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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

A poster for PRF Thundersnow, happening February 20-22, 2026, at Terrace Bay Hotel in Gladstone, Michigan. Email prfthundersnow@gmail.com for band submissions, open between 10/1/25-12/1/25.

Damn.

oh you like eggs? name five of their albumin

Show flyer: Brother Wolf with Vacancy Chain and Bad Year, Saturday, March 22 9pm at The Void in Racine, WI. No cover.

Early warning:

Aimonetti Justin Aimonetti, Justin W. Justin.W.Aimonetti@doge.eop.gov Altik Jacob Altik, Jacob R. Jacob.R.Altik@doge.eop.gov Armstrong Anthony Armstrong, Anthony J. Anthony.J.Armstrong@doge.eop.gov Balajadia Jennifer Balajadia, Jennifer Jennifer.Balajadia@doge.eop.gov Beynon Alexandra Beynon, Alexandra T. Alexandra.T.Beynon@doge.eop.govBiasini Riccardo Biasini, Riccardo N. Riccardo.N.Biasini@doge.eop.gov Bobba Akash Bobba, Akash N. Akash.N.Bobba@doge.eop.gov Boizelle Ashley Boizelle, Ashley S. Ashley.S.Boizelle@doge.eop.gov Bryant Emily Bryant, Emily L. Emily.L.Bryant@doge.eop.gov Burnham James Burnham, James James.Burnham@doge.eop.gov Coristine Edward Coristine, Edward H. Edward.H.Coristine@doge.eop.gov Davis Steven Davis, Steven M. Steven.M.Davis@doge.eop.gov Elez Marko Elez, Marko Marko.Elez@doge.eop.gov Farritor Luke Farritor, Luke E. Luke.E.Farritor@doge.eop.gov Fox Joshua Fox, Joshua Joshua.Fox@doge.eop.gov Hanley Joshua Hanley, Joshua A. Joshua.A.Hanley@doge.eop.gov Holmes Stephanie Holmes, Stephanie M. Stephanie.M.Holmes@doge.eop.gov Killian Gautier Killian, Gautier C. Gautier.C.Killian@doge.eop.gov Kmiec Keenan Kmiec, Keenan D. Keenan.D.Kmiec@doge.eop.gov Lahera Nicholas Lahera, Nicholas Nicholas.Lahera@doge.eop.gov Lindemann Kendall Lindemann, Kendall M. Kendall.M.Lindemann@doge.eop.gov Musk Elon Musk, Elon R. erm71@who.eop.gov Peters Noah Peters, Noah Noah.Peters@doge.eop.gov Rajpal Nikhil Rajpal, Nikhil Nikhil.Rajpal@doge.eop.gov Ramada Adam Ramada, Adam Adam.Ramada@doge.eop.gov Raynor Austin Raynor, Austin L. Austin.L.Raynor@doge.eop.gov Schutt Kyle Schutt, Kyle L. Kyle.L.Schutt@doge.eop.gov Shaotran Ethan Shaotran, Ethan Ethan.Shaotran@doge.eop.gov Smith Brad Smith, Brad M. Brad.M.Smith@doge.eop.gov Stanley Christopher Stanley, Christopher A. Christopher.Stanley@doge.eop.gov Wick Jordan Wick, Jordan K. Jordan.K.Wick@doge.eop.gov Wiles Susan Wiles, Susan S. Susan.S.Wiles@doge.eop.gov

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

Vacancy Chain Vacancy Chain are 3 vertically un-impaired humans from Chicago and Milwaukee.

It's Bandcamp Friday and today all sales are going to Bandcamp’s Los Angeles Fundraiser to benefit those impacted by January’s devastating wildfires. If you haven’t picked up a copy of our album or latest single today is the best day to do so! Help make a difference.

vacancychain.bandcamp.com

Saturday! Kenosha!

(Bring a cooler if you hit the Cheese Castle beforehand.)

An extreme close up of GI Robot from creature commandos, a robot whose only purpose is killing nazis

Me irl

Emmet Otter and… some other otter, singing

look how alike we are 🎵
perhaps we’re long lost brothers

you fuck with one of us
you fuck with all the others 🎶

I would have also accepted, "Here's a fake cash donation."

This isn’t a popular Johnny Cash opinion but I think after Highwayman he should’ve done a lot more songs where he flies a spaceship

A flyer for the bands Body Futures, Nonagon, Redshift Headlights, and Vacancy Chain, playing 11/22/24 at X-Ray Arcade in Cudahy, WI. Doors at 6pm, show at 7pm. All ages.

This one's gonna be ferocious.

Someone has taken the time to create a Bluesky list of the biggest M*A*G*A trolls on this site. Click the link and then click the subscribe button. It will give you 2 options to mute or block the entire list. Nuke an entire army of trolls with one click. So satisfying.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Pls. remind me this weekend.

Count me in.

Is that Wang Wang!?!

Lydia, by La Fea track by La Fea

In memory of Lydia K. at Pretty Lake Camp.

hi everyone. please sign this petition encouraging songtradr to recognize bandcamp united: actionnetwork.org/petitions/so...

Unfortunately, she was playing on a borrowed kit.

Em: "Drum heads are expensive."

Played there once. Our drummer forgot his cymbals.

We fired him the next week.