The Amazing Prizzini
@amazingprizzini.bsky.social
Chicago’s very own Clown Attorney. Occasional British Loyalist who still welcomes a return of Queen Elizabeth II to these shores.
Should not be taken too seriously, please.
Should not be taken too seriously, please.
Pinned
Dum spiro spero.
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“The Surrealists were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to ‘pessimism all along the line,’ and nonetheless wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change,” @naomiaklein.bsky.social writes www.equator.org/articles/sur...
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
www.equator.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“The Surrealists were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to ‘pessimism all along the line,’ and nonetheless wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change,” @naomiaklein.bsky.social writes www.equator.org/articles/sur...
This, more than anything, is Trump’s vision of America.
Endless waves of masked federal agents attacking blue cities and the people there.
We aren’t real Americans to them. We’re just fodder for their Twitter feeds.
Endless waves of masked federal agents attacking blue cities and the people there.
We aren’t real Americans to them. We’re just fodder for their Twitter feeds.
Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This, more than anything, is Trump’s vision of America.
Endless waves of masked federal agents attacking blue cities and the people there.
We aren’t real Americans to them. We’re just fodder for their Twitter feeds.
Endless waves of masked federal agents attacking blue cities and the people there.
We aren’t real Americans to them. We’re just fodder for their Twitter feeds.
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
We were in the random audio cd section of the library yesterday, and God bless her, my beloved daughter chose an old George Gershwin cd out.
I got to introduce her to Fred Astaire singing They Can’t take that away from me!
I got to introduce her to Fred Astaire singing They Can’t take that away from me!
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
We were in the random audio cd section of the library yesterday, and God bless her, my beloved daughter chose an old George Gershwin cd out.
I got to introduce her to Fred Astaire singing They Can’t take that away from me!
I got to introduce her to Fred Astaire singing They Can’t take that away from me!
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Cops have always been liars, and courts are mostly complicit in the lies. The difference here is that a District Court judge made a finding that these cops are liars. But her injunction is unlikely to survive on appeal; it’s already been stayed by the Court of Appeals.
This is the same playbook the Trump administration ran in Portland, where DHS officials falsely accused local police of failing to help them (or not arriving quickly enough). Strikes me as a problem that the government lies so freely to the Supreme Court now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Cops have always been liars, and courts are mostly complicit in the lies. The difference here is that a District Court judge made a finding that these cops are liars. But her injunction is unlikely to survive on appeal; it’s already been stayed by the Court of Appeals.
this was especially satisfying for General Wood, as he had obeyed the order from Rosencrans at Chickamauga that opened up the fatal gap in the Union line.
Around 5 p.m., Thomas Wood’s division burst over the crest, breaking the Confederate line right in half. The ridge fell in several spots. With Union troops pouring through the breastworks and the narrow ridge blocking any counterattack, the Confederate center suddenly collapsed all at once (15
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
this was especially satisfying for General Wood, as he had obeyed the order from Rosencrans at Chickamauga that opened up the fatal gap in the Union line.
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#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
Border patrol is gassing residential areas again for fun.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Border patrol is gassing residential areas again for fun.
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see this is a key factor in the 'Trump is funny' debate. this, almost certainly written by Miller, is psychotic. his off the cuff, unplanned remarks come off very differently
Trump: "Instead of pardons, some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship Gobble and Waddle straight to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador."
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
see this is a key factor in the 'Trump is funny' debate. this, almost certainly written by Miller, is psychotic. his off the cuff, unplanned remarks come off very differently
After watching my Chicago Bears a face plant for decades on drafting a QB, it’s nice to have what appears a good one, and to have the Vikings draft a guy who appears to be the second coming of Moses Moreno.
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
After watching my Chicago Bears a face plant for decades on drafting a QB, it’s nice to have what appears a good one, and to have the Vikings draft a guy who appears to be the second coming of Moses Moreno.
I am going to buy this and drink it down like the nectar of the Gods.
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I am going to buy this and drink it down like the nectar of the Gods.
