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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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What happens when a play starts writing itself…
Interview: Rob Ackerman of BACKTALK at Abbey Theater Of Dublin
“We all have voices in our heads. Even the people who say they don't have (that inner voice), have one. You have these little suggestions you get from somewhere that aren’t from you. In BACKTALK, we h...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
@neal.house.gov I urge you to demand the immediate, full, and unrestricted resumption of critical aid into Gaza. Ensure that aid workers can safely distribute food, medical supplies, and other essential items.
September 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@markey.senate.gov I urge you to demand the immediate, full, and unrestricted resumption of critical aid into Gaza. Ensure that aid workers can safely distribute food, medical supplies, and other essential items.
September 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@warren.senate.gov I urge you to demand the immediate, full, and unrestricted resumption of critical aid into Gaza. Ensure that aid workers can safely distribute food, medical supplies, and other essential items.
September 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Best thing heard in church: The reason why we’re alive during a shitty time? This is where we’re needed the most
September 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Tick removal now!
June 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
@warren.senate.gov I strongly oppose H. Con. Res. 14, which provides benefits for the morbidly wealthy and slashes them for the rest of us. I urge you to vote against it.
May 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
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May 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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The New Far-Right Coalition That’s Out to Destroy American Democracy newrepublic.com/article/1934... via @newrepublic.com
The New Far-Right Coalition That’s Out to Destroy American Democracy
“Money, Lies, and God” argues that the failed January 6 insurrection didn’t discourage those who want to dismantle the republic. If anything, it emboldened them—and next time, they may succeed.
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April 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME
April 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff
Bronze statues of a duck and her ducklings. They each have a little white sign
April 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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A must read from the incomparable @tribelaw www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it | Laurence H Tribe
What we are currently living through is nothing less than an erasure of the building blocks of our republic – a distortion of what it means to be American
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March 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Obit for a 93-year old Episcopalian, a woman in my church community. She died this week.

Know that there's way more to those church ladies than meets the eye.

Be like her. Fight the good fight. And never give up.
March 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Perfectly captured.
February 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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December 23, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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December 22, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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December 21, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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December 20, 2024 at 1:07 PM
20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20

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December 19, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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December 18, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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