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Dan Hensley
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Journalist - Spontaneously Speaking, The Area (Covering The Chicago Police Dept Bureau of Detectives and the CPD FOIA Unit), and The Federal Files on Substack | Neuroendocrine Cancer Community Advocate | Mental Health Advocate
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Dan Hensley @danhensley.bsky.social · Dec 16
It's late night as I create this post, but better late at night than never at all, right?

I want to introduce all of you on Blue Sky to my little publication on Substack called Spontaneously Speaking. You can learn more here: spontaneouslyspeaking.substack.com/p/coming-soon

#BlueSky #Substack
Spontaneous, Unscripted Commentary and Opinion on Complex Matters in Society
Welcome to Spontaneously Speaking.
spontaneouslyspeaking.substack.com
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npr.org
A report from the advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety analyzed data from local police departments on nearly 350,000 guns used in crimes from 2020 to 2024, including where they came from.
Thousands of guns are found at crime scenes. What do they tell us?
A report from the advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety analyzed data from local police departments on nearly 350,000 guns used in crimes from 2020 to 2024, including where they came from.
n.pr
December 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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unraveledpress.com
(from the inbox) Less than an hour later this morning, just before 10:30 at Roscoe and Harding, feds again released gas as they were driving away, unobstructed, from a relatively small number of neighbors.
October 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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mandophotos.bsky.social
Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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robertloerzel.bsky.social
Chicagoans telling Trump’s agents to get the hell out of their city.
mandophotos.bsky.social armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · Oct 25
More from the scene
October 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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chicago.suntimes.com
Chicago officially has the worst air quality in the world. No other major city in the world had air pollution worse than Chicago as of midday Thursday.
Chicago has the worst air quality in the world
"The air quality is officially dangerous in Chicago," says Brian Urbaszewski, director of environmental health programs at the Respiratory Health Association. "It's going to send people to the emergency room. Some people may die because of what they're breathing."
trib.al
July 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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lorenaoneil.com
Luigi Mangione's lawyers request to remove bulletproof vest and hand shackles ahead of his appearance on June 26 at state court. "To counsel's knowledge, there have been no threats to Mr. Mangione's safety, and the only one wishing to execute him is the federal government."
before this Court, and there is no reason for him to be wearing one now. To counsel's knowledge, there have been no threats to Mr. Mangione's safety, and the only one wishing to execute him is the federal government. Wearing a bulletproof vest therefore serves no other purpose than to prejudice Mr. Mangione in the media and before future potential jurors. Each time Mr. Mangione has appeared in federal court (both in December 2024 and more recently in April 2025), he was wearing neither a bulletproof vest nor arm restraints of any sort, only leg shackles-which is what we are requesting here. Notably, counsel did not even have to request that Mr. Mangione appear with his hands unrestrained, as the U.S. Marshals Service removed his restraints on their own as is standard. There is no justification to treat Mr. Mangione's security protocol differently in state court than in the more serious federal court case where he faces potential execution. That Mr. Mangione's state court appearances have cameras in the courtroom (as opposed to federal court) does not suddenly turn Mr. Mangione into more of security threat that requires shackles and a bulletproof vest in the courtroom, especially given that the state and federal cases involve identical allegations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
danhensley.bsky.social
Nobody can or should take this Bluesky user seriously. He wants people to stop driving their cars.

His logic is "Driving is intentional, so don't drive" and that isn't a serious point. We live in a world with vehicles. All we can do is work to make the roads safer, and do driver safety education
May 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
danhensley.bsky.social
@lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social

At no time did I explicitly say, nor did I ever imply that I'm ok with deaths from preventable vehicle collisions.

I merely challenged the idea that there is an identifiable pattern of 1st Degree murders or manslsughters related to such.
May 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
danhensley.bsky.social
This is not what I said. I challenged him to identify cases in a PATTERN of homicides he said had happened by way of vehicle as a weapon.

He was unable to pull a pattern from publicly available records accessible online.

Also, CPD Bureau of Detectives exists

www.chicagopolice.org/bureau-of-de...
May 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
danhensley.bsky.social
The last couple of days have left many across the U.S. scratching their heads at a TikTok controversy that is actually NOT a controversy.

A couple of either Millennials or older Gen-Z people are upset about....checks notes: Public records being accessed & disseminated by their fellow citizens
May 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
So the latest in Duffy’s Accept No Responsibility Lame Blame Game Tour is to say that the ATC system is old, & the reason why he did nothing while in Congress & Trump did nothing in his 1st term is because “the cracks didn’t start to show until Biden was president.” Go figure.
May 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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jljacobson.bsky.social
Afrikaners ARE. NOT. REFUGEES.

Do not adopt this language.
May 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
The Afrikaner stunt is the kind of thing that has backfired so far -- it creates legal arguments for other refugees about animus.

But holy hell he's not hiding the white sheets.
May 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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altspaceforce.altgov.info
Friendly reminder to all GOP officials and voters:
The President of the United States is a temp job. As such, Executive Orders do not supercede the Constitution.
It's that simple.
May 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
danhensley.bsky.social
Breaking News:

4 O'Hare Fire Dept Units seen heading down 1st Ave as they passed Roosevelt in Forest Park, Illinois. They were heading towards Loyola.

#Illinois #BreakingNews #EmergencyResponse #ChicagoSuburbanScanner
May 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Slightly more seriously. It's crazy how the entire supposed constitutional theory of Trump 2.0 is that all power is vested in this single individual, down to every last tiny detail and whenever you ask him he's like "I have no idea; ask the lawyers"
May 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.
May 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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kylec.bsky.social
NEW: Denver City Council votes unanimously not to renew a contract for vehicle tracking cameras over fears that ICE will use the camera network for immigration enforcement. #copolitics
May 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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charliesavage.bsky.social
In response to @freedom.press FOIA request, ODNI declassified & released an intel memo contradicting a key claim Trump made to invoke the Alien Enemies Act

Confirms reporting the Trump admin characterized as false & used to justify weakening limits on leak inquiries

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...
Spy Agencies Do Not Think Venezuela Directs Gang, Declassified Memo Shows
The release of the memo further undercuts the Trump administration’s rationale for using the Alien Enemies Act to deport scores of Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
danhensley.bsky.social
Now I need to get some Cinnabon....with extra glaze
taylorlorenz.bsky.social Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · May 6
I got bad news today and decided to make an entire roll of cinnamon buns and eat half of it and I have no regrets. These things are so good
May 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then… running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede… Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education
May 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
"If a freshman in college did once what the New York Times does on a regular basis they may be expelled. This happens far more often than these outlets want you to think given how much these places have branded themselves as the sole purveyors of The Truth™."
Plagiarizing Independent Journalists Is Part of Mainstream Media's Business
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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wbez.org
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a coalition of 19 other attorneys general in filing a motion to halt the implementation of an executive order regarding elections signed by President Donald Trump in March.
chicago.suntimes.com/elections/20...
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joins 19 counterparts in trying to stop Trump election order
A Trump administration executive order issued in March demands states not count mail-in ballots received after Election Day and requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. The attorneys…
chicago.suntimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Watch my interview with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about his reporting for 404 and WIRED on Massive Blue, a company creating AI people for the police to gather intel about everyone from protesters to predators online
Cops are using AI to spy on you
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
youtu.be
May 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM