weishampel
@weishampel.bsky.social
Chicago socialist, writer, editor, nice man
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I really think we need to have some mechanism in place for being able to say, in print and in the media, that a problem with a public figure is that they are insane. Not in a hyperbolic way. RFK Jr is a maniac.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them?
This is an insane person.
This is an insane person.
August 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I really think we need to have some mechanism in place for being able to say, in print and in the media, that a problem with a public figure is that they are insane. Not in a hyperbolic way. RFK Jr is a maniac.
Bill Kristol is right sadly
There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
August 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Bill Kristol is right sadly
First Democrat who promises to kill these spam callers gets +50 primary points from me
August 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
First Democrat who promises to kill these spam callers gets +50 primary points from me
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As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
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This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.
July 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps.
It’s fascism.
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Hey you guys, hear me out, but I think maybe their plan is to create a white conservative Nazi country with about 100 million white conservative Nazi people in it and deport/imprison/starve/kill the rest.
July 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Hey you guys, hear me out, but I think maybe their plan is to create a white conservative Nazi country with about 100 million white conservative Nazi people in it and deport/imprison/starve/kill the rest.
Let me just........................................... scooch past ya
July 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Let me just........................................... scooch past ya
Her fellow officer and...who else
June 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Her fellow officer and...who else
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Israel killed at least 44 more Palestinians who were going to aid sites. They used drones this time. apnews.com/article/isra...
June 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Israel killed at least 44 more Palestinians who were going to aid sites. They used drones this time. apnews.com/article/isra...
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A deaf and mute Mongolian man seeking asylum has spent more than 80 days at an ICE facility. During that time, he has not had an opportunity to see a judge or communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language, according to his sister and lawyer.
The plight of a disabled man in ICE custody shows impact of Trump immigration orders
A deaf and mute Mongolian man showed up at the San Diego border in February. More than 80 days later, he’s sitting in the Otay Mesa Detention Center facing deportation without due process, his lawyer ...
www.kpbs.org
June 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
A deaf and mute Mongolian man seeking asylum has spent more than 80 days at an ICE facility. During that time, he has not had an opportunity to see a judge or communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language, according to his sister and lawyer.
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YOU - “The wind told me to talk to children. Let's roll.”
June 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
YOU - “The wind told me to talk to children. Let's roll.”
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If CPD showed up to clear a path for bank robbers to get away, no one would be debating whether CPD assisted in the bank robbery.
It’s well-documented now that many of ICE’s detentions are unlawful. CPD helped them.
It’s well-documented now that many of ICE’s detentions are unlawful. CPD helped them.
CPD just issued their statement on today.
They claim they were dispatched "for two calls of assist [sic] the police officer."
"CPD was on-site to endure the safety of all involved."
Claim "they did not assist in immigration enforcement and all their actions were in accordance with CPD policy."
They claim they were dispatched "for two calls of assist [sic] the police officer."
"CPD was on-site to endure the safety of all involved."
Claim "they did not assist in immigration enforcement and all their actions were in accordance with CPD policy."
June 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
If CPD showed up to clear a path for bank robbers to get away, no one would be debating whether CPD assisted in the bank robbery.
It’s well-documented now that many of ICE’s detentions are unlawful. CPD helped them.
It’s well-documented now that many of ICE’s detentions are unlawful. CPD helped them.
Hey man *points up the street* isn't that your blood-dimmed tide?
May 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Hey man *points up the street* isn't that your blood-dimmed tide?
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haven't posted Billy in a while...here's what he's up to rn
May 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
haven't posted Billy in a while...here's what he's up to rn
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INSULINDIAN PHASMID - Few of us can begin to imagine the horror of you -- with all of creation reflected in your forebrain. It must be like the highest of hells, a kaleidoscope of fire and writhing glass. Eternal damnation.
May 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
INSULINDIAN PHASMID - Few of us can begin to imagine the horror of you -- with all of creation reflected in your forebrain. It must be like the highest of hells, a kaleidoscope of fire and writhing glass. Eternal damnation.
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When I interviewed KKK leaders in Arkansas, this is what they said too. “We don’t hate anyone. We just love our own people.” Then they burned a cross.
“Social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly,” JD Vance tells our columnist Ross Douthat in this episode of “Interesting Times.” “That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance. That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country.”
Opinion | JD Vance on His Faith and Trump’s Most Controversial Policies
The vice president joins Ross Douthat in Rome to discuss immigration, trade and the new pope.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
When I interviewed KKK leaders in Arkansas, this is what they said too. “We don’t hate anyone. We just love our own people.” Then they burned a cross.
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If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican-led House approves tax bill after grueling all-night session, taking a major step forward for Trump's agenda.
May 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.
Democrats should be treating right wing areas this way 🙂
“Johnson is also being sued by Trump’s Justice Department for Chicago’s sanctuary city policy for immigrants who entered the country illegally, and the city and Chicago Public Schools are facing a separate federal probe over alleged antisemitism.”
May 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Democrats should be treating right wing areas this way 🙂
casimir pulaski day for joe biden
May 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
casimir pulaski day for joe biden
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The whole “trans people are sin eaters for cis male sexual predators” phenomenon is rarely this stark
Haven’t seen this reported yet: in a speech to supporters posted to TikTok last week, NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo said he believes that Democrats lost in 2024 because “we’re talking about bathrooms and who’s gonna play in what [sports] team”
May 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The whole “trans people are sin eaters for cis male sexual predators” phenomenon is rarely this stark
Still no better way to ensure support for a regime than the United States attacking
Yemen's Houthi rebels held a massive rally in the capital, Sanaa, declaring 'victory' over the US after President Trump announced a halt to US air strikes on Yemen.
Houthi-aligned media says upwards of one million people turned out.
Houthi-aligned media says upwards of one million people turned out.
May 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Still no better way to ensure support for a regime than the United States attacking
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To be clear, Fetterman deserves the exact same amount of empathy that he’s shown for the Palestinian children whose deaths he’s happily enabled and cheerled. He also needs to go home and leave public office immediately.
May 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
To be clear, Fetterman deserves the exact same amount of empathy that he’s shown for the Palestinian children whose deaths he’s happily enabled and cheerled. He also needs to go home and leave public office immediately.