Chris Cwiak
@chriscwiak.bsky.social
XRT ep & imaging director ✶ sound guy ✶ occasional drummer ✶ opinions do not reflect those of management ✶ he/him
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An important read if you're from Chicago, because this is the lens some people in the rest of the country are seeing us through right now
Watch how government ‘propaganda’ techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds
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Watch how government ‘propaganda’ techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds
The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening across the city and suburbs. The diverging sources of information are creating “parallel universes," Professor Nick Cul...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
An important read if you're from Chicago, because this is the lens some people in the rest of the country are seeing us through right now
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
Say what you will about Dick Cheney, the man had no heart.
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Say what you will about Dick Cheney, the man had no heart.
Fire the manager or whoever made that decision into the sun. Otherwise, an absolutely brilliant WS. What a shame to end it that way.
I love bunting. I want to see bunting competitions as part of all star game festivities. But I don't see how giving up an out to get a guy from 2nd to 3rd makes any sense.
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Fire the manager or whoever made that decision into the sun. Otherwise, an absolutely brilliant WS. What a shame to end it that way.
I love bunting. I want to see bunting competitions as part of all star game festivities. But I don't see how giving up an out to get a guy from 2nd to 3rd makes any sense.
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I love bunting. I want to see bunting competitions as part of all star game festivities. But I don't see how giving up an out to get a guy from 2nd to 3rd makes any sense.
Now the jays will get an inside the park hr in the bottom of the 11th to tie it up
November 2, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Now the jays will get an inside the park hr in the bottom of the 11th to tie it up
It me
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
It me
This game is cuckoo bananas nutso
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This game is cuckoo bananas nutso
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Statement from Alderwoman Julia Ramirez regarding the man taken by federal agents at a barbershop in Brighton Park.
“This is an unjust and horrifying act that violates the trust, dignity, and safety of our community members by tricking them into letting agents inside private property.”
“This is an unjust and horrifying act that violates the trust, dignity, and safety of our community members by tricking them into letting agents inside private property.”
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Statement from Alderwoman Julia Ramirez regarding the man taken by federal agents at a barbershop in Brighton Park.
“This is an unjust and horrifying act that violates the trust, dignity, and safety of our community members by tricking them into letting agents inside private property.”
“This is an unjust and horrifying act that violates the trust, dignity, and safety of our community members by tricking them into letting agents inside private property.”
This, coupled with sending IL state troopers in to cooperate with ICE & CBP would tank any further political aspirations JB might have.
Get the W so we can take the L!
Get the W so we can take the L!
As I understand it, if this doesn't pass, the CTA, Metra, and PACE, all face massive cuts. Possibly half of the service being discontinued.
If so, I don't think any politician who stood by and allowed this to happen is going to have a political career going forward. Including Pritzker.
If so, I don't think any politician who stood by and allowed this to happen is going to have a political career going forward. Including Pritzker.
Argh, Gov. Pritzker reportedly isn't down with the proposed revenue sources in SB 2111, so the House transit champions need to go back to the drawing board. Let's hope they can get a bill passed tomorrow to help avoid cuts and layoffs need year! 🤞
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October 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This, coupled with sending IL state troopers in to cooperate with ICE & CBP would tank any further political aspirations JB might have.
Get the W so we can take the L!
Get the W so we can take the L!
Bunting is a lost art.
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Bunting is a lost art.
My disdain for Rodgers is such that I find myself actually rooting for GB, for once.
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
My disdain for Rodgers is such that I find myself actually rooting for GB, for once.
93XRT Fall Jam night one. @mymorningjacket.bsky.social on deck after @martylennartz.bsky.social thanks everyone for their contributions to the Lin Brehmer Scholars Fund @saltshedchicago.bsky.social. 2nd Friday. #GTBA
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
93XRT Fall Jam night one. @mymorningjacket.bsky.social on deck after @martylennartz.bsky.social thanks everyone for their contributions to the Lin Brehmer Scholars Fund @saltshedchicago.bsky.social. 2nd Friday. #GTBA
Imagine if the president wore a brown suit, tho
Before & After The East Wing
Absolute desecration. I'm just so sad.
