H Kapp-Klote
I write about Chicago, labor, and organizing.
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- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteI hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
- Let’s go
- We are in the end stages of a multi-decade campaign to consolidate power through courts, media, religion, and fear, and it is working. If the people running the Democratic Party cannot grasp that this is an emergency—not a branding exercise—they will lose.
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- Big fan of GIG and this endorsement — I know everyone‘s sick of hearing about 09 from me but imo they both reach a LOT of groups counted out in Chicago politics right now and I love to see the collaboration.
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- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteGregory Bovino got kicked out of Bottled Blonde in Las Vegas by people who surely hate Ma and Pa America www.thedailybeast.com/border-goon-...
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- What’s up everyone — new Chicago 312 out today with background on the ICE on Notice Executive Order, whatever a TIF sweep is, and why we all left (or haven’t left!) X. Read it here: hs-newsletter-e91163.beehiiv.com/p/correction...
- Good morning, lmao, WHO is Phil Andrew, etc
- Reposted by H Kapp-Klotecannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
- Reposted by H Kapp-Kloteunraveled is *two* people, doing work that much bigger newsrooms aren't
- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteI think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- I’m gearing up to take my ham radio Technician license exam (third attempt—tried in 2019 and 2022, this time it’s sticking) and I’m remembering why this hobby keeps pulling me back:
- Very important article in terms of understanding who in an electable position finds this very simple phrase "complicated" and who does not.
- Reposted by H Kapp-Kloteso I spend up to 80% of the time I work on a story on research and reporting, which you don’t see but get evidence of in the published story—which is not unlike the ratio of political education, relationship building, and planning to the action you see that I’ve seen in organizing and movement work
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- Reposted by H Kapp-Klotethe guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.
- Every mass layoff in journalism means that there are fewer people reporting with an incentive to follow the rules of journalism over the rules of the algorithm.
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- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteIn the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
- Reposted by H Kapp-Klotedoomers will tell you that the republicans never plan on having to win an election again, but all of the worst people running the worst companies in the country are behaving like they know they don’t have long
- After a decade of screaming about how movements need to be online, in 2026, it feels like we have to forget the Internet. We outnumber them on the ground: where brave, incredible people are taking real risk where it matters.
- Reposted by H Kapp-Klote“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Beyond the appalling levels of evil, they‘re bringing a knife to a gun fight by trying this PR stunt in front of Bad Bunny
- Come on, man blogs.timesofisrael.com/daniel-biss-...
- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteThis part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
- This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.
- Loved this piece on the contentious comptroller race in Illinois, including a deep dive on what the comptroller actually does. buff.ly/nkSCkZ2
- There are too many people in positions of power who have NO idea how radicalized the "average" liberal constituent has become in the last year.
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- what do you want to bet the 'antifa backed group' is like, the Girl Scouts of America
- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteAll my neighbors are heroes and we really are going to win
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- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteNo drama there, no credit. For the most part, nothing happens at all. No secret agent stuff. Turning in hours at the dullest make-work job of all time, except unpaid. Just vague unending tension. They’re doing it for free, every day, by the thousands, so their neighbors can be SAFE and can be FREE.
- Couldn’t tell you what these words say but seems important
- 2026 will be the hottest year on record but at least there's mech suits
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- sometimes you read a headline and realize how small your world really is
- I'm trying to do a better job of finding ways and spaces to honor people doing so much important work -- it can be such a grind, especially right now for trans organizers. You should too:
- Well known RFK partner. Great time to boycott.
- Justice for Talkni
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- Reviewing the last year of content and the algorithm is wrong this is the funniest thing I've ever made
- And @citybureau.bsky.social continues to be one of the best examples of how to actually build journalism infrastructure in Chicago! Their fall cohort spent 16 weeks reporting on intergenerational relationships. I love this!
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- The Chicago Machine lives on
- Let's go!!!!! i haven't seen any hyperlocal leftist infighting on this platform in almost 14 hours!!!
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- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteIf you're a journalist listening to Homan BLOVIATE about law and order right now and your immediate question isn't *what gives YOU the authority to speak about crimes and "law and order" when you accepted a $50,000 bribe and keep avoiding any accountability?* then you are ridiculous.
- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteIt’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened
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- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteIn theater. So they think they’re at war.
- Tom Homan: "I personally have never liked social media, and promise all deportations and citizen murder will be stealthy and legitimized:
- incredible crocodile tears. "in my campaign to smear and destroy my internal adversary i have constantly lamented the death and horror she perpetuated in public, whereas my chosen strategy for deportations has always been quiet and under the radar"
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- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteSome of us have been antagonistic to ALL of these politicians since before some of you were born.
- Reposted by H Kapp-KloteHowever, if you do donate in the next 30 minutes, we will also simply keep texting you forever instead of changing anything structurally.
- This week's Chicago 312 Big Question is extremely long. I'm calling it an "experiment" because that's what I say when I write something that's too long and refuse to cut it. It's about understanding Homan: what he wants, and who he's already recruited in Chicago. get it first:
- 🚨FINAL NOTICE🚨 H — if you don’t donate in the next 30 minutes, we will simply keep texting you forever instead of changing anything structurally.
