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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4h

I’m sorry, I love this

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 8h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 15h

I believe they're pretty active on Instagram. Kinda interesting that they're cultivating the more "pop" platform and ignoring the more "learned" one. One more twist in their long and mostly fruitful negotiation of that divide.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters (1)

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 16h

Small groups of hunter-gatherers tend to produce language isolates, not language families. Every language family reflects some form of social domination/absorption, and the larger the family, the more dramatic those processes were.

Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 16h

*The Horse, the Wheel, and Language* is a great book about how technological and social forces power the spread of a language family (Indo-European). I wish someone would make an anthology of similar narratives for all language families. What "killer apps" powered Afroasiatic, Bantu, Tungusic?

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 1d

The other side of this coin is when enough time passes that everybody imagines these people living "around the same time"

Futurama: Einstein and Hammurabi are in a hot air balloon. Einstein says "Let's Disco Dance, Hammurabi!" (He replies, "Dy-no-mite!")

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 1d

My Pennsylvania friends when I eat scrapple while visiting them: "what are you doing? you don't live here! you don't have to eat it!"

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 1d

I read it once in a class and once in a reading group. For class we used *Ulysses Annotated* and tackled all the allusions, historical context, etc. For the reading group we outlawed annotations and ate/drank what Bloom eats/drinks. Took both together to feel like I "got" the book!

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 1d

Gravity's Rainbow, like Ulysses, kind of cries out for a reading group if you're trying to get the most out of it outside of a classroom.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 1d

The question is whether there's a
court system that will distinguish between real and fake narratives when considering, e.g., the Insurrection Act. Or whether the public will distinguish. I understand why people are cynical on both fronts but I'm not so sure.

Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 2d

Messers Merriam and Webster are of course correct but I'd like to see these variant spellings evolve into two different words, with "whoa" meaning "slow down there buddy" and "woah" meaning "oh dang." That's how I use them and nobody can stop me.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

Let’s talk about ‘whoa.’

First of all, ‘woah’ is not yet considered an established spelling variant of ‘whoa.’

While ‘woah’ has grown in prevalence since the late 20th century, ‘whoa’ is still about 5 times as common as ‘woah.’

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 3d

talked to someone who's been talking to pritzker and heard the main reasons for sending state police to broadview are (a) don't let ice kill a protester and (b) don't let ice claim that they're in so much danger from protesters that they need military protection. (b) may soon be important in court.

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 3d

time for a little jury nullification

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 4d

An incredibly touchy subject around here, and the Triibe is one of the few outlets that can properly frame it.

This graf is so fascinating:

To better understand Chicago, Enriquez said the council educated newcomers on the history of segregation. Many migrants were confused as they didn’t live in segregated communities in their home countries, according to Enriquez.

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 4d

real Jackie Treehorn hours

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4d

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4d

Continued video of feds gassing protestors and CPD alike. In the chaos one woman came to a CPD officer asking for help for a relative that she says feds just grabbed.

Officer response: "We just clocked in. We don't know what's going on."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

The Sun-Times *is reporting these were live rounds* fired at a vehicle.

There's been much confusion in the immediate aftermath of this about whether whether they were that or pepper balls, and whether person in vehicle was hit by them. This is the most current info we have *at this time.*

Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side

Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 5d

Governor with all due respect, we all saw what your state troopers did today. Your LEOs are actively collaborating with ICE until you tell them to stop.

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 5d

saw Bovino there, he came out to stare at the crowd. Noem seems to have stayed in the facility

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 5d

I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety

Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen A. Douglas, basically

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