Michael Spencer
michaelspencer.bsky.social
Michael Spencer
@michaelspencer.bsky.social
See my latest in the Chicago Reader // adjunct history prof // US foreign policy
From the U.N. Regional Info Centre for Western Europe:
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
And some more coverage here: bsky.app/profile/mich...
Regarding Matt Gaetz as the new AG— I’ve written about Gaetz’s connections with the cryptocurrency and VC underworld in Florida over the last couple years. Here are three stories I've written/worked:
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Perhaps a third as well.
October 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
SSICP is near where this incident occurred last week: bsky.app/profile/dlkn...
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Reposted by Michael Spencer
it’s an old-fashioned standoff now.

occasionally, federal agents will push forward to part the crowd + allow a vehicle driven by ice to enter the parking lot off 25th street. but for the most part, they’re just staring.

there are maybe 10-15 protesters still here and probably twice as many press.
September 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
They must believe that funding fascist politics accelerates the delegitimization of political institutions and state currency. Because on its face a stronger national state runs counter to their aims. Network state etc.
September 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM