Ken Stone

From today’s Toronto Star

Text: ICE: We’re going to bring hell to your city. Protestors: Here are videos of ICE agents bringing hell to our city. ICE: We’re going to bring hell to the terrorists who demonize ICE agents. Background: Photo of ICE agents in military gear surrounded by smoke or tear gas.

Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

Becca Good, the wife of Renee Good, has released her first public statement since the shooting

“We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day.”

Long but worth a careful read (like most things McKibben writes).

Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ProPublica & Guardian’s analysis shows that extra greenhouse gases released in the next decade as a result of Trump policies are expected to lead to as many as 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths worldwide as the earth heats in the 80 years after 2035.

I miss the days when people read a column before criticizing it.

Free Electricity. Like, at no cost. For everyone. Now. Let's talk about affordability, abundance, and Australia--and why thanks to Trump we can't have nice things

If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes.

Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it.
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Opinion | Make No Mistake: Trump Is an Albatross

@jamellebouie.net: "The results, then, are a marked contrast to the accommodation, capitulation and outright surrender of prominent individuals and institutions in the face of Trump’s demands." [Gift Article]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

Me too, Harrison Ford. Me too.

Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer. A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.

SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...

YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning Kathryn Bigelow on the nuclear nightmare "A House of Dynamite"

An interesting segment on it from CBS Sunday Morning here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUiK...

My partner and I watched A House of Dynamite on Friday night and I can’t stop thinking about it. Highly recommended. Bonus terror points: Watching it in Chicago.

Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the…

The Trump administration removed the 5th National climate assessment, which was congressionally mandated and taxpayer funded, because they deny science. It’s now back online on a non-government website.

could do with a lot less open advocacy for ethnic cleansing in global politics tbh

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Especially when Trump is openly targeting blue states by cutting funds for projects that were already approved!

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainl

Trump's thugs aren't just abducting undocumented immigrants.

More than 170 American citizens — including children — have been detained and assaulted by ICE since he took office.

No one is safe. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will

Armed officers in military-style gear confront a group of civilians during a tense outdoor standoff; one officer points a rifle at a young man who raises his hands defensively while others shout in the background, with trees and houses visible behind them.

This is Chicago, armed fascist thugs pointing guns at unarmed US citizens.

Photo by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Elon Musk is a mass murderer.

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

"As the intensity of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has risen, residents of Chicago are increasingly pushing back with fury." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

This is dangerous and disgusting. Shame on those who continue to support this man.

If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.

Nobody cares and nothing will happen but this is classically, paradigmatically fascist language. Comparing opponents to vermin and pests is straight out of the textbook.

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."

-Anne Frank

Trump admin officials continue to call every criticism a “threat” and immediately go to federal law enforcement or the military as their first option to respond to it - suppressing the right to dissent against the government by threatening people with incarceration for speech.

Pritzker Says Federal Agents Are Trying to Make Chicago a ‘War Zone’

We're at “'children who were zip tied and held, some of them nearly naked' and 'elderly people being thrown into a U-Haul for three hours and detained.' Mr. Pritzker added he believed that some of the people were U.S. citizens."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

Here in Chicago.