Kerry Reid (she/her)
@kerryreid.bsky.social
Theater and Dance Editor for the Chicago Reader. Usual disclaimer that all opinions are my own alone. . .
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Last week I was talking to someone quite a few years younger than I am and they said something about a show that happened
"a really long time ago, like back in 2016."
I'll just be over here looking like Whistler's Mother in my long black dress and white lace cap, sitting in a rocking chair.
"a really long time ago, like back in 2016."
I'll just be over here looking like Whistler's Mother in my long black dress and white lace cap, sitting in a rocking chair.
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Last week I was talking to someone quite a few years younger than I am and they said something about a show that happened
"a really long time ago, like back in 2016."
I'll just be over here looking like Whistler's Mother in my long black dress and white lace cap, sitting in a rocking chair.
"a really long time ago, like back in 2016."
I'll just be over here looking like Whistler's Mother in my long black dress and white lace cap, sitting in a rocking chair.
I wasn't gonna see any shows after "Rapornzel" tonight for an entire week, but since I'm gonna be in Naperville anyway for the holiday, I'll be checking out "White Christmas" at the Paramount in Aurora. I think these are two very different shows!
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I wasn't gonna see any shows after "Rapornzel" tonight for an entire week, but since I'm gonna be in Naperville anyway for the holiday, I'll be checking out "White Christmas" at the Paramount in Aurora. I think these are two very different shows!
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Jamaica is seeing an outbreak of leptospirosis, just one of the many, many ways severe Melissa hits wll sicken and kill people there over the coming months and years
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Jamaica is seeing an outbreak of leptospirosis, just one of the many, many ways severe Melissa hits wll sicken and kill people there over the coming months and years
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America needs more patriots like Senator Mark Kelly and fewer miserable cowards like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.
Sen. Mark Kelly facing military investigation after clashing with Trump
A statement from the Pentagon said all service members have a "legal obligation" to "obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful."
www.axios.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
America needs more patriots like Senator Mark Kelly and fewer miserable cowards like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.
Wondering how many "DO SOMETHING! FIGHT!" screamers will be at the Thanksgiving table this week "going along to get along" with their MAGA relatives.
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Wondering how many "DO SOMETHING! FIGHT!" screamers will be at the Thanksgiving table this week "going along to get along" with their MAGA relatives.
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Seems like reasonable demands.
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Seems like reasonable demands.
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The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
Is this your homework, Charlie Brown?
You cannot kill me in any way that matters, Charlie Brown.
I did it 35 minutes ago, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Is this your homework, Charlie Brown?
I really want a buddy movie with Nick Offerman and Michael Shannon.
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I really want a buddy movie with Nick Offerman and Michael Shannon.
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Oh please.
She was a JOURNALIST.
Having affairs with her SOURCES.
Who she was also writing GLOWING PROFILES on.
Stop this bullshit. You’re enabling the worst people in the world and doing it out of some fake morality scolding.
You’re as trashy as they are.
She was a JOURNALIST.
Having affairs with her SOURCES.
Who she was also writing GLOWING PROFILES on.
Stop this bullshit. You’re enabling the worst people in the world and doing it out of some fake morality scolding.
You’re as trashy as they are.
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Oh please.
She was a JOURNALIST.
Having affairs with her SOURCES.
Who she was also writing GLOWING PROFILES on.
Stop this bullshit. You’re enabling the worst people in the world and doing it out of some fake morality scolding.
You’re as trashy as they are.
She was a JOURNALIST.
Having affairs with her SOURCES.
Who she was also writing GLOWING PROFILES on.
Stop this bullshit. You’re enabling the worst people in the world and doing it out of some fake morality scolding.
You’re as trashy as they are.
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The American voter was really stupid on a random Tuesday in November and now my country is bleeding out because of a realtor
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The American voter was really stupid on a random Tuesday in November and now my country is bleeding out because of a realtor
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How on earth are you this naive? The goal was not to lower budgets or cut spending. How, in 2025, can anyone accept their pretext as good faith?
Hitler didn’t invade Poland to free the oppressed Germans of Danzig, either, Bobby. You can’t fight fascism while accepting their lies as truth.
Hitler didn’t invade Poland to free the oppressed Germans of Danzig, either, Bobby. You can’t fight fascism while accepting their lies as truth.
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
How on earth are you this naive? The goal was not to lower budgets or cut spending. How, in 2025, can anyone accept their pretext as good faith?
Hitler didn’t invade Poland to free the oppressed Germans of Danzig, either, Bobby. You can’t fight fascism while accepting their lies as truth.
Hitler didn’t invade Poland to free the oppressed Germans of Danzig, either, Bobby. You can’t fight fascism while accepting their lies as truth.
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Trolls are still using this asinine reasoning, completely ignoring what Senate rules were when McConnell was leader, griping about nominees that were going to be confirmed no matter how Dems voted, and oblivious to the fact that Ds delayed so many confirmation votes that Rs had to change the rules.
Use every tool at his disposal to gum up the works (as what's his name from Kentucky did for years). There is no reason that any Trump nominee should have gotten a single Democratic vote. Particularly nominees as abysmal as Kennedy.
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Trolls are still using this asinine reasoning, completely ignoring what Senate rules were when McConnell was leader, griping about nominees that were going to be confirmed no matter how Dems voted, and oblivious to the fact that Ds delayed so many confirmation votes that Rs had to change the rules.
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1. She was the only person legally eligible to the Biden war chest, campaign infrastructure, field offices, staffers etc whereas anyone else would have had to start from scratch with just 107 days *before* a convention?
2. Her job was literally to take over in case anything happened to him?
2. Her job was literally to take over in case anything happened to him?
Obama feebly tried to stage an open convention. That would have been much, much better.
It was never clear to me why Democrats rallied around Harris so immediately, except for some weird notion on appearing unified.
It was never clear to me why Democrats rallied around Harris so immediately, except for some weird notion on appearing unified.
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
1. She was the only person legally eligible to the Biden war chest, campaign infrastructure, field offices, staffers etc whereas anyone else would have had to start from scratch with just 107 days *before* a convention?
2. Her job was literally to take over in case anything happened to him?
2. Her job was literally to take over in case anything happened to him?
I get that meeting with Trump may be a form of harm reduction for Mamdani, as many argue. It's a pity harm reduction wasn't a priority a year ago.
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I get that meeting with Trump may be a form of harm reduction for Mamdani, as many argue. It's a pity harm reduction wasn't a priority a year ago.
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“Say what you will about Nazism, but at least it’s an ethos” in the wild. Amazing stuff. And “actual values” — holy fuck you are a rube.
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Say what you will about Nazism, but at least it’s an ethos” in the wild. Amazing stuff. And “actual values” — holy fuck you are a rube.
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She talks about how she was just trying to warn her neighbours that ICE was in the area.
She says she’s a survivor.
This is courage.
It’s also a reminder that DHS will lie to protect its thugs.
Kash Patel still hasn’t removed a tweet that blames Martinez for getting shot.
She says she’s a survivor.
This is courage.
It’s also a reminder that DHS will lie to protect its thugs.
Kash Patel still hasn’t removed a tweet that blames Martinez for getting shot.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
She talks about how she was just trying to warn her neighbours that ICE was in the area.
She says she’s a survivor.
This is courage.
It’s also a reminder that DHS will lie to protect its thugs.
Kash Patel still hasn’t removed a tweet that blames Martinez for getting shot.
She says she’s a survivor.
This is courage.
It’s also a reminder that DHS will lie to protect its thugs.
Kash Patel still hasn’t removed a tweet that blames Martinez for getting shot.
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"let's give the least bad option some grace for doing real politicking" was almost never afforded to the only alternative to Donald Trump.
"Don't hate Mamdani for doing real world politician things"
"Meeting with Trump was not his job"
"I never said that"
"Meeting with Trump was not his job"
"I never said that"
November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"let's give the least bad option some grace for doing real politicking" was almost never afforded to the only alternative to Donald Trump.
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Every article by a 'savvy' political analyst reads like a focus group transcript with a low-information voter.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Every article by a 'savvy' political analyst reads like a focus group transcript with a low-information voter.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Sure would be nice to see a Black or Brown face here one day.
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Sure would be nice to see a Black or Brown face here one day.
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People have got to find a lower-stakes outlet for their parasocial fandom urges than politics.
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
People have got to find a lower-stakes outlet for their parasocial fandom urges than politics.
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Lotta words here to say "I am a Republican, actually"
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Lotta words here to say "I am a Republican, actually"
Lack of response doesn't mean you don't have your answer.
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Lack of response doesn't mean you don't have your answer.
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These are some of the most easily led people on the face of the planet, just absolute credulous rubes, jesus.
Harris: "Cheney says she's voting for me for the continuance of Democracy"
Progressives: "BETRAYAL"
Trump: "I'm helping out Mamdani"
Progressives: "YES ORANGE DADDY! FUCK THE DEMS"
Harris: "Cheney says she's voting for me for the continuance of Democracy"
Progressives: "BETRAYAL"
Trump: "I'm helping out Mamdani"
Progressives: "YES ORANGE DADDY! FUCK THE DEMS"
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
These are some of the most easily led people on the face of the planet, just absolute credulous rubes, jesus.
Harris: "Cheney says she's voting for me for the continuance of Democracy"
Progressives: "BETRAYAL"
Trump: "I'm helping out Mamdani"
Progressives: "YES ORANGE DADDY! FUCK THE DEMS"
Harris: "Cheney says she's voting for me for the continuance of Democracy"
Progressives: "BETRAYAL"
Trump: "I'm helping out Mamdani"
Progressives: "YES ORANGE DADDY! FUCK THE DEMS"