Seth A
@swanksalot.bsky.social
Chicago based politics and photography enthusiast
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November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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But this part sucks: "without prejudice"
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
But this part sucks: "without prejudice"
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Pretty in Pink. Monday's sunrise in Chicago.
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Pretty in Pink. Monday's sunrise in Chicago.
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown
Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid a federal immigration crackdown apnews.com/article/chic...
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Happy Thanksgiving :: Doug Sahm And Friends – Austin, TX 1972
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'tis thee season
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'tis thee season
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Happy Thanksgiving :: Doug Sahm And Friends – Austin, TX 1972
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'tis thee season
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'tis thee season
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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This is quite the essay on MAGA Christianity, an insider lament about things I’ve observed from the outside, and things I didn’t know about.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is quite the essay on MAGA Christianity, an insider lament about things I’ve observed from the outside, and things I didn’t know about.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
I’m not Christian, but I find some things admirable about Christianity, and think it’s a shame how the dominant form of US Christianity has inverted them.
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Look at this, a thing of absolute beauty
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Look at this, a thing of absolute beauty
Robert Plant's Saving Grace … traditional spiritual "Gospel Plough" to "It's A Beautiful Day Today" by Moby Grape, a psychedelic rock band that, Plant says, still makes him "weepy."
"Gospel Plough"
"Higher Rock"
"Everybody's Song"
"It's a Beautiful Day Today"
"Gallows Pole"
"Gospel Plough"
"Higher Rock"
"Everybody's Song"
"It's a Beautiful Day Today"
"Gallows Pole"
Robert Plant: Tiny Desk Concert
Robin Hilton | November 21, 2025
When Robert Plant first stepped behind the Tiny Desk on a blustery Halloween afternoon, he took stock of the relatively stripped-down setup. "This is just like Live…
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November 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Robert Plant's Saving Grace … traditional spiritual "Gospel Plough" to "It's A Beautiful Day Today" by Moby Grape, a psychedelic rock band that, Plant says, still makes him "weepy."
"Gospel Plough"
"Higher Rock"
"Everybody's Song"
"It's a Beautiful Day Today"
"Gallows Pole"
"Gospel Plough"
"Higher Rock"
"Everybody's Song"
"It's a Beautiful Day Today"
"Gallows Pole"
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Feds encountering loudmouthed Chicago women
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Feds encountering loudmouthed Chicago women
Happy birthday to one of the best bass players of all time, Tina Weymouth! (can even see the sticker from Sound Exchange where I bought More Songs About BuildingsAnd Food for $3.99)
#vinyl #doubleExposure via #Hipstamatic
#vinyl #doubleExposure via #Hipstamatic
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Happy birthday to one of the best bass players of all time, Tina Weymouth! (can even see the sticker from Sound Exchange where I bought More Songs About BuildingsAnd Food for $3.99)
#vinyl #doubleExposure via #Hipstamatic
#vinyl #doubleExposure via #Hipstamatic
Siebel Institute announces last call in Chicago — one that 'hurts' says Chicago brewer chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...
Siebel Institute announces last call in Chicago — one that 'hurts,' says Chicago brewer
The oldest brewery school in the United States said it would be relocating to Montreal, citing operational costs, industry trends and challenges with students obtaining U.S. visas.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Siebel Institute announces last call in Chicago — one that 'hurts' says Chicago brewer chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...
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trump cheerfully and unwittingly driving a stake through every attack line about zohran is the funniest thing I have seen all year
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
trump cheerfully and unwittingly driving a stake through every attack line about zohran is the funniest thing I have seen all year
Well, I do a bit of maple syrup and a few splashes of Sazerac Rye, might as well mix ‘em up
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Well, I do a bit of maple syrup and a few splashes of Sazerac Rye, might as well mix ‘em up
The King of Sports at the White House There’s an Epstein cancer in the halls of power www.truehoop.com/p/the-king-o...
