Jerry Boyle
@jecboyle.bsky.social
He/Him; Fenian Bastard;
Area Code 1312
I speak only for myself; affiliates are blameless.
“If someone only looks at you to find a flaw, you're under no obligation to afford them a view.”
I periodically cleanse my feed; don’t count on your rts surviving
Area Code 1312
I speak only for myself; affiliates are blameless.
“If someone only looks at you to find a flaw, you're under no obligation to afford them a view.”
I periodically cleanse my feed; don’t count on your rts surviving
One angle I’ve used to get rid of the Jehovah’s Witnesses who wake me up on Sundays is to look at the kids: “Hi, I’m a servant of the Whore Of Babylon. In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.” They grab their kids and run before I can complete the terse blessing.
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
One angle I’ve used to get rid of the Jehovah’s Witnesses who wake me up on Sundays is to look at the kids: “Hi, I’m a servant of the Whore Of Babylon. In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.” They grab their kids and run before I can complete the terse blessing.
As a young man I worked at the Options Exchange, which had a paging setup where you’d call a phone number and they’d announce the name over a PA system. We had a long list of names like this.
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
As a young man I worked at the Options Exchange, which had a paging setup where you’d call a phone number and they’d announce the name over a PA system. We had a long list of names like this.
I was just a kid, listening to an underground radio station late at night. When this started playing I was like “I hate this song.” Before it was over I’d switched to “I love this song.” A revelation.
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I was just a kid, listening to an underground radio station late at night. When this started playing I was like “I hate this song.” Before it was over I’d switched to “I love this song.” A revelation.
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.
I thought it was the fancy coffee and avocado toast?
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I thought it was the fancy coffee and avocado toast?
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November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Please consider a donation: The go-to source for on-the-ground reporting in Chicago, just two valiant reporters on the front lines, coming at you with truth. I number them among my few subscriptions.
I will never vote for this ticket. 👍
This also being AI generated slop for NO REASON is just so perfectly *chef’s kiss* horrible.
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I will never vote for this ticket. 👍
Zimmerman is apparently upset about being called a fascist himself, so much so that he failed to notice that Mamdani totally owned Trump on this point.
OPINION: "Calling the president a fascist does nothing to advance the Democrats’ cause — and more of the party’s leaders would do well to realize that." — Jonathan Zimmerman
To defeat Trump, stop calling him names
Calling the president a fascist does nothing to advance the Democrats’ cause — and more of the party's leaders would do well to realize that, Jonathan Zimmerman writes.
www.inquirer.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Zimmerman is apparently upset about being called a fascist himself, so much so that he failed to notice that Mamdani totally owned Trump on this point.
I was the scout who liked to set things on fire, and they didn’t have totin chips back then, so I was dangerous with blades too. And my Troop was one of the few safe havens for gay boys, but the Scouts lost their way after I left by scapegoating gay Scouts in their first abuse crisis.
Boy scouts is cool and good because you get to meet a kid who really loves lighting things on fire & also a kid who will chop off a bit of his finger and lose his totin chip.
I don't see why it has to be a genderwalled experience.
I don't see why it has to be a genderwalled experience.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I was the scout who liked to set things on fire, and they didn’t have totin chips back then, so I was dangerous with blades too. And my Troop was one of the few safe havens for gay boys, but the Scouts lost their way after I left by scapegoating gay Scouts in their first abuse crisis.
“The finest cut of the cranberry sauce is at the base of the cylinder, embossed with the vintage and lot number.”
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“The finest cut of the cranberry sauce is at the base of the cylinder, embossed with the vintage and lot number.”
The Clintonistas simply do not appeal to your typical voter; quite the contrary, the Big Dog being the worst example. We’re best off throwing them under the bus.
The thing about Carville's piece is that it's a perfect example of the way centrists can't write literally anything without getting in a few jabs at the left/minorities. It's entirely possible to run on "economic rage," sure. There's no need to go, "And remember what some people on Tumblr said??"
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The Clintonistas simply do not appeal to your typical voter; quite the contrary, the Big Dog being the worst example. We’re best off throwing them under the bus.
It’s reminding me of a notorious underground comic I read in high school.
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s reminding me of a notorious underground comic I read in high school.
