Jes
@jwolfe73.bsky.social
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Jes
@jwolfe73.bsky.social
· Nov 14
I'm dragging this photo over from the other place and pinning it here since it makes me laugh. This is from my morning commute on the CTA Blue Line in February 2020. My first sign that things were going to get really weird, really quickly, and stay that way.
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Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
This is a card game I didn't know I needed.
There's a card game based on this! It's called Brother, Why? And you play monks in the manuscriptorium who have to justify all the weird marginalia you added to the Bible while drunk. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44...
Brother, Why?
Medieval monks try to justify their absurd margin illustrations.
boardgamegeek.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
This is a card game I didn't know I needed.
This might explain their little photo-op this morning in front of The Bean. That said, I'll believe it when I see it, until then, full steam ahead making them miserable until they finally leave.
Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge.
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.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This might explain their little photo-op this morning in front of The Bean. That said, I'll believe it when I see it, until then, full steam ahead making them miserable until they finally leave.
Join me at Beermiscuous this Wednesday at 6pm for another whistle party because we keep us safe. Supplies provided, we just need helpers.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Join me at Beermiscuous this Wednesday at 6pm for another whistle party because we keep us safe. Supplies provided, we just need helpers.
I may have been a bit overly rude to an annoying older guy in the studio today who just can't stop mansplaining everything to everyone when I snapped at him "I know how to look for an earring" when he felt the need to stop and give me instructions when I was on my hands and knees looking for it.
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I may have been a bit overly rude to an annoying older guy in the studio today who just can't stop mansplaining everything to everyone when I snapped at him "I know how to look for an earring" when he felt the need to stop and give me instructions when I was on my hands and knees looking for it.
Having a meet-up tonight with the cat sitter I hired from Rover for Thanksgiving since my usual sitter was not available. Posting this as a record of the meet-up occurring should my body never be found.
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Having a meet-up tonight with the cat sitter I hired from Rover for Thanksgiving since my usual sitter was not available. Posting this as a record of the meet-up occurring should my body never be found.
Cartoon villain energy here
This is why they were in downtown Chicago today.
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Cartoon villain energy here
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could durbin have picked a worse time to publish this?
Opinion | Trump turned the military on U.S. cities. I will continue to hold him accountable.
Excessive militarized ICE raids and misuse of the military will not make Chicago safer, writes Sen. Dick Durbin.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
could durbin have picked a worse time to publish this?
Loop peeps - I just got a text from my work that ICE is at Monroe and Michigan.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Loop peeps - I just got a text from my work that ICE is at Monroe and Michigan.
This snow storm is as disappointing as Chuck Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This snow storm is as disappointing as Chuck Schumer
Schumer should lose his position over this.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Schumer should lose his position over this.
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Nothing compares to the suffering of a senator whose flight back from Napa was just canceled.
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Nothing compares to the suffering of a senator whose flight back from Napa was just canceled.
My whole apartment smells like glorious chili
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My whole apartment smells like glorious chili
Someone who knows nothing about the U.S. rental market has some opinions.
Just rent, my god. Why are Americans so irrationally obsessed with overpaying to “own” real estate? 🏡
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Someone who knows nothing about the U.S. rental market has some opinions.
I'm so glad I took Monday off of work weeks ago for no reason. Let it snow.
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I'm so glad I took Monday off of work weeks ago for no reason. Let it snow.
Finally watching Sinners
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Finally watching Sinners
What a horrific waste of time and money just to detain three people (pepper spraying an infant aside)
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What a horrific waste of time and money just to detain three people (pepper spraying an infant aside)
In true midwestern fashion, I bought all the ingredients to make chili immediately upon hearing about a potential winter storm coming tomorrow night
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In true midwestern fashion, I bought all the ingredients to make chili immediately upon hearing about a potential winter storm coming tomorrow night
Well look at this, I didn't think they were going to pull it off.
After months of uncertainty and delay, Cook County officials announced Friday that property tax bills will be mailed on Nov. 14 and due by Dec. 15.
Cook County property tax bills will be mailed out on Nov. 14
After months of uncertainty and delay, Cook County officials announced Friday that property tax bills will be mailed on Nov. 14 and due by Dec. 15.
trib.al
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Well look at this, I didn't think they were going to pull it off.
I just realized that I don't own a large enough shovel to dig my Cana plant out from my pot 🙃
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I just realized that I don't own a large enough shovel to dig my Cana plant out from my pot 🙃
Listening to local public radio while working, and they are having a call-in show with the topic of how to talk with your kids about being tear-gassed by masked thugs. So that's a thing.
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Listening to local public radio while working, and they are having a call-in show with the topic of how to talk with your kids about being tear-gassed by masked thugs. So that's a thing.
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points