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Chicagoan in love with urban ruins, labor history, buildings, food, poems, and underground spaces.

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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.

The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.

The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.

Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.

A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro

www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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We need to give editors arrest powers.
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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OK, this made me laugh. Olivia, take some writing tips from your ex.
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
no but really why is people magazine going to save the republic?
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'

people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Ohhhhh, okayyyyy.
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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One platform, like all the others
Getting subpoenaed by the US government over bluesky posts
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
He desired my desire desirously in the most dire of deserts.
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The 9th Circuit’s description of what happened after the government introduced the “metering” policy to block asylum seekers at the border. Incredibly bleak. www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/u...
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ugh
In its orders this morning, SCOTUS grants one new case, relating to asylum claims.

Full orders list: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Docket for Noem v. Al Otro Lado: www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
But we’re not in a fascist state yet remember!!
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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And to be clear, the six reported injuries were nosebleeds, which is what happens when you have barotrauma.

I’ve been asking since June, if a passenger is handcuffed and the handcuffs are attached to a chain around their waists, can they even reach up to grab their masks? Seems like no.
😲 CONFIRMED: “an Avelo ICE flight declared an emergency when the cabin lost pressure, according to air traffic control transmissions. The plane made a rapid descent and landed safely. Of 88 people on board, six were injured…”

From: @gbrockell.bsky.social
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
ICE Air’s Sloppy, Dangerous Deportation Flights - The American Prospect
Poor planning, mechanical issues, serious safety lapses, and the shutdown are taking a toll on Avelo, America’s most famous deportation airline, internal documents show.
prospect.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
big brain time: threaten to deploy teargas in a large pile of combustible lumber/dead trees.
On November 16, 2025, in Charlotte, North Carolina, protesters and local residents stood up to defend a solitary flower vendor who was being searched by Border Patrol and federal goons in a wooded area.
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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“When you understand there’s torture in a concentration camp in your backyard, it would be wild if people from Chicagoland weren’t going to Broadview,” Woolf later said in an interview. “But [Mayor Thompson] doesn’t care about out-of-town cops coming to brutalize us.”
Pastors speak of brutality of arrests at hands of local cops at Broadview ICE facility
Pastor Luke Harris-Ferree and the Rev. Michael Woolf were arrested Friday while trying to meet and pray with detainees. They call on Gov. JB Pritzker to answer for the excessive use of force by police...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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People Magazine trying to save democracy
This is the kind of coverage you want voters to see when they’re in line at the grocery checkout. 🤡

@peoplemag.bsky.social
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov @jamespmanley.bsky.social
people.com/ghislaine-ma...
November 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I like how this employee of the federal government, a public servant, posts obnoxious replies to people that are replete with right-wing misinformation.
Greg Bovino’s response to someone saying he’ll eventually be charged for his crimes: “triggered much?”
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
seeing the destruction of the people’s library in 2011 was a formative part of my political coming of age and firm dedication to mutual aid of all types but yeah in the US it didn’t end up doing much specifically aside from raising awareness of income inequality- tho It did more in other countries.
It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
November 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Gonna take a heterodox stance and say they should not have done a brutal military assault on a civilian apartment building full of kids and families even if it bagged 1000 criminals
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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you can’t be talking like that White Baby
ok I only saw the one dumb take but it turns out that was only a warmup
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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7/ During a video call with Jean Carlos Antonio Colmenares Pérez, from a jail in Kentucky, he showed us the room where he was being held with other men. There were 10 sets of bunk beds and 2 toilets. One of the toilets didn’t work. Video from @frontlinepbs.bsky.social:
November 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Lotta MTG sounding almost reasonable going around today, so before anyone starts truly pondering the possibilities, please make sure THIS clip from the interview gets around, too
Marjorie Taylor Greene to Dana Bash: "You should have Nick Fuentes on your show"
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“Gimenez Gonzalez said he still gets calls from other immigrants detained at North Lake searching for the same spark of hope that release is possible. While he’s glad to be back in Chicago, he has yet to leave his house alone for fear of what might happen.”

What an incredible sounding human.
“Gimenez Gonzalez, an outspoken advocate for migrant day laborers in Chicago, was released on Oct. 28 after 47 days in custody. ICE detained him despite his legal work permit, a pending asylum case and no criminal record.” www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...
'My love, I'm free': Day laborer released after 7 weeks in ICE detention
Willian Gimenez Gonzalez was sitting in his cell at a Michigan detention center when a few men began calling his name.
www.hpherald.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
watching ER as a comfort show has backfired tonight.
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and made an arrest in front of children. They cried “a lot,” he said.

“We are trying to clean the property. We didn’t know this is gonna happen.”

#borderpatrol #charlotte #nc
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM