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Nathaniel Penn

@natepenn.bsky.social

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@GQMagazine, @CalSunday, @newrepublic, and soon @atavist. A novel at some point.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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-...

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…

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Worth watching. He is livid, as he should be.

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FULL SPEECH | Trudeau outlines response to U.S. tariffs

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Dems should take a hard line: no CRs or debt ceiling increases without full reinstatement of fired federal employees with back pay and an independent special prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened over the last week with Musk.

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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Weird they were unable to run this before the election www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

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U.S. Economy Is Doing What Few Others Are: Getting More Productive

Inflation and the labor market are both cooling, but a subtle force has powered strong U.S. economic growth nonetheless. Americans keep finding ways to get more done at work.

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Nathaniel Penn @natepenn.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

man, the pipes on this kid www.youtube.com/watch?v=evHk...

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Nathaniel Penn @natepenn.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

well played, to say the least. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS2M...

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