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Kerry Reid (she/her)

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Theater and Dance Editor for the Chicago Reader. Usual disclaimer that all opinions are my own alone. . .

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · Jan 22

Hey all -- just boosting the signal about current fundraising efforts for @chicagoreader.com. I know times are hard, but if you have a few bucks to spare, it would surely be appreciated!
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I've been working at the Reader, off and on, for over 30 years, and reading it for nearly 40. As the theater and dance editor for the last five years, I know I'm part of a long tradition that stretche...

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 25m

Here is something from a friend on the ground in Chicago's 49th Ward to counter your narrative:

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Democrats In Array Thanks Joe Biden @demsinarray.bsky.social · 15h

If you have a Republican Congressperson or Republican Senators, you need to be calling them every single day and demanding they stop protecting pedophiles and start doing the work of the nation.

Every day. No exceptions. Do it.

PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 20h

“The House speaker is losing control of his party”

Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown - The New Republic

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Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown — The New Republic

The House speaker is losing control of his party.

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 51m

Maybe things have changed since I was in J-school, but we were taught to check and see if an assertion was true before committing it to print.

Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 52m

Weird how a "journalist" didn't bother to research anything before posting this.

Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 53m

Your Cool Girl Points Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore. Also, stop lying on social media for clout and attention.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 16h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 1d

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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23h

Probably the actual advice that most young men need is that no one finds self pity appealing.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 22h

What they want is to have the troops shoot homeless people. That's the goal here, that's what they want.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 23h

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

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Coastally1337 @coastally1337.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing Ammosexuals love more than their guns is the fantasy of killing brown people with them.

Anything else is just bullshit.

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 1d

"But they're nice to ME!" Uh huh.

Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 1d

Brunch. Wine mom.

Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 1d

I went to a rally once and it didn't fix everything, therefore rallies are a neolib plot. Or something.

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 1d

"I wiped my ass once! Why I gotta do it more than that?"

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

This is what they've done.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 1d

I also remember the sensationalist head6the Examiner had when the weapons were discovered: YOSEMITE DEATH KNIVES

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 1d

They don't realize REVOLUTION also means Project 2025. Of course GOPers aren't dumb enough to think they get their revolution without voting to control the levers.

Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 1d

People who lose their shpadoinkles if their wifi goes down for a few hours REALLY aren't ready for what long-term general strikes and revolution will mean.

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 1d

It's such an unbelievable and chilling and tragic confluence of events.

Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I was living in SF when this happened. Really awful.

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Kerry Reid (she/her) @kerryreid.bsky.social · 1d

They act like voting is SO HARD when it's literally the least they can do and then think EVERYONE else should do the heavy lifting when shit goes sideways because they're SPECIAL DAMMIT!

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