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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

good things today

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 10h

Christ it still hasn't been a year.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 10h

Seconded.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 17h

"The pressure hangs over everyone: We have to protect one another, because no one else is coming to save us. We have to save each other."

America under Trump is all about neighbor protecting neighbor from lawless, faceless thugs who come in the night to kidnap and harm us.

Amazing must-read.

Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 18h

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:

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...

www.damemagazine.com

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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · 15h

Trump has manufactured a crisis of violent crime in the Windy City, siccing masked ICE agents on immigrants and their defenders. And the mainstream media is both-sides-ing the story. @allisonhantschel.com in her column this month

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...

www.damemagazine.com

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 18h

The church should be a place of perfect safety. The altar is a communal table: all are welcome. We all come to it sinful and broken, every one of us. We are commanded to go in peace, and there is no peace here. For some, there never will be again.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 18h

I remember the howling of white Catholics during the pandemic, when churches were asked to say closed to save people's lives. Our religious freedom! Our right to worship as we see fit! ICE shoots clergy in the face and repels the monstrance at the prison door and they say nothing now.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 18h

I do not attend Mass as often as I ought to, but when I do, it's muscle memory: When to stand and sit and kneel, what to say even if my kitchen Spanish only picked up every other word. The order is the same, and the silence.

There were probably 200 people there. At such great risk.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 18h

It was profoundly moving to see people come to church at great risk to themselves, knowing that on one side of the equation was the full might and power of the government of the United States, and on the other was people with plastic whistles and a single priest who stood in the door.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 18h

And I hesitate to privilege the experience of Chicago Roman Catholics above the people of every faith who have been targeted. But seeing the signs for Masses in Spanish hastily covered, seeing the courageous neighbors who guarded the church outside, was chilling in a very personal way.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 18h

When @df1.bsky.social invited me to worship a couple of weeks ago, I went, because: I am a practicing Catholic. Not a very good one, hence the practice, but when someone of whatever faith invites you to worship you go because that might be how the light gets in, you know?

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 18h

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:

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...

www.damemagazine.com

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

It took one middling snowstorm to drive them out. Fuck off forever Nazi punks.

Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 1d

///BREAKING/// Controversial Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a surge of agents appear to be leaving Chicago within days as "Operation Midway Blitz" winds down after two months, sources tell the Tribune.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...

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.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

How it started/How it is going

Post from Greg Bovino accusing Gov. JB Pritzker of lying and ending with “feel free to join us in Little Village tomorrow.”

Governor Pritzker will give remarks at the American Legion Veterans Day Ceremony in Little Village.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man.

State schools, vaping: NAH.

Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...

www.senate.illinois.edu

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

"At least 70 percent of what she posts should land her in Internet Jail For Mother but the other 30 percent is the most brilliant stuff you've ever read."

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

Jesus fuck Jordan stop goddamn running.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

This is a fucking soccer game. #GoPackGo

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

Red wine has to be good. White just has to be cold.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

This is my thing. Nothing in the last year would have happened if 5 GOP senators had caucused with Democrats but there's nobody screaming in their faces every Sunday about it. We always have to clean up after the Republicans.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

The craziest part is that Republicans could’ve ended the shutdown on their own anytime they wanted. 50 senators is all it would take.

But they didn’t feel like it. Which is accepted as a premise, so fixing things becomes Democrats’ responsibility, and apparently enough Democratic senators agree.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

Cheetos are proof that God loves us and I will accept no argument on this.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Only half joking when I say this is affirming care and the gender is “asshole.”

jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

someone's already writing a take about how making light of this offends the vast majority of americans who aspire to look like their faces were rendered using the super fx chip

D.C. plastic surgeons see surge in "Mar‑a‑Lago face" requests from Trump insiders

"[They] want to look like they had something done."

www.axios.com

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

Covid pretty much destroyed my trust that anything scheduled was ever going to occur, and Trump II is ... not helping that recover.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

a cartoon frog wearing a top hat and dancing

Alt: a cartoon frog wearing a top hat and dancing

media.tenor.com

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

The lions are too intimidating.

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