Jacob E. Peters
Lifelong Chicagoan, lived other places, & it just reinforced my desire to live here. My opinions are mine alone. Find me on the other sites, w/ the same handle.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersKiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
- Reposted by Jacob E. Peters“Everything we know about skin has been learned from so-called scientific studies funded by large corporations who have a financial stake in keeping our musculature covered in an unnecessary layer of man-made flesh,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- lol This is going to Alito (who might as well be one of the litigants) on the shadow docket
- New Jersey NIMBY group 'Local Leaders for Responsible Planning' has filed an application to the Supreme Court 'shadow docket' to have the state's affordable housing laws put on hold... newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/n-...
- Reposted by Jacob E. Petersour government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Always shocking to be reminded that there are drivers (cab drivers no less) who think that the flashing orange hand means I am no longer allowed to be in the crosswalk. Our driver aptitude & knowledge tests are sorely lacking.
- I wonder if long term we will see one of the atrium skylights removed in order to convert a portion of the building to residential.
- The parking lot behind Palace Grill is large enough that a developer could build an L shaped apartment building, & still leave the diner on the corner.
- Guys…focaccia e cacio e pepe
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersDHS calls whistleblowers a “threat to national security.” But without leaks to the press, the public wouldn’t know that ICE is entering homes without warrants, labeling protesters “domestic terrorists,” building mass surveillance tools with Big Tech, or pushing propaganda.
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- At last an AI tool I can get behind “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersFloridians have voted down 287g agreements with ICE in Orlando and Key West- but DeSantis used state law to threaten them with removal from office if they didn’t change their votes. This is why elections matter and it helps to be a blue state.
- ICE & CBP are just stocked with domestic abusers & you can tell by the kind of lazy lies they tell about victims.
- "Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..." apnews.com/article/immi...
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersThese are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- Reposted by Jacob E. Petersalways bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersTo be clear: a zoom call with the employee’s webcams disabled so they didn’t have to see any of their faces while they laid them off.
- I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
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- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersNEW: The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersThe article is about burdensome regulations on apartments (zoning, building code) vs SFH. And so far the replies are complaints about privacy, renting, not having a garden. As if those personal experiences and preferences justify unrelated regulations around staircases and sprinklers!
- Apartments are safer and more affordable than single-family homes. Why do we treat them like a hazard? www.vox.com/future-perfe...
- Highly recommend, a summer biking destination for anyone. Also it is a crime that #cf97 do not play Minnesota every single year.
- Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersCrazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersIf you want to learn more about rent-seeking by consulting companies but don't want to read a Nazi being paid by a white supremacist, may I suggest. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersDemocracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership
- The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security. n.pr/4qAlWBj
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersThings that make you say "hell yeah" Fun part of this, Bremen plays Bayern on February 14th. We will have the only two Black managers in Germany soccer history coaching against each other for the first time ever on Black History Month.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersThe city is suing for millions in damages after the woman dubbed Chicago’s "worst landowner" had her property auction fail. blockclubchi.co/4rvPoJo
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersThis is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..
- I cannot wait for the new Alstom Bi-level Metra trainsets to go into service. It will be so much harder for 1 jamoke to block people from circulating up to the upper level to stand in the aisle during crowding from a service disruption due to a car or truck that blocked the tracks at a crossing.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersSnowstorms are more than just an inconvenience for wheelchair users. Inadequate snow clean-ups means a loss of autonomy for many. New for me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersAbsolutely gutting and incredibly important reporting: "I felt like such a failure as a parent,” Hardin said. “What do you do when everybody you go up against protects each other?”
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersBREAKING: Rep Ted Lieu just called for Deputy AG Todd Blanche’s resignation, and points out why partying with Epstein actually would be illegal.
- Reposted by Jacob E. Peters“After the killing of Alex Pretti, there was an action brought to preserve that evidence that didn’t happen here…even though the state’s attorney has authority to bring that kind of case, that didn’t happen,” said Weikal.
- “I am doing this because I believe so long as we have a system where people are being prosecuted for petty theft and not for killing someone on the street, in broad daylight on camera, we have a system that is too broken to continue to function." unraveledpress.com/cook-county-...
- “Imagine what the government would’ve said if I had died” The federal government continuing to call her a “domestic terrorist” despite dropping the charges is a violation of her rights as the Supreme Court has interpreted the 5th, 6th, & 14th Amendments.
- Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
- Reposted by Jacob E. Peters"The four stars of the Chicago flag are tattooed on Martinez’s right arm. 'I was raised and born in Chicago,' she said, 'and I love my city.'"
- Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersThe *reason* people like Paris is that it's pretty, and that it has the entire population of Chicago in like 1/5 the area
- I will be out of town, but I highly recommend this bike festival & bike ride. Ogden Park June 12th 2026 It is proceeded by a sort of market/meet up starting at 4pm that culminates in the ride that starts at 8pm.
- MLS relocating the Vancouver Whitecaps is like actually going through with the near mistake of getting rid of the Crew. Nonsense that reminds us all of the ways in which this league is still not a real top division like the rest of the world.
- 😬 The Whitecaps' future in Vancouver is in doubt. 'The current structure makes it extraordinarily difficult for Whitecaps FC to operate sustainably,' 🔗 #VWFC
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersEvery horrible policy put forth by this administration in a single headline.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersIn many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
- It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersWorst possible place for a measles outbreak. This is very very bad.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersTrump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and now wants $10 billion because a leaker pointed that out www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersThis was happening in Seattle at the same time hundreds of cyclists were biking for Pretti in another part of town, after almost a thousand biked in solidarity last night. There’s many different protests happening even within a single city it’s getting hard to keep track of them. That’s very good.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersI'm sure Elon Musk expressing interest in visting Epstein Island and Grok being a pedophile chatbot is just a coincidence
- Actual law enforcement, because real enforcement of laws doesn’t always mean force, it should often be prevention.
- "MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Was watching a 20 year old tv show, & Trump was such a well known sleaze-bag danger to young women that the teenage protagonist says "pepper spray, for if we run into that Trump character" while packing for a trip to New York City.
- Of course the “concerned citizen” was driving a car when they harassed a child in a park & reported the parents to child welfare. The kid had good sense to speed away from the stranger who pulled up and asked about all of his details. Dictionary definition of creep.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersJust a reminder that due to the unequal number of Senators per voter, Democratic voters don’t have equal representation and haven’t in over a generation at least.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersRecall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersDonald Trump is reposting crazy conspiracies about foreign interference with the 2020 election. Tulsi Gabbard's presence at the site of the Fulton County raid should worry all of us who care about free and fair elections.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersFrom just north of me: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... They left a toddler in the car alone for 40 minutes.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersIt makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersA new statement from Epstein survivors: "Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersRemember how Musk designed a submersible coffin that couldn't navigate a cave, accused a rescue diver of being "a pedo guy", and then based seemingly on that entire experience decided the world didn't need USAID? Stunned, stunned that he turned up in the latest Epstein files.
- Texas Apartheid & Misogyny
- Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies. “I have never seen anything like this.” — Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @cwa-tseu.bsky.social
- Their sports nickname is the “Assholes”
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersWhen you're trying to shoot training but you get a little distracted 🦋 #cf97
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersJust to confirm, DHS still has a page up on its website calling Marimar Martinez and her co-defendant Anthony Santos Ruiz "domestic terrorists." The federal case against both of them was dismissed in November, and Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Martinez in October.
- Reposted by Jacob E. PetersThere’s that number again
