Chris in Chicago
@christopherwensley.bsky.social
You can’t convince me there’s a better male performance than Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind this year.
December 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
You can’t convince me there’s a better male performance than Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind this year.
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Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
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A short thread on the extremely successful, victorious protest of hundreds of people in NYC today that kept ICE vans stuck in the garage instead of kidnapping people along Canal St.
The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive.
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
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Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A short thread on the extremely successful, victorious protest of hundreds of people in NYC today that kept ICE vans stuck in the garage instead of kidnapping people along Canal St.
The day he dies the world becomes better.
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The day he dies the world becomes better.
Need a burger.
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Need a burger.
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Yes, we hate you. We hate what you are doing. Save your soul. Quit your job.
Border agent seen in viral arrest of U.S. citizen fatally overdosed, lawyer says
“Everyone just f****** hates me here."
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“Everyone just f****** hates me here."
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November 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Yes, we hate you. We hate what you are doing. Save your soul. Quit your job.
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
You can frame things however you want. Unless we retake Congress it’s moot within a few days.
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
You can frame things however you want. Unless we retake Congress it’s moot within a few days.
Really understood the people in my social media circle not voting in today’s high profile Mayoral race.
Sometimes you don’t have to pick the lesser of two real evils. Sometimes you can just say fuck them all and wash your hands of it.
Sometimes you don’t have to pick the lesser of two real evils. Sometimes you can just say fuck them all and wash your hands of it.
November 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Really understood the people in my social media circle not voting in today’s high profile Mayoral race.
Sometimes you don’t have to pick the lesser of two real evils. Sometimes you can just say fuck them all and wash your hands of it.
Sometimes you don’t have to pick the lesser of two real evils. Sometimes you can just say fuck them all and wash your hands of it.
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This is one of my very favorites from Sherald’s exhibition (which was at the Whitney earlier this year)
Good morning, Bluesky.
It’s so blah out that I’m going to share a photo from the magnificent Amy Sherald show that opened yesterday at the BMA, a painting whose title was inspired by the Baltimore poet Lucille Clifton.
(Listen, you a wonder. You a city of a woman. You got a geography of your own.)
It’s so blah out that I’m going to share a photo from the magnificent Amy Sherald show that opened yesterday at the BMA, a painting whose title was inspired by the Baltimore poet Lucille Clifton.
(Listen, you a wonder. You a city of a woman. You got a geography of your own.)
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is one of my very favorites from Sherald’s exhibition (which was at the Whitney earlier this year)
I honestly have no idea how I would vote. Mamdani’s antisemitic, Cuomo loathsome and Sliwa insane.
Uh, I'm not sure how Mamdani got into this discussion, but I'm with Bill Kristol: If I were a New Yorker and my choices were Mamdani, Sliwa, and Cuomo, I'd take a chance on Mamdani any day.
But that's NYC. Moving left is not going to win for Dems. (Spanberger and others know this)
But that's NYC. Moving left is not going to win for Dems. (Spanberger and others know this)
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I honestly have no idea how I would vote. Mamdani’s antisemitic, Cuomo loathsome and Sliwa insane.
Say that to the New Deal and LBJ.
This is an incredibly bad faith way to respond to my point about the southern majority. I think we can all agree that the control of the south is based on minoritarian control, racial minority control, and the party name is irrelevant to this endeavor. A house of DINOs is not "a majority."
The Democratic majority persisted across the country into the late 1990s, but I forgot for a moment that everything is racism
November 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Say that to the New Deal and LBJ.
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I will vote for any candidate who promises to put every single ICE agent in jail
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I will vote for any candidate who promises to put every single ICE agent in jail
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I do not use cocaine. Obviously my vice of choice is roast beef sandwiches, and they honestly may take a comparable amount of time off of my life.
LOVE this tour of North Shore Beef places (my cultural heritage) with @joshgondelman.bsky.social for WGBH. I don't know if cocaine gives you munchies like pot does, but based on Josh's performance, it must.
Also I'm only slightly offended I wasn't invited (for the beef)
youtu.be/OLFAoZp5Qo4?...
Also I'm only slightly offended I wasn't invited (for the beef)
youtu.be/OLFAoZp5Qo4?...
Comedian Josh Gondelman’s tour of Boston’s “Roast Beef Riviera”
YouTube video by GBH News
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October 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I do not use cocaine. Obviously my vice of choice is roast beef sandwiches, and they honestly may take a comparable amount of time off of my life.
He’s also just lying. He referred to it using its Nazi term for some time.
People aren’t outraged because of the “establishment.” We’re outraged because Platner had a Nazi tattoo.
Take clear responsibility and acknowledge the harm without all these caveats. But this isn’t it.
Take clear responsibility and acknowledge the harm without all these caveats. But this isn’t it.
Years ago I got a skull and crossbones tattoo with my buddies in the Marines.
I was appalled to learn it closely resembled a Nazi symbol. I altered it yesterday, into something that isn't deeply offensive to my core beliefs.
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I was appalled to learn it closely resembled a Nazi symbol. I altered it yesterday, into something that isn't deeply offensive to my core beliefs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwt_...
October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
He’s also just lying. He referred to it using its Nazi term for some time.
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It feels like an inverse response to Trumpism. Cling to the worst qualities of an obviously flawed candidate to own the opposition.
one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals
October 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It feels like an inverse response to Trumpism. Cling to the worst qualities of an obviously flawed candidate to own the opposition.
To dismiss the well founded concerns of the Jewish community as basic racism is beyond abhorrent.
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
To dismiss the well founded concerns of the Jewish community as basic racism is beyond abhorrent.
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The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.
Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.
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Frank was Antifa.
Frank Sinatra on what it means to be an American in 1945
October 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Frank was Antifa.
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Pritzker can't say he's fighting the good fight and that we're in this perilous moment, but then allow his state police to do this to protesters. He wants it both ways, but he can't have it both ways and be credible. This is a fight against the federal gov't, but it's also against the police state.
Pritzker’s goons shutting down protests at ICE Detention Center in Broadview.
Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.
October 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Pritzker can't say he's fighting the good fight and that we're in this perilous moment, but then allow his state police to do this to protesters. He wants it both ways, but he can't have it both ways and be credible. This is a fight against the federal gov't, but it's also against the police state.
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I—I’m sorry? Kevin Stitt? I would be less surprised if you told me John McCain rose from the dead to say this.
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”
The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I—I’m sorry? Kevin Stitt? I would be less surprised if you told me John McCain rose from the dead to say this.
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
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Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"
September 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"