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Nick Clegg argues lack of fairness because it’s impossible for him to win the game if he has to follow the rules.

America doesn't have good emigration statistics, but I do wonder how many people have quietly left - including those with legal status. I am a white guy with an English name and a visa, at very little risk of deportation, and my interest in continuing to live in this country has dropped

Editorial: We need our leaders to stay cool as ICE-related chaos gets hot Provocateurs on the right and left were the story of a chaotic weekend in Chicago. Our political leaders need to reclaim the narrative and cool things down.

A fascist dictator is ordering armed troops from another state to invade the city of Chicago, and the Chicago Tribune editorial board reacts by warning Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to avoid injudicious language. Really.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

the chris caldwell of 1948 would have been arguing against desegregation of the armed forces www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

Read this graf pls

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

Trump is preparing to invade Venezuela. But US media is afraid to talk about it. He has put three US destroyers, an amphibious assault ship, a guided-missile cruiser, a nuclear-powered attack submarine and a squadron of F35s under Venezuela’s nose. That includes 6,500 uniformed personnel.

OpenAI is spending at a scale that even Silicon Valley can't quite believe, buying up 20 nuclear reactors' worth of computing power this year. But there are big questions around whether it can turn that power into profit.

An #FTEdit 🧵on the ChatGPT maker’s $1tn bet on artificial intelligence 👇

But analysts warn of an AI bubble. OpenAI is set to lose billions of dollars a year. If AI does not keep growing exponentially, and if Sam Altman cannot turn a profit, the investor enthusiasm that has boosted these big deals could quickly falter.

NYT publishes an op-ed saying that the US military was at its prime back before it was desegregated by Harry S Truman and started being filled with Blacks and other minorities.

Opinion Guest Essay That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."

The CHAAD Project By The CHAAD Project

As the NYTimes reported today, restaurants in Chicago are closing or reducing hours due to ICE threats to their employees and customers. Restaurant and bar workers are already living paycheck to paycheck. They need your support. Here's an excellent group to which to donate:
givebutter.com/EZQTZV

Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act The comments came a day after a federal judge blocked the president from sending National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

The courts are not going to help us

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Watching alleged ICE agents break into people's home while declaring they don't need warrants definitely makes me feel safe.

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.

It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

Very troubling thread ==>

But affirmative action is the true enemy of meritocracy at elite schools…

“The willingness to acquiesce to a public official’s editorial demands and have conversations with her about the direction of our coverage is a betrayal not just of the journalists who work for Carpenter Media, but of the company’s integrity as a purveyor of news.”

Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise

How Bari Weiss Won

It isn't hard to "win" when you're backed by billionaires and are allowed to fail up your entire career.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

Please note: protesters, clergy and a neighbor are also on this suit/also making claims here (it's a lot of reporters, but not only reporters!)

And yes, some of the media conglomerations are capitulating, but what is being revealed, day by day, is that the wealth class isn't just afraid of Trump, they're on board with the ongoing fascist escalation that we've been watching for decades. It helps to see this clearly and not living in denial.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

‘What the F**k?’ CBS News Insiders Prepare for Takeover by Self-Described ‘Zionist Fanatic’ Bari Weiss is expected to be announced as editor-in-chief of CBS News, as employees worry her new role will bring a pro-Israel bias, more censorship, and lower editorial standards.

NEW inside CBS—

Staff are insulted executives will spend $150 million to buy The Free Press & make self-proclaimed “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief, while many of them are set to be laid off.

“If I wrote 90 percent of what’s on The Free Press, I would get flagged and fired,” one says.

So, so proud of organizations like @blockclubchi.bsky.social and all they’ve done and are doing to meet this moment. True bright stars in an otherwise dark ecosystem.

2 COMPLAINT PLAINTIFFS, CHICAGO HEADLINE CLUB, BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO, CHICAGO NEWSPAPER GUILD LOCAL 34071, NABET-CWA LOCAL 54041, ILLINOIS PRESS ASSOCIATION, RAVEN GEARY, CHARLES THRUSH, STEPHEN HELD, DAVID BLACK, WILLIAM PAULSON, AUTUMN REIDY-HAMER, and LEIGH KUNKEL, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, by their undersigned attorneys, hereby complain against Defendants KRISTI NOEM, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS); TODD LYONS, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); MARCOS CHARLES, Acting Executive Associate Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, ICE; RUSSELL HOTT, Chicago Field Office Director, ICE; RODNEY S. SCOTT, Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); GREGORY BOVINO, Chief Border Patrol Agent, CBP; DANIEL DRISCOLL, Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); WILLIAM K. MARSHALL III, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP); PAMELA BONDI, Attorney General of the United States; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; UNIDENTIFIED FEDERAL OFFICER DEFENDANTS; UNIDENTIFIED FEDERAL AGENCY DEFENDANTS; and DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States, in their official capacities, and state as follows:

3/ The defendants in this case against ICE include:
+ @blockclubchi.bsky.social
+Chicago Headline Club, the largest chapter of the SPJ
+Chicago Newspaper Guild
+NABET-CWA representing local TV employees
+IL Press Assoc representing @chicago.suntimes.com & @chicagotribune.com & 300+ other outlets