Allison Hantschel
@allisonhantschel.com
Media for DAME magazine. She/her. Co-founder, First-Draft.com. Alumna of The Daily Cardinal.
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ICE Is Bringing the Violence to Chicago - Dame Magazine
Inside St. Jerome Catholic Church in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood on a recent Sunday, incense wafted through the air as prayers in Spanish rose upward. The service was to honor friends and loved...
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This month in @damemagazine.bsky.social I wrote about the siege of Chicago, what it feels like to live here, about the violation of the ICE invasion and the gratuitous violence of the president against a city he's hated for years:
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Shout out to all the Big Law Firms, certain Democrats, and all the elite institutions who were rushing to bend their knees back in January/February this year. We didn’t forget.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Shout out to all the Big Law Firms, certain Democrats, and all the elite institutions who were rushing to bend their knees back in January/February this year. We didn’t forget.
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Trump doesn't remember anything he learned after the age of 8 at this point, and like the Syrian president demonstrated, he will let you get away with murder if you're tall and handsome. Exceptions: (Zelensky, Obama) Trump owes russia and Obama is black.
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Trump doesn't remember anything he learned after the age of 8 at this point, and like the Syrian president demonstrated, he will let you get away with murder if you're tall and handsome. Exceptions: (Zelensky, Obama) Trump owes russia and Obama is black.
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At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.
One thing that is tough about rapid response/patrols, besides constantly being threatened by armed secret police, is that for the most part they see the defeats. There are exceptions, but you’ll never know how many people were saved by slowing feds down, whistles, community alerts, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At a recent gathering of Rogers Park volunteers, we heard from a neighbor who choked up telling us about their dad turning around and going home when he heard whistles up the street. "One of you may have saved his life that day." It all matters, it really does.
"AS A MOM (tm) I'm so glad I have children to give me an excuse to be a horrific bigot! Otherwise I'd have to take responsibility for my garbage opinions and miserable thoughts. I'm trying to figure out a way to blame them for this contouring job, too."
HINSON: As a mom, I think about watching a baby monitor. That's a very intimate moment with your baby and to think the Chinese could be spying on your morning routine
BARTIROMO: Why are they spying on moms?
HINSON: They just want to know what Americans are up to to undermine our way of life
BARTIROMO: Why are they spying on moms?
HINSON: They just want to know what Americans are up to to undermine our way of life
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"AS A MOM (tm) I'm so glad I have children to give me an excuse to be a horrific bigot! Otherwise I'd have to take responsibility for my garbage opinions and miserable thoughts. I'm trying to figure out a way to blame them for this contouring job, too."
Ken Starr really was doing the most. Like putting his whole ass into the world.
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Ken Starr really was doing the most. Like putting his whole ass into the world.
Everything is awful but this morning my kid picked up the larger of the two cats and scolded me for body-shaming him, saying, "Mom, he's not fat, he's family-sized!"
So now we have a large cat to share with the whole table.
So now we have a large cat to share with the whole table.
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Everything is awful but this morning my kid picked up the larger of the two cats and scolded me for body-shaming him, saying, "Mom, he's not fat, he's family-sized!"
So now we have a large cat to share with the whole table.
So now we have a large cat to share with the whole table.
Every NFL team should have two starting quarterbacks and rotate them during the games so nobody's defense knows what the hell is going on.
Tonight’s discourse bores me
what good policy would you pitch trump in a meeting that you think he’d half remember well enough to keep talking about it
what good policy would you pitch trump in a meeting that you think he’d half remember well enough to keep talking about it
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Every NFL team should have two starting quarterbacks and rotate them during the games so nobody's defense knows what the hell is going on.
Thread.
This is a wild thing for someone who calls themselves an intellectual to say with a straight face to the New York Times. This is not a historical account based on an understanding of the history--this is just pure far right, Christian Nationalist propaganda/conspiracy theory ca. 1962-1980s.
November 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Thread.
Other fun things to do if you're white and safe: Drive around with a GIANT Mexican flag sticker on your car, put up anti-ICE fliers on light posts, ask your local coffee shop not to give them the bathroom code, etc etc.
“if I can suck up their time”
Ladies, nerds of all stripes, neurodivergents of every variety, when I tell you how MADE you were for this moment
Ladies, nerds of all stripes, neurodivergents of every variety, when I tell you how MADE you were for this moment
"I can help some people"
GO TELL YOUR WHITE SONS... THIS IS YOUR HERO!
GO TELL YOUR WHITE SONS... THIS IS YOUR HERO!
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Other fun things to do if you're white and safe: Drive around with a GIANT Mexican flag sticker on your car, put up anti-ICE fliers on light posts, ask your local coffee shop not to give them the bathroom code, etc etc.
Two thirds of my interactions these days with all technology involves turning off shit I didn't ask for that actively makes my life worse.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Two thirds of my interactions these days with all technology involves turning off shit I didn't ask for that actively makes my life worse.
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I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
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nature is healing, the average senator should think of the average rep as a pissant and the average house rep should go to sleep dreaming about tasting that senator’s blood
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
nature is healing, the average senator should think of the average rep as a pissant and the average house rep should go to sleep dreaming about tasting that senator’s blood
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When ICE gets to New Orleans
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
When ICE gets to New Orleans
NOLA pals, let me know what you need.
