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@firesdie.bsky.social
Good trouble Chicagoan, leisure sport nerd, father, gardener, ex mbr of Fireside Bowl, sometimes anti-social, always anti-fascist.
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When The Undertones sang "Teenage Kicks" amid Derry's barricades, they weren't avoiding reality—they were demanding one worth living in. We explore how the everyday yearnings of Northern Irish youth became a revolutionary statement in a world that expected them to choose sides or die trying:
Teenage Kicks in a War Zone: Northern Irish Punk's Quiet Rebellion
When The Undertones sang "Teenage Kicks" amid Derry's barricades, they weren't avoiding reality—they were demanding one worth living in. How the everyday yearnings of Northern Irish youth became a revolutionary statement in a world that expected them to choose sides or die trying.
www.thetonearm.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Good for her, though playing a UAE tournament owned by human rights abusers is not always the best look.
Coco Gauff: “I don’t think people should be dying in the streets just for existing.”
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
Coco Gauff: ‘I don’t think people should be dying in the streets just for existing’
The world No 5 says she has been disturbed by events back home, and is not afraid to speak up about issues in the United States
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Good for her, though playing a UAE tournament owned by human rights abusers is not always the best look.
I will not be distracted by your roadshow antiques!
February 17, 2026 at 6:17 AM
I will not be distracted by your roadshow antiques!
Next level terror, who needs fiction anymore.
Emails indicate Epstein may have been cultivating Angel's Trumpet plants, known to produce scopolamine, a drug with potentially terrifying effects. In high doses it can leaves you zombified, unable to resist, with "profound amnesia and suggestibility."
www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...
www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...
Revealed: Epstein's chilling plant collection that 'turns humans into zombies'
Newly uncovered emails from the latest Epstein Files document dump suggest Jeffrey Epstein may have maintained a collection of highly toxic plants capable of producing a mind-altering substance, accor...
www.rawstory.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Next level terror, who needs fiction anymore.
Protest art at its finest
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Protest art at its finest
Braid / Sarge / Ghosts and Vodka / Empire State Games…aka The golden age of Midwest emotional hardcore.
Empire State Games Live at Fireside Bowl 1998-10-31 https://archive.org/details/ajc02411_empirestategames1998-10-31
Empire State Games Live at Fireside Bowl 1998-10-31 : Empire State Games : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Empire State GamesOctober 31, 1998Fireside BowlChicago, IllinoisRecording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio ArchiveSetlist: (22:20)01. Dialogue...
archive.org
February 17, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Braid / Sarge / Ghosts and Vodka / Empire State Games…aka The golden age of Midwest emotional hardcore.
Like the rotting layers of an evil onion, the truth is worse than imagined, keep digging.
(🚨) This is just the beginning. But it is one hell of a beginning. You will never see the Epstein Scandal the same way again.
And Part II is on the way.
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And Part II is on the way.
You can read this for free by clicking the red button at the link. Or subscribe for free and use this as your free article.
EXCLUSIVE: Evidence Indicates Jeffrey Epstein Was Key to 2016 Pro-Trump Election Meddling
So much attention has been paid to Epstein's serial sex crimes that we've spent too little time asking whether Trump owes his political career to a dead pedophilic rapist he can’t stop lying about.
sethabramson.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Like the rotting layers of an evil onion, the truth is worse than imagined, keep digging.
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February 17, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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Crushing…
What a brave young girl. She was brave for her family and fighting for her dad until the very end.
Ofelia Torres, Teen With Cancer Who Fought For Father's Freedom From ICE, Has Died
Torres, 16, died Friday. Her father was arrested in October, the day after she returned from more than a month at the hospital for cancer treatments. She shared her family's plight, and her was father...
blockclubchicago.org
February 15, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Crushing…
Estimated 700k+ children dead because of this fucking guy, pure fucking evil.
Russell Vought raided USAID budgets he helped gut to pay for his own security
Russell Vought raided USAID budgets he helped gut to pay for his own security
The Project 2025 guy reportedly set aside $15 million of remaining funds to protect Vought through 2026, according to Reuters.
www.motherjones.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Estimated 700k+ children dead because of this fucking guy, pure fucking evil.
Fuck DHS Fuck ICE
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Fuck DHS Fuck ICE
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February 12, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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Lots of skeletons in that Bondi closet for sure…
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Lots of skeletons in that Bondi closet for sure…
Vote out Mary Miller in Illinois 15th district, she is far right, racist and a boot licker, Elect Riley @electraley.bsky.social !
February 11, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Vote out Mary Miller in Illinois 15th district, she is far right, racist and a boot licker, Elect Riley @electraley.bsky.social !
kid rock is the poorest person here
YouTube video by Weissman score
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor Live at Schubas Tavern on 1998-10-10 https://archive.org/details/ajc01237_gybe1998-10-10_ajcproject
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Live at Schubas Tavern on 1998-10-10 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Godspeed You! Black EmperorSchubas TavernChicago, ILOctober 10th, 1998Recording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive.Lineage: Master DAT >...
archive.org
February 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Looking for something to do VD eve? I got you and it’s Leor approved!
I also wrote about gum.mp3, who will play Chop Shop next Friday
North Carolina DJ and dance producer Gum.mp3 wants you to be part of his set - Chicago Reader
State of Emergency feels like it belongs to everyone in the room, just as Gum wants for his nights of DJing.
chicagoreader.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Looking for something to do VD eve? I got you and it’s Leor approved!
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This is Trump's plot to rig the midterms — we must unite to beat it www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
This is Trump's plot to rig the midterms — we must unite to beat it
“I want to see elections be honest, and if a state can’t run an election, I think the people behind me should do something about it,” said Trump on Tuesday during a bill-signing ceremony to reopen the...
www.rawstory.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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Cross Country shuffle mix @ Caldwell Woods / Edgebrook Golf Course - Chicago
Mallrat
Bob Marley
The Replacements
AC/DC
Shudder To Think
Napalm Death
Rudimentary Peni
Dinosaur JR
Sufjan Stevens
Andrew Bird
Discharge
Frank Ocean
Operation IVY
Team Dresch
Mallrat
Bob Marley
The Replacements
AC/DC
Shudder To Think
Napalm Death
Rudimentary Peni
Dinosaur JR
Sufjan Stevens
Andrew Bird
Discharge
Frank Ocean
Operation IVY
Team Dresch
February 4, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Cross Country shuffle mix @ Caldwell Woods / Edgebrook Golf Course - Chicago
Mallrat
Bob Marley
The Replacements
AC/DC
Shudder To Think
Napalm Death
Rudimentary Peni
Dinosaur JR
Sufjan Stevens
Andrew Bird
Discharge
Frank Ocean
Operation IVY
Team Dresch
Mallrat
Bob Marley
The Replacements
AC/DC
Shudder To Think
Napalm Death
Rudimentary Peni
Dinosaur JR
Sufjan Stevens
Andrew Bird
Discharge
Frank Ocean
Operation IVY
Team Dresch
Converge, Fireside Bowl, Chicago, IL, 05.31.98
YouTube video by Press Record
m.youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Another stop on the Grief Tour.
Turning Point USA has announced the performers for their alternative Super Bowl halftime show:
Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett
Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett
February 3, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Another stop on the Grief Tour.