Ryan Zickgraf
@ryan_zickgraf
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Journalist in PA. Columnist: @CompactMag_ Also seen in: @Jacobin @telegraph @Bungacast @Unherd
Joined September 2009
🧵Hate to say I was right, but what Politico is calling "the great blue tune-out of 2024" has been a trend we've seen coming for awhile.
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Socialism warning: @TulsiGabbard is redistributing her carnival game prizes to the kids. #IowaStateFair
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@Vahn16 @Shannon_Liao Could you follow up and ask Mario and Sonic how they feel about the escalation of violence in Palestine and what Israel’s role in the Middle East should look like?.
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In the press tent @willmenaker asked John Delaney what his exercise routine (because he’s swol) and Delaney said he’s been “wrestling the press.”
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Michael Bennett while defending his health care stance: “And I know @BernieSanders is coming up after me. ” and gets the loudest applause of his speech at #IowaStateFair
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“It’s a great time to be a democratic socialist in Chicago and the United States.”. Socialists now outnumber Republicans on the City Council. My recap of the @DemSocialists's "red tide" in Chicago for the @Suntimes:.
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Bennett gets booed when he says he doesn’t support Bernie’s plan to forgive student debt. “Sorry, but you have to make choices.” #IowaStateFair
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I’m talking to a group of former Trump supporters who are now in the #YangGang after seeing him here at the #IowaStateFair last year. “He’s reasonable and makes sense.”.
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With so many news outlets dying—it's super insane how few people are talking about @AndrewYang's $1 billion local journalism fund proposal. It's one of his best ideas.
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@thedailybeast @areidross Challenge: Try reading this article to an offline normie and not sound totally insane.
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@KaseyKlimes The thing about NYC is that everyone that lives there really want you to know that they live there.
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My cover story for the Reader is on the @DemSocialists, @CDRosa, and the new wave of socialism under Trump:.
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Wait, better regulated healthcare is tyranny but the modern police state isn't? My interview with @chrislhayes.
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This story isn't just about Jason VanDyke. CPD blanketed the Loop with officers. Offices sent their workers home. A college campus was shutdown. Sports events were cancelled. All because the same sort of white fear that animated the shooting of LaQuan McDonald. #VanDykeTrial.
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Bernie rattling off a list of names of progressive candidates who've won local elections. "This is the political revolution." #PPLSummit
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Huge cheer at #PPLSummit after Bernie congratulates California for single-payer health care.
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@ryangrim Remember when COVID maximalists here stateside admired China’s zero COVID policies even in the year of our lord 2022? Yikes.
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David Duchovny cheekily bites Gillian Anderson's shirt, which just auctioned for $3 grand. #WizardWorldChicago
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@samred Personally, I’d rather the executives of mega corporations not be the moral czars of America.
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The #BernieRally is scheduled for 10:30 p.m. but Chicago already filled the auditorium up. Many rallying outside.
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On Fox News, they're accidentally indicting all of capitalism by complaining about anti Wal-Mart ads: "What about Amazon? What about Target? They're also bad jobs." YUP.
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There could be FIVE democratic socialists on the Chicago city council in May. Two @ChicagoCityDSA members won on Tuesday and three more are in April's runoff election. I wrote about it for the @Suntimes:.
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@nytdavidbrooks That’s not totally wrong but Pete Seeger is miles away different culturally than modern conservatives. He wanted community and quiet dignity, not a corporate-funded dystopia.
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@AndrewYang When you did your first Chicago stop on the presidential campaign in early 2019 I pitched a story about it to nearly every news outlet but everyone said no because “no one has ever heard of this Yang guy” but the place was packed out!
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In our interview last year, @ByYourLogic said Trump's view of Chicago is like from the movie 'Death Wish.' . Ironically, Eli Roth has now made a 'Death Wish' remake that's basically a Trump fantasy of Chicago.
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Great news! After 3+ years of negotiating, the employees of the Chicago Reader unanimously voted to approve our first union contract!
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. @chrislhayes: “How can Apple help underserved communities and schools in Chicago?”. Tim Cook: “That’s a good question. We’ve priced this iPad as low as we can.”.#RevolutionCHI . 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔.
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Chicago dyed the river green for St. Paddy's, blue for the Cubs, why not pour oil on it and set on fire for Trump?.
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I'm live tweeting the #BernieRally in Chicago tonight. And wow, thousands of people here, you guys.
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@briansantamaria @Java_jigga All you could do is walk on empty streets in social distanced space. parks were closed, no open businesses. People were fined $500 for going to the beach. You weren’t locked to your house but couldn’t do anything.
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A Weird Insider Culture: Gamergate and the Airtight Bubble of Journalism in the Social Media Age.
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This “crime news” account is like a MAGA hat that gained sentience and moved to the north side of Chicago.
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Bernie walks off the stage in Chicago at nearly midnight. 17 minutes until Election Day.
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I’m reading @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE’s chapter about my profession and trying not to throw myself off a Chicago skyscraper.
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@SamAdlerBell But what is this tweet (and thousands others like it) other than “focusing on stuff that annoys them?”.
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THREAD: Konkol is the Donald Trump of Chicago journalism with "woke" instead of reactionary politics. As a boss, he was authoritarian, brash, argumentative, lacked self-awareness paired with absurdly high self-confidence.
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@micahuetricht @CDRosa @RLisDead @admiral_baby @eyesonthestorm @LucieHMacias @shwinnebego @ByYourLogic actually, just published:
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Bernie: "It's 11 O'clock at night and you're still here. Looks like you're ready for a political revolution!"
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@KenzoShibata @krystalball @JoeBiden I used to work for Tom Steyer! Not going to vote for him. Have at it, Page 6.
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Reminder: The @Chicago_Reader is an independent local journalism outlet with a unionized staff. Please read and support us, Chicago.
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Rush Limbaugh's greatest trick was convincing millions of people that tepid neoliberals were closet communists. He absolutely helped move the Republican Party even more to the conspiratorial right.
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Anyone else spot this giant-ass Happy Meal around Chicago this week?.
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Bernie Sanders: "It's not acceptable that we shut down schools in Chicago while we give tax breaks to Wall Street." #BernieRally.
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Here's why the campaign to Save the Chicago Reader is important to me:
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Why did Trump win? asks @Andrewyang. Crowd shouts “Russia!” “Facebook!” and “Hillary Clinton.” #IowaStateFair
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@ByYourLogic Champions of the Marginalized, Ranked:.1. Ninjas.2. Pirates.3. Zombies.4. Vampires (do better).
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“How many politicians have you heard talk about the 4th industrial revolution? You heard it for the first time right now, and I’m barely a politician.” -@AndrewYang #IowaStateFair.
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@DemSocialists @Suntimes “It’s incumbent on the democratic socialists to form a coalition in the City Council that fights for the redistribution of wealth. and fights for the policies that are going to uplift the working class and improve our lives.” —@CDRosa .
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@Vahn16 Going to tell you a little industry secret: Corporate PR—which is essentially what you're covering here—is broadly disingenuous. Shh, don't tell anyone.
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At @jacobin I wrote about Michael K. Williams' recent political awakening and how we lost a champion for the working class.
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The #StopCopCity petition nears 10k signatures in its first week. Wrote about the effort for @AtlCivicCircle:.
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For @Curbed, I wrote about how Chicago's "coolest" neighborhood became an upscale Disneyland version of itself in less than a decade.
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Sorry, "hate" speech isn't some magical thing that can be disentangled from "free" speech.
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This auditorium is still packed to the gills for a political speech by a Vermont senator at 11 pm on a Monday. Wow.
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Instead of “post-left,” the new look Bellows and the Aimee Terese crew should just call themselves The Dirtbag Right.
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Steve Albini just cut the ribbon for the debut of @IAMLILBUB’s arcade game at @LoganArcade and what a time to be alive.
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The Trump Tower bar is full of white guys in suits that look like "Wolf of Wall Street" extras. #ElectionNight
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For a second I thought @AndrewYang was headed to the Slipknot tent to get that Des Moines nu metal vote.
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🚨Some personal news🚨: Today I accepted a new gig at @ChicagoMag, where I'll be writing about real estate, housing, and the built environment! 🏘️🏨 .
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@nkulw Counterpoint: maybe I’m blackpilled but it’s hard to take Twitter leftists debating global supply chains with their switchblades out when they can barely make a dent on a school board in their backyard.
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@agoingaccount @MaxSeijo @The_Bellows_ My favorite parts: .1. They had to look up the definition of “bellows” in the dictionary and still got their function wrong. 2. They called us racist and fascist repeatedly and then confused Ben Fong for @lhfang. 3. The concoction of some secret Bellows/Jacobin conspiracy.
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Favorite moment of #RiotFest: Gwar getting checked by security for contraband. http://t.co/r1TLRJYRhf.
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Thanks again to my new friend @stevelukather and @toto99com for helping make my parents' dreams come true.
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Illinois is so broke it has to do private partnerships in civic spaces that includes pro-realtor propaganda.
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. @CDRosa: talking about a coming socialist caucus in the Chicago city council. 5 of 6 DSA candidates have won, @RossanaFor33 is down by only 8 votes.
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Here in Pilsen people have mastered the art of the sideyard.
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@ByYourLogic The haptic feedback on your doctor’s Metaverse gloves will be so good that he’ll be able to feel your testicle cancer while also playing Dr. Mario.
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@ENBrown What kind of version of horseshoe theory has third wave feminists on the same page of Mike Pence as far as treating members of the opposite sex alone like an imminent threat.
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