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it's all coming together
January 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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This week on THE GAUNTLET
we end as we began by returning to the windy city
as we crash the Polish diaspora with Pawlak and Kargul
and hit the roller disco with Bow Wow
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#182 - Chicago Guys Forever
Kochaj albo rzuc aka Love it or Leave it aka Big Deal (1977) / Roll Bounce (2005) This week we end as we began by returning to the windy city as we crash the Polish diaspora with Kargul and Pawlak an
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December 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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*tomorrow*
on THE GAUNTLET
Episode 182 - Chicago Guys Forever
December 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
marshlands.bsky.social
alright gauntlet-heads we're recording the final episode on thursday night. you have until then to hit us up with any and all dispatches, farewell or otherwise, at gauntletmoviepodcast@gmail.com
marshlands.bsky.social marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · Dec 3
Well friends, it’s been a great run but with a heavy heart we must announce that The Gauntlet is going on indefinite hiatus. Don’t worry we’re all still bffs but you know it goes. We will however be doing ONE LAST job/episode in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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If you are a fan or friend of the show we would LOVE to hear from you on our final episode, email or voice messages can be sent to gauntletmoviepodcast@gmail.com or DM marshlands in the next week or two!
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Seattle-area cinephiles take note of this excellent SIFF series of Pacific Northwesterns. Heaters only!

Program & trailer by The Gauntlet's own Ryan Saunders btw

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The Pacific Northwestern
Discover the diverse and lush landscapes of human experience in The Pacific Northwestern, a series of seven films featuring sumptuous location photography in Oregon, Idaho, Northern California, Britis...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
marshlands.bsky.social
Well friends, it’s been a great run but with a heavy heart we must announce that The Gauntlet is going on indefinite hiatus. Don’t worry we’re all still bffs but you know it goes. We will however be doing ONE LAST job/episode in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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🎁 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/g...
Former CPD detective accused of crafting ‘sadistic’ interrogation plan used at Guantanamo
During an unusual evidentiary hearing Monday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, former Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi described abuse by a former CPD detective while giving testimon…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Went into the great Peter Watkins with some friends for @coldwarcinema.com! Listen and watch every Watkins you can!!
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Cold War Cinema: BONUS: Tribute to Peter Watkins (1935–2025)
In this bonus episode of Cold War Cinema, Jason Christian is joined by the independent filmmakers Eric Marsh and Christopher Jason Bell, to discuss the films and legacy of the British filmmaker and me...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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THIS WEEK
on THE GAUNTLET
Episode 181 - Blindspots

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#181 - Blindspots
The Bandwagon (1953) / Baron Blood (1972) This week we’re checking our blind spots as we dance with Fred Astaire and resurrect the dead with Mario Bava
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November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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*tomorrow*
on THE GAUNTLET
Episode 181 - Blindspots
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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veryimportant.lawyer
another neighbor got abducted today, new gofundme about to drop. if you're in the NW side he was a server at Alps and they are donating 25% of sales this weekend to him. as for my prior neighbor who got abducted, his gofundme was a huge help to his family and will be used to bond him out imminently
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying.

The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules
The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted.
www.wired.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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veryimportant.lawyer
If I had evidence implicating the federal government and their rich enablers in a global scheme to sexually abuse children, I would not release that evidence in a series of strategic lore drops like it was an ARG
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Senate democrats fold on shutdown for agreed upon "30 minute head start" in the newly constructed Punishment Park
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Historically these are called concentration camps
melissagiragrant.com Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · Nov 10
“A deal to purchase the warehouses, which on average are more than twice the size of current ICE detention facilities, is past the early stages but not yet final, the DHS official and the White House official said. The DHS official described the warehouses as future ‘mega detention centers.’”
'Mega detention centers': ICE considers buying large warehouses to hold immigrants
The Trump administration is exploring a plan to buy warehouses designed for companies like Amazon, sources said, which would drastically increase the Trump administration’s capacity for detaining immi...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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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.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
marshlands.bsky.social
Skokie is known for it's huge post-ww2 jewish population, where nazis tried to march in the 1970s (resulting in supreme court case on free speech and a made for tv movie starring Brian Dennehy), and home to the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
noturtlesoup17.bsky.social amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · Nov 7
CBP has been hitting Skokie, outside of Chicago, hard today. At 10:45 today, they jumped out of their vehicles and arrested a man on Lincoln Ave.
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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thelicoricekid.bsky.social
Obviously a major release in its own right but also, essays in there from Shawn, Arlin and @marshlands.bsky.social wow!!!! Run don't walk!
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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A Border Patrol agent who shot a woman five times on Chicago’s Southwest Side later bragged about his shooting skills to friends:

“I’m up for another round of ‘f--- around and find out.’”

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Border Patrol agent 'bragged' about shooting woman in Brighton Park, defense attorney says
Testimony from the agent who shot a woman multiple times in an immigration enforcement action revealed how he touted his marksmanship in leaving seven wounds despite firing five bullets. He later text...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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veryimportant.lawyer
They counted on making Chicago mad and provoking violence but what they did instead was viscerally disgust any human with even the slightest sense of morality and it’s not gonna go the way they want
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Nov 6
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.

This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
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‘Doesn’t look good’: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center
An Immigration and Enforcement agent has been charged with drunken driving after his car crashed after a shift at the Broadview detention center.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Give it back
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM