Leigh Kunkel
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I'm a journalist in Chicago But you're probably here for Birdie
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Leigh Kunkel
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about 10 hours ago
rapid response groups are reporting at least two ice abductions in chicago already this morning: one in avondale at diversey/pulaski (pictured below) and one in humboldt park at kolmar/grand.
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I just introduced Kyle to an
@ichotiner.bsky.social
interview (the Melania cinematographer one) and his world is never going to be the same
about 19 hours ago
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Someone just chased me down the block to say how beautiful Birdie is and she wasn't wrong
2 days ago
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Sonia
4 days ago
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Would you like to meet a meatball
5 days ago
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I know Puerto Rican Pride is this weekend because every cop in Chicago is currently standing along North Avenue looking at their phones
7 days ago
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It has to kill him that he's an actual New Yorker that New York will never claim
10 days ago
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Birdie meets two fuzzy potatoes
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12 days ago
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I Came Across Something Interesting During My Research and Forgot to Make a Citation and Now I Can't Find It: A Journalist's Story
15 days ago
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So uh what exactly are her right elbow and hand resting on? Because it's not the chair
18 days ago
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Backrooms is the first horror movie about AI slop
19 days ago
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Oh wow I can't believe I never noticed that
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19 days ago
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30 Rock IRL, S1E1
20 days ago
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🥰 Kyle just asked me the one thing every girl wants to hear: "Do you want to help rescue a baby squirrel?"
22 days ago
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Feels great to be 95% done with the renovations!
24 days ago
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Why are you reading when you could be paying attention to Birdie
26 days ago
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Absolutely absurd that
newspapers.com
, as one of the only places on the internet that you can still search print archives and which costs like $300/year, has a practically unusable search function and is incapable of keeping users logged in
27 days ago
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The tonal shifts in Widow's Bay are phenomenal — I'm trying to think of another recent show that pulled them off so well
30 days ago
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We're doing yard work and Birdie is having a jungle adventure
about 1 month ago
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I am apparently physically incapable of remembering the title of Talk To Me, which I always call Take My Hand
about 1 month ago
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Scones with strawberry-rhubarb-pink peppercorn jam
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about 1 month ago
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Anyone who says the internet is forever has never tried to research a news story from 25 years ago
about 1 month ago
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Going to start telling people I'm "un-babied" when they ask if I have kids
about 1 month ago
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Does this look like the face of a dog who would jump three feet into the air to bite off the end of your churro
about 1 month ago
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Lol look up the Federal Tort Claims Act, Marco
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about 1 month ago
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Not sure they've thought through this plan to crash the economy/start another pointless war and then make all of us are MORE depressed and anxious
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Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/science/rfk-antidepressants-ssris-hhs-maha.html
about 1 month ago
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Uh I can think of several other things that seem to matter much more to him. Like "white genocide." (Not a real thing, to be clear.)
about 1 month ago
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There's some wannabe Charlie Kirk at Six Corners with a giant speaker and a sign that says Ask A Christian Anything and I am wearing my pro-abortion sweatshirt
about 2 months ago
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Kyle ate all of the potato chips and I'm going to need someone with legal expertise to tell me if this is a hate crime
about 2 months ago
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She definitely did not pull everything on the bed into a little nest so that she could bask in the sun
about 2 months ago
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Our neighbors said goodbye to Maxx but he was a very good boy
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about 2 months ago
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I've never in my life wanted anything as much as Apple TV wants me to watch a movie about Matthew McConaughey driving a bus
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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Weirdo
about 2 months ago
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Is there an app or website that can plot children's weights over time against the expected growth curve/percentile? This is for work, not Some Personal News
about 2 months ago
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Having the Mighty Ducks of federal governments should be more fun than this
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Top Trump counterterrorism official placed on leave after ex claims she solicited funds from ‘sugar daddies’
The 29-year-old official claimed she did nothing wrong, saying, ‘I didn't know it was bad to go on vacation with your boyfriend’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/top-trump-counterterrorism-official-placed-033831430.html
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Leigh Kunkel
unraveled
about 2 months ago
ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car. Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month. No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.
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Just gave a thumbs down to a lifted Cybertruck
about 2 months ago
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Very normal dog
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2 months ago
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Cinnamon roll pull-apart bread Poorly plated due to my impatience
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2 months ago
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Not scared, protecting YOU
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2 months ago
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Do I know anyone who could answer what I *think* is a fairly basic question about HIPAA and law enforcement? If someone is a suspected victim of a crime that could potentially be documented in their medical records, what requirements must be met before law enforcement is entitled to those records?
2 months ago
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There was a whole MTV franchise about why this is a good thing, actually, Katie
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2 months ago
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A Birdie investigation
2 months ago
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The ProPublica/Frontline team interviewed Kyle for this and I'm very grateful for them keeping these stories alive even when things have "calmed down" (but they're still kidnapping people at a frightening rate)
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2 months ago
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Why is Sutton Foster at the Lincoln Park Mariano's?
2 months ago
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Why is Sutton Foster at the Lincoln Park Mariano's?
2 months ago
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So then our strategy for international relations is just "genocidal Calvinball"
2 months ago
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Okay the egg wash really takes it up a notch, aesthetically
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2 months ago
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The Wire was fine.
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2 months ago
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