Leor Galil
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Angel Tapes helps emerging musicians take wing - Chicago Reader
Jon-Carlo Manzo’s Fire Talk imprint Angel Tapes embodies the values of the underground by investing in artists long before they’re sure bets.
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My newest Reader music feature is all about Angel Tapes, the Chicago-based @firetalkrecs.bsky.social imprint that’s throwing a TNK showcase at Schubas next week.
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A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response
January 25, 2026 at 11:52 PM
A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in.
Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.
Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.
January 25, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in.
Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.
Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.
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I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.
January 25, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.
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Thinking about how Rev James Reeb was 38 when he answered the call to march in Selma. Before he could march, white goons beat him so hard he died two days later. As a kid, 38 seemed a sort of abtract "that's a full adult life" and while it it is it is also so so young. Good and Pretti were both 37.
January 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Thinking about how Rev James Reeb was 38 when he answered the call to march in Selma. Before he could march, white goons beat him so hard he died two days later. As a kid, 38 seemed a sort of abtract "that's a full adult life" and while it it is it is also so so young. Good and Pretti were both 37.
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We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.
They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.
If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.
If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.
They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.
If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.
If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
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i cynically but sincerely believe they actually cancelled a game because Adam Silver was worried the crowd would signal its displeasure over the government killing its citizens and hurt the television product as well of the feelings of his real life actual close personal friend Jared kushner
the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
January 25, 2026 at 1:48 AM
i cynically but sincerely believe they actually cancelled a game because Adam Silver was worried the crowd would signal its displeasure over the government killing its citizens and hurt the television product as well of the feelings of his real life actual close personal friend Jared kushner
“Tyranny is execution followed by a press release”
January 25, 2026 at 1:40 AM
“Tyranny is execution followed by a press release”
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
Hmmm what do you call it when secret police are used to overpower political rivals
🚨 Breaking from the US Senator for Connecticut. 👇
There you have it.
ICE has never been about immigration enforcement.
It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.
There you have it.
ICE has never been about immigration enforcement.
It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.
January 25, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Hmmm what do you call it when secret police are used to overpower political rivals
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Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
January 24, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
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We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
The more the world sees ICE brutalize and murder ordinary people whose existence the org ostensibly exists to protect, the more trouble this administration will have in maintaining the absolute bullshit they’re selling to their dwindling base
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The more the world sees ICE brutalize and murder ordinary people whose existence the org ostensibly exists to protect, the more trouble this administration will have in maintaining the absolute bullshit they’re selling to their dwindling base
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
that’s right
Hey friends it's 1 year since we in Weaklung released our first LP. So to celebrate we have put out a live cover of Low's When I Go Deaf for pay what you want. Any $ raised by this track will be donated to the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee. Thanks friends.
weaklungband.bandcamp.com
weaklungband.bandcamp.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:26 PM
that’s right
To think there was a time when “bands of masked goons executing citizens expressing their rights” was a thing American politicians stood against
January 24, 2026 at 4:27 PM
To think there was a time when “bands of masked goons executing citizens expressing their rights” was a thing American politicians stood against
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I don’t think immediate execution is a reasonable punishment for annoying the heavily-armed masked agents of the state.
January 24, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I don’t think immediate execution is a reasonable punishment for annoying the heavily-armed masked agents of the state.
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There’s video now. Worst thing I’ve ever seen. The entire ICE contingent needs to be arrested
January 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
There’s video now. Worst thing I’ve ever seen. The entire ICE contingent needs to be arrested
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Our community-run art gallery flooded. Building management will get the space back into habitable condition, but we lost a bunch of stuff and we're closed for who knows how long.
We're a tiny volunteer org that spends like $20K a year, so a $3,000 emergency is a big problem. Please help us out:
We're a tiny volunteer org that spends like $20K a year, so a $3,000 emergency is a big problem. Please help us out:
Donate to Help PullmanArts Recover From A Flood, organized by Soren Spicknall
On Thursday, January 22nd, our volunteer-run community art gallery flooded with … Soren Spicknall needs your support for Help PullmanArts Recover From A Flood
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January 24, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Our community-run art gallery flooded. Building management will get the space back into habitable condition, but we lost a bunch of stuff and we're closed for who knows how long.
We're a tiny volunteer org that spends like $20K a year, so a $3,000 emergency is a big problem. Please help us out:
We're a tiny volunteer org that spends like $20K a year, so a $3,000 emergency is a big problem. Please help us out:
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
January 23, 2026 at 2:28 PM
I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
Thought this was Geese [sprints away]
REM at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, July 1984.
From left: Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, and Peter Buck
Michael Houtz / Getty Images
From left: Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, and Peter Buck
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January 23, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Thought this was Geese [sprints away]
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