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I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
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As budget talks stall out, I keep coming back to this one.
From a budget perspective, CPD operations are almost entirely discretional. (Mind you, pensions and lawsuits are another matter.)
It is an active choice to prioritize this spending above all other spending, year after year.
From a budget perspective, CPD operations are almost entirely discretional. (Mind you, pensions and lawsuits are another matter.)
It is an active choice to prioritize this spending above all other spending, year after year.
I'll close with a reminder I give every year: unlike our other billion-dollar-plus departments, CPD is almost entirely paid for with the general-purpose corporate fund.
Out of every dollar spent on the police budget, roughly 94 cents could be spent on any other city department, if Council wanted.
Out of every dollar spent on the police budget, roughly 94 cents could be spent on any other city department, if Council wanted.
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
As budget talks stall out, I keep coming back to this one.
From a budget perspective, CPD operations are almost entirely discretional. (Mind you, pensions and lawsuits are another matter.)
It is an active choice to prioritize this spending above all other spending, year after year.
From a budget perspective, CPD operations are almost entirely discretional. (Mind you, pensions and lawsuits are another matter.)
It is an active choice to prioritize this spending above all other spending, year after year.
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This election fixes a weird problem Seattle has had for a while. Seattle has municipal courts. One of its muni judges, Pooja Vaddadi, is an ex-public defender. Unlike the judge she replaced in 2023, she doesn’t just take the word of police and requires the City Attorneys to prove their case.
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This election fixes a weird problem Seattle has had for a while. Seattle has municipal courts. One of its muni judges, Pooja Vaddadi, is an ex-public defender. Unlike the judge she replaced in 2023, she doesn’t just take the word of police and requires the City Attorneys to prove their case.
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like i think we want to imagine they're at least good at being evil, because it's humiliating to really accept that sharp and perceptive people can be creative and work hard and still be crushed by the unthinking weight of simple accumulation. but that is the situation
November 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
like i think we want to imagine they're at least good at being evil, because it's humiliating to really accept that sharp and perceptive people can be creative and work hard and still be crushed by the unthinking weight of simple accumulation. but that is the situation
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it's hard to accept that power and wealth do not require you to be smart or savvy in some way both bc we're told they do and also because it's insulting, but. here we are.
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
it's hard to accept that power and wealth do not require you to be smart or savvy in some way both bc we're told they do and also because it's insulting, but. here we are.
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No, *not* ICE. Illinois State Police/Cook County Sheriff Officers/Broadview Police Department.
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
No, *not* ICE. Illinois State Police/Cook County Sheriff Officers/Broadview Police Department.
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at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
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Its a never ending metro sprawl of 10 million, there's a ton of ways to split us up, none change that its all one big place being impacted by the same thing
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Its a never ending metro sprawl of 10 million, there's a ton of ways to split us up, none change that its all one big place being impacted by the same thing
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The out-of-town thing pisses me off because while yes, I'm sure that she's annoyed that all these city people keep commuting into her burb to make a bunch of noise and disrupt the lives of residents, *my fucking neighbors* are locked inside that building. We're just following our people.
also by “out-of-towners” thompson means clergy from multiple faiths who sang, prayed, and tried to deliver religious services to the people imprisoned inside the broadview ice jail.
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The out-of-town thing pisses me off because while yes, I'm sure that she's annoyed that all these city people keep commuting into her burb to make a bunch of noise and disrupt the lives of residents, *my fucking neighbors* are locked inside that building. We're just following our people.
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Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
Tear gas, car crashes, rubber bullets: Risky tactics have driven Trump’s Chicago deportation ‘blitz’
Law enforcement experts say federal agents have displayed a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy says.
tinyurl.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
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This is flatly untrue given that Landon Thomas was emailing Epstein from his work email. The NYT has had access to these emails since the moment they were sent.
We’re seeing materials that no journalists, not Julie Brown, not Ronan Farrow, not anyone from any paper, managed to get access to before now. The conspiracy theories bouncing around about NYT are nothing more than a show people’s ignorance of what goes into a real piece of investigative journalism
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is flatly untrue given that Landon Thomas was emailing Epstein from his work email. The NYT has had access to these emails since the moment they were sent.
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We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
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it's wild how that policy only exists for e.g. broke single moms whose boyfriend picked up a sex worker in their car, or someone traveling with their life savings in cash, and not for sex criminal turbofascists slinging millions around to make the world a worse place
The next administration needs to remember civil asset forfeiture.
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
it's wild how that policy only exists for e.g. broke single moms whose boyfriend picked up a sex worker in their car, or someone traveling with their life savings in cash, and not for sex criminal turbofascists slinging millions around to make the world a worse place
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Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
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Attacking a federal district judge as an “activist” for issuing a lawful ruling is an assault on judicial independence. A democracy cannot function when executive agencies denigrate judges for doing their jobs.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Attacking a federal district judge as an “activist” for issuing a lawful ruling is an assault on judicial independence. A democracy cannot function when executive agencies denigrate judges for doing their jobs.
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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My mom was telling me she doesn’t watch Univision anymore because she always hears Kristi Noem ads on the local Univision radio station. She told me the ads promote self-deporting for $1000 and are in English. She said “these are Spanish language stations.” She feels it’s a betrayal to their base.
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
My mom was telling me she doesn’t watch Univision anymore because she always hears Kristi Noem ads on the local Univision radio station. She told me the ads promote self-deporting for $1000 and are in English. She said “these are Spanish language stations.” She feels it’s a betrayal to their base.
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
letting out a big yawn as I walk into the bathroom to let all the dudes at the urinal know I've seen it before
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
letting out a big yawn as I walk into the bathroom to let all the dudes at the urinal know I've seen it before
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If the point is to inflict suffering so people forego the judicial process, this it's face discrediting of the process.
The courts that don't act on this knowledge are violating the US Constitution.
The courts that don't act on this knowledge are violating the US Constitution.
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
If the point is to inflict suffering so people forego the judicial process, this it's face discrediting of the process.
The courts that don't act on this knowledge are violating the US Constitution.
The courts that don't act on this knowledge are violating the US Constitution.
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NEW: In a newsy pre-dawn @waytooearly.bsky.social interview just hours after the House voted to re-open the government, Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the Senate-brokered deal “disappointing” but maintained Senate Dems, including Schumer, “waged a valiant fight” on the ongoing healthcare crisis. 1/x
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
NEW: In a newsy pre-dawn @waytooearly.bsky.social interview just hours after the House voted to re-open the government, Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the Senate-brokered deal “disappointing” but maintained Senate Dems, including Schumer, “waged a valiant fight” on the ongoing healthcare crisis. 1/x
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Meanwhile the NYT defamed me because … checks notes … I didn’t think the guy who backed psychological warfare and ran NASA while it purged LGBTQ people shouldn’t have a telescope named after him at the behest of a guy who has had it out for me because of an argument about Robert’s Rules
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Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Meanwhile the NYT defamed me because … checks notes … I didn’t think the guy who backed psychological warfare and ran NASA while it purged LGBTQ people shouldn’t have a telescope named after him at the behest of a guy who has had it out for me because of an argument about Robert’s Rules
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