Papa’s Little Hobby
@papaslittlehobby.bsky.social
He/him. Dad, husband, and public interest lawyer by day. Artist and musician here and there.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
Simpsons made it exactly 3 episodes before someone was like “we gotta name one ‘homers odyssey.’”
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Simpsons made it exactly 3 episodes before someone was like “we gotta name one ‘homers odyssey.’”
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Some of the radder than thou folks really need to take a beat. If you're venting your anger at people who are out there taking action and doing their best, you don't know enough about how to move in this moment to offer instruction.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Some of the radder than thou folks really need to take a beat. If you're venting your anger at people who are out there taking action and doing their best, you don't know enough about how to move in this moment to offer instruction.
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Well that got intense - you can see CBP threatening to mace someone and also threatening to teargas them on 22nd and Sawyer.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Well that got intense - you can see CBP threatening to mace someone and also threatening to teargas them on 22nd and Sawyer.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
CPD had about 40 bodies on the north end of the street guarding the feds.
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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.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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."
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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If you’re in the Edgewater/Rogers Park area, we need people with their whistles on visibly out on patrol. Even if it’s just a walk on your lunch break or while you walk your dog, it matters. This is an all hands on deck day. Whatever you can do. ICE is heavily present in the area. Hope I see you.
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If you’re in the Edgewater/Rogers Park area, we need people with their whistles on visibly out on patrol. Even if it’s just a walk on your lunch break or while you walk your dog, it matters. This is an all hands on deck day. Whatever you can do. ICE is heavily present in the area. Hope I see you.
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It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
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October 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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In a world where most politicians won't mention trans people except to throw us under the bus, this ad from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is honestly such a breath of fresh air.
youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...
youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
In a world where most politicians won't mention trans people except to throw us under the bus, this ad from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is honestly such a breath of fresh air.
youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...
youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...
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Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."
October 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."
The first few episodes of love is blind should be a podcast
October 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The first few episodes of love is blind should be a podcast
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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
September 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
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rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s
September 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s
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if you’re a trans american and following the news right now, it can feel pretty terrifying.
that’s because it IS terrifying.
just… the number one thing you can do right now is to live as long as humanly possible and make it to the other side of all this.
because we WILL win. and that’s how.
that’s because it IS terrifying.
just… the number one thing you can do right now is to live as long as humanly possible and make it to the other side of all this.
because we WILL win. and that’s how.
September 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
if you’re a trans american and following the news right now, it can feel pretty terrifying.
that’s because it IS terrifying.
just… the number one thing you can do right now is to live as long as humanly possible and make it to the other side of all this.
because we WILL win. and that’s how.
that’s because it IS terrifying.
just… the number one thing you can do right now is to live as long as humanly possible and make it to the other side of all this.
because we WILL win. and that’s how.
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a platform we can all get behind
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
September 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
a platform we can all get behind
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there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
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wsj retract your headline pass it on
September 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
wsj retract your headline pass it on
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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If you are stopped by ANY variety of law enforcement in the United States, you should ID yourself if you're in a stop and ID state, ask if you're free to leave, and say:
I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.
I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.
September 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If you are stopped by ANY variety of law enforcement in the United States, you should ID yourself if you're in a stop and ID state, ask if you're free to leave, and say:
I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.
I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.
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too little attention being paid to the fact battery plants like these are supposed to be a picture of a new Industrial Revolution for electric vehicles & this facility was primed to benefit from the first climate law before it was gutted
September 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
too little attention being paid to the fact battery plants like these are supposed to be a picture of a new Industrial Revolution for electric vehicles & this facility was primed to benefit from the first climate law before it was gutted
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If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at sheryl@weikallaw.com if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at sheryl@weikallaw.com if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
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The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
September 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula
September 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula
I really hope they play it as bill and ted
September 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I really hope they play it as bill and ted