This New Orleans operation is going to closely resemble what we just went through in Chicago.
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
NOLA pals, let me know what you need.
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The Great Khan of the Plains receives the mandate of heaven
Pritzker Shares Beers, Books and Well-Wishes With Pope Leo XIV in Vatican Visit
Pritzker Shares Beers, Books and Well-Wishes With Pope Leo XIV in Vatican Visit
Sharing art, books and local beer, Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday called it an “honor” to meet with the pope in the Vatican to express “the pride and reverence of the people of this great state.”
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November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The Great Khan of the Plains receives the mandate of heaven
But but but they'll say Dems are anti-law enforcement!!!
EVEN OTHER COPS HATE THESE ASSCLOWNS. The pro-law-enforcement position, if you must do that, is to let law enforcement enforce the law and throw Trump's J6 Proud Boy goons in jail!
EVEN OTHER COPS HATE THESE ASSCLOWNS. The pro-law-enforcement position, if you must do that, is to let law enforcement enforce the law and throw Trump's J6 Proud Boy goons in jail!
This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
But but but they'll say Dems are anti-law enforcement!!!
EVEN OTHER COPS HATE THESE ASSCLOWNS. The pro-law-enforcement position, if you must do that, is to let law enforcement enforce the law and throw Trump's J6 Proud Boy goons in jail!
EVEN OTHER COPS HATE THESE ASSCLOWNS. The pro-law-enforcement position, if you must do that, is to let law enforcement enforce the law and throw Trump's J6 Proud Boy goons in jail!
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But the point (there is a point) is, people fetishise the idea over the hard work of plotting and character development and research and internal consistency and just writing the fucker, because the Idea is the sparkly magic bit.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
But the point (there is a point) is, people fetishise the idea over the hard work of plotting and character development and research and internal consistency and just writing the fucker, because the Idea is the sparkly magic bit.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.
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Do any of these "room for grace/redemption" hand wringers ever look at the normies suffering actual consequences from the wingnut puke funnel, or is that consideration reserved for White Citizens Council alums? bsky.app/profile/raph...
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Do any of these "room for grace/redemption" hand wringers ever look at the normies suffering actual consequences from the wingnut puke funnel, or is that consideration reserved for White Citizens Council alums? bsky.app/profile/raph...
Grace and redemption doesn't need to come with a job anywhere. He's rich beyond dreams of avarice and could just go work in a food pantry but this sick narcissistic piece of shit wants to feel important. You have to make amends by doing more than flapping your mouth.
Sometimes we go overboard with the “x should be fired over ___ behavior”. There has to be some room for grace/redemption.
That being said, plotting with a convicted sex offender to prey on a younger colleague he has power over is precisely the type of behavior that should be fireable at Harvard.
That being said, plotting with a convicted sex offender to prey on a younger colleague he has power over is precisely the type of behavior that should be fireable at Harvard.
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Grace and redemption doesn't need to come with a job anywhere. He's rich beyond dreams of avarice and could just go work in a food pantry but this sick narcissistic piece of shit wants to feel important. You have to make amends by doing more than flapping your mouth.
One time, our chat room at First Draft fried the internet in the state of Florida because there were 80 whole people in it at once.
every time I see people whining about the internet and single points of failure and “remember when” I laugh and LAUGH. folks. did you know that at one point sufficient rain in northern Virginia could take half the internet down? the infrastructure is way more robust and resilient than it used to be.
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
One time, our chat room at First Draft fried the internet in the state of Florida because there were 80 whole people in it at once.
Ooooh somebody's tetchy today.
Q: I'm confused because the bill specifically says 'the AG may withhold or redact portions related to child sex abuse materials.' The survivors are comfortable with that. These things are actually in this bill.
JOHNSON: They're not
Q: It's up to the AG
J: No it's not! We're not making this up
JOHNSON: They're not
Q: It's up to the AG
J: No it's not! We're not making this up
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Ooooh somebody's tetchy today.
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Chicagoans saying farewell to Bovino:
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Chicagoans saying farewell to Bovino:
Not everything sucks.
BREAKING: We’re getting six (!) edible mascots at this year’s @poptartsbowl.com!
- six edible mascots, three on Team Sprinkles and three on Team Swirls
- fans get to vote on which mascot team to sacrifice to Mouth Heaven at game’s end, the biggest edible mascot sacrifice EVER
- six edible mascots, three on Team Sprinkles and three on Team Swirls
- fans get to vote on which mascot team to sacrifice to Mouth Heaven at game’s end, the biggest edible mascot sacrifice EVER
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Not everything sucks.
Truman Capote, from the afterlife, casually vaping: "Goddamn, dude, take it easy."
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Truman Capote, from the afterlife, casually vaping: "Goddamn, dude, take it easy."
As a Catholic the fuckin, like, Dasani plastic bottle is killing me. If you're going for theater, lady, you need some milk glass with an image of White Virgin Mary stamped on it in purple! Come on!
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
As a Catholic the fuckin, like, Dasani plastic bottle is killing me. If you're going for theater, lady, you need some milk glass with an image of White Virgin Mary stamped on it in purple! Come on!