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Bryan Royle

@ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social

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Economist; former technical writer and forklift operator

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Fed Chair won't give economic forward guidance, but the Treasury Secretary will?

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@bestofnextdoor.bsky.social doesn't do much on here, but man, here's a winner.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The vibe I got from the FOMC press conference today: youtu.be/6qoeSe_uzsI?...

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Veep - Best of Karen Collins

YouTube video by Igirus

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Sounds like an indulgent weekend, count me in

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Sometimes I get weird looks for being an Android user. Then I read a WSJ article about the hottest new iPhone feature, see this, and feel affirmed.

Although Google launched its own call screening tool for Pixel phones in 2018, the feature has become more popular since Apple unveiled its similar offering in iOS 26 last year.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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Russ The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

For Renee Nicole Good, for her wife, child, city, country, and every person she died to protect... it's fundraiser time. I'm giving $1 to Community Aid Network MN for each repost this gets. AND $1 for each new follower I get. And if YOU donate to Community Aid Network MN, tell me and I'll match it.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

My train this morning. Today is Epiphany, after all

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Singing my wife's present to the tune of "Detachable Penis"

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Wow, I had never seen this, what a read. It should be used in discourse classes to pick apart an argument.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

In my travels, I'm finding people don't believe what's happening in Chicago. It's hard to comprehend this. We have to keep spreading the word. Here's a good factual summary.

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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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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Hitting close to home. The citizen confrontation shown is right outside my kid's school. I do not feel safer. www.therecordnorthshore.org/2025/10/29/i...

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ICE activity confirmed in Wilmette. Number of arrests remains unclear - The Record

Federal immigration enforcement came to Wilmette on Wednesday. Reports, photos and videos from several community members show that federal agents were active in multiple locations on Oct. 29 afternoon...

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

...and who receives the surcharge payment?

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago: Dirksen Courthouse has new high steel fencing on all sides. No changes to Kluczynski building, post office or open area across Dearborn. Detainees headed here?

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

The tool kit: 8 meetings per year to set the interbank overnight interest rate; the modal outcome is no change. In a crisis, they can buy bonds. Oh, and they give speeches.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

CHINA: [crickets chirping]

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This was my well-timed choice at the library over the weekend. Didn't think I'd need it quite so soon.

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