Unmikely
@unmikely.bsky.social
Old dad, fortunate husband, nonprofit marketeer, jaywalker, viajero, Chicagoan by way of many places.
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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My latest story about how the community at Chappell Elementary in Lincoln Square are trying to help a family after ICE took their dad. It’s a look at the disruption and resistance roiling Chicago
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/l...
November 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My latest story about how the community at Chappell Elementary in Lincoln Square are trying to help a family after ICE took their dad. It’s a look at the disruption and resistance roiling Chicago
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/l...
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.
Change my mind.
Change my mind.
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.
Change my mind.
Change my mind.
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Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’
Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...
news.wttw.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
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“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
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Seeing this chart as an impressionable young man was a formative moment in my political development
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Seeing this chart as an impressionable young man was a formative moment in my political development
Behold the losers, showing us who they are. What a satisfying read.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Behold the losers, showing us who they are. What a satisfying read.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.
November 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.
We got half as many trick-or-treaters this year, and we also convinced the six-year-old to trade 3 lbs of his 8-lb haul for Hot Wheels. My wife (high school teacher) took ~8 lbs of leftover candy to school and put it on her desk. This is how it looked after two classes.
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
We got half as many trick-or-treaters this year, and we also convinced the six-year-old to trade 3 lbs of his 8-lb haul for Hot Wheels. My wife (high school teacher) took ~8 lbs of leftover candy to school and put it on her desk. This is how it looked after two classes.
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It’s a damn shame—and I hate to even have to say it.
But, the Trump Administration has no remorse for targeting innocent kids and families on Halloween.
Stay safe, stay vigilant tonight.
But, the Trump Administration has no remorse for targeting innocent kids and families on Halloween.
Stay safe, stay vigilant tonight.
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It’s a damn shame—and I hate to even have to say it.
But, the Trump Administration has no remorse for targeting innocent kids and families on Halloween.
Stay safe, stay vigilant tonight.
But, the Trump Administration has no remorse for targeting innocent kids and families on Halloween.
Stay safe, stay vigilant tonight.
A house on our block gives out full-size candy bars. All the neighborhood kids know it. My son (6) is considering making three runs using previous years’ costumes: #1: Darth Vader, #2: Pirate, #3: Spider Man. This is a conspiracy, but if he insists on going through with it, I won’t stand in his way.
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A house on our block gives out full-size candy bars. All the neighborhood kids know it. My son (6) is considering making three runs using previous years’ costumes: #1: Darth Vader, #2: Pirate, #3: Spider Man. This is a conspiracy, but if he insists on going through with it, I won’t stand in his way.
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alt headline: Illinois Legislature adopts transit revenues and reforms to ensure that drive times don't worsen
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
alt headline: Illinois Legislature adopts transit revenues and reforms to ensure that drive times don't worsen
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A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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They also got the kids halloween parade in the neighborhood cancelled. Had they deployed 30min later it would have been right in the middle of it!!!
October 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
They also got the kids halloween parade in the neighborhood cancelled. Had they deployed 30min later it would have been right in the middle of it!!!
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Families were making their way to the neighborhood Halloween parade being held two blocks away from this tear gassing. This is life in Chicago these days
October 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Families were making their way to the neighborhood Halloween parade being held two blocks away from this tear gassing. This is life in Chicago these days
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Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn
A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ut oh, Gregory. Now you've gone and done it.
October 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Ut oh, Gregory. Now you've gone and done it.
Text thread from my wife’s CPS high school mentions kidnapper goons spotted near her school (in West Town) and by Lincoln Park HS. Teachers walking kids to 66 bus and Blue Line.
October 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Text thread from my wife’s CPS high school mentions kidnapper goons spotted near her school (in West Town) and by Lincoln Park HS. Teachers walking kids to 66 bus and Blue Line.
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Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
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