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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 7h

Feds gas Chicago neighborhood, detain young Black man amid day of Southeast Side raids • The TRiiBE thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Feds gas Chicago neighborhood, detain young Black man amid day of Southeast Side raids • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods. Nearby, they detained a young Black man onlookers insisted was a U.S.…

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Johan Ander @jojjenito.bsky.social · Apr 10

Check out the new Independent Lens/PBS documentary "We Want the Funk!" What is funk? Lots of history, great music (James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic) and talking heads including David Byrne [sic!]. #funk #PFunk #Parliament #Funkadelic www.pbs.org/independentl...

WE WANT THE FUNK! | Documentary | Independent Lens | PBS

Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.

www.pbs.org

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 16h

Trump’s newest attorney goon is in way over her head www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...

Trump’s newest attorney goon is in way over her head

Sure, they said. Go take a job as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, even though you’re not qualified, they said. It’ll be fun to be Trump’s Best Little Hatchet ...

www.dailykos.com

Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 19h

A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They’re Not Involved www.wired.com/story/a-plan...

A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They’re Not Involved

A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.

www.wired.com

Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 22h

’Fat troops’ deemed unworthy to patrol world’s ’most dangerous city’ www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
hahaha, what did I say? Too much Whataburger and Texas BBQ for #Chicago 's mean streets

’Fat troops’ deemed unworthy to patrol world’s ’most dangerous city’

Some Texas National Guard soldiers sent to Chicago were apparently deemed too fat to deploy and have been replaced, after viral photos of the heavier-set troops drew widespread attention online. “...

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 1d

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

www.theguardian.com

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 1d

The Incredible Irony Of MAGA's Columbus Day Obsession www.wonkette.com/p/the-incred...

The Incredible Irony Of MAGA's Columbus Day Obsession

It literally only exists because people were horrible to immigrants.

www.wonkette.com

Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 2d

One of Trump's favorite economists blames Great Recession on Obama www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
(2019, but still relevant)

One of Trump's favorite economists blames Great Recession on Obama

Last week, Republican economist Art Laffer insisted Obama was responsible for the Great Recession. Today, he said it again, so let's do a little fact-checking.

www.msnbc.com

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 3d

Bridge over Chicago Waters. This morning during the Chicago Marathon.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 4d

Is Arch Manning college football’s first flop? Why his slow start feels unprecedented - The Athletic apple.news/AwiZZFx8NQ9q...

Is Arch Manning college football’s first flop? Why his slow start feels unprecedented — The Athletic

Watching the seemingly endless rotation of Arch Manning Warby Parker advertisements this past weekend felt a little like watching a political ad after an election in which your candidate has lost

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 4d

WGN Staffer Detained By Border Patrol Agents In Lincoln Square, Neighbors Say blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/10/w...
Isn't WGN a Sinclair station? They probably will say she was Antifa

WGN Staffer Detained By Border Patrol Agents In Lincoln Square, Neighbors Say

The woman was recording agents as they detained a man when they took her into custody, handcuffing her and putting her a van, according to witnesses and video. The agents drove into another car while…

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 5d

Mark Lee Greenblatt was the inspector general of the U.S. Department of the Interior until 2025. "| I Investigated Corruption. The Homan Affair Is Full of Red Flags." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Also, was this the only bag Homan accepted? Were there previous bags before the sting? After?

Opinion | I Investigated Corruption. The Homan Affair Is Full of Red Flags.

An apparent cash handoff is yet another star in the Trump administration’s constellation of ethics problems.

www.nytimes.com

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 5d

Luckily: "Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize" (via The Guardian UK)

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 5d

October 10: Thelonious Monk’s Birthday | Modern Drunkard Magazine drunkard.com/october-10/

October 10: Thelonious Monk’s Birthday | Modern Drunkard Magazine

It’s Thelonious Monk’s birthday. Born in 1917, Monk’s improvisational, some would say eccentric, work as a be-bop pianist and composer changed the DNA of jazz forever. So, did Thelonious like to…

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 5d

…against the wishes of the other state especially (can imagine a scenario, natural disaster for instance, where one state is overwhelmed and requests assistance)

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 5d

Godz above and below, I hope not

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 5d

BBQ and Whataburgers will take a while to be worked off…

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

Ut oh.

Yesterday I reported that just 18% of the cases against people arrested September 27-28 at Broadview in Chicago had survived.

Make that 9% -- they just moved to dismiss another case.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/g...

Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 9% [Updated] - emptywheel

Of the eleven people the government charged in conjunction with a "shitshow" Chief Custom and Border Patrol Greg Bovino staged at Chicago's ICE facility on September 27, the publicly filed charges aga...

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 6d

My favorite iOS 26 feature has banished spam callers once and for all www.macworld.com/article/2935...

I concur, have yet to be disrupted by a spam robocaller

My favorite iOS 26 feature has banished spam callers once and for all

Call Screening puts up a brick wall between spammers and your iPhone, ending nuisance calls forever. It’s easily one of the best features in the iOS 26 update.

www.macworld.com

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Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! This has happened to me more than once.

Seth A @swanksalot.bsky.social · 6d

For people who haven't spent much time in Chicago, it is a very big place (over 10,000 square miles). There are hundreds of suburbs, all blending together. Texas sending 300 troops to "invade" is problematic of course, but it is a PR stunt, nothing more.