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Max Bever
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Chicago busy bee. Catdad, writer, host of #ILiveAtTheMusicBox, filmgoer + theatre & music lover.
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Have a very Kubrick Christmas with EYES WIDE SHUT, presented in 35MM!

2 Shows Only - Wednesday December 17th at 4pm & 7:30pm

Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
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ALT: a man in a suit and tie smiles with a blurry background
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November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Shocker.
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Every time I read the news lately
John Mulaney saying "hmm...gross!"
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Lil poser 💕
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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jakeismaking.bsky.social
how the fuck is it not Friday
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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misterjayem.bsky.social
There was a very good reason why Gawker had to be destroyed...
timdickinson.bsky.social Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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ELON (typing): whats best movies i like
GROK: Amazing question! Here's a list that fits your smart taste, cool personality and total badassedness!
1. Ohm Krüger (1941)
2. The Rothschilds (1940)
3. The Love Guru (2008)
4. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
5. Triumph of the Will (1935)
6. Baby Ge
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Tatsuya Nakadai (1932–2025)
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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A giant of cinema has left us. RIP Tatsuya Nakadai (1932 - 2025).
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Graceland Cemetery this morning
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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anthelonious.bsky.social
A. I won't believe anything until it happens. B. I don't trust them to fully depart and leave us in peace. BUT I desperately want it to be true and will rejoice if it is!
chicagotribune.com Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 4d
Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge.
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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i have not watched GDT's Frankenstein but i am firm in my belief that it needs a tie-in adventure/fighting game like the 90s Kenneth Branagh one did on the Sega CD. and they need to keep in elizabeth's roll attack
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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When my cartoons become reality. #chicago
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The first episode of The City That Votes TV show is now live on CAN-TV! A big thank you to Giovanna Carrillo for serving as our first guest - we had a great conversation about recruiting election judges and the Board’s role in connecting with our city’s many communities.
youtu.be/SvCJxU_LYr4
The City That Votes
YouTube video by CAN TV Channel 21
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November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Since 2022, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Friko have gone global—but what happened with the teen scene they grew out of? I talked to 18 different people about the Hallogallo scene now

chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
What happens when a teen rock scene grows up? - Chicago Reader
The Hallogallo scene has produced international successes—Horsegirl, Friko, Lifeguard—as its grassroots DIY spirit spreads beyond Chicago.
chicagoreader.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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From the Depths — William Balfour-Ker, 1906
B&W art. A fancy ballroom where men in white tie are reveling with women in evening gowns. The revelers have paused in their dancing and are looking down at the dance floor. A fist has punched through the floor. We see below the ball men and women hunched down in a cramped space holding up the revelers' gala. One of these people crammed down in the depths has punched through the dance floor from below.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Just wrapped up taping the very first episode of The City That Votes, a new TV show from @chicagoelection.bsky.social on CAN-TV, airing soon! 📺🗳️
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 🍿
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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1. Sufjan (13) 2. John Carpenter (10) 3. & 4. tie Warren Zevon & Peter Gabriel (9) 5. Bowie (8)
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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have been eagerly anticipating this @carolinehaskins.bsky.social scoop on mark zuckerberg's illegal school based on 1,600 (!) pages of docs she got and it does NOT DISAPPOINT:
Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM