Chris Metcalf
@chris.metcalf.social
“Specialization is for insects” — Lazarus Long
Old-school open data / gov tech nerd.
Pronouns: he/him/his
Opinions my own. Will not comply. Dog is not my own. Dog will comply for belly rubs.
https://chrismetcalf.net
https://proven.lol/d851d0
Old-school open data / gov tech nerd.
Pronouns: he/him/his
Opinions my own. Will not comply. Dog is not my own. Dog will comply for belly rubs.
https://chrismetcalf.net
https://proven.lol/d851d0
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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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"It’s funny that conservative commentators get so tied up in understanding how Trump picks winners and losers when the actual business operators are clear-eyed." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-nuc...
Trump's Nuclear Socialism
You’re worried about Mamdani? The real socialism is coming from inside the White House.
www.thebulwark.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"It’s funny that conservative commentators get so tied up in understanding how Trump picks winners and losers when the actual business operators are clear-eyed." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-nuc...
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Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
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We’re gonna tear down the White House ballroom (if it doesn’t collapse first).
October 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We’re gonna tear down the White House ballroom (if it doesn’t collapse first).
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This lawsuit, which demands that the House of Representatives finally seat Rep. Adelita Grijalva, has, um, fairly major implications for our democracy's survival in 2026 and beyond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This lawsuit, which demands that the House of Representatives finally seat Rep. Adelita Grijalva, has, um, fairly major implications for our democracy's survival in 2026 and beyond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Reminiscin’ this’n that and havin’ such a good time. Oo-De-Lally, Oo-De-Lally golly what a day.
October 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Reminiscin’ this’n that and havin’ such a good time. Oo-De-Lally, Oo-De-Lally golly what a day.
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Chicago today
October 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Chicago today
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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On Oct 3, I went to the Broadview ICE facility and saw unprovoked violence by Federal agents
ICE is a violent, untrained, unidentified and unaccountable agency sent by a tyrannical administration to terrorize and silence us
Tell them to leave and never come back
derekeder.com/blog/ice-in-...
ICE is a violent, untrained, unidentified and unaccountable agency sent by a tyrannical administration to terrorize and silence us
Tell them to leave and never come back
derekeder.com/blog/ice-in-...
The presence of ICE in Illinois destroys our peace
On October 3rd, I attended the protest outside the Broadview ICE facility, and witnessed firsthand unprovoked violence by Federal agents. It was at this time that Oak Park Township Trustee Juan Muñoz,...
derekeder.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
On Oct 3, I went to the Broadview ICE facility and saw unprovoked violence by Federal agents
ICE is a violent, untrained, unidentified and unaccountable agency sent by a tyrannical administration to terrorize and silence us
Tell them to leave and never come back
derekeder.com/blog/ice-in-...
ICE is a violent, untrained, unidentified and unaccountable agency sent by a tyrannical administration to terrorize and silence us
Tell them to leave and never come back
derekeder.com/blog/ice-in-...
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Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.
A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.
We need to stand up together and speak up.
A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.
We need to stand up together and speak up.
October 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.
A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.
We need to stand up together and speak up.
A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.
We need to stand up together and speak up.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
apnews.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
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Send a platoon-sized element of attractive, tattooed women with dyed hair armed with enough drugs and alcohol to share and a willingness to have casual sex to the front lines of the 82nd Airborne and you will defeat them within 72 hours. I believe in you, Portland.
October 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Send a platoon-sized element of attractive, tattooed women with dyed hair armed with enough drugs and alcohol to share and a willingness to have casual sex to the front lines of the 82nd Airborne and you will defeat them within 72 hours. I believe in you, Portland.
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A disgrace.
Border Patrol “commander” on who gets detained in Chicago.
“‘Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?’ he said to the reporter, a middle-aged man of Anglo descent.”
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Border Patrol “commander” on who gets detained in Chicago.
“‘Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?’ he said to the reporter, a middle-aged man of Anglo descent.”
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’
U.S. Border Patrol agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of inti...
chicago.suntimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A disgrace.
Border Patrol “commander” on who gets detained in Chicago.
“‘Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?’ he said to the reporter, a middle-aged man of Anglo descent.”
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Border Patrol “commander” on who gets detained in Chicago.
“‘Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?’ he said to the reporter, a middle-aged man of Anglo descent.”
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
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Today Oregon’s message to Donald Trump was loud and clear: stay out.
September 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Today Oregon’s message to Donald Trump was loud and clear: stay out.
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Fuck ICE. Cowardly bastards.
September 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Fuck ICE. Cowardly bastards.
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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