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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 22h

i guess

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

This post was written before today's car crash and chemical attack. Was referring to the preceding car crashes and chemical attacks.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 2d

This week on THE GAUNTLET
we’re grinding it out on the goal line
as we try to make the grade in Alan Dwan’s collegiate comedy and go beyond the gridiron in Don Coscarelli and Craig Mitchell’s teenage melodrama

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#179 - American Football

Rise and Shine (1941) / Jim the World’s Greatest (1976) This week we’re grinding it out on the goal line as we try to make the grade in Alan Dwan’s collegiate comedy and go beyond the gridiron in Don

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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 2d

*tomorrow* on THE GAUNTLET
Episode 179 - American Football

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 3d

Hard to overstate the damage the wannabe frontrunners are doing to themselves and, far more importantly, any broader sense of opposition by specifically calling attention to themselves with speeches or memes, then dutifully assisting the regime.

thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 3d

if I were Gov Pritzker and I actually opposed Trump instead of just bring a meme candidate, I would simply order my state troopers to stand down and not defend ICE.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4d

Just about everyone vulnerable has been told to stay inside. There are literally hundreds of trained emergency response people on the streets of the 1.8 sq mile neighborhood. ICE is driving through alleys looking for anyone who’s brown

This is Fugitive Slave Act stuff + foreign occupation

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4d

Rogers Park

Northernmost lakefront n’hood in Chicago

Home of Loyola U (RIP Sister Jean)

One of few n’hoods w no racial majority. One of the most densely populated places in America, & one of the most racially/ethnicly/religiously/linguistically diverse

An amazing community

And under attack

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 4d

another day of border patrol and ice terrorizing chicago—and of spontaneous community resistance.

they tear-gassed community members on a residential street in albany park. they pulled a gun on a rapid responder in rogers park.

they abducted people from alleys and parking lots and train stations.

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Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social · 4d

ice chuds gassing up a neighborhood again

The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 4d

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 5d

“Black helicopters” used to be a metaphor for unreasonable anti-government paranoia, instead of literal hostile vehicles hovering above my house right now

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Cavalcade Of Asshats To The Rescue @mers0274.bsky.social · 6d

Ricketts is funding one with the other.

VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 7d

youtuber always already implies disgrace

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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 8d

Billy Wilder was alive during 9/11

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 8d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 8d

and as governor, i will __________ ????

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 10d

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 12d

If you are a billionaire governor I don’t think posting ”damn that’s crazy” counts as doing everything in your power

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12d

In Illinois, we will do everything within our power to look out for our neighbors, uphold the Constitution, and defend the rule of law.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 12d

Realized it’s Bandcamp Friday. Do your duty as a content consumer to respect the creators

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 12d

I’ve been offline the last week but I’m glad to hear people enjoyed a photograph somebody else took and shared, of my old idea that I had, for clout. I love that for them. Buy my album veryimportant.lawyer

Future National Sports, by Patrick Cosmos

11 track album

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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 12d

Aliens exist

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 13d

In addition to gassing people on public streets today, ICE handcuffed and detained Ald. Jesse Fuentes (26th ward) today at an ER.

As we’ve seen repeatedly, ICE agents exhibit little self-discipline or understanding of the law.

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horse massacre @torqpenderloin.bsky.social · 13d

makes me fucking sick

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 13d

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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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 13d

and of course if you are in or around the BAY AREA tomorrow please go see MANN'S SPARKS !

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MmV...
Info: www.drunkenfilmfest.com/oakland

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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 13d

in honor of MANN'S SPARKS playing opening night of Drunken Film Fest Oakland tomorrow at Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema,
I cut a new installment from THE JERICHO MILE

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MANN'S SPARKS: THE JERICHO 10 MILE STEREO

A footnote to Mann's Sparks, now touring. Montage by Eric Marsh

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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 13d

i remember the reaction when people found out chris nolan used prison labor to construct sets for dunkirk (no one cared!)

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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 15d

i might need a new job soon

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16d

NEW: Chicago has a so-called 'conviction integrity unit' that's meant to identify and free the innocent.

Since the new prosecutor came into office, it's all gone south—cases are not being reviewed, and allegations of police coercion are left unaddressed:
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Chicago Already Struggled to Free the Innocent. Its New Prosecutor Has Weakened the Process Further. - Bolts

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job. Meanwhile, she's done little to confront more than a dozen coercion ...

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marshlands @marshlands.bsky.social · 16d

This week on THE GAUNTLET
we’re working towards a theory of Porch Cinema™
as we kick back some Lone Stars with Eagle Pennell
and try to make it in Hollywood with Sondra Locke

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