Aaron Cynic
@aaroncynic.bsky.social
Photographer, Chicago guy, punk rock nostalgia keeper. Sometimes I still write things too.
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A fed directly aimed his gun at an unarmed woman in Santa Ana on Sunday, continuing ICE's violent tirade against L.A. residents.
The full story: lataco.com/ice-gun-aime...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/ice-gun-aime...
By Izzy Ramirez
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A fed directly aimed his gun at an unarmed woman in Santa Ana on Sunday, continuing ICE's violent tirade against L.A. residents.
The full story: lataco.com/ice-gun-aime...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/ice-gun-aime...
By Izzy Ramirez
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
These people are miserable and they want you and everyone else to be miserable.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
These people are miserable and they want you and everyone else to be miserable.
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solidarity to everyone who went to Federal Plaza to stand with the Broadview Six
good on Sochi Lopez for calling out Pritzker
the cops will not save us, assume that the courts won’t either
we keep us safe
good on Sochi Lopez for calling out Pritzker
the cops will not save us, assume that the courts won’t either
we keep us safe
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
solidarity to everyone who went to Federal Plaza to stand with the Broadview Six
good on Sochi Lopez for calling out Pritzker
the cops will not save us, assume that the courts won’t either
we keep us safe
good on Sochi Lopez for calling out Pritzker
the cops will not save us, assume that the courts won’t either
we keep us safe
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Outside Chicago's federal courthouse, a small rally is still underway in response to the arraignment hearing today for the "Broadview Six."
One of the six, Joselyn Walsh, leads a small group in song with her guitar; nearby, codefendant & IL congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh speaks with press.
One of the six, Joselyn Walsh, leads a small group in song with her guitar; nearby, codefendant & IL congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh speaks with press.
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Outside Chicago's federal courthouse, a small rally is still underway in response to the arraignment hearing today for the "Broadview Six."
One of the six, Joselyn Walsh, leads a small group in song with her guitar; nearby, codefendant & IL congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh speaks with press.
One of the six, Joselyn Walsh, leads a small group in song with her guitar; nearby, codefendant & IL congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh speaks with press.
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Honestly just absurd charges. Absolute worst case here, they joined dozens of other people in making a car drive slower than it might have done otherwise. Meanwhile, our entire federal government is run like a cartel.
The govt claims the six blocked an ICE-operated vehicle headed to the facility; Abughazaleh's atty Josh Herman said the govt's allegations are "turning protest into a criminal conspiracy."
"This case creates a conspiracy about people standing together spontaneously to protest injustice," he said.
"This case creates a conspiracy about people standing together spontaneously to protest injustice," he said.
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Honestly just absurd charges. Absolute worst case here, they joined dozens of other people in making a car drive slower than it might have done otherwise. Meanwhile, our entire federal government is run like a cartel.
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NEW: DHS ingested a trove of highly unreliable Chicago police records on people accused of having gang ties to feed an FBI watchlist and then just ... didn't delete it for seven months after being told to do so because no one noticed. Scoop from @dell.bsky.social, and is outside our paywall.
DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules
The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted.
www.wired.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
NEW: DHS ingested a trove of highly unreliable Chicago police records on people accused of having gang ties to feed an FBI watchlist and then just ... didn't delete it for seven months after being told to do so because no one noticed. Scoop from @dell.bsky.social, and is outside our paywall.
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Youngkin: Ekes out a 2% squeaker
Media: The American public have had it with Joe Biden's force-vax, make-everyone-trans communist agenda and want common sense MAGA conservatism back
Spanberger: nearly doubles Northam's 2017 margin
Media:
Media: The American public have had it with Joe Biden's force-vax, make-everyone-trans communist agenda and want common sense MAGA conservatism back
Spanberger: nearly doubles Northam's 2017 margin
Media:
a cartoon character from south park is standing in front of a crowd and says we haven 't seen anything
ALT: a cartoon character from south park is standing in front of a crowd and says we haven 't seen anything
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Youngkin: Ekes out a 2% squeaker
Media: The American public have had it with Joe Biden's force-vax, make-everyone-trans communist agenda and want common sense MAGA conservatism back
Spanberger: nearly doubles Northam's 2017 margin
Media:
Media: The American public have had it with Joe Biden's force-vax, make-everyone-trans communist agenda and want common sense MAGA conservatism back
Spanberger: nearly doubles Northam's 2017 margin
Media:
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November 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.
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Cat Sharp (pictured here, left, in the olive pants and jacket), who besides her Chicago 40th Ward position is also running to be a Cook County commissioner, has her own dedicated group of supporters present.
"Show up for Sharp," they chant.
"Show up for Sharp," they chant.
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Cat Sharp (pictured here, left, in the olive pants and jacket), who besides her Chicago 40th Ward position is also running to be a Cook County commissioner, has her own dedicated group of supporters present.
"Show up for Sharp," they chant.
"Show up for Sharp," they chant.
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Good afternoon from Chicago's Federal Plaza. A rally is underway now in support of the "Broadview Six," who face arraignment in about 45 minutes on federal conspiracy and impeding charges, stemming from their participation in a Sept. 26 protest in front of the Broadview, IL ICE facility.
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Good afternoon from Chicago's Federal Plaza. A rally is underway now in support of the "Broadview Six," who face arraignment in about 45 minutes on federal conspiracy and impeding charges, stemming from their participation in a Sept. 26 protest in front of the Broadview, IL ICE facility.
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Anyway, it's fine. I don't actually believe there is a both sides to snatching tamale ladies off the streets, that's just my one weird thing.
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Anyway, it's fine. I don't actually believe there is a both sides to snatching tamale ladies off the streets, that's just my one weird thing.