Absolute desecration. I'm just so sad.
October 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Imagine if the president wore a brown suit, tho
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
This Seattle Detroit matchup is peak baseball, and I will be so sad when this game finally comes to an end.
October 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This Seattle Detroit matchup is peak baseball, and I will be so sad when this game finally comes to an end.
Boom. Blocked, like our arteries
BREAKING: A federal judge has partially blocked the Trump administration's efforts to mobilize the National Guard in Chicago.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Boom. Blocked, like our arteries
What a beautiful baseball day, watching the Yanks book their annual autumn vacation and now seeing Kershaw get shelled as the LA crowd hits the exits to beat the traffic.
October 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
What a beautiful baseball day, watching the Yanks book their annual autumn vacation and now seeing Kershaw get shelled as the LA crowd hits the exits to beat the traffic.
Can we get a quote from governor Abbott about sending his well-trained goons here to help the feds as they search for the migrants he bussed and flew up to Chicago on the taxpayer's dime?
Texas proudly invading Illinois.
It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.
It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.
October 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Can we get a quote from governor Abbott about sending his well-trained goons here to help the feds as they search for the migrants he bussed and flew up to Chicago on the taxpayer's dime?
Hey, @npr.org, if the trump cuts basically turn you into a stenographer for ICE, might as well rebrand as CBS.
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This headlines gonna look so ridiculous when more facts are gathered and npr has to either delete it or amend it to read almost exactly the opposite of what the propagandists have issued as a press release.
October 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Hey, @npr.org, if the trump cuts basically turn you into a stenographer for ICE, might as well rebrand as CBS.
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This headlines gonna look so ridiculous when more facts are gathered and npr has to either delete it or amend it to read almost exactly the opposite of what the propagandists have issued as a press release.
JUST IN: Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting officers to open fire, DHS said. via @wbez.org
Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side
Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...
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October 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This headlines gonna look so ridiculous when more facts are gathered and npr has to either delete it or amend it to read almost exactly the opposite of what the propagandists have issued as a press release.
We're in the 'arresting elected officials who are standing up for the constitution' part of this.
Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.
October 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We're in the 'arresting elected officials who are standing up for the constitution' part of this.
Blurbed as "one of the most Chicago novels I've ever read" by someone from here, Orner's take on provincialism in writing is, for my money, spot-on.
Hear all about it, and subscribe for free to @caropopcast.bsky.social!
Hear all about it, and subscribe for free to @caropopcast.bsky.social!
As he does in The Gossip Columnist's Daughter, his acclaimed new novel blurring fiction and fact around the 1963 death of Chicago Sun-Times columnist Kup's daughter, author Peter Orner makes every word count in this lively Caropop conversation. www.caropop.com/caropopcast/...
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Blurbed as "one of the most Chicago novels I've ever read" by someone from here, Orner's take on provincialism in writing is, for my money, spot-on.
Hear all about it, and subscribe for free to @caropopcast.bsky.social!
Hear all about it, and subscribe for free to @caropopcast.bsky.social!
It's Friday, which means my inbox is flooded with new music releases, one of which is from a band called Couch, who is apparently touring this Fall with a date in DC November 15 @930club.bsky.social. I hope their TM protects them from JD Vance.
September 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It's Friday, which means my inbox is flooded with new music releases, one of which is from a band called Couch, who is apparently touring this Fall with a date in DC November 15 @930club.bsky.social. I hope their TM protects them from JD Vance.
These folks are literally being targeted by ICE for documenting their atrocities. Help support their vital work in this crucial time:
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September 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
These folks are literally being targeted by ICE for documenting their atrocities. Help support their vital work in this crucial time: