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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The guy is a legendary bullshit artist.

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

We *can* be useful. Showing up is useful, so long as you restrain yourself. And tracking and defending criminal cases which result from a protest is very useful as well. But these are defensive tactics. We don’t lead clients; we follow them, cover their backs.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Get with the program, Italians. You’re white now, so do like Irish and pick a saint. Mother Cabrini is right there for you. Just sayin’ 🤷‍♂️

‘shop of dude absconding with podium on January 6, except it’s Columbus absconding with the western hemisphere

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It’s been so long. I forgot yesterday.

Photo of thatcher.

Sadly Missed
October 12, 1984

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Populism is bivalent, and triangulates. Right populism triangulates down. Left populism triangulates up.

Luigi Mangione in green sweater and flak jacket.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In case you’re not already boycotting Target.

Target and ICE logos joined by handshake.

Boycott Target

Target Harbors ICE

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We suffered grievous losses, but we won Midway Blitz, and Minnesota won Metro Surge. We mourn our casualties, but we protected far more than we lost. Patience. Hope.

Bystanders filming ICE in Minnesota, with quote.

Force does not work the ways its advocates seem to think it does. It does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of his adversary.
On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of his adversary, and this revelation invests the victim with patience. - Baldwin

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sometimes referred to as a Hobson’s choice.

SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT
Candidates
Photos of candidates with text.
Dominguez: Grooming
Biggs: Fraud
Henderson: Domestic Violence

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Meanwhile, Trump posts this racist bullshit while we enjoy crime rates that haven’t been this low since the early 1960s.

Tweet:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
Chicago is suffering an unprecedented and particularly violent crime wave that is getting worse by the day. The Federal Government can extinguish it quickly and completely, but the Mayor of Chicago, or the Governor of Illinois, must ask for our help. What is wrong with them? Why aren't they asking? TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! President DJT
218 ReTruths 612 Likes
Oct 06, 2026, 7:25 AM

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please, Iran, if you're forced to retaliate in the US, leave the Balbo Monument alone. That's the Balbo Monument, Lakefront Trail, Chicago, 41.8615° N, 87.6136° W, right behind our Police Memorial, 41.8827° N, 87.6630° W.

Photo of Balbo Monument, a gift from Mussolini, in Chicago.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Back in OWS days, when a reply guy pointed out that Fawkes was a radical Catholic and, had he succeeded, “England as we know it now would never have existed!” I said: “You say that like it’s a bad thing.”

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Damon Locks and Tramaine Parker

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*of course there are footnotes. This is the Left, after all; we have high standards.

Photo of Mamdani.

MEGAJAILS MAMDANI HAS DONE NOTHING TO STOP THE
ERECTION
OF FOUR NEW HIGHRISE JAILS THAT COST $16 BILLION

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sacks is even using a Rahm spox. Thick as thieves.

Sacks spokesperson Becky Carroll called it unsurprising that there is a paid influencer campaign targeting Sacks.
"It is not organic and is rife with lies and defamation," Carroll said.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Democratic megadonor denies responsibility for racist policies of candidates he sponsors.

CHICAGO MAGAZINE
Michael Sacks Is the Rahm Whisperer
Image of Sacks whispering in Rahm’s ear.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Note the booth. The surgeon controlled that clanker, which allowed her to minimize the intrusive impact of the surgery. Human control is essential.

Photo of surgery robot with control booth for surgeon, monitor, and arms for the dirty work.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sure, I do a lot of pro bono work, but don’t get the wrong idea.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Read the fuckin’ room, Chicago.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I was a teen the uncanny malice of HAL 9000 put me off clankers for good. I’ve never even used a voice assistant. Posing as an adolescent thirst trap exacerbates the creep factor. But if it were Heckle and Jeckle, I’d have to be tied to the mast of my ship to resist their siren song.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I remember right, a palantir is neutral; everything depends on who’s using it, and why. But if you’re wary of Papists 🤷‍♂️

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s too easy to boycott a musician I never liked anyway.

