.

It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I poured everything I had into this one. "I see you gathering, hundreds at a time, to learn, to keep watch, and bare your teeth. I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could." organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
someone should invent fruit
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Chicago Police Department doing security for federal immigration enforcement after the feds teargassed an infant in Little Village this morning #chicago www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
if you're reading this, you should come out to The Infinite Wrench soon.. we're doing some special things over at @theneo-futurists.bsky.social these days and you'd probably dig it a lot
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Indian IDOT employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was 'aware' of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM