Leor Galil
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What happens when a teen rock scene grows up? - Chicago Reader
The Hallogallo scene has produced international successes—Horsegirl, Friko, Lifeguard—as its grassroots DIY spirit spreads beyond Chicago.
chicagoreader.com
Since 2022, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Friko have gone global—but what happened with the teen scene they grew out of? I talked to 18 different people about the Hallogallo scene now
chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
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begrudging congratulations to bari weiss, who manages to perfectly capture the zeitgeist of 2025 with "what's the point of standards?"
“I’ve been hearing that 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 also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
begrudging congratulations to bari weiss, who manages to perfectly capture the zeitgeist of 2025 with "what's the point of standards?"
Tribune editorial board type post
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Tribune editorial board type post
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it snowed one time and they’re packing it in
News: Feds are said to be on their way out of Chicago in the near future. Via @jmetr22b.bsky.social and me www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
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.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
it snowed one time and they’re packing it in
You should support Stereogum today
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
You should support Stereogum today
Very sun-times to hold off on writing about Adamn Killa till he got arrested for doing arrest me daddy lol chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/11...
Chicago rapper Adamn Killa tells cops to 'arrest me, daddy.' Getting arrested won't stop him.
Adam Kelly, who goes by the stage name Adamn Killa, was handcuffed and briefly held in a squad car after interrupting a traffic stop for one of his social media videos. After he was released, he went ...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Very sun-times to hold off on writing about Adamn Killa till he got arrested for doing arrest me daddy lol chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/11...
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the scope of the feds’ invasion cannot be overstated. this isn’t limited to chicago or even cook county.
Understand that he's talking about distances of ~50 miles apart here.
feds have also been seen at or abducted people from bensenville, blue island, glendale heights, and mount prospect.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
the scope of the feds’ invasion cannot be overstated. this isn’t limited to chicago or even cook county.
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while most eyes were on greg bovino’s early morning photo op in downtown chicago this was happening 15 miles west in suburban melrose park:
video captured around 6:30 am shows a team in four vehicles detaining a person on lake street. one agent is seen rifling through the person’s car.
video captured around 6:30 am shows a team in four vehicles detaining a person on lake street. one agent is seen rifling through the person’s car.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
while most eyes were on greg bovino’s early morning photo op in downtown chicago this was happening 15 miles west in suburban melrose park:
video captured around 6:30 am shows a team in four vehicles detaining a person on lake street. one agent is seen rifling through the person’s car.
video captured around 6:30 am shows a team in four vehicles detaining a person on lake street. one agent is seen rifling through the person’s car.
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Things one should consider when selecting sandwiches for projectile purposes: Is it from a business I feel strongly about supporting? Will the sandwich make a significant impact? Will I be very sad to have lost the opportunity to eat said sandwich?
Last week the “D.C. Sandwich Guy” was found not guilty of misdemeanor assault. We can’t foresee the full implications of this verdict yet; only time will tell the true meaning of this acquittal as precedent. But from where we’re sitting: sure seems like sandwich terrorism is now legal in the USA.
Sandwich Terrorism Is Now Legal. Also, Here Are Some Sandwiches We Like
COYOTE does not condone violence, only sandwiches.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Things one should consider when selecting sandwiches for projectile purposes: Is it from a business I feel strongly about supporting? Will the sandwich make a significant impact? Will I be very sad to have lost the opportunity to eat said sandwich?
“we learned about this from tiktok and wanted a photo opp for our fascist propaganda campaign” org
Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“we learned about this from tiktok and wanted a photo opp for our fascist propaganda campaign” org
“My father started to feel like a ghost. The distance wasn’t just physical. It felt as if I was losing the man who raised me.”
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“My father started to feel like a ghost. The distance wasn’t just physical. It felt as if I was losing the man who raised me.”
If you’re looking for a nice longread to remind you of what people can do when working together, may I recommend this story I wrote, thank you
Since 2022, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Friko have gone global—but what happened with the teen scene they grew out of? I talked to 18 different people about the Hallogallo scene now
chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
What happens when a teen rock scene grows up? - Chicago Reader
The Hallogallo scene has produced international successes—Horsegirl, Friko, Lifeguard—as its grassroots DIY spirit spreads beyond Chicago.
chicagoreader.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
If you’re looking for a nice longread to remind you of what people can do when working together, may I recommend this story I wrote, thank you
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A govt shutdown is like a strike in the sense that before you start it you MUST have a concrete idea of what your leverage is and what will cause your opponent to fold. Ironically the Dems' strongest leverage point was probably "fucked up Thanksgiving travel" and they folded just before it came.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A govt shutdown is like a strike in the sense that before you start it you MUST have a concrete idea of what your leverage is and what will cause your opponent to fold. Ironically the Dems' strongest leverage point was probably "fucked up Thanksgiving travel" and they folded just before it came.
A 1-year-old girl has to get specialist care after ICE pepper-sprayed her family’s car—and a host of others—while they were in line to exit a Sam’s Club parking lot
1-year-old, pepper sprayed by federal agent in Cicero: 'My daughter didn't have to go through this'
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam's Club on Saturday morning. The action appears to violate a judge's restric...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
A 1-year-old girl has to get specialist care after ICE pepper-sprayed her family’s car—and a host of others—while they were in line to exit a Sam’s Club parking lot
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No one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like Democratic leadership. Count on it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
No one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like Democratic leadership. Count on it.
that’s right
'So much of what made the original small scene really special was how insular it was and how hermetically sealed it felt from the outside world,' Eli says. They see Horsegirl’s big 2022 release show as a turning point. 'I think everyone was like, ‘Oh wow, this could be our lives.’'"
What happens when a teen rock scene grows up? - Chicago Reader
The Hallogallo scene has produced international successes—Horsegirl, Friko, Lifeguard—as its grassroots DIY spirit spreads beyond Chicago.
chicagoreader.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
that’s right
If Verhoeven put this in a movie…
Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If Verhoeven put this in a movie…
smash mouth must’ve been on the other page…
In his Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech, Jack White shouted out over 30 acts that inspired the White Stripes – none of whom have been inducted
www.stereogum.com/2329132/whit...
www.stereogum.com/2329132/whit...
November 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
smash mouth must’ve been on the other page…
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This is how to write a headline about repeated liars.
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is how to write a headline about repeated liars.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
Crossing Delancey, a movie that made me romantic for New York
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Crossing Delancey, a movie that made me romantic for New York
Bovino is a huge dork who posts like a tryhard uncle who forces drinks on his siblings’ underage kids in a desperate attempt to look cool. Just mind-boggling that this loser is responsible for so much pain around here.
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Bovino is a huge dork who posts like a tryhard uncle who forces drinks on his siblings’ underage kids in a desperate attempt to look cool. Just mind-boggling that this loser is responsible for so much pain around here.
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“Next to the car, a man screamed and stripped off his shirt. Another woman spoke to him in Spanish, telling him to let her put water on his head. The man and the baby had both been hit by pepper spray.”
Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
“Next to the car, a man screamed and stripped off his shirt. Another woman spoke to him in Spanish, telling him to let her put water on his head. The man and the baby had both been hit by pepper spray.”