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Patrick Monaghan
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Allies needn’t be perfect. They just need to be in the fight.

Chicago, films, MS, music, far too many effects pedals, Antifa Local 242.
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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
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
Watching F1 preseason testing, and there appears to be a huge problem with standing starts and the new engine. Yikes!
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February 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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I’m currently writing a book about the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie in 1977. This is indistinguishable from how American Nazis talked in public.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Kenneth Noland's Loft by Horst P. Horst for Vogue, February 1972
February 12, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Remember kids, try to steal an entire country, and you can be President!
A man has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison for robbing a United States Postal Service letter carrier in Chicago back in 2020.

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3ntm99yd 
February 12, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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“Have you heard about this movie where Juliette Lewis plays a chair?”

Amanda Kramer’s BY DESIGN is playing all weekend at the Music Box 🪑

Limited edition temporary tattoos available at the theater while supplies last!

Showtimes & Ticket Info: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
February 12, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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Putting this out there bc it WILL happen in MN too. Things will appear normal to those never unwillingly at risk when the traveling terror circus leaves town. Life will resume some normalcy for most. But they're still here, in many ways.
February 12, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Powerful Black History Month films up on TCM right now:

The Black Panthers (2015)
Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
Freedom on my Mind (1994)
February 12, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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I interviewed Jah Pool, a hip-hop tastemaker involved in the New Chicago movement—he manages rappers, books shows (including pop-ups on the back of U-Haul vans), and hosts projects
Jah Pool, hip-hop manager and promoter - Chicago Reader
A workhorse of the #NewChicago scene, Jah Pool has managed breakout star Thirteendegrees° and created the compilation New Chicago, Vol. 1.
chicagoreader.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:51 PM
“Police”
February 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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A link to the story on the Jan6er who believed he could get away with molesting children bc of Trump's pardon.

www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n...
A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of sexually abusing children
A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child.
www.npr.org
February 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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The potential foreign agent was Saudi foreign agent Jared Kushner.

I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner
The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
The lay of the pre-MLB lockout land, and what a compromise might look like

What Kyle Tucker's Dodgers contract means for MLB labor peace

www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
What Kyle Tucker's Dodgers contract means for MLB labor peace
MLB fans are angry -- and players and owners are, too. What did this offseason mean for baseball's coming labor strife?
www.espn.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I haven’t seen it yet, but I definitely believe you’re showing it tomorrow
A comedy you have to see to believe.

NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE opens Tomorrow at the Music Box!

Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
February 12, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Out of the Past rules. I’m a little confused why the story says it opened “when venues like The Warehouse in the West Loop hosted genre mainstays like DJ Frankie Knuckles,” when the Warehouse had closed four years before Out of the Past opened
For 40 years, Black-owned Out Of The Past records has survived and thrived on the West Side. blockclubchi.co/3MlC1N4
February 12, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Politician popping off about sports
February 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas?

It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death.

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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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A Night At McKie's drawing in the Sep. 13 '62 issue of Downbeat. Sketch by George Roth of Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Jim Hall, Billy Higgins and Bob Cranshaw.
February 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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Nicolas Cage is SPIDER-NOIR in the official trailer for Prime Video's live action series.

The series arrives in True-Hue full color and authentic Black & White May 27 on Prime.
February 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Here, maybe this will help the folks at ICE and Border Patrol. Why reinvent the wheel?
February 12, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

One of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.
arstechnica.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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It’s so cool how there’s no consequences for doing that as long as you’re not poor
February 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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do you know what i think is rude is when you apply to a job and they reject you but then they add you to their mailing list
February 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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A tavern of distinction you should know (I would hope) for Chicago #TavernWeek2026 - River Shannon on Kinzie in the shadow of the Merchandise Mart.

Lunch specials daily and excellent bartenders always. Also a rare (for downtown) pool table in back.
February 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Still happening in Minnesota…
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 8:21 PM