Dan Hartung

Side note: that tear gas line hits different after Saturday tbh, seeing as a federal agent briefly aimed a gas can launcher straight at me during the 40th/Kedzie protest.

He didn't shoot & I don't know if it was because I had my press jacket on or because people were already running from the scene.

Stephen Miller: "ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa, hand to hand combat every night."

New Yorkers are craving secure bike parking: this one small station has had 2,000 unique users in just two years!

More of these units — and larger facilities — will mean that more New Yorkers will have the peace of mind to try biking, without having to worry about theft.

Predicting earthquakes Achieving a 10-minute warning would save thousands of lives

Finally someone talking about the issue of a major west coast North America earthquake and how utterly unprepared we are for it.

www.worksinprogress.news/p/a-50-milli...

The pricing software/ blackrock obsession is so funny to me because it basically posits that there was no housing crisis before, like, 2018.

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

"“If the deputy director wants to do something and needs a legal opinion about whether or not he can do it, he can’t advise himself...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Big City, Big Street Food Seattle is growing. We are becoming big. And with a big city, comes big, delicious food tents.

The city is obsessed with shutting down unlicensed taco trucks and people selling fruit from tables, saying they've gotten complaints from vendors who paid their fees and got to be vendors the right way. I'm 100% with Charles on this one: Unauthorized vendors are a feature of real cities.

image of the night sky showing a starfield with several dark and bright stars that are quite elongated due to the long exposure time.

the stars of the constellation corona borealis are annotated in green. a faint smudge, perhaps comet 3I/Atlas is marked with a red circle.

I think Perseverance may have spotted interstellar comet 3I/Atlas last night from Mars!

After stacking 20 images from Mastcam-Z, I found a faint smudge of light in the constellation Corona Borealis close to the location where the comet was expected. 🔭

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

This headline is fucking nuts. Are you kidding me right now

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

NPR, 11 hours ago: Fired feds, Trump lovers and veterans: Meet the people applying for Ice jobs

Meet the blunt rotation of your actual nightmares morelike

YOU get a transgender

and YOU get a transgender

look under your seat! what's that? you guessed it! MORE transgender!

TRANSGENDER FOR EVERYBODY!

* cheers, throws confetti, which is somehow also transgender *

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon named in Epstein files released by Democrats The three Trump allies are all mentioned in redacted copies of Epstein's daily schedules.

NEW: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon are all named in Epstein docs released today by Democrats

Trump post announcing release of the Earhart files

If I was Donald Trump I would not be drawing the public’s attention right now to my ability to release files

Hi, just a note—

The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

#BREAKING: Over the dissents of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, #SCOTUS grants (yet another) stay to President Trump—this one allowing him to cease obligating $4 billion in foreign aid funding appropriated by Congress.

I’ll post the link when it’s up.

Chicago transit says Don’t Be like Philly 🫤

I normally focus on what is happening in the UK but this is hilarious 😂

Together for Palestine YouTube video by Brian Eno

youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...

The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink

The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire
 
The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

Tensions rose as protesters gathered outside the ICE processing center in Broadview on Friday. As protesters chanted songs, an announcement was made requesting the group to disperse or "be subject to arrest" or "other police action."

🎥 Dominic Di Palermo / Chicago Tribune

angry sign protesting the pedestrianization of bourbon street from a few years ago

same angry sign protesting the pedestrianization of bourbon street from a few years ago but further away

another of the same angry signs somewhere else

"It's no use, Mr. James—it's NIMBYs all the way down."

Only 13 states have outlawed child marriage while 26 states have banned healthcare for trans kids and we're supposed to be civil and dignified about all of it

www.newsweek.com/child-marria...

Why Musk Doesn’t Have Access to SpaceX’s Biggest Government Secrets The rocket company’s executives haven’t sought a higher security clearance for its CEO to avoid questions about his drug use and contact with foreign officials. The answers might no longer matter.

“Why Musk Doesn’t Have Access to SpaceX’s Biggest Government Secrets.
Executives haven’t sought higher security clearance for the CEO to avoid questions about his drug use and contact with foreign officials”
👀

Meddling for MAGA Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, has dismayed staffers as he curtails critical coverage of Donald Trump.

L.A. Times opinion staffers notify the executive editor that Soon-Shiong has banned criticism of Donald Trump unless its "presented side-by-side with another opinion piece representing the 'opposing view,’" via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social
www.status.news/p/patrick-so...

This is my starter pack 🙂

Opinion | The Great Capitulation Powerful Americans have lost the will to resist Trump.

"Since Trump won re-election — this time with the popular vote — many of the most influential people in America seem to have lost any will to stand up to him as he goes about transforming America into the sort of authoritarian oligarchy he admires," writes @michellegoldberg.bsky.social.

a 🧵 on the way women and caregiving expectations

this weekend I was on a ~4hr flight seated in the aisle with another woman in her late 30s/early 40s in the window seat. toward the end of boarding, a dad came through with his 5yo daughter to take the middle seats on either side of this row. 1/

Ex-FBI informant pleads guilty to making false bribery allegations about the Bidens House Republicans cited a government document tied to Alexander Smirnov's allegations as key to their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

Wasn’t this the guy that House Republicans hung a lot of their anti-Hunter nonsense and conspiracies on? Will there be any acknowledgment from, or apology from, House Republicans?

Of. Course. Not