Patrick Monaghan
@pkmonaghan.bsky.social
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Patrick Monaghan
@pkmonaghan.bsky.social
· Apr 26
Market Box
Market Box is a mutual aid project that sources food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago
marketboxchi.org
Please donate whatever you can when you can. Even a tiny amount can make a difference to someone in dire need.
MARKET BOX
is a mutual aid project that sources food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago
marketboxchi.org
MARKET BOX
is a mutual aid project that sources food from small farms and distributes it for free across the South Side of Chicago
marketboxchi.org
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If I ever do get to toss people out of the Baseball Hall of Fame (per the subtitle of my 2017 book), Judge Landis and Cap Anson (he of the “Gentlemen’s Agreement”) are two of the first to have their plaques melted down for their outsized roles in segregating the game
Also revisited the 1919 Black Sox scandal, which I learned caused no discernible harm to MLB’s business, just its image in the eyes of press. The first commissioner punished the Black Sox while enforcing a far worse violation of competitive integrity. frontofficesports.com/gambling-isn...
November 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If I ever do get to toss people out of the Baseball Hall of Fame (per the subtitle of my 2017 book), Judge Landis and Cap Anson (he of the “Gentlemen’s Agreement”) are two of the first to have their plaques melted down for their outsized roles in segregating the game
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People should also see The Battle of Algiers immediately
Somewhat late, but One Battle After Another really is that good. Fantastic action movie that is impossibly perfect for the political moment, up there with PTA’s best, earns the use of the Battle of Algiers clip midway through. See it.
November 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
People should also see The Battle of Algiers immediately
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The Marie Antoinette exhibition at the @vamuseum.bsky.social is everything that I wanted it to be, in all its glorious, extravagant, smelliness.
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The Marie Antoinette exhibition at the @vamuseum.bsky.social is everything that I wanted it to be, in all its glorious, extravagant, smelliness.
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The #Sun this morning was very cooperative, shot with my Lunt 60 H-alpha scope. The rendering is in false colors (H-alpha is a deep deep red). #Solar #astrophotography
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The #Sun this morning was very cooperative, shot with my Lunt 60 H-alpha scope. The rendering is in false colors (H-alpha is a deep deep red). #Solar #astrophotography
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A glorious morning for the end of Autumn. The light in Oxford bouncing off the golden stone makes it feel like a Book of Hours on a day like this.
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
A glorious morning for the end of Autumn. The light in Oxford bouncing off the golden stone makes it feel like a Book of Hours on a day like this.
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Blog update: New Order returned to number one on the 5th April 1986 indie charts with "Shellshock". It also returned them to the national top 40 after a period of absence, and featured in the "Pretty In Pink" soundtrack; however, it is still brilliantly and resolutely a New Order record.
77. New Order - Shellshock (Factory)
All the singles to top the NME Indie Charts since its launch in 1981, complete with an overview of the other music in the charts each week.
indienumber1s.blogspot.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Blog update: New Order returned to number one on the 5th April 1986 indie charts with "Shellshock". It also returned them to the national top 40 after a period of absence, and featured in the "Pretty In Pink" soundtrack; however, it is still brilliantly and resolutely a New Order record.
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
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If you're cold, they're cold. Bring creepy cemetery statues inside.
Eternal Silence in the snow, this morning at Graceland Cemetery
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If you're cold, they're cold. Bring creepy cemetery statues inside.
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“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
RIP Tom Stoppard
RIP Tom Stoppard
November 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
RIP Tom Stoppard
RIP Tom Stoppard
The Carrot Top Records cassette drawer, 11/15/2016
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The Carrot Top Records cassette drawer, 11/15/2016
Porsche announces 2026 motorsport activities and drivers at Night of Champions in Stuttgart
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racer.com/2025/11/29/P...
Porsche announces 2026 motorsport activities and drivers at Night of Champions in Stuttgart | RACER
At its traditional Night of Champions in Stuttgart, Porsche presented an overview of its 2026 motorsports activities, along with its roster of works and contracted drivers for the upcoming season.
racer.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Porsche announces 2026 motorsport activities and drivers at Night of Champions in Stuttgart
racer.com/2025/11/29/P...
racer.com/2025/11/29/P...
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♪♫♬ There's a blessing on the ground ♪♫♬
Flat Five - Snow Day
YouTube video by saskat6
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November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
♪♫♬ There's a blessing on the ground ♪♫♬
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"Whether DHS agents were akin to the Gestapo, in the end, did not matter to me. What mattered was that there was definitely a Resistance." ✊
In Chicago, politicians are comparing ICE to the Gestapo — are they right?
For American Jews, the question used to be 'Could it happen here?' The question has become 'Is it happening now?'
forward.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"Whether DHS agents were akin to the Gestapo, in the end, did not matter to me. What mattered was that there was definitely a Resistance." ✊
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Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
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Another favorite genre
ICE agent falls to the ground, possibly tearing his ACL, as the person he's trying to detain runs away
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Another favorite genre
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Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
2/2 link:
Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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Mr. Grossman, this aged well. We're not out of the woods yet, but Republicans are definitely in disarray, and Trump is sundowning.....
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Mr. Grossman, this aged well. We're not out of the woods yet, but Republicans are definitely in disarray, and Trump is sundowning.....
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So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
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"First and foremost, it’s a terrifying thing to articulate: if your government is breaking the law, what do laws mean? Can any be relied upon once some are breached? How do you tell the difference between living in such a society and hiding in it?"
Rogers Park, and implications from what has been done here, in international news. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What Chicago's fight against ICE can teach us all about how to resist oppression | Zoe Williams
A harrowing US podcast documents a community’s struggle against immigration raids – and warns us about herd mentality, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"First and foremost, it’s a terrifying thing to articulate: if your government is breaking the law, what do laws mean? Can any be relied upon once some are breached? How do you tell the difference between living in such a society and hiding in it?"
Mom (Virginia Phipps) at her women’s dorm 1954 Spring Formal, University of Arkansas.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Mom (Virginia Phipps) at her women’s dorm 1954 Spring Formal, University of Arkansas.
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Due to safety concerns caused by an incoming snowstorm, IHSA has postponed the second day of the 2025 state football championships that were set for tomorrow.
Winter storm forces IHSA to reschedule state football championships
The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) said the second day of the 2025 IHSA Football State Finals is postponed after Illinois State University announced it will close its Bloomington-Normal ca…
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November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Due to safety concerns caused by an incoming snowstorm, IHSA has postponed the second day of the 2025 state football championships that were set for tomorrow.
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Happy Birthday to Joe Dante! Hear him on our GREMLINS episode: www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2013/08/epis...
Episode 127: Gremlins (1984)
We continue our interview with Joe Dante this week as we talk about Gremlins, one of a pair of Steven Spielberg-related films that brought about the PG-13 rating in 1984.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Happy Birthday to Joe Dante! Hear him on our GREMLINS episode: www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2013/08/epis...
Tomorrow night, filmmaker Joe Dante joins us for Two for One to present his double feature -- THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER ('55) and THE FOOL KILLER ('65).
It all begins at 8pm ET.
It all begins at 8pm ET.
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM