Jake Wertz
Living + gardening just west of Chicago. PhD sociologist doing research + transformation in a large suburban public school district. 🏡🪴🌉📈📊👨🏫
- Reposted by Jake WertzChildhood was a political project, centuries of activism carving out time and space for young people to grow and learn. It's an unfinished project, and the right wing wants it ended when it's barely even begun.
- Reposted by Jake WertzIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
- Reposted by Jake Wertzonce again: lawyers are morally responsible for their professional decisions. people get really mad about this but … you picked the job. you took the money. you own what you’ve done.
- A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.
- Got home late tonight but early enough to catch the second half of the big Northwestern-Illinois rivalry game… oops
- Reposted by Jake WertzNEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:
- Reposted by Jake WertzThis is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
- Reposted by Jake WertzThis woman has shown more courage than the nominal leaders of the Democratic Party.
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- Reposted by Jake WertzThis isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
- Reposted by Jake Wertzone year ago if you saw a guy dressed like this walking down your street with a rifle your first instinct would be to kill him
- CATO’s point here is fully compatible with the broader MAGA/GOP position on immigration. Their data shows we US citizens have been exploiting immigrant labor for decades; today’s GOP says we could be exploiting them even more (by making them even more fearful of deportation, imprisonment, torture)
- The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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- Appears that Punxsutawney is in the tiny area of the country that did actually experience a noticeably colder winter.
- Chicagoans love their city so much there becomes this collective amnesia, where despite the fact that every year it is miserable from January through March, (except maybe 3-5 nice days between 2/15 and 3/15), they all convince themselves that THIS year is unusual.
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- Reposted by Jake WertzIt didn't take very long for it to seem entirely reasonable for a mom to hide her identity while speaking to reporters in order to protect her child's school from being targeted by the secret police. www.youtube.com/shorts/iud0W...
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- Inside a high school gym for Little League tryouts today, saw this poster in the hallway advertising a new course. The selling points of an AP course today are “super-easy A” “only requiring Algebra” and “GPA booster”
- Ahead of the Grammys tonight, let me tell you the best album, Record, and song, in Rock or any genre, were all by Sam Fender who was bizarrely not nominated for anything. youtu.be/5cXCUp6j5M8?...
- Incredible. Note that this reporting is absolutely silent regarding the methods by which the reporters obtained this information. That’s OpSec. If you don’t already contribute to ProPublica, please consider doing so today.
- Reposted by Jake WertzWhat do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?
- Reposted by Jake WertzNothing has changed and these masked, armed federal paramilitaries are just as aggressive and lawless as ever.
- Reposted by Jake Wertz"Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to a document released by the Justice Department on Friday." www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...
- Reposted by Jake Wertzthese are senator james talarico numbers
- Reposted by Jake WertzI can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
- The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by Jake WertzJeffrey Epstein did not stop raping children after his 2008 conviction. Jeffrey Epstein did not stop facilitating the rape of children after his 2008 conviction. He kept doing it. That is the context of people treating him as a normal person after his conviction. /1 www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/u...
- Reposted by Jake WertzThis is a good point re: Portland today This wasn't on federal land It wasn't when agents were claiming to do any enforcement activity It was federal agents shooting gas at children and union families in the streets Im not a lawyer, but I dont see how qualified immunity counts here It's assault
- The problem with the Chicago Bears quarterback has never been their quarterback, it has always been their ownership. Caleb Williams has shown flashes of brilliance and should be looking for the exit.
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- Reposted by Jake WertzEpstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
- The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
- Reposted by Jake Wertzit’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend
- Reposted by Jake WertzAs a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
- Reposted by Jake WertzIt 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
- Five classes I took in college Women in Ireland 1880-1980 The Press, The Pentagon, and The Public: Special Issues in Journalism American Cultural History 1820-1890 Medieval Sexuality Topics in Comparative Religion: Feminism & Fertility
- Reposted by Jake WertzThis Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners. Decide. Who are you?
- Reposted by Jake Wertz“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
- Reposted by Jake WertzThis is a cover up of a murder, led by our own federal government.
- That’s a strong bird. Maybe it really is possible for them to fly halfway across North America twice each year.
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- Reposted by Jake WertzNot just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
- Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban aje.news/ljjuww
- Reposted by Jake WertzI will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
- Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
- “Outlaw folk hero” kind of disappeared from the American cultural landscape for a few decades, but Luigi brought it back and now we have a trend.
- I actually subscribed to the Atlantic, in print, as recently as two years ago. I must have been one of several hundred. I unsubscribed because it got so bad. There’s no good reason for them to still be in business.
- Thinking about this again, from an @theatlantic.com contributor.
- The solution to this must be much grander in scope than “the homeland security advisor should resign”
- Sort of bullshit for Democratic Senators to look at this situation where masked federal gunmen are murdering innocents with the Presidents approval and say “the buck stops with the Homeland Security Advisor” … file impeachment charges or you aren’t serious .
- Jamelle sounding like a boss in the Chicago Outfit
- Reposted by Jake WertzCNN is reporting that federal authorities may have been collecting information and "documenting details" about Alex Pretti before killing him on Saturday, and that officers tackled him a week earlier. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
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- Reposted by Jake WertzReminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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- Reposted by Jake WertzOne problem with advocating for censoring unwanted political content on TikTok is that you might get your way
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- Reposted by Jake WertzBlistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...
- Reposted by Jake WertzAs we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.
- Reposted by Jake WertzImagine this in a trial. Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing Declaration filed in federal court: "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."
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