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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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tmydytt @timmidyett.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This is the guy. No notes

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Hank and Georgia's Old Man @barcodetontos.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a

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Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Either show me a monkey doing syncopated blastbeats at 200 bpm or stfu

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Rrill Bell @rrill-bell.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

OC95 Ornette forever, now more than ever. A harmolodic world is still possible! Happy birthday, old man. And thanks for everything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=23QV...

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Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head (1977)

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marty, @numet.al · 01/03/2025

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I still think the Woodstock ‘99 doc is our most politically explanatory film. Young white men, unhappy that women are on television, and unaware that they themselves are locked in an anarchocapitalist prison, generate sociality by stewing in their own filth and eventually burning down everything.

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I got my depressed friend a toaster that floats as a prank

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mgbesq @mgbesq.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We need a youth movement right now, but I fear it was defeated 20 chess moves ago when the culture was homogenized to favor introverted ASMR I-just-can’t-adult-today-ism. Punk bands gripe about money. Every book/movie is a tentpole product. Feelings are emojis. I’m sorry we let this happen to you.

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Jeff Mueller @jeffmueller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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Dave Hill @mrdavehill.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Can’t we just figure out where Elon Musk goes for pizza or something and all go there and wait for him?

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Sloan is one of the best power pop bands of all time

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I wonder why democrat politicians who will continue to get rich through insider trading no matter what don't feel the same sense of urgency as the rest of us

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Tits in Screenshots @titsinscreenshots.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I very badly wanted all of these beautiful girls next door vampire ladies to get naked.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 28/01/2025

'In many ways, Dr. John's Gris-Gris feels like a notably close relation, the songs on both being sonic puzzles that listeners are able to pore over for years, finding new possibilities and new interpretations even after decades of listening.' 25 Years of #DAngelo’s Voodoo buff.ly/4huXlJL

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wstrnstndrds.bsky.social @wstrnstndrds.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

My brother in Christ just go to AA already

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wstrnstndrds.bsky.social @wstrnstndrds.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

So, I guess “The Dark Web” was really just the Internet all along…

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