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I am a huge evangelist for this movie, and for this song specifically. I am also currently considering the question “How much Jim Steinman can I play at my wedding without triggering an immediate divorce?”

This was a fun one! I feel like my definition may be a little strict on both the size and the flavor of weird.

"We're gonna crash some planes if you don't fund ICE."

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

Breaking out my emergency lorazepam before noon on a Monday is maybe a sign that everything isn't totally groovy.

Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

I’ve never seen Mean Girls, and since I got to see Clueless and Heathers as a kid, no one will ever be able to convince me I actually need to.

Escalating ICE activity makes Wisconsin less safe • Wisconsin Examiner ICE raids in Madison and Manitowoc mark and escalation in Wisconsin immigrant rights advocates are struggling to combat

ICE raids in Madison, Manitowoc mark a dangerous escalation writes @rconniff.bsky.social in a commentary on immigration enforcement, community pushback and a dark new era for Wisconsin wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/04/e...

I feel like it’ll all be of use in the coming weeks and months, so stay strong. Lots of movies for spooky season, and heavy on the football snacks.

Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations again...

Virtually all of my friends who did college journalism and made a go of it as a career have left the field, but not @danhinkel.bsky.social, and we are all lucky he is still reporting on cops and criminal justice in Chicago and Cook County.

I didn't realize a person could dress as the concept of Close-Up Magic

“If we keep our young from staring into the void, they may fall behind in the race for STEM dominance”

Every single one of the people quoted about letting their kids use ChatGPT as a creative tool is a deeply irresponsible parent. Give them a real book, some legos, and some fucking crayons, Christ

@susanrinkunas.com and I contacted every Planned Parenthood affiliate potentially affected by the Medicaid “defund.”

Here’s what we learned about whether people with Medicaid can still visit their local PP:

“Kids don’t have an ironic zaddy attachment to Ray Wise like you do”

My fiancé really cut me to the core with that one

Really disappointed in my hometown, Madison, WI, HOME OF THE ONION, for not being on this list

Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations again...

The Conviction Integrity Unit helped overturn 248 wrongful convictions between 2016 and 2024. It's overturned exactly 0 in the last year.

Important work here by @danhinkel.bsky.social!

www.injusticewatch.org/project/deny...

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

2002 was the summer I kept getting attacked by bats, which I am kind of nostalgic for given where we're at in 2025. But it was quite unpleasant at the time.

As horrifying as it is, Trump sharing an AI video of himself this weekend without appearing to realize it's fake is just an epiphenomenon of the ongoing conversation he's dragged America into: one only with, about and for himself, whose only participation is submission.

I’ve been waiting for Trump to do exactly this since Mamdani won the primary, but seeing this kind of direct threat is still shocking, somehow

where's the Dave Matthews Band tour bus when you need them

Chicago journalist detained while covering protest outside Broadview immigration facility • The TRiiBE Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents earlier this evening.

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening.

A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

Came up with another way to pay tribute to Kaleb. The best way to honor him is to *hire the most brilliant unemployed person you know.* And if you can't hire them, let them know you wish you could.

You sound like a real prick, making a scene like this because people want to mourn a loss. Fix your heart.

got to talk with THE Raoul Peck about THE George Orwell, the subject of his new doc, Orwell: 2+2=5

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Maximillian Schell in character as Dr. Hans Reinhardt, the mad scientist villain of The Black Hole, the 1979 Disney sci-fi film, and a black-robed cyborg slave wearing a metallic face covering on his left. Reinhardt is wearing a red military-style uniform and medal around his neck, and he has a glorious head of hair, a thick grey and black beard, and an exhausted but maniacal look in his eyes. He’d actually be a great gay Halloween costume.

This week had been too much, so please enjoy this photo of Maximillian Schell as Dr. Hans Reinhardt in The Black Hole

Stay safe! Glad you're out there. Solidarity!