The King of Sports at the White House
In the time of Epstein
www.truehoop.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The King of Sports at the White House There’s an Epstein cancer in the halls of power www.truehoop.com/p/the-king-o...
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It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
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some day i will learn to break out my humidifier BEFORE my sinuses become so dried out i get an infection
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
some day i will learn to break out my humidifier BEFORE my sinuses become so dried out i get an infection
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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media coverage of this is already as pathetic as you might expect, usually failing to mention:
the FCC has no authority over the UK's BBC
the scandal was created by right wing media
the year-old BBC edits fall outside limits of UK defamation law
PBC, NPR never aired the documentary
the FCC has no authority over the UK's BBC
the scandal was created by right wing media
the year-old BBC edits fall outside limits of UK defamation law
PBC, NPR never aired the documentary
Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
media coverage of this is already as pathetic as you might expect, usually failing to mention:
the FCC has no authority over the UK's BBC
the scandal was created by right wing media
the year-old BBC edits fall outside limits of UK defamation law
PBC, NPR never aired the documentary
the FCC has no authority over the UK's BBC
the scandal was created by right wing media
the year-old BBC edits fall outside limits of UK defamation law
PBC, NPR never aired the documentary
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NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
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So what’s happening here is that Jim Comey is asking for a bill of particulars to clarify his alleged illegal acts, as the government apparently has been ambiguous about the charges.
I have not seen a case this jacked up by the prosecution since I was in misdemeanor traffic court.
I have not seen a case this jacked up by the prosecution since I was in misdemeanor traffic court.
Oh PLEASE let the case against Jim Comey fall apart because of Ted Cruz.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71459...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71459...
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
So what’s happening here is that Jim Comey is asking for a bill of particulars to clarify his alleged illegal acts, as the government apparently has been ambiguous about the charges.
I have not seen a case this jacked up by the prosecution since I was in misdemeanor traffic court.
I have not seen a case this jacked up by the prosecution since I was in misdemeanor traffic court.
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On this day in 1941, Dr. John was born in New Orleans. The Night Tripper himself blended blues, jazz, funk and voodoo into something nobody had heard before. 'Gris-Gris' changed everything in 1968 and "Right Place Wrong Time" still grooves.
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
On this day in 1941, Dr. John was born in New Orleans. The Night Tripper himself blended blues, jazz, funk and voodoo into something nobody had heard before. 'Gris-Gris' changed everything in 1968 and "Right Place Wrong Time" still grooves.
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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I had forgotten the note — from Patrick Reardon’s classic takedown of “Devil in the White City” — that Larson claimed Truman Capote as an inspiration. “In Cold Blood” has influenced so many “nonfiction” writers to … make up details they can’t fill in with facts. A terrible legacy.
But . . . That book has been thoroughly debunked as history or “nonfiction.” patricktreardon.com/the-demons-i... Great read, sure, but not history.
The Demons in "The Devil in the White City" - Patrick T. Reardon
An address at the Chicago History Museum, December 14, 2006
When Erik Larson introduces Sol Bloom in his best-selling book “The Devil in the White City,” Bloom is a young man on the make --- a 21-yea...
patricktreardon.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I had forgotten the note — from Patrick Reardon’s classic takedown of “Devil in the White City” — that Larson claimed Truman Capote as an inspiration. “In Cold Blood” has influenced so many “nonfiction” writers to … make up details they can’t fill in with facts. A terrible legacy.
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People are asking ”well if the court dismisses the Comey indictment for various kinds of fuckmuppetry by the moronic and debased Trump Justice Department, the statute of limitations has run and so Comey is free, right?
It depends on the particular kind of fuckmuppetry.
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It depends on the particular kind of fuckmuppetry.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
People are asking ”well if the court dismisses the Comey indictment for various kinds of fuckmuppetry by the moronic and debased Trump Justice Department, the statute of limitations has run and so Comey is free, right?
It depends on the particular kind of fuckmuppetry.
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It depends on the particular kind of fuckmuppetry.
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