Matt Loar
@matt.loar.name
Former software engineer for big tech, former in-house privacy counsel for a smaller tech company, future solo practitioner?
He/him. Chicago-adjacent.
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He/him. Chicago-adjacent.
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Today was Palestinian Independence Day.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Today was Palestinian Independence Day.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
As Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous postwar plans become clear, the U.S. must recognize and respect Palestinian statehood — as 81% of the world already does.
Agency and dignity are the only ways we can achieve lasting peace.
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
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It's maddening that elected officials choose to not only see the kidnapping and disappearance of members of our community as an inevitability that they can't do anything about, but then blame protesters for cops choosing to attack them. This is Olympic level gaslighting
broadview mayor katrina thompson blames today’s brutality on “out-of-town protesters” who’ve “chosen their fists” over their voices.
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It's maddening that elected officials choose to not only see the kidnapping and disappearance of members of our community as an inevitability that they can't do anything about, but then blame protesters for cops choosing to attack them. This is Olympic level gaslighting
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Note: The pastor being thrown to the ground and arrested here while protesting outside an ICE facility here — who police single out — appears to be Rev. Michael Woolf, a Baptist pastor (he’s ordained by both American Baptist Churches USA and Alliance of Baptists).
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Note: The pastor being thrown to the ground and arrested here while protesting outside an ICE facility here — who police single out — appears to be Rev. Michael Woolf, a Baptist pastor (he’s ordained by both American Baptist Churches USA and Alliance of Baptists).
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CCL board member Robert Held is challenging Broadview’s protest hour restrictions outside the #ICE facility, arguing they place unconstitutional limits on peaceful assembly—especially for working people who can’t protest during a 9-6 window.
@chicago.suntimes.com
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@chicago.suntimes.com
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Protest hours at Broadview ICE facility too restrictive, lawyer suing village says
“The First Amendment isn’t something that has a time clock,” Robert Held argues in push to broaden 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. protest hours in western suburb.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
CCL board member Robert Held is challenging Broadview’s protest hour restrictions outside the #ICE facility, arguing they place unconstitutional limits on peaceful assembly—especially for working people who can’t protest during a 9-6 window.
@chicago.suntimes.com
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@chicago.suntimes.com
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LA:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
LA:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
- black mayor
- majority non-white
DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
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I'm listening, under 70 year old white man.
Breaking a little news tonight: Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov, speaking tonight at Progressive Maryland's annual gala, just announced he will be sponsoring Medicare for All legislation in the US Senate. This is his first time sponsoring 👀👀👀
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I'm listening, under 70 year old white man.
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Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
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Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.
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This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Can everyone stop pretending that the new CBS is in the news business, and admit that it’s a post-truth propagandistic organization, now that they openly admit it?
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Can everyone stop pretending that the new CBS is in the news business, and admit that it’s a post-truth propagandistic organization, now that they openly admit it?
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The fact that not a single member of the Senate Dem caucus has called for Schumer to be replaced shows you how deep the rot is. This includes Sanders and Warren.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The fact that not a single member of the Senate Dem caucus has called for Schumer to be replaced shows you how deep the rot is. This includes Sanders and Warren.
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4 UC Berkeley undergrads who put up a cardboard insect to protest Turning P*int USA’s sold out campus event are being charged with FELONY VANDALISM.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
4 UC Berkeley undergrads who put up a cardboard insect to protest Turning P*int USA’s sold out campus event are being charged with FELONY VANDALISM.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
Me to my dog this morning: "You might be part Siberian Husky, but I'm not!"
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Me to my dog this morning: "You might be part Siberian Husky, but I'm not!"
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We have to assume that every Senate Democrat who's not publicly calling for Schumer's ouster signed off on what happened Sunday.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We have to assume that every Senate Democrat who's not publicly calling for Schumer's ouster signed off on what happened Sunday.
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now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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So I decided to look up the claims frequencies of other types of insurance and along the way discovered that the claim frequency for employer provided insurance is actually LOWER, & historically MUCH lower, than people with Obamacare marketplace plans. (He is a medical doctor. He is lying to you.)
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
So I decided to look up the claims frequencies of other types of insurance and along the way discovered that the claim frequency for employer provided insurance is actually LOWER, & historically MUCH lower, than people with Obamacare marketplace plans. (He is a medical doctor. He is lying to you.)
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“This was no mere suggestion. This was Leo deploying the full weight of Catholic teaching—the Scripture that defines Christian ethics for over a billion souls worldwide—against an immigration enforcement apparatus that has detained thousands of Chicagoans since Operation Midway Blitz began …”
“In blunt words on Operation Midway Blitz, Pope Leo XIV invokes Matthew 25, reminding a nation in the throes of mass deportations that Christ himself will ask: How did you receive the foreigner?” migrantinsider.com/p/pope-leo-s...
Pope Leo Slams Trump Over Chicago Crackdown
In blunt words on Operation Midway Blitz, Pope Leo XIV invokes Matthew 25, reminding a nation in the throes of mass deportations that Christ himself will ask: How did you receive the foreigner?
migrantinsider.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“This was no mere suggestion. This was Leo deploying the full weight of Catholic teaching—the Scripture that defines Christian ethics for over a billion souls worldwide—against an immigration enforcement apparatus that has detained thousands of Chicagoans since Operation Midway Blitz began …”
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These are the people who forged Electoral College vote certificates and tried to pass them off as real, right in front of the whole country.
Maybe the most insane crime of them all.
Maybe the most insane crime of them all.
BREAKING:
Trump has just issued pardons to dozens of conservatives who tried to overturn the 2020 election results, including: Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, and more — per pardon attorney Ed Martin.
Trump has just issued pardons to dozens of conservatives who tried to overturn the 2020 election results, including: Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, and more — per pardon attorney Ed Martin.
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
These are the people who forged Electoral College vote certificates and tried to pass them off as real, right in front of the whole country.
Maybe the most insane crime of them all.
Maybe the most insane crime of them all.