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chicago area data journalist/scientist/wrangler, duolingo vietnamese language learner. the best chicago banh mi is at nhu lan on lawrence st

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · Oct 12

Just ate the best pork banh mi in Chicago and may nap away the rest of Saturday afternoon 🫃

Photo of Nhu Lan sandwich shop counter, cramped with plants and Vietnamese decorations

Photo of roasted pork sandwich from Nhu Lan

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 3h

if a banh mi truck had set up on broadway tonight the doechii line would have funded college for many children of banh mi makers

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely crazy thing to say when that Saturday night gassing was the most egregious, unjustified, and excessive use of gas I have ever experienced in my life. The protesters were doing NOTHING to deserve it.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1d

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 2d

Another article that does not interview a single Palestinian.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

it must be, i saw it in england!

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

I knew there would be a redemption arc i just didn’t know it’d be this soon 🫡

George Santos ®
@MrSantosNY
X.com
I want to make this publicly known so that the
DOJ or the BOP never get away with saying otherwise.
No matter how long I go away I want and demand I be kept in solitary confinement for the entire duration.
I refuse to lose my dignity in anyway shape or form.
You are all my witness to this as I will be making this ask to the judge on April 25th.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

My relative via imperial dynastic bloodline tried and you all LAUGHED at him 😠

TECH
Color Founder Bill Nguyen
Explains Why You're All Wrong - It Really IS A $41
Million Idea
By Matt Rosoff
Mar 25, 2011, 9:21 AM GMT

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

I saw a video shot from the opposite end of this alley on Instagram, which ends where this video essentially starts. It's mind-boggling to me that so many of these instances are shot with multiple cams from multiple POVs but they're spread across so many different platforms the dots rarely connect.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

scene from PARASITE where they say “Jessica only child, Illinois Chicago”

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 2d

Going back in time to the end of the last century to radicalize teenage me who just read “Cool URIs Don’t Change” by telling him that in 25 years people would be doing this shit.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 1d

Knew which clout-grifting account this was even before clicking this

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 2d

shes so crazzzzzzy! love her!

sticker art, with a label of TURD GIRL, seen on a traffic pole, a cartoon lady is pooping on a man, who is saying I DON'T
AGREE WITH THIS, BUT SUPPORT IT

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 3d

Chat is it bad when armed agents of the state show up to a person's home for criticizing a government official and the response from other government officials is "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas?"

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 4d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 4d

"Once Brockman was handcuffed and placed in the van, the agents pulled out, clipping the rear bumper off of a stopped car partially blocking their path and speeding away past an approaching elongated CTA bus and through the busy intersection."

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 4d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

trib.al

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 5d

there’s something so beautifully American about our democracy’s last line of defense being coronary artery disease

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 5d

“sounds good!” is authentic, “Sounds good!” is ai slop

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 5d

this is like when schools of journalism and public relations and film combine to be “School of New Media”

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 5d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 6d

Once the data is in government hands and systems of surveillance are embedded in systems of labor and beyond, your supposed protections are nothing more than flimsy surmountable barriers. One terrorist attack and “emergency powers” are claimed. We just saw it used for protests.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 5d

Said on the local weather this morning: “It went from 80 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 5d

Bluesky is now in the big leagues!

drudgereport.com
WASHPOST opinion editor purges longtime staffers as he hires
conservatives...
BLUESKY civil war shows 'free speech' harder than it looks...
Barron Trump_ Pitched for Top TIKTOK Job...

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 5d

Concerning

@mrcharlesamos
X.com
@miriam_cates has not supported banning incest

Charles Amos
@mrcharlesamos
...
X.com
In Weatherspoon's tonight a man shouted out to me "Nonce, pervert!" Is that worse than being called a "c*nt" there? Anyway - good to know I'm spreading the libertarian message.

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 5d

they did a photo shoot and this was the best take they got

creepy man wearing a fedora and creepy grin

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