Caleb Barrett
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Caleb Barrett
@calebbarrett.bsky.social
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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.

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November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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This is predatory capitalism. They gave tax breaks to billionaires so that folks could get bills like this for healthcare.
I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase?

2256.42%????

TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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They went into this terrorized community to incite people. And pepper sprayed an infant. There is no level of depravity these people won’t sink to.
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Went to an art show in Brooklyn tonight, and came across a piece that definitely captures the spirit of the moment.

Link to the not-on-Bluesky artist here: tr.ee/0PMUiFI1bO
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
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Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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From my son (who also has non-speaking autism): "This poor man is terrified. He does not deserve such brutal treatment. I am disgusted at the depravity of the ICE agents. A sad commentary on how we non-speaking autistics are treated. Shame, shame, shame."
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”

He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care

This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person

They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The 22-month-old baby “had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried”!!!!

Is this not child abuse?!

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There needs to be swift and severe consequences for detaining/imprisoning US Citizens.

And how long did it take them to reunite the 22-month old baby with the family?!
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
There needs to be swift and severe consequences for detaining/imprisoning US Citizens.

And how long did it take them to reunite the 22-month old baby with the family?!
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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My book, Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death, is 50% off throughout Nov with code CONFSHIP from the publisher’s site. Tell your friends!

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November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Find someone to work as hard for you as the Trump Administration works to starve children.
JUST IN: Trump administration files emergency stay motion at 1st Circuit, seeking to block judge's order to pay full SNAP benefits for November. DOJ says the ruling 'makes a mockery of the separation of powers.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
SNAPStayMotCA1110725.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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No. Rape culture ruins the workplace. The wage gap ruins the workplace. A lack of female leadership ruins the workplace.

This question only stands if you think the workplace is just for white men.

#momsky
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This is evil.
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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I am terrified Mamdani is going to do something extreme, like subsidize a few grocery stores, says people who don’t bat an eye at for-profit companies with billion dollar subsidies.
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Latest Episode of the Podcast!
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SNAP Cuts and God’s Concern for the Poor
YouTube video by Holy Post Media
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November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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A Border Patrol agent who shot a woman five times on Chicago’s Southwest Side later bragged about his shooting skills to friends:

“I’m up for another round of ‘f--- around and find out.’”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Border Patrol agent 'bragged' about shooting woman in Brighton Park, defense attorney says
Testimony from the agent who shot a woman multiple times in an immigration enforcement action revealed how he touted his marksmanship in leaving seven wounds despite firing five bullets. He later text...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics) #FullMoon
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It was an offensive foul!

Wemby threw his shoulder into Vanderbilt
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Why do the refs reward Brunson for flopping?
November 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM