They 100% want some MAGA moron to go there and start shooting at the "terrorists". That will give them the excuse to go full fascist and send in even more troops.

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

Can we preorder it from someplace other than Amazon? Maybe an independent bookstore? Any that you want us to support?

And then monkeys flew out of her butt and aggressively attacked the masked agents. This is just as likely as the BS story from officials.

🚨Veteran wrongly detained by ICE, placed on suicide watch in a cell with no clothes. Only a hospital gown and a thin mattress on a concrete floor from Friday to Sunday. Lights on 24 hours/day. WTF, America? 1/2

If only...

Trade Kuminga to Miami for Wiggins. We already know he loves it here (and Warriors love him), he gives them another good perimeter wing defender, another good shooter, his salary matches Kuminga's, and he knows the system.

A tiny claim to fame is that after Javale McGee's most impactful game for the Warriors where he clearly turned a playoff game in Portland in the Warriors' favor, I saw Slater while exiting and yelled, "Hey Slater, what's Bontemps gonna say after this?". Ethan Strauss heard it, laughed, & tweeted it.

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

Nothing quite like a David Simon verbal smackdown. Thank you for the smile this morning!

This right here 🔥🔥

Facts ✅

Fuck ICE
#SheShed

MIT’s reply to Trumps shocking attack on education is a master class in deft rhetorical communication and positioning. It refutes without ceding ground. It negates without naming the charge. It accuses and rejects while sounding compliant. What a breath of fresh air after endless disappointments

A modern day cross of Marshawn Lynch and Gronkowski.

Very proud to be an alum of the BEST university in Cambridge, MA: MIT!!

Your diagnosis from all this seems to be, "progs should stop annoying people like me." Seems to me a better diagnosis is, "people like me should try harder to get a little analytical distance & not let our hurt feelings & galaxy-sized egos dictate the shape & tone of our political commentary."

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Everybody thinks they're immune to propaganda and advertising and exactly none of us are. There's a reason advertising companies exist and make lots of money...

For some reason, though, people seem to have difficulty bringing that same analytical distance to politics. To take one very obvious recent example: all the sudden, everyone was talking about trans girls in high school sports. I'd venture to guess that 99% of the people involved ...

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

We are being governed by the dumbest people on Earth. Lots of clean, cheap energy? Nah - let's get dirty, expensive energy from coal, oil, and gas instead. Bonus - we get to make climate change worse AND add lots more pollution so more people get sick!

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning With Trump’s occupation of Chicago worsening, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker shares new details about what’s happening—and tells us the time is now for Americans to rise up against authoritarianism bef...

Appalling: JB Pritzker tells me he hasn't been able to get a single conversation with Kristi Noem or any other top Trump officials to even discuss their Chicago operations. Pritzker just wants a heads up for logistical purposes. Nada.

Pritzker opens up on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

OH NO. HE. DIDN'T!!!

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

Whoa! Thanks. Didn't come up in my blast through Wikipedia back to when the jungle primaries started in early 1900's. Thanks! Should have looked more slowly.

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.