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Misha Chicackalacky

@spoketension.bsky.social

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Cyclist, hiker, former bicycle mechanic, married dad, punk and indie fan, public defender, pancake flipper. Southern secular Jew with Chicago roots. Reposts not endorsements, etc.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 5h

Also worth noting that this is a federal grand jury, so the people on it are not just from Chicago. The jury pool extends out into the suburbs and exurbs.

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 5h

Only a matter of time before they start referring to Hyundai Elantras as “unarmored personnel carriers.”

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 9h

The Washington P.O.S.t

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 20h

I can’t believe the TX National Guard’s intelligence unit is sophisticated enough to have a deep-cover Chicago operatives ready to deploy.

A tx national guardsman who looks like George wendt deploying in Chicagoland

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 1d

No. The founding fathers were very clear that cops get paid even if other government employees don’t. Just like how all unions are satanic Marxist gangs except for cop unions.

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 1d

How do you write a headline like this for a piece that says the exact opposite? #wallstreetjournal #governmentshutdown

Wall Street Journal online headline from October 7, 2025 that reads “Trump open to healthcare talks with Democrats to end shut down.”

A paragraph from the same Wall Street Journal story from October 7, 2025“Republican leaders say Democrat Democrats need to vote to open the government first, then negotiate on any deal involving healthcare, including the ACA funds”

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 1d

Respectful counterpoint: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is an excellent movie

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 1d

The Unconcerned Stupidity of Wealth, represented visually.

Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes sitting at a table wearing clownish outfits that probably cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 3d

Politely asking the soldiers eating all the food in my kitchen to move over a smidge so I can get through the door and file my third amendment-based civil suit against them at ye olde courthouse.

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 4d

In Vance’s view, if a white person has enjoyed success, it was due to their own hard work and was achieved *despite* this nation’s contemptible and meddling government. If a non-white person enjoys success, they owe it all to the nation and its government and must be subservient and grateful.

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 4d

Crunchy Taco Soypreme

We should be so lucky

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 4d

Really shit the medbed

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 4d

Cue DOJ motion to dismiss the charges in 10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . .

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 6d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 6d

“It’s just been rePoped.”

Danny Glover in the final scene of lethal weapon two, the part where he says “it’s just been revoked”

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 6d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 6d

the man is wearing a suit and tie and clapping his hands .

ALT: the man is wearing a suit and tie and clapping his hands .

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 6d

Last time I checked, a whole posse of Miller’s stormtroopers were defeated by one (1) man riding a bicycle

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 6d

Had a roof guy come over to check out a leak and he found this up there. 🇺🇸

A (9mm?) full metal jacketed firearm projectile with rifling marks on it but otherwise mostly intact and not too deformed.

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 6d

Are they gearing up to finally catch that bicycle guy?

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 7d

Do they make a tandem version of this for human centipedes?

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 7d

I’m sure I’m not the first person to speculate that the SCOTUS’s resolution of the Lisa Cook *and* the tariff cases will hinge on the performance of the American economy in October.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

66 Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers' room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through to start.
[...] Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke. I can't remember what it was exactly, except it was dirty and loud and
"unladylike"
Jimmy Fallon [...] turned to her and in a faux-squeamish voice said, "Stop that!
It's not cute! I don't like it." Amy dropped what she was doing, went black in the eyes for a second, and wheeled around on him. "I don't fucking care if you like it." Jimmy was visibly startled. Amy went right back to enjoying her ridiculous bit.
With that exchange, a cosmic shift took place. Amy made it clear that she wasn't there to be cute. She wasn't there to play wives and girlfriends in the boys' scenes.
She was there to do what she wanted to do and she did not fucking care if you like it.

Tina Fey, Bossypants

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 7d

Time for steroid dealers to start accepting payment through Klarna “Pay In Four”

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d

“More than 200,000 of these patriots will go without pay.”

Secretary Kristi Noem
@Sec_Noem
X.com
Our @DHSgov law enforcement officers will continue to work throughout the Democrats' Shutdown to make sure our homeland is safe and secure. More than 200,000 of these patriots will go without pay.
The Democrats will be forcing over 150,000 officers and nearly 50,000 members of the military
—our frontline of defense—to continue protecting our nation without pay.
8:32 PM • 9/30/25 • 3.8K Views