Raging Chicago Progressive
@chiprogressive.bsky.social
Expect some snark along with some history. Analysis is just my opinion, and I might be wrong… Also, I’m human without an edit button. There will be typos.
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Promises more ICE training will fix it:
February 10, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Promises more ICE training will fix it:
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Just learned that AIPAC has now jumped into a fourth open seat House race in Illinois, backing Melissa Conyears Ervin with what has been described as a $2.8 million buy (around $500k a week).
This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.
This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.
February 10, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Just learned that AIPAC has now jumped into a fourth open seat House race in Illinois, backing Melissa Conyears Ervin with what has been described as a $2.8 million buy (around $500k a week).
This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.
This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.
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This made me laugh out loud because it's so real. IT IS ON... time is of the essence, lol
This is the official two week notice whereby everyone I need to cuss out is going to get dragged before the beginning of Ramadan inshallah.
February 10, 2026 at 2:10 AM
This made me laugh out loud because it's so real. IT IS ON... time is of the essence, lol
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AIPAC-affiliated super PAC United Democracy Project (UDP), which just spent millions on ads to defeat Tom Malinowski in #NJ11, only to end up helping elect an even more progressive candidate, Analilia Mejia, has turned to Illinois
The super PAC placed a cable ad buy in #IL07 👇🏼
The super PAC placed a cable ad buy in #IL07 👇🏼
February 10, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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Ebo Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history.
His son Kweku Taylor:
“The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”
His son Kweku Taylor:
“The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”
Ebo Taylor, Ghanaian highlife pioneer and guitarist, dies age 90
Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Ebo Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history.
His son Kweku Taylor:
“The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”
His son Kweku Taylor:
“The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”
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Bad Bunny personally requested this Chicago conductor for the Super Bowl Halftime Show. blockclubchi.co/4bKoVDo
February 10, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Bad Bunny personally requested this Chicago conductor for the Super Bowl Halftime Show. blockclubchi.co/4bKoVDo
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Even now, charter school proponents are paid full-time to agitate residents into believing their government is ignoring them while pursing equity-focused initiatives.
Conservatives want a Chicago with different 'sides', it helps them kill government faster.
Conservatives want a Chicago with different 'sides', it helps them kill government faster.
February 10, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Even now, charter school proponents are paid full-time to agitate residents into believing their government is ignoring them while pursing equity-focused initiatives.
Conservatives want a Chicago with different 'sides', it helps them kill government faster.
Conservatives want a Chicago with different 'sides', it helps them kill government faster.
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President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:36 PM
President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
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this school has a fascinating story
it started as an elementary, they added on to make a junior high, they built the high school addition to encourage attendance
they worked with students to make a schedule so kids still work and make wages to help their families
and it was a community center
it started as an elementary, they added on to make a junior high, they built the high school addition to encourage attendance
they worked with students to make a schedule so kids still work and make wages to help their families
and it was a community center
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
this school has a fascinating story
it started as an elementary, they added on to make a junior high, they built the high school addition to encourage attendance
they worked with students to make a schedule so kids still work and make wages to help their families
and it was a community center
it started as an elementary, they added on to make a junior high, they built the high school addition to encourage attendance
they worked with students to make a schedule so kids still work and make wages to help their families
and it was a community center
Send her right back to hard prison...
apnews.com/article/jeff...
apnews.com/article/jeff...
Ghislaine Maxwell appeals for clemency from Trump as she declines to answer questions from lawmakers
House lawmakers tried to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be incrimina...
apnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Send her right back to hard prison...
apnews.com/article/jeff...
apnews.com/article/jeff...
