Ben Panko

There are five hundred and ten (510) days until the next mayoral election in Chicago, set for Feb. 23, 2027.

My fav quote in here is from Sen. Gallego:

Like gravity is a theory

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Close enough, welcome back Spiro Agnew

i genuinely do think a big part of triangulation discourse is people avoiding that inflation was the biggest pain point for swing voters

i really have not seen yglesias et al reckon with the fact that kamala ran exactly the campaign they would have suggested and lost.

it is remarkable how they apparently have been scared off blue city/blue state approach

Just you wait until Bari Weiss hears about this, she and the free speech absolutists at The Free Press are gonna be STEAMED

Amazing headline.

right now, the Supreme Court's approvals are upside-down without anyone attacking them.

The root problem with this piece is that the people tweeting Luigi memes not only don't vote for democrats, they don't vote.

it’s great too that when district courts follow the law as written, one of the chuds on the Supreme Court pops up to scold them for not treating trump like a very special boy

Three SCOTUS stories before lunch on a Monday when the court isn't even in session perfectly encapsulates how the increasing importance of the shadow docket has completely reoriented how the court operates and what captures the public's attention.

Supreme Court upholds 'roving patrols' for immigration arrests in Los Angeles The Supreme Court says immigration agents may stop and question people they suspect are here illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.

"Half the population” of greater Los Angeles "now meet the government’s criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling.

www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

very easy to overindex vibes here and elsewhere but it really feels like the bottom is going to fall out towards the end of the year

The injunction is silent as to the use of force. And it is not necessary for the injunction to address that use-of-force question because the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness standard continues to govern the officers’ use of force and to prohibit excessive force. To the extent that excessive force has been used, the Fourth Amendment prohibits such action, and remedies should be available in federal court. I agree with the dissent on that point. But to reiterate, this injunction against brief stops for questioning does not address the useof-force issue.

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

There's a increasingly wide gulf between what you might call "local abundance"—which largely consists of liberal and progressive activists and local electeds trying to do YIMBY-type things—and "DC abundance," which hosts conferences where Oren Cass is a speaker for some reason.

going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago

looking good, king!

Do I think he's dead? No way.

Do i think his health could have taken a sharp downward turn? It's possible. And if it did, the White House would furiously cover it up while decisions are made.

Anyway, he'll probably be golfing in the morning. But we can have a little fun before that.

I just saw what he’s posted on here for the first time in a while and while it started off deliberately meant to be offensive now it’s just normal twitter reposts. The Vice fucking president lead a forum raid that failed and is now just a regular poster here lmao.

A fun thing about Star Wars is that every background character not only has an expanded universe book written about them but since Disney declared stuff non-canon every background character now has two distinct histories (legends and new EU) and yes absolutely I need this for the werewolf in the bar

if you don't have at least 3 random beverages on your desk and 36+ open tabs with no memory of having opened them, are you even browsing?

23 Dem AGs think they’ve cracked the code to fighting Trump Democratic state attorneys general have been planning their lawsuits for a year.

Politico did a big article about this coordination among the AGs earlier this year. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

a very bleak development in terms of my view of the world in the last few years has been both ‘the Israeli govt is much worse than I thought and deserves an enormous amount of criticism’ and ‘yeah a lot of people geniunely are just low-grade antisemitic’ both apparently being true.

First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out (because the message test performed at a low percentile rank compared to other messages in our testing bank for non college men who opt into online surveys through various consumer reward programs)

The vicious cycle for transit agencies. Source: https://www.urban.org/research/publication/surmounting-fiscal-cliff

Today, Philadelphia’s transit system SEPTA is cutting service by 20% & eliminating 32 bus routes, since GOP state legislators failed to agree to fund the agency www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

What’s going to happen? A death spiral: Worse service ➡️ fewer riders ➡️ less revenue ➡️ worse service

we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.