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a lot of interesting tidbits in this story about rep. lauren underwood’s visit to the broadview ice jail.
as always, take everything dhs says with a grain of salt. but it sounds like the feds’ terror in chicago is far from over.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
as always, take everything dhs says with a grain of salt. but it sounds like the feds’ terror in chicago is far from over.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
a lot of interesting tidbits in this story about rep. lauren underwood’s visit to the broadview ice jail.
as always, take everything dhs says with a grain of salt. but it sounds like the feds’ terror in chicago is far from over.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
as always, take everything dhs says with a grain of salt. but it sounds like the feds’ terror in chicago is far from over.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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In other NEWS: Masked agents took at least 15 street vendors from Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz. “Worst of the worst,” they aren’t. Story by @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social & @zareensyed.bsky.social about neighbors rallying to support culture under attack www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/c...
As ICE detains longtime Chicago street vendors with no criminal history, neighbors rally with emergency funds
As longtime vendors quietly disappear from the corners they’ve held for years, community organizations and neighbors are scrambling to support those taken, their families and those still working on…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In other NEWS: Masked agents took at least 15 street vendors from Chicago during Operation Midway Blitz. “Worst of the worst,” they aren’t. Story by @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social & @zareensyed.bsky.social about neighbors rallying to support culture under attack www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/c...
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holy shit dude
Steamed Hams but it was banned in the USSR
YouTube video by Tyrone Deise
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November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
holy shit dude
Bless Claire for making this wonderful prompt.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Bless Claire for making this wonderful prompt.
Good library finds are the best! Thanks, @scalzi.com !
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Good library finds are the best! Thanks, @scalzi.com !
I don’t put pictures of my kid up on the internet, but, trust me, she is the most adorable kid on the world right now at the library.
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I don’t put pictures of my kid up on the internet, but, trust me, she is the most adorable kid on the world right now at the library.
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“To be honest,” Etoria added, “it helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains—that loneliness, that disconnect, that sense of loss.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“To be honest,” Etoria added, “it helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains—that loneliness, that disconnect, that sense of loss.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
While sick on the couch over the weekend, I read two of @scalzi.com books (the first two in the collapsing empire series.)
They were great, and I can't wait to read the last one.
One advantage of not reading cool books when they come out is that they are available to read later!
Hurrah!
They were great, and I can't wait to read the last one.
One advantage of not reading cool books when they come out is that they are available to read later!
Hurrah!
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
While sick on the couch over the weekend, I read two of @scalzi.com books (the first two in the collapsing empire series.)
They were great, and I can't wait to read the last one.
One advantage of not reading cool books when they come out is that they are available to read later!
Hurrah!
They were great, and I can't wait to read the last one.
One advantage of not reading cool books when they come out is that they are available to read later!
Hurrah!
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Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.
“Rey Wences, senior director of deportation defense at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, noted that “abductions” continue happening “every day in both the city and the suburbs.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.
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Sisters are the best clergy we have. The example they set challenges us to become our best selves.
Sister JoAnn Persch served with the Sisters of Mercy for 73 years. On Nov. 1, Sister JoAnn was among the delegation denied entry to the Broadview ICE facility when they attempted to bring Communion to those detained inside.
Sister JoAnn Persch, longtime immigrant activist, dies at 91
chicago.suntimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Sisters are the best clergy we have. The example they set challenges us to become our best selves.
I told my kid that she should root for the bears today because the enemy team has a player who told people not to take medicine that would keep them healthy.
She is not a fan of Aaron Rogers now.
She is not a fan of Aaron Rogers now.
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I told my kid that she should root for the bears today because the enemy team has a player who told people not to take medicine that would keep them healthy.
She is not a fan of Aaron Rogers now.
She is not a fan of Aaron Rogers now.
Exiting! It’s almost the season of spooky Christmas ghost stories!
The Ghost Story for Christmas Eve this year is M R James's "An Episode of Cathedral History".
It'll be livestreamed at 7pm (UK) but available to watch anywhere, anytime after that. Simply register and pay-what-you-can here
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art by Paul Lowe
It'll be livestreamed at 7pm (UK) but available to watch anywhere, anytime after that. Simply register and pay-what-you-can here
christmascathedralghosts.eventbrite.co.uk
art by Paul Lowe
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Exiting! It’s almost the season of spooky Christmas ghost stories!