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John Conor Ryan
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Co-founder: Calx Institute. @calxinstitute.social.bsky
Physicist, writer, learning to play jazz on cello.
Co-steward of https://getdweb.net/principles/ ... values for the Web we deserve.
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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
johnconorryan.bsky.social
Anyone here near Hartford in #connecticut? cos Jason here needs (may need) help with the on-the-ground logistics on this.
textfiles.com Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 19h
It is 3am in Korea and I'm trying to organize a thing. Not my favorite thing to do! But I have to give it a try. There is an auction for the remainder of the Mark Pines collection and I'm trying to organize a bid. Need money and I'm trying to coordinate a phone bid as well. A real hail mary pass.
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
johnconorryan.bsky.social
Exactly. Project 2025 explicitly describes a post-constitutional era. And (almost) all the regime's actions are following that manifesto.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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zoekeating.com
A message for the senate democrats
A message to the senate democrats
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
johnconorryan.bsky.social
I mean, what kind of Savior can't do miracles with bulgur and kale?
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d
"We’ve been really into kefir lately. Why don’t you conjure up some local honey to pair with our kefir? Or, for a real miracle, you could make gluten-free pizza that actually tastes good."
Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand, but the Five Thousand Are Gluten Free
No, of course we appreciate the gesture. It’s just that, well, this menu is a little inconsiderate. Sure, all these loaves of bread, that’s very im...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...
America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect
It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...
prospect.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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jamellebouie.net
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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If God is all-good, there are a LOT of errors in the Bible.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sacrif...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Part 1/2 of a 6-panel SMBC update where a group of people are listening to God telling them to go destroy the Canaanites because they are offering their children by fire the false god Moloch. One man in the group responds that God also requested child sacrifices (Isaac's son), which prompts God to reply that it's all good because He's real and also stopped the sacrifice. The man than points out that it took God three days to stop the sacrifice. Part 2/2 of a 6-panel SMBC update where a group of people are listening to God telling them to go destroy the Canaanites because they are offering their children by fire the false god Moloch. One man in the group responds that God also requested child sacrifices (Isaac's son), which prompts God to reply that it's all good because He's real and also stopped the sacrifice. The man than points out that it took God three days to stop the sacrifice.
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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mikehixenbaugh.com
A children’s pastor filmed girls in a church bathroom.

A preacher accused of abusing children was sent to therapy.

A worship minister who molested boys got a welcome-home party from his congregation .

All remained ministers in the Assemblies of God — all went on to abuse more children.
How Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators as they abused children
NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination.
www.nbcnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
johnconorryan.bsky.social
I despise all self-styled royalty AND yet just love the cold loathing toward Randy Andy dripping from the few, carefully chosen words in this.
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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abraham.bsky.social
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"Our AI will write your final performance review with compassion ('Crushed it, but tragically, we no longer value that') and ping you every thirty seconds with gentle reminders to remove your shit from the office."
A Clarification on AI from Your CEO
"Elijah Clark, a consultant who advises companies on AI implementation, is blunt about the bottom line. ’CEOs are extremely excited about the oppor...
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October 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
johnconorryan.bsky.social
Somehow relevant.
stevenbeschloss.bsky.social Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18d
Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.
October 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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governor.ca.gov
As Trump marches toward militarizing San Francisco:

- Memorize contact info in case of arrest
- Plan ahead if you have children or medication
- Speak out PEACEFULLY and at a distance

Stay smart, safe, and don’t give them the excuse they're wanting to escalate their crackdown.
October 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
johnconorryan.bsky.social
A joyous evening at @archive.org last night - celebrating archiving ONE TRILLION web pages, from the distant mists of earliest web times to the current day. And announces the "fundraise with us" decentralized funding campaign. @brewster.kahle.org
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Archive founder and leader Brewster Kahle leads a team of Archive employees in marking the milestone of 1,000,000,000,000 pages saved. Picture: man speaking in front of a group of people holding each of the numbers of one trillion. Archive funding director Joy Chesborough announcing the fund with us campaign. Picture shows her in front of a slide announcing "fundraise with us"
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.
October 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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"When you see someone arrested as “Antifa”, remember “Akromiya”, and how dictatorships invent nefarious entities to contain people they dislike."
How Uzbekhistan created a fantasy enemy - like Antifa - and then started arresting, and killing its opponents.
October 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM