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What happens when a teen rock scene grows up? - Chicago Reader
The Hallogallo scene has produced international successes—Horsegirl, Friko, Lifeguard—as its grassroots DIY spirit spreads beyond Chicago.
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Since 2022, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Friko have gone global—but what happened with the teen scene they grew out of? I talked to 18 different people about the Hallogallo scene now
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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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/...
I could’ve imagined it, I just didn’t feel like it
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I could’ve imagined it, I just didn’t feel like it
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
I know it’s only a trailer and I shouldn’t get ahead of myself but dang it if this new Neil Breen movie doesn’t look like the most Neil Breen movie
Dire Duplicity - Trailer (A Neil Breen Film)
YouTube video by Cafe Sora
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November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I know it’s only a trailer and I shouldn’t get ahead of myself but dang it if this new Neil Breen movie doesn’t look like the most Neil Breen movie
“This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
The Reader ran this cover story on Derek in 2018
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The Reader ran this cover story on Derek in 2018
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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.
richards bar now where have i heard that one…
Chicago's Essential Dive Bars Vol. 2: The History And Legacy Of 12 More Iconic Watering Holes blockclubchi.co/3XzrHDf
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
richards bar now where have i heard that one…
I gave up after spotting Poor Things
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I gave up after spotting Poor Things
RIP Jimmy Cliff
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff
I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I’m all out of bubblegum, Charlie Brown
This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass, Charlie Brown
Nobody trusts anyone anymore, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I’m all out of bubblegum, Charlie Brown
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Light in the Attic 3LP compilation of regional jingles when
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Light in the Attic 3LP compilation of regional jingles when
chicago style preening
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
chicago style preening
oops all music news
In this week's Gossip Wolf, Leor Galil pays tribute to Arthur Banks of Jugrnaut, Shuttered house club the Post hosts Sunday nights at the New Celebrity Lounge, rapper OkDeazy headlines a monster show at Subterranean, and more. https://bit.ly/4o9Bbjo
Rest in peace to Arthur Banks of Jugrnaut - Chicago Reader
Jugrnaut cofounder Arthur Banks passes away, shuttered house club the Post hosts Sunday nights at the New Celebrity Lounge, and more.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
oops all music news
whatever happens over there is none of my business
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
whatever happens over there is none of my business
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Lightning crashes, a new mother cries / Her placenta falls to the floor
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Lightning crashes, a new mother cries / Her placenta falls to the floor
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Hiring an accountant to act really serious vigorously punching stuff into a desk calculator with a little printer in it and review the results and look up at me and say “6 7”
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Hiring an accountant to act really serious vigorously punching stuff into a desk calculator with a little printer in it and review the results and look up at me and say “6 7”
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I thought lying to judges and on official reports was some kind of crime? Is that out of style now?
Federal judge says Gregory Bovino, the tough-talking face of Trump's Chicago invasion, was "evasive" during three days of sworn testimony ... "either providing 'cute responses' or "outright lying.'"
Injunction ruling provides new look at Operation Midway Blitz, from tear gas to agent using ChatGPT to help write report
A federal judge on Thursday issued a scathing opinion that takes a deep dive into the use of force by immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I thought lying to judges and on official reports was some kind of crime? Is that out of style now?
The Post is back… sort of chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Post is back… sort of chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
I previewed the return of Pivot Gang’s John Walt Day
Pivot Gang bring back John Walt Day on the heels of two new Saba albums - Chicago Reader
MFn Melo, Saba, and the whole Pivot Gang crew are back together in town for the first John Walt Day since 2022.
chicagoreader.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I previewed the return of Pivot Gang’s John Walt Day