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PS To call a judicial warrant a "bureaucratic hoop" means you don't understand justice or law. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
February 9, 2026 at 7:47 PM
PS To call a judicial warrant a "bureaucratic hoop" means you don't understand justice or law. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
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Revenge of the SMEs on software engineers
Anthropic and Google now seem to get that the primary value people get out of AI is doing annoying work they don't want to do (coding, basic research, drafting emails, etc), OpenAI/XAI/Meta seem to still think image/video slop and search replacement are the future
February 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Revenge of the SMEs on software engineers
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Did you know that Bad Bunny has a nonprofit foundation called Good Bunny that empowers underserved children and youth in PR through music, arts, and sports?
www.goodbunnyfoundation.org
www.goodbunnyfoundation.org
Home
Nonprofit founded in 2018 empowering talented youth in Puerto Rico through music, arts, and sports programs. Join our mission to support future stars.
www.goodbunnyfoundation.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Did you know that Bad Bunny has a nonprofit foundation called Good Bunny that empowers underserved children and youth in PR through music, arts, and sports?
www.goodbunnyfoundation.org
www.goodbunnyfoundation.org
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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True story! Has there been a better year to talk about history & journalism? A year long project that begins this evening with @jamellebouie.net. Will I get to even half the questions I want to ask?! Unlikely!
Hope you'll join us & share -- registration info to join the webinar ⬇️
Hope you'll join us & share -- registration info to join the webinar ⬇️
TODAY!
Join us at 5 p.m. EST for a conversation between JCB Library Director Karin Wulf and NYTimes columnist Jamelle Bouie.
For 2026, the JCB is hosting the series Journalism and History When History Is News. More details at jcblibrary.org!
Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Join us at 5 p.m. EST for a conversation between JCB Library Director Karin Wulf and NYTimes columnist Jamelle Bouie.
For 2026, the JCB is hosting the series Journalism and History When History Is News. More details at jcblibrary.org!
Register here: brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
February 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
True story! Has there been a better year to talk about history & journalism? A year long project that begins this evening with @jamellebouie.net. Will I get to even half the questions I want to ask?! Unlikely!
Hope you'll join us & share -- registration info to join the webinar ⬇️
Hope you'll join us & share -- registration info to join the webinar ⬇️
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The other governors should uninvite themselves
February 9, 2026 at 4:56 AM
The other governors should uninvite themselves
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“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
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I joined @sashaingber.bsky.social to discuss links between Epstein and Russian intelligence. Spoiler: They used the same organized crime networks. Mutually beneficial and symbiotic might be good words to describe the relationship. open.substack.com/pub/sashaing...
Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence
Just how close was Jeffrey Epstein to Russian intelligence?
open.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
I joined @sashaingber.bsky.social to discuss links between Epstein and Russian intelligence. Spoiler: They used the same organized crime networks. Mutually beneficial and symbiotic might be good words to describe the relationship. open.substack.com/pub/sashaing...
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*laughs in LatAm/Carribbean history*
They missed the plantation for the trees here.
They missed the plantation for the trees here.
Analysis: Weeks before he set foot on the stage, Bad Bunny’s halftime performance had already become a media event.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
But if you were looking for political commentary, the closest that you got was when he said “God bless America” in English.
Analysis | Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was expected to provoke. Did it?
The Bad Bunny Super Bowl show nodded to injustices in Puerto Rico but mostly evoked wholesome family values that meshed with the more sentimental commercials.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
*laughs in LatAm/Carribbean history*
They missed the plantation for the trees here.
They missed the plantation for the trees here.
LONDON (AP) — Palace says King Charles III will support police who are assessing reports that ex-Prince Andrew gave files to Epstein.
February 9, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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i think people mad about bad bunny’s performance have never been forced to consider that not everything is for you
February 9, 2026 at 4:40 AM
i think people mad about bad bunny’s performance have never been forced to consider that not everything is for you
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That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."
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I feel safer in the middle of the night in any mid to large city than any small town.
February 9, 2026 at 4:23 AM
I feel safer in the middle of the night in any mid to large city than any small town.
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"Cities are scary"
Counter-point: I left a Chicago super bowl party and saw revelers walking home with pots, and got offered a free beer waiting for my train home
Counter-point: I left a Chicago super bowl party and saw revelers walking home with pots, and got offered a free beer waiting for my train home
February 9, 2026 at 4:16 AM
"Cities are scary"
Counter-point: I left a Chicago super bowl party and saw revelers walking home with pots, and got offered a free beer waiting for my train home
Counter-point: I left a Chicago super bowl party and saw revelers walking home with pots, and got offered a free beer waiting for my train home
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Regardless, the show was full of history and symbology. Timely and thought provoking. Also, just damn joyful.
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Regardless, the show was full of history and symbology. Timely and thought provoking. Also, just damn joyful.