Kerry Reid (she/her)
@kerryreid.bsky.social
Theater and Dance Editor for the Chicago Reader. Usual disclaimer that all opinions are my own alone. . .
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If these white men had a better answer or idea, then they would have already done it. They ain't shit, don't have shit, and ain't gonna do shit other than complain about shit they're unable or unwilling to do.
They want to lead while unable to get a majority of their own demographic to follow.
They want to lead while unable to get a majority of their own demographic to follow.
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
If these white men had a better answer or idea, then they would have already done it. They ain't shit, don't have shit, and ain't gonna do shit other than complain about shit they're unable or unwilling to do.
They want to lead while unable to get a majority of their own demographic to follow.
They want to lead while unable to get a majority of their own demographic to follow.
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*taps mic*
John Thune is the Senate Majority Leader. He’s the Republican you don’t complain about as you negatively fixate on the Jewish guy who is the Minority Leader, no matter what he does. Like how the unanimous consent removed any room for the White House to change their mind on the petition.
John Thune is the Senate Majority Leader. He’s the Republican you don’t complain about as you negatively fixate on the Jewish guy who is the Minority Leader, no matter what he does. Like how the unanimous consent removed any room for the White House to change their mind on the petition.
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
*taps mic*
John Thune is the Senate Majority Leader. He’s the Republican you don’t complain about as you negatively fixate on the Jewish guy who is the Minority Leader, no matter what he does. Like how the unanimous consent removed any room for the White House to change their mind on the petition.
John Thune is the Senate Majority Leader. He’s the Republican you don’t complain about as you negatively fixate on the Jewish guy who is the Minority Leader, no matter what he does. Like how the unanimous consent removed any room for the White House to change their mind on the petition.
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This, people, is the difference between ICE & Border Patrol.
ICE: “We’re not at our quota so let’s go get this 79 year old man & say his parents screwed up some paperwork back when Truman was President”
Border Patrol: “Brown guy with a leaf blower! TACKLE HIM!”
ICE: “We’re not at our quota so let’s go get this 79 year old man & say his parents screwed up some paperwork back when Truman was President”
Border Patrol: “Brown guy with a leaf blower! TACKLE HIM!”
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This, people, is the difference between ICE & Border Patrol.
ICE: “We’re not at our quota so let’s go get this 79 year old man & say his parents screwed up some paperwork back when Truman was President”
Border Patrol: “Brown guy with a leaf blower! TACKLE HIM!”
ICE: “We’re not at our quota so let’s go get this 79 year old man & say his parents screwed up some paperwork back when Truman was President”
Border Patrol: “Brown guy with a leaf blower! TACKLE HIM!”
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
It's not that I'm misanthropic. It's just that most people annoy the ever-living fuck outta me.
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It's not that I'm misanthropic. It's just that most people annoy the ever-living fuck outta me.
The bear. Every. Fucking. Time.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The bear. Every. Fucking. Time.
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Are y’all ok?
First- it’s weird energy to sexualize the female candidate because you and yours don’t know how to vote sanely.
Second- you sound jealous.
Third-if you needed “strategy” to vote sanely in 2024- who would fuck who is THE LEAST of your worries.
(turn in the adult ✂️ please)
First- it’s weird energy to sexualize the female candidate because you and yours don’t know how to vote sanely.
Second- you sound jealous.
Third-if you needed “strategy” to vote sanely in 2024- who would fuck who is THE LEAST of your worries.
(turn in the adult ✂️ please)
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Are y’all ok?
First- it’s weird energy to sexualize the female candidate because you and yours don’t know how to vote sanely.
Second- you sound jealous.
Third-if you needed “strategy” to vote sanely in 2024- who would fuck who is THE LEAST of your worries.
(turn in the adult ✂️ please)
First- it’s weird energy to sexualize the female candidate because you and yours don’t know how to vote sanely.
Second- you sound jealous.
Third-if you needed “strategy” to vote sanely in 2024- who would fuck who is THE LEAST of your worries.
