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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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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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-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.
October 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.
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Disney learned nothing from Andor.
September 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Disney learned nothing from Andor.
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It's bullshit that I agree with David Frum. Things shouldn't have sunk so low that we've reached our level of agreement! We should be in the realm where we disagree on every issue in the news!
David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."
September 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It's bullshit that I agree with David Frum. Things shouldn't have sunk so low that we've reached our level of agreement! We should be in the realm where we disagree on every issue in the news!
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If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
August 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
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In the name of Ann Richards, Molly Ivans, Sarah Weddington. And Barbara Jordan, I'm here to tell you Texans are rising to save our democracy!
August 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
In the name of Ann Richards, Molly Ivans, Sarah Weddington. And Barbara Jordan, I'm here to tell you Texans are rising to save our democracy!
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Delighted to share the latest episode of "The Spiritual Life," with our guest Stephen Colbert. It's an open, honest, inspiring (and funny) conversation about his spiritual life, which touches on the loss of his father and two brothers at an early age, his... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p9H...
Stephen Colbert | The Spiritual Life with Fr. James Martin, S.J.
YouTube video by America - The Jesuit Review
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July 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Delighted to share the latest episode of "The Spiritual Life," with our guest Stephen Colbert. It's an open, honest, inspiring (and funny) conversation about his spiritual life, which touches on the loss of his father and two brothers at an early age, his... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p9H...
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Brutal Trump takedown by @governor.ca.gov Newsom
June 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Brutal Trump takedown by @governor.ca.gov Newsom
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I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.
Breaking WSJ:
The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Mike Waltz has left the chat.
May 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Mike Waltz has left the chat.
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What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
April 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.
11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
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Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Boyfriend: "I mean Wilson Fisk is basically Trump, right?"
Me: "How dare you insult Kingpin! Fisk is actually smart, successful in his business, honest about his crimes, and respectful to women."
Me: "How dare you insult Kingpin! Fisk is actually smart, successful in his business, honest about his crimes, and respectful to women."
March 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Boyfriend: "I mean Wilson Fisk is basically Trump, right?"
Me: "How dare you insult Kingpin! Fisk is actually smart, successful in his business, honest about his crimes, and respectful to women."
Me: "How dare you insult Kingpin! Fisk is actually smart, successful in his business, honest about his crimes, and respectful to women."
After my mom died, I got a call from our financial guy, expressing his condolences and reminding me that she was the secondary beneficiary on my accounts, which needed to be changed. I had not informed him of her death; he found out from Social Security. Elon is out of his gawd damned mind.
February 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
After my mom died, I got a call from our financial guy, expressing his condolences and reminding me that she was the secondary beneficiary on my accounts, which needed to be changed. I had not informed him of her death; he found out from Social Security. Elon is out of his gawd damned mind.
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LET’S. DO. THIS. 😎✨
January 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
LET’S. DO. THIS. 😎✨
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I would be more inclined to give Elon the benefit of the doubt over the Sieg Heil salute if he hadn't just endorsed the closest thing Germany has today to the Nazi party
January 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I would be more inclined to give Elon the benefit of the doubt over the Sieg Heil salute if he hadn't just endorsed the closest thing Germany has today to the Nazi party
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Permanent mood.
January 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Permanent mood.
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www.texastribune.org/2025/01/20/c...
My heart is breaking 💔
With GREAT sadness
The world lost the BEST OF US
Only 67 tragically taken away
SHE DID SO MUCH FOR WOMEN
Not just Texas all over our Country
Her MOM, the late great Governor of TX Ann Richards
My heartfelt condolences
My heart is breaking 💔
With GREAT sadness
The world lost the BEST OF US
Only 67 tragically taken away
SHE DID SO MUCH FOR WOMEN
Not just Texas all over our Country
Her MOM, the late great Governor of TX Ann Richards
My heartfelt condolences
Longtime Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards dies after battle with brain cancer
Richards, the eldest daughter of Gov. Ann Richards, forged her own path as a tireless advocate for women across Texas and the United States.
www.texastribune.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
www.texastribune.org/2025/01/20/c...
My heart is breaking 💔
With GREAT sadness
The world lost the BEST OF US
Only 67 tragically taken away
SHE DID SO MUCH FOR WOMEN
Not just Texas all over our Country
Her MOM, the late great Governor of TX Ann Richards
My heartfelt condolences
My heart is breaking 💔
With GREAT sadness
The world lost the BEST OF US
Only 67 tragically taken away
SHE DID SO MUCH FOR WOMEN
Not just Texas all over our Country
Her MOM, the late great Governor of TX Ann Richards
My heartfelt condolences