@kelden.bsky.social
Older than I thought I would be. More horrified than I thought I could be.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
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Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
n.pr
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
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* Most October layoffs since 2003
* Most Q4 layoffs since 2008
* Most YTD layoffs since 2020
* Least YTD hiring since 2011
* Least holiday seasonal hiring since 2012
The labor market has a problem.
www.axios.com/2025/11/06/l...
* Most Q4 layoffs since 2008
* Most YTD layoffs since 2020
* Least YTD hiring since 2011
* Least holiday seasonal hiring since 2012
The labor market has a problem.
www.axios.com/2025/11/06/l...
October layoffs hit 22-year high as labor market wobbles, Challenger says
Employers announced 153,074 layoffs in October.
www.axios.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
* Most October layoffs since 2003
* Most Q4 layoffs since 2008
* Most YTD layoffs since 2020
* Least YTD hiring since 2011
* Least holiday seasonal hiring since 2012
The labor market has a problem.
www.axios.com/2025/11/06/l...
* Most Q4 layoffs since 2008
* Most YTD layoffs since 2020
* Least YTD hiring since 2011
* Least holiday seasonal hiring since 2012
The labor market has a problem.
www.axios.com/2025/11/06/l...
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Dear people who don't live in the Chicago area,
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Dear people who don't live in the Chicago area,
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
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So after the billionaires failed to launch themselves and their billionaire friends into space, with our tax dollars.
They've decided to let their billionaire defense contractor friends build a "ballroom" with our tax dollars.
Billionaires should've read a little world history.
#SheShed
They've decided to let their billionaire defense contractor friends build a "ballroom" with our tax dollars.
Billionaires should've read a little world history.
#SheShed
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
So after the billionaires failed to launch themselves and their billionaire friends into space, with our tax dollars.
They've decided to let their billionaire defense contractor friends build a "ballroom" with our tax dollars.
Billionaires should've read a little world history.
#SheShed
They've decided to let their billionaire defense contractor friends build a "ballroom" with our tax dollars.
Billionaires should've read a little world history.
#SheShed
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If the government was a private company, it wouldn’t be paying $5 million a year for Vought’s personal security detail.
July 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If the government was a private company, it wouldn’t be paying $5 million a year for Vought’s personal security detail.
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A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.
(1/2)
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July 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.
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The Sun-Times has been tracking prices for 35 grocery items across four stores, since December. We found most stayed the same or increased, with our shopping cart’s total price rising by up to $11. We plan to continue tracking prices and sharing results. https://trib.al/KANj27U
Supermarket super-pain: Trump's campaign promise to cut food prices falls short
The Sun-Times has been tracking prices for 35 grocery items across four stores, since December. We found most stayed the same or increased, with our shopping cart's total price rising by up to $11.
trib.al
July 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Sun-Times has been tracking prices for 35 grocery items across four stores, since December. We found most stayed the same or increased, with our shopping cart’s total price rising by up to $11. We plan to continue tracking prices and sharing results. https://trib.al/KANj27U
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There is plenty of fraud and grift in the White House. We do not need any more, and we certainly don't need to risk Americans' hard-earned savings just so that crypto billionaires can get richer.
I'm voting NO on the CLARITY Act.
I'm voting NO on the CLARITY Act.
July 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There is plenty of fraud and grift in the White House. We do not need any more, and we certainly don't need to risk Americans' hard-earned savings just so that crypto billionaires can get richer.
I'm voting NO on the CLARITY Act.
I'm voting NO on the CLARITY Act.
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Hey, if the media is interested in a cover-up of a senile president who's not really in control of his White House, there's one going on right now?
May 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Hey, if the media is interested in a cover-up of a senile president who's not really in control of his White House, there's one going on right now?
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John Sununu got forced out of the cabinet for improperly spending $615,000 ($1.4 million today) on travel.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's new ride? $50 million in taxpayer dollars. Congress passed this funding to support our Coast Guard – not to pay for a private plane that flies 30,000 feet over them.
May 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
John Sununu got forced out of the cabinet for improperly spending $615,000 ($1.4 million today) on travel.
