Toscha
@poemless.bsky.social
Lover of lovely things, problematic takes, and my rescue dog. Hater of Illinois Nazis.
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Toscha
@poemless.bsky.social
· Oct 2
I feel bad for the doom posts.
But all of you outside of Chicago and the US need to not look away.
There are de facto concentration camps.
Humans kidnapped & disappeared.
Midnight gestapo raids of apartment buildings.
Groups of militia terrorizing and brutalizing people on busy streets.
But all of you outside of Chicago and the US need to not look away.
There are de facto concentration camps.
Humans kidnapped & disappeared.
Midnight gestapo raids of apartment buildings.
Groups of militia terrorizing and brutalizing people on busy streets.
I am late to this, but if current events have dampened your ability to concentrate or desire for serious content, The Residence on Netflix is quite charming. The characters, pacing, and dialogue remind me of Clue. Good fun murder mystery series escapism.
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I am late to this, but if current events have dampened your ability to concentrate or desire for serious content, The Residence on Netflix is quite charming. The characters, pacing, and dialogue remind me of Clue. Good fun murder mystery series escapism.
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Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
More scenes from my childhood.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
More scenes from my childhood.
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Nov. 13, 1925: A Charleston dance contest in front of St. Louis City Hall.
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Nov. 13, 1925: A Charleston dance contest in front of St. Louis City Hall.
RETVRN
Dr. Nut (circa 1936-circa 1978): An almond/amaretto-flavored soda from the New Orleans-based World Bottling Co. and Wright Root Beer, it developed a devoted and intense cult following.
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
RETVRN
Lots of familiar names on this letter, but when even Janet Davies and Mark Giangreco 🥂 are being dead serious, you know it's bad.
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Lots of familiar names on this letter, but when even Janet Davies and Mark Giangreco 🥂 are being dead serious, you know it's bad.
Possibly worth noting: an ICE agent was arrested for DUI after blacking out and crashing his car on his way home from Broadview on Oct. 26.
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Possibly worth noting: an ICE agent was arrested for DUI after blacking out and crashing his car on his way home from Broadview on Oct. 26.
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
Oh no, we've got cycling discourse and British banter discourse in one discourse. Like a discourse turducken.
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Oh no, we've got cycling discourse and British banter discourse in one discourse. Like a discourse turducken.
When I stop dead in my tracks, gasp, exclaim "This is my song!" and rush to turn up the volume, this is the song:
35 years ago in November 1990, PSB released “Being boring” as the 2nd single from their 4th studio album, “Behaviour”. The song was inspired by a party invitation from Neil’s Newcastle days which quoted Zelda Fitzgerald’s line “She was never bored, mainly because she was never boring”.
#PetShopBoys
#PetShopBoys
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
When I stop dead in my tracks, gasp, exclaim "This is my song!" and rush to turn up the volume, this is the song:
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along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
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Tonight the Northern Lights over Chicago. Last night was a high-bar to reach, but it's rather amazing to see the aurora borealis this active this far south of the Arctic Circle
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tonight the Northern Lights over Chicago. Last night was a high-bar to reach, but it's rather amazing to see the aurora borealis this active this far south of the Arctic Circle
Just watched a helicopter fly nose down over our building while making a very weird noise, yet there is no helicopter on the flight tracker.
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Just watched a helicopter fly nose down over our building while making a very weird noise, yet there is no helicopter on the flight tracker.
Went outside with Dorothy and saw several lit Christmas trees in picture windows and a Gen Z without any spatial awareness but no aurora.
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Went outside with Dorothy and saw several lit Christmas trees in picture windows and a Gen Z without any spatial awareness but no aurora.
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He's on a mission from God
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
He's on a mission from God
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i'm so glad that each of the 615 included in this order will be able to return home to their families &/or communities. but the indiscriminate way they were kidnapped and *now have to pay for release* instead of getting money from the govt for lost wages, bills, & healing is a fucking injustice.
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
i'm so glad that each of the 615 included in this order will be able to return home to their families &/or communities. but the indiscriminate way they were kidnapped and *now have to pay for release* instead of getting money from the govt for lost wages, bills, & healing is a fucking injustice.
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so basically what happened was:
ICE / CBP abducted ~1800 people from across the chicago area during june to oct, & did most of it without warrants. of those ~1800 people, only ~750 are still in the us & ~135 aren't eligible for release.
the injustice of everything these people will never get back.
ICE / CBP abducted ~1800 people from across the chicago area during june to oct, & did most of it without warrants. of those ~1800 people, only ~750 are still in the us & ~135 aren't eligible for release.
the injustice of everything these people will never get back.
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
so basically what happened was:
ICE / CBP abducted ~1800 people from across the chicago area during june to oct, & did most of it without warrants. of those ~1800 people, only ~750 are still in the us & ~135 aren't eligible for release.
the injustice of everything these people will never get back.
ICE / CBP abducted ~1800 people from across the chicago area during june to oct, & did most of it without warrants. of those ~1800 people, only ~750 are still in the us & ~135 aren't eligible for release.
the injustice of everything these people will never get back.
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That's nearly a million dollars total, fyi
///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
That's nearly a million dollars total, fyi
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I still have too many Space Dogs prints and would like to rehome many of them so they are now $10 cheaper but with the same amount of dogs.
I would like to sell some Soviet Space Dog screen prints and here they are. Commemorate some good dogs.
Russian: octophant.us/screen-print...
English: octophant.us/screen-print...
Russian: octophant.us/screen-print...
English: octophant.us/screen-print...
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I still have too many Space Dogs prints and would like to rehome many of them so they are now $10 cheaper but with the same amount of dogs.
I appreciate these types of posts because this looks like what I saw, rather than the sharp neon images in the feeds.
Here’s what the substorm looked like to the naked eye in Chicago
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I appreciate these types of posts because this looks like what I saw, rather than the sharp neon images in the feeds.
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Got this one with my Nikon about an hour later. I could see the reds (clear, but finely) with my naked eye.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Got this one with my Nikon about an hour later. I could see the reds (clear, but finely) with my naked eye.
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Chicago has everything. Chicago over everything.
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Chicago has everything. Chicago over everything.
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Emotional sub storm at Montrose Harbor
Stunning
Stunning
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Emotional sub storm at Montrose Harbor
Stunning
Stunning
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Chicago Transit AuthAuroraty
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Chicago Transit AuthAuroraty
I am so glad I turned around and went back out. How wild!
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I am so glad I turned around and went back out. How wild!