Christopher Sweat @SweatEm

Co-Founder & CEO, @GrayStakMedia | Hyperlocal Media & Political Risk Analytics christopher-sweat.com Chicago, IL Joined March 2009

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Ford Fischer @FordFischer

17 hours ago

Live: Protesters march against federal law enforcement takeover of DC x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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Andy Thayer's latest piece on @graystakmedia tackles a critical question: Are we in fascism yet? While “fascism” is often used as a catch-all for authoritarianism, the piece argues that true fascism—like in Italy and Germany—was powered by mass street movements that obliterated…

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Christopher Sweat @SweatEm

3 days ago

I’ve been in contact with many of the top activist in Chicago. The ground is primed and in formation. It’s hard to say how the operating environment will shift when protest begin but we will be on the ground on the front lines of the political dissent. Emergency action could come…

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Ford Fischer @FordFischer

a week ago

I spoke with two employees of DC dive bar "The Pug" about the effect of the federal troops and patrols by agents on their business on H Street. "The whole street is dead," Jesse Alexander tells me. "It's a difference of night and day." Customers "don't want to deal with it,…

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Christopher Sweat @SweatEm

a week ago

Ryan Lazarus (@RyLazChiNY), field reporter for @graystakmedia, asked Rabbi Feldman for his opinion on the two-state solution for the people of Palestine. Watch his response here.

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Christopher Sweat @SweatEm

2 weeks ago

Politicians will say whatever they can to save themselves. In Washington DC the Mayor and Chief of Police complied with the White House order to militarize. In Chicago, the Illinois and Chicago politicians are doing the same thing yet they are messaging to the public they are…

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Christopher Sweat @SweatEm

2 weeks ago

@LeadingReport Autocratic governments use crime as an excuse to violate local sovereignty and extend the reach of the central government.

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Christopher Sweat @SweatEm

2 weeks ago

Pritzker is talking big but no policy.

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2 weeks ago

Lindsey Boylan (@LindseyBoylan), an activist, feminist, and former Deputy Secretary for Economic Development as well as Special Advisor to the Governor of New York, speaks outside the Valar Ventures office in Manhattan. She addresses several important issues, including Peter…

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Jasmine El-Gamal @jasmineelgamal

2 weeks ago

I recorded an interview today for my podcast with Alex Smith, who resigned from USAID over its policies in Gaza. Alex is an expert in famine so we discussed the IPC ruling; his time in government where he saw senior Biden administration officials choose career security and…

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Christopher Sweat @SweatEm

2 weeks ago

The Pentagon’s domestic deployment has been telegraphed for months. What happened in California, Florida, and D.C. was never isolated—it was a rehearsal. Chicago isn’t confronting a new situation; it’s inheriting a familiar pattern of hostility and militarization. Those who have…

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Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman

2 weeks ago

I rarely see an accurate discussion of epigenetics in the media and on social media. Yes, the environment influences your genetic expression. But you need the genetic susceptibility in the first place to even notice an environmental trigger. That part is often ignored.

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Christopher Sweat @SweatEm

2 weeks ago

You can feel the energy shift on the ground in Chicago as the Pentagon prepares its deployment, a domestic mission, in my city. As someone at the heart of the security community, how can I not apply what I’ve learned to my neighborhood? The federal government is hostile toward…

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Christopher Sweat @SweatEm

2 weeks ago

Securitization is not simply about danger—it is about declaring dissent a threat so extraordinary that normal democratic rules no longer apply.

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Christopher Sweat @SweatEm

2 weeks ago

My latest and more pivotal pieces: Arab and Muslim dissent in America is too often treated as a security threat, not democracy in action. My new piece shows how surveillance, suspicion, and securitization undermine the very freedoms the U.S. claims to defend.…

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Ryan Lazarus @RyLazChiNY

3 weeks ago

WATCH: A lone Israeli flag held atop Billionaires’ Row, stirs up the Free Palestine march on Saturday as it concluded at Central Park. Chants of “Death, death, to the IDF” immediately followed. (See clip 2) Yesterday’s Free Palestine march in Manhattan was massive. Easily over…

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Christopher Sweat @SweatEm

3 weeks ago

@VivekGRamaswamy Patriotism is just a facade for nationalism and this country has no national identity.

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer

3 weeks ago

no deal. no further sanctions. for now: win for putin.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi

4 weeks ago

Protesters were denounced for saying they wanted equal rights for all between the river and the sea, and now Netanyahu is openly saying wants a “greater Israel” that includes parts of Jordan and Egypt. And no consequences from the rotten, hypocritical West.