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Silenced Science Stories is “an illustrated series of portraits and stories of scientific experts whose work is being affected by federal budget cuts and mass firings”. [kottke.org]
Silenced Science Stories
Silenced Science Stories is a collaboration between scientists and artists to tell the stories of scientific experts who have been affected by the Trump regime’s purge of their ranks.
We are organizing an illustrate
kottke.org
April 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Silenced Science Stories is “an illustrated series of portraits and stories of scientific experts whose work is being affected by federal budget cuts and mass firings”. [kottke.org]
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I've noted before that to become an elected Republican in DC requires you to be a fascist, a sycophant or a coward. There's something for all of their competing factions on the floor next week. But there is nothing to address the very real and urgent issues faced by those we are sent to represent.
April 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I've noted before that to become an elected Republican in DC requires you to be a fascist, a sycophant or a coward. There's something for all of their competing factions on the floor next week. But there is nothing to address the very real and urgent issues faced by those we are sent to represent.
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Collapsing US equity markets as investors flee not only equities but also US treasuries leading to a weaker dollar, all self-inflicted by Trump's tariffs and a growing natsec crisis at DoD... and here's what the House GOP is prioritizing for the next 2 weeks.
April 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Collapsing US equity markets as investors flee not only equities but also US treasuries leading to a weaker dollar, all self-inflicted by Trump's tariffs and a growing natsec crisis at DoD... and here's what the House GOP is prioritizing for the next 2 weeks.
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This is really bad. The Trump WH is treating the health of the planet with the same ignorance and disregard that RFK Jr brings to the health of the American people. Being stupid and relying on quack cures while you stick your brainwormed head in the sand solves nothing. www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/c...
Trump administration minimized federal climate scientists’ findings of record CO2 growth | CNN
Levels of carbon dioxide — the most abundant planet-warming gas in the air — jumped up by a record amount in 2024.
www.cnn.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is really bad. The Trump WH is treating the health of the planet with the same ignorance and disregard that RFK Jr brings to the health of the American people. Being stupid and relying on quack cures while you stick your brainwormed head in the sand solves nothing. www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/c...
@wgntv.com good morning. You’re doing your viewers a disservice by not including the fact the would be Trump assassin wanted to instigate a race war by showing chaos. He also is reported to be a fan of Neo Nazi philosophy. I’m unclear if he was a formal member of a group.
April 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
@wgntv.com good morning. You’re doing your viewers a disservice by not including the fact the would be Trump assassin wanted to instigate a race war by showing chaos. He also is reported to be a fan of Neo Nazi philosophy. I’m unclear if he was a formal member of a group.
The Dem position should be "absolutely not." If Trump wants to keep his tariffs then helping farmers means restoring USAID, restoring all the food assistance grants/contracts killed by DOGE, and expanding programs like SNAP. We're not going to hand out money to watch food rot.
US Weighs Farmer Bailout as China Retaliation Threatens Exports
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the administration is considering plans to offer assistance to farmers amid worries that the US-China trade war will have a disastrous effect on American agri...
www.bloomberg.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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We will make national parks and historic sites free for all Canadians this upcoming summer.
April 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We will make national parks and historic sites free for all Canadians this upcoming summer.
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Imposing tariffs that will make nearly everything more expensive to remake the US economy to include more... low/mid-wage manufacturing jobs? From people who fight against wage increases, regulations, and unions? Who coddle tech bros wanting to replace jobs with software/robots? What could go right?
April 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Imposing tariffs that will make nearly everything more expensive to remake the US economy to include more... low/mid-wage manufacturing jobs? From people who fight against wage increases, regulations, and unions? Who coddle tech bros wanting to replace jobs with software/robots? What could go right?
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if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders
March 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders
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This is fascinating - and also resonates with my last couple of months on X before the Musk-Farage race riots led me to delete X completely.
X was really interesting.
For about 12 hours almost no person even saw the post. It was only seen by about 70 people in total.
Given that I have almost 30k followers this seemed bizarre.
For about 12 hours almost no person even saw the post. It was only seen by about 70 people in total.
Given that I have almost 30k followers this seemed bizarre.
March 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This is fascinating - and also resonates with my last couple of months on X before the Musk-Farage race riots led me to delete X completely.
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Big Balls & Co. wreaking havoc in people's lives
DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
March 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Big Balls & Co. wreaking havoc in people's lives