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Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
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Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities
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one of my bigger flexes is that i’ve never been accused of pepper-spraying children
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
one of my bigger flexes is that i’ve never been accused of pepper-spraying children
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"we won't collaborate, we just have this ongoing project where we share a bunch of surveillance data in unsupervised ways"
time to break the circuit, blow the fuse, close the center
time to break the circuit, blow the fuse, close the center
anything JB Pritzker or Brandon Johnson say about non-collaboration with ICE or border patrol is immediately undermined by the presence of a Fusion Center in Chicago
Superintendent Snelling came up through counterterrorism, a made up construct to divide oppressed people globally
no fusion centers
Superintendent Snelling came up through counterterrorism, a made up construct to divide oppressed people globally
no fusion centers
Boston's Michelle Wu has attracted notice for standing up to Trump on ICE raids. But her stance is undermined by the city's fusion center, which civil liberties advocates have warned abt for yrs: "The whole purpose of it is federal & local law enforcement collaboration."
boltsmag.org/boston-polic...
boltsmag.org/boston-polic...
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
"we won't collaborate, we just have this ongoing project where we share a bunch of surveillance data in unsupervised ways"
time to break the circuit, blow the fuse, close the center
time to break the circuit, blow the fuse, close the center
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Sure, let’s take the government’s word that the entire second floor is irrelevant.
Govt attys suggest putting a pin in that issue, saying she isn't sure of the second floor's relevance to detainee operations.
McNally agrees to table the issue for now.
McNally agrees to table the issue for now.
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Sure, let’s take the government’s word that the entire second floor is irrelevant.
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I keep seeing videos that are like "THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT/YOU DON'T WANT TO EAT/THIS IS WHERE IT REALLY COMES FROM" about food and i dont know how to explain to people the concept of "cooking is a transformational process that turns one thing into another"
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I keep seeing videos that are like "THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT/YOU DON'T WANT TO EAT/THIS IS WHERE IT REALLY COMES FROM" about food and i dont know how to explain to people the concept of "cooking is a transformational process that turns one thing into another"
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“DONALD TRUMP’S military occupations of U.S. cities have cost nearly half a billion dollars.”
Talk about “waste, fraud, and abuse” - how many people could be fed with that money? What about providing healthcare? Such an astronomical waste! 🙄
Talk about “waste, fraud, and abuse” - how many people could be fed with that money? What about providing healthcare? Such an astronomical waste! 🙄
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“DONALD TRUMP’S military occupations of U.S. cities have cost nearly half a billion dollars.”
Talk about “waste, fraud, and abuse” - how many people could be fed with that money? What about providing healthcare? Such an astronomical waste! 🙄
Talk about “waste, fraud, and abuse” - how many people could be fed with that money? What about providing healthcare? Such an astronomical waste! 🙄
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The Ernst & Young report cost $3.2m to commission and I don't think it did (or could within its scope) provide the guidance that the budget office, council, and the public need to really dig into the city's financial outlook.
CHICAGO NEEDS AN INDEPENDENT BUDGET OFFICE
CHICAGO NEEDS AN INDEPENDENT BUDGET OFFICE
NEW: Chicago City Council members had hoped a consultant’s report could give them a way to reject the head tax proposed by Mayor Johnson AND avoid deeply unpopular cuts.
But after nearly a month of hearings, no easy way to bridge the city’s $1.19B budget gap has materialized. @wttw.bsky.social
But after nearly a month of hearings, no easy way to bridge the city’s $1.19B budget gap has materialized. @wttw.bsky.social
With No Easy Fixes in Sight, Debate Over Chicago’s 2026 Spending Plan Reaches Tipping Point
A marathon session before the City Council’s Budget and Government Operations Committee on Monday made it clear there is no easy way to bridge the city’s $1.19 billion projected shortfall, leaving ald...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Ernst & Young report cost $3.2m to commission and I don't think it did (or could within its scope) provide the guidance that the budget office, council, and the public need to really dig into the city's financial outlook.
CHICAGO NEEDS AN INDEPENDENT BUDGET OFFICE
CHICAGO NEEDS AN INDEPENDENT BUDGET OFFICE
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Illinois needs a progressive income tax. It should be on the ballot every year until it passes.
Almost every other funding idea they come up with is just bullshit nibbling around the edges in ways that still predominantly tax working people instead of those with real wealth.
Almost every other funding idea they come up with is just bullshit nibbling around the edges in ways that still predominantly tax working people instead of those with real wealth.
A corporate head tax will be paid out of a personnel/staffing budget.
Which means less money for workers in Chicago compared to other places.
Corporations don’t pay the head tax.
You do.
Which means less money for workers in Chicago compared to other places.
Corporations don’t pay the head tax.
You do.
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Illinois needs a progressive income tax. It should be on the ballot every year until it passes.
Almost every other funding idea they come up with is just bullshit nibbling around the edges in ways that still predominantly tax working people instead of those with real wealth.
Almost every other funding idea they come up with is just bullshit nibbling around the edges in ways that still predominantly tax working people instead of those with real wealth.
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I’d really like to see @govpritzker.illinois.gov respond to this
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/12/p...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/12/p...
Protesters Keep Getting Arrested At Broadview By State Police Despite Promise To Protect Free Speech
About 80 protesters have been arrested at the ICE facility since barricades went up. Protesters and legal observers say the arrests run counter to the state’s stated goals of ensuring public safety an...
blockclubchicago.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I’d really like to see @govpritzker.illinois.gov respond to this
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/12/p...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/12/p...
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This hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Laura McNally over conditions inside ICE's Broadview facility is underway. It's also being held remotely.
That's it. Court's adjourned. They have another hearing before Magistrate Judge Laura McNally at 9:30.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Laura McNally over conditions inside ICE's Broadview facility is underway. It's also being held remotely.