Neil Dixon Smith

Perhaps, but American Tabloid by James Ellroy gets the vibe of the times

The greatest of all tracks

It feels double this way in Chicago, our old Covid “mask basket” is now filled with whistles and orange arm bands, life here is fully disrupted

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Who Fired Tear Gas at Little Village Crowd, Set to Face Federal Judge U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to appear in her courtroom at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis.
What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

It was terrible

“Oliver said he saw the laborer, who was working on the building, being detained by federal officers as he had "blood "coming out [of] his nose and down his mouth.” …The second person detained was Oliver's coworker Nate Griffin, who works as a night manager at the Laugh Factory.”

Federal agents tear gassing the Lake View neighborhood.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Just ask literally anybody who lives there or has ever lived there. They will absolutely let you know this fact.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

That Ben Kweller album is the one I keep coming back to, though I am loving the new Big Thief

Sandinista is the template for all great music

Gotta be on purpose

Good morning from the ICE detention/processing facility in Broadview, IL, where pepper balls are already being deployed. A few moments ago a federal agent responded to early morning protestor heckling by firing pepper balls at the ground. Meanwhile one of his colleagues urges him to come inside.

Great Lakes Consortium needs to step up

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source.

You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"?

My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

the irony is brutal, few seem to know

sounds like one target for ice today is the suburb of west chicago today—some 40 miles from the city.

state senator karina villa went live on facebook about 20 minutes ago in front of two unmarked vehicles driven by masked agents.

Why isn’t the Emmys a fundraiser for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting? #sickoflamerichpeople

Protestor and fed lines meet, after a few moments federal agents fall back into the garage they came out of.

Good morning from the ICE processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, where protestors were just standing off against federal agents in military kit. Local police have blocked off the street leading to the facility.

You can still buy a bottle of Del Maguey Classico Mezcal for $35 at a Binny’s in Chicago. You can also get limes at 10 for $1-2, and Atontolico tortillos at Cermak

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Well, they did plant that birth announcement in the Hawaiian newspaper…

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

This goes out to you know who! #chicago