Dave Sullivan

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

US military prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend, but Trump has yet to make a final call, sources say | CNN Politics The US military is prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend, though President Donald Trump has yet to make a final decision on whether he’ll authorize such actions, sources familiar with the m...

I know we’re all just used to Trump living in his Mad King era, but this isn’t how this is supposed to work at all. The entire reason the Constitution puts this power in Congress is so that whether or not we go into a war of choice isn’t just one man’s decision.

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A graphic in pink, blue, and green that illustrates how recent many Black History events are to the current day -- ranging from 1619 to 2024.

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.

I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.

1 square = 1 year.

True I don't know much about tipping culture in 1972. That makes sense if it was just a bar tab, instead of dinner.

Not a great tip.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.

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My neighbor told me he keeps losing falcons to the widening gyre so I asked how many falcons he has and he said he just goes to the falconry and gets a new falcon afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding falcons to drown with the ceremony of innocence and then Yeats started crying.

Heyo, Chicago pals: Quick note that the executive vice president of the Bob Loquercio Auto Group is vociferously defending the murder of Alex Pretti.

The auto group has 16 locations in and around Chicago, listed below. Please take your business elsewhere.

www.blautogroup.com/locations/in...

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Bluesky doesn’t have the juice but it is the only app where someone is live posting a bus driver in what may or may not be a Speed scenario

This dude is intense and correct

A white dog with cloudy eyes looks sort of towards the camera.

We have the old version of your dog.

Shut up bootlickers

Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.

The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.

Every time any govt entity, at least in Illinois, says they don’t have money for something, remember every person in IL is footing a huge bill for enormous amount of cop overtime—all to help ICE & BP. Hundreds of cops being deployed at Broadview & around the city to make sure ICE can do Gestapo shit

Balvino and his fascist goons going door to door in St. Paul

Bovino is on the ground doing door to door raids in St. Paul Minnesota at this hour.

These house raids are being done by a mix of ice and customs and boarder patrol including bortac teams.

THEY ARE GOING HOUSE TO HOUSE

A black and white digital ink illustration on a toned paper background. An homage to the original illustrations by Garth Williams for E. B. White’s book ‘Charlotte’s Web’. Standing in a wooden doorway to a barn is a contented looking young pig. Across the top hall of the doorway are several spiderwebs that have the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’ webbed into them. The spider who made them is hanging down on a filament at the pig’s eye level.

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Let's not forget that Trump just pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández - ex-Honduras president who backed a coup, committed election fraud, violently repressed activists, lawyers, Indigenous people, youth etc - and was entenced to 35 years by an American jury for trafficking drugs and weapons into the US

And here I stand both to impeach and purge

This never gets old. #dabears #chicagobears

Cover of US Army Corps of Engineers report "Maglev for the United States" with images of Maglev trains and a map of the US with a MAGLEV symbol

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Police district council members and community leaders file petition calling for public hearing on CPDs role in federal immigration enforcement This afternoon police district council members and community leaders have submitted a petition signed by more than 2000 Chicagoans calling on the community commission for public safety and accountability (CCPSA) to convene a public hearing on the Chicago Police Departments (CPD) interactions with US Immigration Customs Enforcement (CPB) Under the empowering communities for Public Safety (ECPS) ordinance 2000 resident signatures are required to trigger a mandatory public hearing before the CCPsa on specific policing issues this process exists to ensure direct Community input on police conduct accountability and policy

More than a month ago over 30 police district council members formally requested this hearing today we have returned with this request backed by our communities because what Chicagoans are enduring is urgent unacceptable and cannot be delayed any longer across Chicago ice and CPB have spread fear chaos and trauma entire neighborhoods are living in survival mode in the last 48 hours actions involving the Chicago Police Department have raised urgent and alarming questions about whether CPD is enabling or facilitating Federal immigration enforcement in ways that directly contradict Chicago's welcoming city protections when Greg bavino publicly thanked CPD it sent a chilling message to immigrant communities and raise serious concerns that the systems meant to protect them may instead be placing them in harm's

We are demanding answers we are demanding transparency and we are demanding accountability Chicagoans have the right to know exactly what role CPD is playing in ice and CPB operations and whether our cities laws are being violated Chicago is a welcoming City that promise means nothing if it's not enforced this petition was submitted this afternoon to the community commission for Public Safety and accountability by Leonardo quintero (12th district) Elianne Bahena (10th district) and Beth Rochford (17th district) on behalf of communities across Chicago who refused to be ignored

Here's the full statement from the police district council members and a link to the petition

www.change.org/p/ccpsa-hear...

Announcing the Inaugural Snooping Newsie Awards for Excellence in Independent Journalism | dansinker.com

Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...