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A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
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Gonna wear a suit, tie and glasses for Halloween and tell everyone I’m dressed as a soybean farmer / treasury secretary.
Bessent on American farmers being hurt by tariffs: "Martha, in case you don't know it, I'm actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too."
October 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Gonna wear a suit, tie and glasses for Halloween and tell everyone I’m dressed as a soybean farmer / treasury secretary.
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Every day it's just helicopters all day long now and people are somehow still unsure whether to call this an occupation
October 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Every day it's just helicopters all day long now and people are somehow still unsure whether to call this an occupation
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“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time
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The last stanza of "Maxwell Street" by Galway Kinnell, Chicago 1955
October 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The last stanza of "Maxwell Street" by Galway Kinnell, Chicago 1955
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feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.
buff.ly
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
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I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...
September 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...
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The expectation, from the complicit mainstream media, that every single person on social media hold themselves to a HIGHER standard of respect than the freaking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES will never cease to amaze me.
Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we're seeing in our country & it must stop right now. My admin will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity"
September 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The expectation, from the complicit mainstream media, that every single person on social media hold themselves to a HIGHER standard of respect than the freaking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES will never cease to amaze me.
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RFK Jr in charge of DHHS is basically like the fire chief giving a press conference saying we’re no longer enforcing fire codes and have laid off 80% of firefighters, but it’s cool because we’ve hired a dozen fire mages to do Spells of Protection throughout the city.
bsky.app/profile/josh...
bsky.app/profile/josh...
2/ You might as well be ditching the germ theory or antisepsis for surgeons. Sure the elites talk about microcrobes. But have you seen any? We’re so far gone.
September 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
RFK Jr in charge of DHHS is basically like the fire chief giving a press conference saying we’re no longer enforcing fire codes and have laid off 80% of firefighters, but it’s cool because we’ve hired a dozen fire mages to do Spells of Protection throughout the city.
bsky.app/profile/josh...
bsky.app/profile/josh...
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40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real.
No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real.
No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
Making “real” homemade milk paint. It is so much better than the powder and couldn’t be easier to make once you assemble the ingredients.
September 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Making “real” homemade milk paint. It is so much better than the powder and couldn’t be easier to make once you assemble the ingredients.
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On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
August 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
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The fruits of my labor this week at Lost Art Press. Can’t recommend taking a carving class from the Peter Follansbee highly enough.
August 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The fruits of my labor this week at Lost Art Press. Can’t recommend taking a carving class from the Peter Follansbee highly enough.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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Imo three things you can do in undergrad that will probably meaningfully improve your career chances (that aren’t highly contextual where the wind may shift and what’s happening to CS majors rn might happen):
-become statistically numerate
-learn another language
-learn to write well
-become statistically numerate
-learn another language
-learn to write well
August 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Imo three things you can do in undergrad that will probably meaningfully improve your career chances (that aren’t highly contextual where the wind may shift and what’s happening to CS majors rn might happen):
-become statistically numerate
-learn another language
-learn to write well
-become statistically numerate
-learn another language
-learn to write well
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Tech luminaries who are obsessed with both the pursuit of layoffs via AI and the pursuit of a higher birth rate to offset population decline are operating with incompatible goals that cannot be reconciled without a pretty high degree of human pain.
August 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Tech luminaries who are obsessed with both the pursuit of layoffs via AI and the pursuit of a higher birth rate to offset population decline are operating with incompatible goals that cannot be reconciled without a pretty high degree of human pain.
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conservative columnists are best understood as laying eggs in the chest of whatever's handy in order to continue the life cycle of the parasitic grievance hornet
August 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
conservative columnists are best understood as laying eggs in the chest of whatever's handy in order to continue the life cycle of the parasitic grievance hornet
Cubs have been selling out that field for a couple decades now tho
July 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Third time was a charm I guess. Goosemas 2-Day floors secured though. LFG! 🪿
July 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Third time was a charm I guess. Goosemas 2-Day floors secured though. LFG! 🪿
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Who was president in 2018 and 2020 are the true intellectual questions of our time
SCOTT TURNER: In 2018, Powell brought down interest rates during the Biden administration
BARTIROMO: Right
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BARTIROMO: Right
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July 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Who was president in 2018 and 2020 are the true intellectual questions of our time
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congrats pat your apology is such a joke the fucking new york post is getting easy buckets on you
July 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
congrats pat your apology is such a joke the fucking new york post is getting easy buckets on you
Thought the framing by @kyla.bsky.social was sharp here: "Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market" open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/z...
Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market
is college worth it? and other questions about the state of things
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Thought the framing by @kyla.bsky.social was sharp here: "Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market" open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/z...