Image of Sheeran playing guitar and sinking in car driven by Robert Kraft:

“The world is falling to bits and everything is terrible but at least I'm not in this car.”

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s known back home as well. It began there. But in recent decades a lot of healing has occurred. Folks there are now much better about remembering what it means to be Irish. Fierce solidarity with Palestine is a measure of their relative good health.

Newspaper spread contrasting two caricatures.

THE PROCRESSIVE THINKER.
THE TRUE GAEL

THE MODERATE THINKER.
THE WEST BRITON

WHICH
ARE
YOU?

THE THOUGHTFUL MAN.
THE OBSERVANTMAN.
THE GOOD BUSINESS MAN.
THE THOUGHTLESS MAN.

THE CREDULOUS MAN.
THE LOVER OF CHEAP & UNTRUE SENSATIONALISM
WATCH THE FACES:
IN
YOUR TRAIN.
IN YOUR TRAM.
IN
YOUR BUS.
You will find that An Phoblacht is the business man's newspaper.
It is the paper of intelligence for
the intelligent.
The paper of Progress.
Every line in An Phoblacht counts.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There’s a word for it and, yes, it’s a far more common malady with folks from the Irish diaspora, like Sheeran, and me.

Dolly Parton with guitar at mic.

Shoneen, shoneen, shoneen, shoneen!

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sure, Sinn Féin boycotts the White House on Paddy’s Day, but it can still play its Trump card. We have 400 years of experience with Orange pricks. 😉

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He said it was his favorite among his short stories. Mine too, though it’s more parable than narrative. I’m partial to parabolic expression. I can’t throw anything but curveballs. 🤷‍♂️

Book cover with sci fi graphic

ISAAC ASIMOV
THE LAST QUESTION AND
OTHER STORIES

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So, no, I won’t join you in your ritual “Victory is at hand!” I do understand how that works in Ukraine, and approve of its use there as a rallying cry. But not in my head, and not here. It’s denial, a dangerous attitude with so many lives at stake I say “Tiocfaidh ár lá.” Patience.

Photo of Baldwin with quote.

Force does not work the ways its advocates seem to think it does. It does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of his adversary.
On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of his adversary, and this revelation invests the victim with patience.
- James Baldwin

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But a frontier is, by nature, no less dreadful than a crossroads (a collection of frontiers, of edges.) It’s like living in a box, and every cat in the alley simply cannot resist jumping into it. Dreadful.

Antrim

No spot of earth where men have so fiercely for ages of time
Fought and survived and cancelled each other,
Pict and Gael and Dane, McQuillan, Clandonnel, O'Neill,
Savages, the Scot, the Norman, the English,
Here in the narrow passage and the pitiless north, perpetual
Betrayals, relentless resultless fighting.
A random fury of dirks in the dark: a struggle for survival
Of hungry blind cells of life in the womb.
But now the womb has grown old, her strength has gone forth;
a few red carts in a fog creak flax to the dubs,
And sheep in the high heather cry hungrily that life is hard; a
plaintive peace; shepherds and peasants.

We have felt the blades meet in the flesh in a hundred ambushes
And the groaning blood bubble in the throat;
In a hundred battles the heavy axes bite the deep bone,
The mountain suddenly stagger and be darkened.
Generation on generation we have seen the blood of boys
And heard the moaning of women massacred,
The passionate flesh and nerves have flamed like pitch-pine and
fallen
And lain in the earth softly dissolving.
I have lain and been humbled in all these graves, and mixed new
flesh with the old and filled the hollow of my mouth
With maggots and rotten dust and ages of repose. I lie here and
plot the agony of resurrection.

Robinson Jeffers

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

These words are an interesting choice of gifts from the Irish President to the US President. Context changes connotations.

