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Sonya
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Love cats, wine, books & old things. Cotswolds via Vancouver, Toronto, San Francisco, Amsterdam & London.
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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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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 2d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
three sheets of paper are taped to the outside of a building. they have the words "The Oval Office" in gold script
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
sonyam.bsky.social
In Paris again this week & the moon is a stunner.
Pic of the moon behind a building, clouds ebbing past. Red traffic light reflecting. Gorgeous moon lighting up the wispy clouds. Below a stone wall in the 7th arrondissement; in front a tree, lit by a streetlight.
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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oh my good lord
November 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
leximcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 7d
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.
leximcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6d
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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plumicorns.bsky.social
All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
sonyam.bsky.social
It is 03:40 here and as I managed to get a Sportsnet webcast of the game I was pulled in. Calling it quits now. Too stressful & need sleep. #GoJaysGo
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
sonyam.bsky.social
I have been pulled into following game 7 of the World Series via ESPN update from across the pond. It is late, but #GoBlueJays
November 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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October 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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razzball.bsky.social
And now Marie-Phillip Poulin is at Game 7 wearing Vladdy’s jersey!
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. arriving with *this* vibe 💯 Wearing the jersey of 3x Olympic hockey gold-medalist Marie-Philip Poulin.

📷 Screengrab from Sportsnet
#WorldSeries
Screenshot of a collage of two photos, the top showing the front and the bottom the back. A baseball player is wearing a team Canada hockey jersey with the name Poulin and number 29 on it. Text across the image: VLADDY JR. ARRIVES FOR GAME 7 IN MARIE-PHILIP POULIN JERSEY
November 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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bensteiner00.bsky.social
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. GETS IT.

He's wearing a Marie-Philip Poulin jersey entering the Rogers Centre ahead of Game 7.

Captain Clutch. Just what Vladdy wants to be for the #WANTITALL tonight.
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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matttomic.bsky.social
What I love so much about the Poulin jersey is it's strictly for *us*, it needs no explanation to the average Canadian sports fan but Fox is gonna need a two-paragraph explanation where they pronounce her name wrong. Vladdy just organically understands the moment.
November 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Blue Jays
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
At the end of Vermeer's birthday, a little street in Delft. I always wonder what those two children on the stoop were up to, back in 1658.
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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victoire-lphf.bsky.social
𝓛𝓪 𝓬𝓻è𝓶𝓮 𝓭𝓮 𝓵𝓪 𝓬𝓻è𝓶𝓮

Approuvé par les goats. Le chandail réplique crème est maintenant disponible dans la boutique LPHF!

Goat-approved. The cream replica jersey is officially available in the PWHL shop!

🔗 bit.ly/3Jc6LP7
October 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
sonyam.bsky.social
So brilliant.
kevbo9.bsky.social kevbo9 @kevbo9.bsky.social · 9d
Best we ever did was Barky McFly
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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benbraun.bsky.social
On the one hand: Interesting just how long post-imperial Britain could cling on to its relative economic position. On the other hand: Yikes.

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Top incomes in the UK are no longer among the highest in the rich world Rank among developed countries for average post-tax income of top 10%
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
One of the Jays players last night after the win (I think it was Clement) actually cited “the power of friendship” as a key to the Blue Jays success this year.

The power of friendship.

#WorldSeries #TeamCanada #GoJaysGo
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11d
“The way that we see the #BlueJays being presented as a friendly, inclusive, cohesive unit, which is really lovely, is also speaking volumes on what's happening globally and politically in those two different countries, where we're not seeing that inclusivity.”

#TeamCanada #WorldSeries #GoJaysGo
Is baseball still America’s game? The Blue Jays are changing the idea of who baseball is for | CBC Arts
Jays fan Sadaf Ahsan and sports journalist Shireen Ahmed examine the cultural changes at play.
www.cbc.ca
October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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adalovelaceday.bsky.social
Leone Norwood Farrell invented the Toronto Method for large-scale vaccine production, making childhood immunisation programmes more affordable and facilitating the mass production of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine in the 1950s.
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Dr Leone Norwood Farrell, Biochemist & microbiologist
Leone Norwood Farrell was a Canadian biochemist and microbiologist whose inventions enabled the large-scale production of the polio vaccine in the 1950s.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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seandevine9.bsky.social
This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM