Martha Carlson

Wow wonderful what an honor. And then you fire every politics reporter. Teen Vogue was legendary for its excellent coverage on many issues. Now it’ll just be nothing much

This is such terrible news. Teen Vogue had the best political reporting around.

That is gorgeous. Regrets

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

In the quest for "biological truth," the Trump admin discounts the very real biological truth that some men do get breast cancer

Now it'll be harder for male veterans diagnosed w/the rare but deadly cancer to get VA coverage

always read @ericumansky.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/vete...

"Morgan County Commissioners approved nearly 400 acres for a data center’s development in February but couldn’t say who the developer was because they signed nondisclosure agreements. Despite resident protests, it approved 158 more acres for the development this month."

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.”

- former First Lady Betty Ford

The East Wing is gone.

Over a century of American history, reduced to rubble.

All to appease the vanity of a corrupt authoritarian.

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.

Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

How the Proud Boys invented antifa The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump's White House

As I note in this article, Proud Boys are encouraging members to sign up for ICE. This shows that they really are turning to actual gangs for "law enforcement."

As noted, this is also very much like the brownshirts being eclipsed by the SS.

www.salon.com/2025/10/22/h...

You need to see this…

Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

Graphic showing Metavivor is participating in the Community Resource Village at the American Cancer Society breast cancer walk at Soldier Field in Chicago on October 18

Start your Saturday with @metavivor.bsky.social at the @americancancersoc.bsky.social walk at Chicago’s Soldier Field! Come on down, rain or shine #cansky

Thank you for this

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.”

Meanwhile, the reality of #KavanaughStop

Yay!!

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

In disbelief that Tony Fitzpatrick has died. Almost 10 years ago he messaged me out of the blue to see if I wanted some art of his for the cover of "Rust Belt Chicago," a @beltpublishing.bsky.social anthology I was editing of essays, poetry & short stories about Chicago. His generosity was legend.

On ICE raids and attacks in Chicago, local reporters have consistently shown up the national outlets attempting to report remotely.

Locals continue to break story after story even as the nationals are summarizing govt press releases. They've shown physical bravery in very dangerous circumstances.

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

Early on: write, walk, qi gong, watch project runway, read YA fiction (kids in age group)
Now (in tx 10 yrs): write, walk, make stuff (learned at library makerspace), go outside, bike and if lucky kayak, read fiction, stay off social media #cansky

Journalism, the job where when someone powerful lies you describe it as "not strictly true" because describing facts would be bias bsky.app/profile/atru...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties. Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go. “I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

RIP to the great Jane Goodall who had THE AUDACITY to SUGGEST that Trunt's behavior was like a male chimpanzee's....What a LIFE/CAREER...Jane, not Trunt. @drginnymac.bsky.social @gmf1369.bsky.social @misslizzy.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social @danableedgreen.bsky.social @themrrudy.bsky.social

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Broadview ICE facility, agents at center of criminal investigations, village officials say The Village of Broadview has opened three criminal investigations into conduct by ICE agents at the west suburban facility.

Broadview officials have opened three criminal investigations into actions by ICE agents and the Department of Homeland Security around their facility in the west suburb. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

The following statement can be attributed to Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills: “The Village of Broadview Police Department has launched a criminal investigation into an allegedly unprovoked attack on a CBS Chicago TV news reporter’s vehicle on Sunday by a chemical munition fired from the direction of U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility. The victim declined medical attention. The Broadview Police Department expects the full cooperation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security into our criminal investigation.”

Broadview Police have opened an investigation into an attack from federal agents on a CBS crew at Broadview, per BPD Chief Mills.

👇🎯 We are where we are as a country because not enough people on the right half of the political spectrum cared about democracy & the rule of law above all the other things the way @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social clearly does. When the chips were down, he stood up. We need more to follow his lead.

🧵 You don't have to ask <if> or <when> American democracy will backslide. All you have to do is look around, every day now, at the things we've totally normalized that would have ended presidencies immediately in years past.