Poem:

Ceasefire

Put in mind of his own father and moved to tears
Achilles took him by the hand and pushed the old king
Gently away, but Priam curled up at his feet and
Wept with him until their sadness filled the building.
II
Taking Hector's corpse into his own hands Achilles
Made sure it was washed and, for the old king's sake,
Laid out in uniform, ready for Priam to carry Wrapped like a present home to Troy at daybreak.
III
When they had eaten together, it pleased them both
To stare at each other's beauty as lovers might,
Achilles built like a god, Priam good-looking still
And full of conversation, who earlier had sighed:
IV
'I get down on my knees and do what must be done
And kiss Achilles' hand, the killer of my son.'

— Michael Longley

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You can tell it’s AI slop because there’s too many fingers.

Illustration by Meep of two hands.
One displays the middle finger with FUCK written at the base of the digits.
The other also displays the middle finger with THE POLICE written at the base of too many digits.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Chicago cops routinely favor fascists on the streets because they vote for fascists at the polls.

Presidential Election Results in Chicago
The darker blue a region, the heavier it leaned for Harris. The darker red a region, the heavier it leaned for Trump
Data as of 10 a.m. Nov. 12.

Map shows heavy red in cop ghettos, County Jail, and Orthodox immigrant neighborhood.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

i guess the jig is up. this is what i look like with and without makeup. im sorry for the ruse

Side by side photos of me smoking, one somewhat deathly.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This was back when I was more subtle with him. Yours is blunt, and more up to date. 👏

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Mayor Johnson correctly pointed out that all the white folks suddenly become accountants when we elect a Black Mayor. The truth is that it was Rahm who brought our city bonds down to junk status. It’s since risen above junk status

Cartoon showing man on phone with Rahm.

Rahm Emanuel is Captain Jagoff
BECOME A SUPERHERO THIS SUMMER!
Captain Jagoff, the bankers are upset because the interest rates are too low on our bonds!
DON'T WORRY IVE ARRANGED TO HAVE THEM DOWNGRADED TO JUNK, SO THE BANKERS' RETURNS IMPROVE
Screw the children!

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My Idea: Rahm Emanuel is a racist, incompetent crook who crashed and burned in the rinky dink job of Chicago Mayor, but wants to be President anyway, and the media platforms this loser to curry favor with his brother, who’s a big deal in the entertainment industry.

Graphic showing photos of Rahm and headlines.

RAHM'S GREATEST HITS: Failure
Tour 2011-2019
*All dates in Chicago
Ex-Chicago
Comptroller Amer Ahmad extradited from Pakistan
This Is What
Happens When a City Shuts Down
Mental Health
Clinics

16 Shots
÷ A
COVER UP
#LaquanMcDonald
# RESIGNRAHM
Revelations about Ald. Daniel Solis wearing wire for FBI have created
'a toxic atmosphere' at Chicago City Hall

Why the Chicago
Teachers Won
Turning points in an unexpected victory for labor
'Black Friday' protest of police shooting shuts main Chicago shopping street
Feds charge Ald.
Edward Burke, allege wiretap on cellphone
captures him in attempted extortion
EDITORIAL: Lessons from Chicago's sorry decision to close 50
schools at once
The Firing of Chicago Police Chief Garry
McCarthy
A week after officials released a video of an officer shooting Laquan MeDonald 16 times.m
White House Moves
G8 Summit From Chicago To Camp
David
Ex-CPS chief
Barbara Byrd-Bennett pleads guilty, tearfully apologizes to students
THE SUDDEN BUT WELL-DESERVED FALL
OF RAHM EMANUEL

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Moultun didn’t just lose. He was humiliated. He couldn’t beat an octogenarian. Voters didn’t buy what he was selling. He’s a loser.

Screenshot of nbc news vote totals:

Democrats
PROJECTED WINNER
EDWARD MARKEY WINS THE MASSACHUSETTS
PRIMARY
Candidate
Edward Markey
Incumbent

572,509

Seth Moulton
310,407

98.7% expected votes in (Est. remaining 12,000)

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dude knew exactly wtf he was doing.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

When I was a toddler my brother convinced me I had huge ears because I was adopted from a family of elephants.

Me, with huge ear, looking out window, holding coffee cup.

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