Bobo Chimpan
@bobochimpan.bsky.social
Chicago petter of cats trapped in a deteriorating shell
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Republicans constantly attack their Congressional leadership, and they remove leaders who fail to achieve the objectives desired by the base.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
Oh yeah - never a convenient time to have some real talk about the dynamic that the Democrats in the Senate are led by bunch of chumps. Certainly not after they created the conditions for yet another base demoralizing surrender.
This kind of activity is just what you should want to see, if your are a Republican, eager to see the opposition distracted by self-destructive infighting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Republicans constantly attack their Congressional leadership, and they remove leaders who fail to achieve the objectives desired by the base.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
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SCOTUS was never going to come for queer rights via a cert petition asking for an Obergefell repeal—they were always going to come for the LGBTQ community by targeting trans people. and they literally are doing that, this session. protect trans people.
open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...
open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...
Kim Davis is a Distraction
The real fight for queer rights is already in front of the Court, and people aren’t paying attention.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
SCOTUS was never going to come for queer rights via a cert petition asking for an Obergefell repeal—they were always going to come for the LGBTQ community by targeting trans people. and they literally are doing that, this session. protect trans people.
open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...
open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...
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Remember when despite the "dominance" of trans women in women's sport, no trans women qualified to compete at the last Olympics so the British press had to invent one?
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Remember when despite the "dominance" of trans women in women's sport, no trans women qualified to compete at the last Olympics so the British press had to invent one?
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Appreciate your boosting/sharing of this episode in particular. Action items at the end include a petition for Leqaa
This week’s episode is an interview with two lawyers who represent Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman who is in ICE detention for protesting genocide.
open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?
open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?
“What’s at Stake is Everything”: The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Appreciate your boosting/sharing of this episode in particular. Action items at the end include a petition for Leqaa
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Trying to piece together footage from the last few months in any coherent way just feels like making a trailer for a horror movie starring the feds...and all things considered, that's probably about where we're at.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Trying to piece together footage from the last few months in any coherent way just feels like making a trailer for a horror movie starring the feds...and all things considered, that's probably about where we're at.
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"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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I guess you can quantify the massive disconnect between party leaders and the party base they loathe
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I guess you can quantify the massive disconnect between party leaders and the party base they loathe
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"Which of These Endangers Jews?"
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Which of These Endangers Jews?"
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
New art at @truthdig.com ft. Zohran Mamdani and Jonathan Greenblatt:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/whi...
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No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
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Won’t somebody please think of the hurt feelings of the armed agents of state violence preying on vulnerable members of our communities and all others who don’t want to live in an authoritarian hellscape? They also have feelings, and those feelings must be honored.
From the outside it might look like ICE officers wear masks to avoid accountability, but in reality they are a way to avoid accountability.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Won’t somebody please think of the hurt feelings of the armed agents of state violence preying on vulnerable members of our communities and all others who don’t want to live in an authoritarian hellscape? They also have feelings, and those feelings must be honored.
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If the outcomes aren't the most important thing, it's not even politics. Politics is literally about the outcomes. What he's describing here is cosplaying.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If the outcomes aren't the most important thing, it's not even politics. Politics is literally about the outcomes. What he's describing here is cosplaying.
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This was my neighborhood today around 3pm. I estimate about a third of my neighbors didn’t shovel. We need #PlowtheSidewalks
I could make a dozen 311 reports, and those folks might get fined, but the sidewalks will still be icy and the end of the day.
@betterstreetschicago.org
I could make a dozen 311 reports, and those folks might get fined, but the sidewalks will still be icy and the end of the day.
@betterstreetschicago.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This was my neighborhood today around 3pm. I estimate about a third of my neighbors didn’t shovel. We need #PlowtheSidewalks
I could make a dozen 311 reports, and those folks might get fined, but the sidewalks will still be icy and the end of the day.
@betterstreetschicago.org
I could make a dozen 311 reports, and those folks might get fined, but the sidewalks will still be icy and the end of the day.
@betterstreetschicago.org
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We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.
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I can’t wait for the day I wake up and it’s finally the funniest day on the internet
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I can’t wait for the day I wake up and it’s finally the funniest day on the internet
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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the AI-generated chapter titles for our episodes are making me believe in the power of AI
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
the AI-generated chapter titles for our episodes are making me believe in the power of AI
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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If this is true, I expect this will be an ugly week. These fascists will want to generate more splashy fascist propaganda for their IG reels before Bovino moves on.
Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge.
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
If this is true, I expect this will be an ugly week. These fascists will want to generate more splashy fascist propaganda for their IG reels before Bovino moves on.
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Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
Ran is among my favorite films of all time. I've been lucky enough to see it on the big screen... three times? Rest well, Nakadai
Real human actor doing real human acting in a movie shot on film in which an actual physically built castle is engulfed in raging flames and the actor who can actually act makes all around him, friend and foe, cower in awe and fear, without saying a word. Try that bullshit AI. Ran will eat you alive
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Ran is among my favorite films of all time. I've been lucky enough to see it on the big screen... three times? Rest well, Nakadai
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I knew those cowards would leave after the first cold day here
CBS News Exclusive: Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say.
Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say
Some Border Patrol agents could soon leave the Chicago area, after taking a leading role in the Trump administration's controversial immigration operations in the nation's third-largest city, officials told CBS News.
cbsn.ws
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I knew those cowards would leave after the first cold day here