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.
Reposted by Jerry Boyle
I was about to shitpost about this I would have go with this instead.
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I was about to shitpost about this I would have go with this instead.
Now, for all he could whistle and finger and blow,
To play Papish music he found it no go.
"Kick the Pope" and "Boyne Water" it freely would sound;
But one Papish squeak in it couldn't be found.
To play Papish music he found it no go.
"Kick the Pope" and "Boyne Water" it freely would sound;
But one Papish squeak in it couldn't be found.
Now I'm falling asleep and she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke and she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed and my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head, but she's touching his
While he's having a smoke and she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed and my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head, but she's touching his
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Now, for all he could whistle and finger and blow,
To play Papish music he found it no go.
"Kick the Pope" and "Boyne Water" it freely would sound;
But one Papish squeak in it couldn't be found.
To play Papish music he found it no go.
"Kick the Pope" and "Boyne Water" it freely would sound;
But one Papish squeak in it couldn't be found.
If this shit persists I’m just gonna hafta mute the Italian words for contest and weddings.
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If this shit persists I’m just gonna hafta mute the Italian words for contest and weddings.
Irish are edgy; Chicago, at first blush, is central. But Chicago exists as a crossroads, a concentration of edges, irresistible to the liminal, as a box attracts cats.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Irish are edgy; Chicago, at first blush, is central. But Chicago exists as a crossroads, a concentration of edges, irresistible to the liminal, as a box attracts cats.
Trump is clever enough to be relatively solicitous to Left populists. As a Right populist he knows he’s competing for the same voters.
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Trump is clever enough to be relatively solicitous to Left populists. As a Right populist he knows he’s competing for the same voters.
Regular folks in Chicago getting shot and gassed on the regular are understandably skeptical of empty gestures and gaslighting from elected Democrats.
The degree to which the Democratic Party is failing to meet this moment is staggering. And INFURIATING, when contrasted with the courage on display from ordinary people with far, far less power & protection.
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Regular folks in Chicago getting shot and gassed on the regular are understandably skeptical of empty gestures and gaslighting from elected Democrats.
What do they expect when they shoot down a tax on business to fetch donations from the wealthy? The alternative is a tax on working stiffs.
NEW — One political ad caused a stir in Chicago this week for what some saw as a characterization of Ald. Andre Vasquez as a puppet of President Donald J. Trump.
The TRiiBE spoke with the Atlanta-based group behind the ad.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/an-o...
The TRiiBE spoke with the Atlanta-based group behind the ad.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/an-o...
An out-of-state campaign just entered Chicago's budget battle • The TRiiBE
The point of Black Voters Matter Fund’s local ad campaign is to help residents connect the dots between the ways billionaires influence federal policy and the trickle-down effect on local government, ...
thetriibe.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
What do they expect when they shoot down a tax on business to fetch donations from the wealthy? The alternative is a tax on working stiffs.
The colorblindness of transit activists who grew up in the burbs is politically toxic, and sabotages efforts toward improvement.
Sometimes I wonder if certain alders even enjoy living in a city at all
The alderperson provided an update today: many of the already installed protections will be removed and planned protections will not be installed
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The colorblindness of transit activists who grew up in the burbs is politically toxic, and sabotages efforts toward improvement.
My taste in books is weird, so I don’t make use of the little street corner libraries. But a street corner trinket share is something else entirely.
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My taste in books is weird, so I don’t make use of the little street corner libraries. But a street corner trinket share is something else entirely.
We call them “cover charges.” When a cop hurts you for no good reason he’ll charge you with attacking him to pre-empt any consequences for himself, cover his own sorry ass with bullshit about you.
Feds drop case against woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Brighton Park
It's one of the most high-profile prosecutions to result from the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz." Defense attorneys have been aggressively challenging evidence and sought a speedy tri...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We call them “cover charges.” When a cop hurts you for no good reason he’ll charge you with attacking him to pre-empt any consequences for himself, cover his own sorry ass with bullshit about you.
Timothy Donahue was perhaps the most notorious of Bovino’s mob of psychopaths.
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Timothy Donahue was perhaps the most notorious of Bovino’s mob of psychopaths.