(turn in the adult ✂️ please)
I had a good time with "Superior Donuts" at Artistic Home. Here's my @chicagoreader.com review. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
Superior Donuts remains a homegrown treat - Chicago Reader
Tracy Letts's 2008 story about an aging hippie and a young Black writer in Uptown gets a cozy and satisfying revival with Artistic Home.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I had a good time with "Superior Donuts" at Artistic Home. Here's my @chicagoreader.com review. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
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IT’S A COOKBOOK!!!
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
IT’S A COOKBOOK!!!
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Olivia Nuzzi is basically a New Jersey Becky Sharp, but without the style.
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 1:33 AM
Olivia Nuzzi is basically a New Jersey Becky Sharp, but without the style.
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
"The Unseen" with Tin Drum Theatre is timely and disquieting. Here is my RECOMMENDED @chicagoreader.com review. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
The Unseen shines light on authoritarianism’s destruction - Chicago Reader
Craig Wright's 2009 play about abused prisoners and their guard hits hard as fascists invade the streets of Chicago.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"The Unseen" with Tin Drum Theatre is timely and disquieting. Here is my RECOMMENDED @chicagoreader.com review. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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NEW: The Trump administration’s slickly produced videos of an immigration raid at a Chicago apartment building in September showed federal agents rappelling from a helicopter and banging down doors.
These are the stories of the people who were inside.
These are the stories of the people who were inside.
What the Trump Administration’s Videos From a Chicago Immigration Raid Don’t Show
Detained and deported Venezuelans tell their stories of what happened when immigration agents raided their apartment building.
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: The Trump administration’s slickly produced videos of an immigration raid at a Chicago apartment building in September showed federal agents rappelling from a helicopter and banging down doors.
These are the stories of the people who were inside.
These are the stories of the people who were inside.
So gross
In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
So gross
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bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
Standing with Charlotte from Chicago
On November 16, 2025, in Charlotte, North Carolina, activists are distributing whistles to community members to notify their neighbors about the presence of ICE and federal goons.
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Standing with Charlotte from Chicago
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You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
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November 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I made a donation today. Please help if you can.
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Yeah, but he's lying.
The Marine Corps warns members that in no uncertain terms that if they get nazi tattoos, or any tattoo that was in violation of the maradmin - they'd be kicked out.
So you'd check.
Also, all tattoos are documented when you go to MEPS, so show us the 2808 and the waiver.
The Marine Corps warns members that in no uncertain terms that if they get nazi tattoos, or any tattoo that was in violation of the maradmin - they'd be kicked out.
So you'd check.
Also, all tattoos are documented when you go to MEPS, so show us the 2808 and the waiver.
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Yeah, but he's lying.
The Marine Corps warns members that in no uncertain terms that if they get nazi tattoos, or any tattoo that was in violation of the maradmin - they'd be kicked out.
So you'd check.
Also, all tattoos are documented when you go to MEPS, so show us the 2808 and the waiver.
The Marine Corps warns members that in no uncertain terms that if they get nazi tattoos, or any tattoo that was in violation of the maradmin - they'd be kicked out.
So you'd check.
Also, all tattoos are documented when you go to MEPS, so show us the 2808 and the waiver.
Reminds me of Cornel West talking about how "Brother Trump" and "Brother Sanders" are both "authentic."
Anyway, it'd be nice if more people asked why so many people in Bernie's orbit went in the directions they did.
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reminds me of Cornel West talking about how "Brother Trump" and "Brother Sanders" are both "authentic."
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Do you live in the Charlotte area? Know someone who does? One of the most important things you can do is get a whistle & tell your family & friends & neighbors to do the same. If people blow their whistle when they see CBP that takes away CBP’s ability to surprise vulnerable people.
November 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Do you live in the Charlotte area? Know someone who does? One of the most important things you can do is get a whistle & tell your family & friends & neighbors to do the same. If people blow their whistle when they see CBP that takes away CBP’s ability to surprise vulnerable people.
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does maxine waters need to beat the shit out of him again?
November 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
does maxine waters need to beat the shit out of him again?
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A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun
US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of white men in Ahmaud Arbery killing
A federal appeals court has upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia more than five years ago
abcnews.go.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun
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Sad but true.
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Sad but true.