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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@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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Jake

@jakeismaking.bsky.social

how the fuck is it not Friday

November 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM

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MisterJayEm

@misterjayem.bsky.social

There was a very good reason why Gawker had to be destroyed...

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 20h

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM

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more mr. nice guy

@juniorhoncho.bsky.social

ELON (typing): whats best movies i like
GROK: Amazing question! Here's a list that fits your smart taste, cool personality and total badassedness!
1. Ohm Krüger (1941)
2. The Rothschilds (1940)
3. The Love Guru (2008)
4. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
5. Triumph of the Will (1935)
6. Baby Ge

November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM

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Letterboxd

@letterboxd.social

Tatsuya Nakadai (1932–2025)

November 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM

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Larry Blamire

@larryblamire.bsky.social

A giant of cinema has left us. RIP Tatsuya Nakadai (1932 - 2025).

November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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Robert Loerzel

@robertloerzel.bsky.social

Graceland Cemetery this morning

November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM

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Brown Anthony™

@anthelonious.bsky.social

A. I won't believe anything until it happens. B. I don't trust them to fully depart and leave us in peace. BUT I desperately want it to be true and will rejoice if it is!

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

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 3:43 AM

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Colin Spacetwinks

@spacetwinks.bsky.social

i have not watched GDT's Frankenstein but i am firm in my belief that it needs a tie-in adventure/fighting game like the 90s Kenneth Branagh one did on the Sega CD. and they need to keep in elizabeth's roll attack

November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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Michael de Adder

@deadder.bsky.social

When my cartoons become reality. #chicago

November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM

Max Bever

@maxbever.bsky.social

The first episode of The City That Votes TV show is now live on CAN-TV! A big thank you to Giovanna Carrillo for serving as our first guest - we had a great conversation about recruiting election judges and the Board’s role in connecting with our city’s many communities.
youtu.be/SvCJxU_LYr4

The City That Votes

YouTube video by CAN TV Channel 21

youtu.be

November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM

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Leor Galil

@imleor.bsky.social

Since 2022, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Friko have gone global—but what happened with the teen scene they grew out of? I talked to 18 different people about the Hallogallo scene now

chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

What happens when a teen rock scene grows up? - Chicago Reader

The Hallogallo scene has produced international successes—Horsegirl, Friko, Lifeguard—as its grassroots DIY spirit spreads beyond Chicago.

chicagoreader.com

November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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Ian Potter

@ianzpotter.bsky.social

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.

November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM

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Puff the Magic Hater

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together

"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

organizingmythoughts.org

November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM

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Nothings Monstered

@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social

From the Depths — William Balfour-Ker, 1906

B&W art. A fancy ballroom where men in white tie are reveling with women in evening gowns. The revelers have paused in their dancing and are looking down at the dance floor. A fist has punched through the floor. We see below the ball men and women hunched down in a cramped space holding up the revelers' gala. One of these people crammed down in the depths has punched through the dance floor from below.

November 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM

Max Bever

@maxbever.bsky.social

Just wrapped up taping the very first episode of The City That Votes, a new TV show from @chicagoelection.bsky.social on CAN-TV, airing soon! 📺🗳️

November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM

Max Bever

@maxbever.bsky.social

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 🍿

November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM

Max Bever

@maxbever.bsky.social

1. Sufjan (13) 2. John Carpenter (10) 3. & 4. tie Warren Zevon & Peter Gabriel (9) 5. Bowie (8)

November 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM

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molly taft

@mollytaft.com

have been eagerly anticipating this @carolinehaskins.bsky.social scoop on mark zuckerberg's illegal school based on 1,600 (!) pages of docs she got and it does NOT DISAPPOINT:

Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted

Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.

www.wired.com

November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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priscilla page

@priscillapage.bsky.social

can't wait to see this. Bi Gan is one of the most exciting filmmakers working right now, highly recommend watching Long Day's Journey Into Night if you haven't seen it yet.

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 6d

Trailer for Bi Gan’s RESSURRECTION. It takes place over 100 years of Chinese history in stories about all your senses, it’s about a monster & movies & love and how we somehow invented a strange method for sharing dreams.