If they want a realistic portrayal of British spies.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 13h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
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He/Him; Fenian bastard; Area Code 1312 I speak only for myself; affiliates are blameless. “If someone only looks at you to find a flaw, you're under no obligation to afford them a view.” I periodically cleanse my feed; don’t count on your rts surviving
The Independent@the-independent.com · 13h ago
The only good thing about this scandal is that federal prosecutors here are so thoroughly discredited now that any new federal persecutions should be DOA.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 7h agoYour little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
My sympathy to NYC. Griffin was so politically toxic in Chicago that we drove him out of state.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10h agoMoar Please www.curbed.com/article/ken-...
Trump saw the disconnect between the Republican voter base and the Republican funding base, drove a wedge, took over the party, and then the Presidency. Democrats need to do something similar.
I’m barely old enough to remember people hating on JFK for being Catholic. Sectarian bigotry is a sucker’s game, but we’re a former English colony. 🤷♂️
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 17h agoi really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office
wild that nobody is giving the mayor (Brandon Johnson) credit for this. If it was Rahm there would be a 60 minutes profile on how Rahm was the savior of Chicago
Jared Rutecki@jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 2d agoThere were 37 homicides in the city last month, the lowest total for any such month dating back to at least 1970. That total is down 18% compared to July 2025, and is less than half the totals of July 2020 and 2021, which each saw more than 100 killings.
A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity
How much of Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?
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Trib Ed board deciding how to react to young people downtown
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4d agoFrom the Editorial Board: Sparkly, semiattired Lolla kids are this weekend swarming around such oft-deserted environs as Van Buren Street, Jackson Boulevard and State Street. Welcome. Your presence and youthful energy could not be more timely.
Even aside from collisions, cars have been rendering people vulnerable since registration and plates were required. Bikes are better.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d agoCompanies are all in on selling folks the idea that it’s in your best interest for your products to “know you” as if you are getting a dedicated servant but what you are really getting is a spy.
It can be deadly for individuals, and portends climate catastrophe, but from a purely selfish perspective, I ❤️ hot weather. 🔥
Dancing at Lughnasa (Instrumental)
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“Immigrants rights and justice groups have long drawn attention to the entanglement of immigration enforcement and the criminal legal system. Law scholars have dubbed this ‘crimmigration’ law. . .”
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 6d agoI wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
Rahm Emanuel designed this agency to enable police misconduct. It’s working as intended.
Agency Charged With Probing Chicago Police Department Misconduct Created ‘Vacuum of Accountability’ By Clearing Backlog: Watchdog
“By administratively closing hundreds of cases COPA may have alleviated its own burden, but it also created a vacuum of accountability within the police oversight system it is mandated to uphold,” acc...
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Sure, I wear my Irish temper on my face, but the cruelest thing I do is go cold.
safe space☁️🦂🇹🇹@peaceofkrys.bsky.social · 7d agoyour birth month is your mutation. What you got?
I spoke to @shaneburley.bsky.social about my book Strange People on the Hill for truthout and we got into an important question -- what happened to the hate groups? When the government is a hate group with fascist ambitions, you don't need them as much. My answer: truthout.org/articles/whe...
I dunno. I liked Wilson’s review. I’ll still see the film, and probably like it. We can hold both thoughts at the same time. 🤷♂️ Wilson and Nolan are doing different things.
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · last wk.Honestly laughing out loud that 88-year-old shit-stirring Olympian Joyce Carol Oates looked up in the sky, saw the Batsignal, and headed to her laptop. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
The @chicagoreader.com is and has been consistently excellent. I really hope that they get the resources they need to continue for 50 more years. Why are rich progressives not funding local independent media? This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.
The Cook County jail’s new $7 million visitation center
Cook County wants to create an oasis inside the infamous jail. But the renovation will do little to address the harm of incarceration itself
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Note: Chicago has a Weak Mayor form of municipal government. The Mayor’s power is limited to his ability to muster a majority in the Council. Think that out, and you’ll get why Brandon Johnson struggles.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.I think it's good that Mamdani is Just Doing Stuff but more people gotta realize that it is not a matter of Will or motivation or whatever but because the NYC Mayor, as an office, is one of the uniquely powerful individual offices you can hold in the United States (seriously)
A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” trib.al/ouHgmYA
Kash Patel Loses Lawsuit Against Man Who Called Him “Googly-Eyed” Chud
A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.”
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I live in a food desert. But there *is* a grocery store where I change busses on my way home every day. Most folks in my neighborhood don’t commute downtown.
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · last wk.the thing about government grocery stores is that food deserts are a real thing and people need food
I’m going to be sick. Even the photo they chose — I painted in that exact spot during a concert one of my summers. From the 1970s to the 2010s, which includes the three years I attended. When my friends were there. Back to when some of their *parents* were campers. www.mlive.com/news/2026/07...
Epstein, 46 others linked to decades of sex assaults at Interlochen, over 70 victims
An investigative report two years in the making was released Tuesday, July 28, detailing decades of sexual abuse at Interlochen Center for the Arts by staff, trustees, visiting artists and Jeffrey Eps...
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The Rahm Emanuel redemption tour, which ignores a long and detailed history of anti-Black policies in his time as mayor of Chicago, is a good example of how the more overt white supremacy of Elon Musk and his cohort of conservatives is normalized