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Chicago guy w/Irish ancestors. Adtech, Motion Pictures, Lit, Music and Progressive politics. I have friends everywhere.
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Greenberg: We're looking to the leaders who will fight for us, because even today there are folks among the Democratic Party who think we should roll over and play dead. Anyone seeing John Fetterman here today?

Sox Park is packed today. Saw Jesse Jackson earlier.

Happening now: a massive crowd growing in Chicago for this afternoon's No Kings march. We'll update as we can. Service is spotty right now.

the only king I recognize

Happy June 14th. #NoKings

Trump's America.

Today's phrase that pays: Don't get caught in the Kettle.

This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did. tinyurl.com/bdpzc399

This seems like it was written for my 16 year old granddaughter. I'll be sharing it with her.

My Guy!

Protesters and ICE watchers are gathering again outside immigration court this morning, where ICE agents have been kidnapping people after mandated hearings in downtown Chicago. Sessions have been canceled (and arrests prevented) multiple times this week due to their presence.

My guy!

Today's morning ramble: "So what Trump is doing, or trying to do, is have a military parade in a city that was built specifically to make it impossible for the military to have a parade."

New Q & A! I wrote about the Trump vs Musk "feud", why to be wary of Gavin Newsom, the LA protests, whether the US military will fire on US civilians, future elections, and other topics readers asked me about: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/fake-feuds...

BTW, our new guide on protesting safely in the age of surveillance is unpaywalled. From phone safety tips to just how much law enforcement can track your movements, take a look at the guide:

Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1966...

We feed you. They hunt us.

If you were assaulted by CPD downtown tonight or witnessed brutality and would like to report anonymously, you can message us on Signal at unraveled.66

Instead of using this money to fund, say, the National Weather Service right before hurricane season, they're using it to send Marines to Los Angeles. THIS is waste and abuse.

Sly Stone (RIP) had it all and then self-destructed. It's tough not to lament the wasted years. But the nearly unparallelled streak of genius that he unfurled in 1967-1975 towers above all the pain and regret. Looking back on the Grant Park concert that wasn't and more: tinyurl.com/3pjdcapv

We will not cower, even in the face of Trump’s militarized escalation. On Saturday, we are going to rise up all across the country in defiance of this administration’s authoritarian agenda. Join the nationwide peaceful protests for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

CNN is promoting a new job category called "professional agitator". I feel like I could be successful in that position, but after checking Indeed, I can't find anyone hiring for that role. I think @cnn might be feeding me bullshit again. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

🎞35MM Film Frames from ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE🎞 @chicagofilmsociety.org hosts a 35MM screening of Maurice Tourneur's 1915 crime flick, featuring Live Accompaniment by musician David Drazin! This Sunday at 11:30am Get Tickets Now: https://musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-events/alias-jimmy-valentine

The Trump-Musk Administration: 2025-2025.

A petition has been created calling for the release of Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda, who was detained today - please sign and share: ocadchi.salsalabs.org/freegladis/i...

We had a party/protest to drown out the hateful bigots protesting my local library's drag story hour, it was dope. Shoutout to the Beverly branch and Chicago Public Libraries for supporting Pride in our community.

"The corporate and billionaire-owned media serve up jokey TACO memes, but deliver little comprehensive analysis of Trump’s underlying instability, contradictory impulses, and reversals on policy matters ranging from tariffs to Ukraine, all aided and abetted by hand-picked stooges."

@checkmyads.org I don't know if you guys are caught up in this, but I really hope you tell these jagbags to go pound sand.

This may be a little bit down the priority list of evil things the Trump people are doing to this country, and I don't see how it can be successful, but the audacity to harass people doing good work is mind-boggling.

Old enough to remember when MAGAville was furious that the government was trying to pressure private companies. This is pure jawboning/chilling effects trying to create a "cost" for advertisers choosing not to advertise on X.