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Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh

Anyway, back to toiling

Tomorrow the Epstein survivors will storm Capitol Hill to demand release of the files. I hope new Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is sworn in at their press conference by another judge or official who is authorized to do so (doesn’t have to be the Speaker).

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

"We should be exceedingly clear: There is no crisis in Chicago that requires the National Guard. To the extent that there is civil instability in Chicago it has been caused by Trump’s surge of federal agents into the city and their lawless assault on the citizens of Chicago."

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

"Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records."

You will never convince me that Snoop is not saying, "This is for the cheese, this is for the hustlas," in that song.

Playing Ghost of Yotei right after Assassin's Creed: Shadows is messing me up. The gameplay is so similar, but different enough that I keep trying to attack or block with the wrong button.

The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.

Concern that Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act to take control of blue cities is by no means far-fetched. Our cities are already occupied by a federal army of thugs— ICE — directed to kidnap and cage our neighbors, atop regular police violence. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/10/07/t...

The JADE CITY ebook is an Amazon Prime Day deal today (Tuesday) for a ludicrously low $2.99 which is much less than what I paid for boba tea yesterday so if you still haven't jumped on the Green Bone Saga bandwagon, this is your sign👇

'They Need to Suffer': Inside Trump's War on Dissent Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the administration are waging a furious crackdown on dissent following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

In the next issue of Rolling Stone magazine, @swin24.bsky.social and I go deep on Trump’s war on speech, the left, and any and all dissent.

Read it here and come follow our work at @zeteo.com, where we work now! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

People wouldn't accuse Donald Trump of running a military dictatorship if there was some institution willing and able to stop him from imposing military occupations on American cities.

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

If they cut him, he'll probably sue for discrimination against white kickers.

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.

Part of this nightmare era is the complete, engineered collapse of belief in human creativity and an increasingly desperate belief that nightmarish computer routines will somehow produce new wonders

This idiotic bubble can't burst fast enough.

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.

The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.

Israel has freed Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and is expelling her from the country. She was among hundreds of activists detained by Israeli forces at sea while attempting to deliver aid to Gaza.

Freed activists have alleged abuse while in detention, with Thunberg singled out for humiliation.

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025

Judge's house on fire

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

My condolences. ❤️

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.