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Rahm designed it so that the videos get held back for 60 days so the cops can cover it up and put a lid on criticism and protests. COPA was designed to enable, not reduce, police misconduct.

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Did I like it when Trump trolled the Brits when he supported Irish unity? Sure. But Mamdani got it right: that’s up to the Irish people.

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We have similar issues in Chicago with Pritzker and Johnson. Neither satisfies my Irish Republican values. But I’ve never expected any US politician to satisfy my Irish Republican values; quite the contrary.

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And if they identify every listener and each is necessary to the call I’ll let them use their speaker.

“Take it off speaker or I’m hanging up.” is what I say to folks who call me on speaker. I have a right to know who I’m talking to.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 10h

Don’t use biometric logons either.

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Me, I was raised in the Irish Republican tradition. His Dad is a scholar and survivor of colonialism, and raised his boy right.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 10h

It’s gonna piss off a lot of folks, but he’s right. This sort of clarity is hard to appreciate in the face of such spectacular suffering.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 12h

whenever bluesky goes down i always panic for a second and assume my account got nuked because everyone was sick of my shit

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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
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Oct 06, 2026, 7:25 AM

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I’ve only recently come around to this approach. And I extend it to fashion as well, because I’m clueless on fashion.

I strongly suspect this was why the Special Agent in charge of the Chicago FBI office suddenly resigned.

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And he drove me right up to the fascists. Immigrants are brave. 💚

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I told him caution was appropriate for immigrants. But we have to let our immigrant neighbors know that fascists are not safe here: “It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it, and natural born citizens are best suited to it.” That made him smile.

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On Sunday I covered an action where local folks protested a notorious fascist who parachuted into town to troll a Palestinian festival. When I warned my immigrant driver he might want to drop me off a block away for his own safety, he asked if it might be better to ignore the fascist.

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If you listen to Trump and this bigoted newspaper, Chicago is a dangerous hellscape. That’s good because it scares fascists away, and makes other visitors feel safe and welcome.

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Iran doesn’t have nukes yet, but conventional weapons could destroy the monument, and the Police Memorial would almost certainly suffer collateral damage.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our monument to fascism became a piñata, so they had to hide it behind some bushes in a fenced off area of our Police Memorial, the most heavily surveilled real estate in Chicago.

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Is it safe for me to say on here that I do not believe the polls about the Midterms? I don't trust white voters to be honest about their voting intentions with pollsters.

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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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My brother tangled with the Brits in Bosnia. Dirty shit going on there (but the Bosnian people were innocent.)

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Subscribe. I do. It’s essential otg Chicago reporting.

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Over and over some people demonstrate that racism IS a material interest in their decision making and that the racism supercedes everything else. But some refuse to take these folks at their word.

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Irish Republicans were well known to be close allies of ANC. It’s not as well known that British death squads in Ireland were allied with the worst elements of the apartheid regime.

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👋 good for Legal and general troubleshooting. I hope you need neither, but hmu if you do.

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Dude got run out of Chicago for covering up the police murder of a Black teen. All he knows is failure.

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His brother is a big deal in Hollywood so media give him airtime to suck up to his brother.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They’re all free. Donations are requested, not required.

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It is my honor and privilege to announce that President @barackobama.bsky.social is joining us on the trail in Detroit on Saturday, October 24. Get. Ready.

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Absolutely, even when I disagree with them. Trump carried Cook County jail here last time around, but that’s their right.

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The judge in his case had him admit on the record that he was a pedophile. The issue is indisputable.

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He took a shine to one of my friends. We didn’t have to say anything to each other. We knew exactly what to do. We got the better of the situation. That’s as specific as I’ll get in a public forum.

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I definitely remember the ones who went so far as resort to physical force. But there were so many others I don’t remember them. It took a while for me to put 2 and 2 together on Hastert. “Oh, he was that fucking creep in Yorkville!”

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We were kids, but hardly innocent.

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Don’t read anything into our experience with him. Again, we were streetwise city punks, mercenary. We exploited old creeps like him hitting on us. More trusting souls were terribly traumatized by this guy. They had every right to be innocent kids.

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Dude was a Boy Scout leader and wrestling coach. Creepy af. I saw it with my own eyes.

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No harm to me or my friends. We were streetwise City punks who knew how to deal with an old creep. He’s the originator of the Hastert Rule, whereby a Republican Speaker won’t call a vote on a bill unless a majority of his caucus supports it. And they accuse us of not being bipartisan.

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