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Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez

Once again, if you are not an asshole to others, the world is more likely to smile back at you.

Blue Jays fans definitely gonna need that extra Daylight Savings hour tomorrow TORONTO - With Daylight Savings rolling clocks back an hour the same night as the Blue Jays face off against the L.A. Dodgers in a climactic World Series Game 7, Canadian baseball fans are confident t...

Blue Jays fans definitely gonna need that extra Daylight Savings hour tomorrow

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.

Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

I obviously don’t know this man or how he votes, but getting this kind of reaction in *Edison Park* suggests that things are not going the way Stephen Miller expected.

Chicagoland neighbors pull together to grapple with Halloween ICE fears and SNAP cuts Amid the fear and trepidation, community members are stepping up where they can to combat hampered festivities and traditions with a helping hand.

With both the Trump administration’s now monthslong local mass deportation mission and the impending loss of federal food aid looming over the city and suburbs, the Chicago area is celebrating Halloween more cautiously this year.

Stephen Miller's wife threatens to get US citizen deported as TV debate gets heated MAGA influencer Katie Miller, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, suggested that President Donald Trump's government could deport progressive pundit Cenk Uygur after she beca...

Stephen Miller’s wife threatened to have a naturalized citizen deported because she didn’t like what he said during a TV debate.

www.rawstory.com/katie-miller...

A closer look at the record-smashing ‘Hyperion’ corporate bond sale Buckle up, fixed income nerds

Earlier this month a company you’ve never heard of sold the largest corporate bond in history.

The $27bn deal wasn’t just notable for its size and complexity, but what for it says about the AI boom, the credit cycle and the evolution of public and private debt markets. www.ft.com/content/d034...

"If we had a contingency fund."

You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded?
www.notus.org/trump-white-...

They know facial recognition doesn't work as well on POC

so much love and admiration for the people of chicago telling fascists to fuck off on the daily

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

A photo of the crowd at the no kings rally in Chicago at Grant Park

A photo of people marching on a street in Chicago

The #NoKings rally in Grant Park is impossibly huge. Tens of thousands of people here. Hundreds of folks are still streaming in.

For those participating in upcoming protests, I am urging you to know your rights and how to protest safely and peacefully: tinyurl.com/aasfut3e

As the new world struggles to be born, this is indeed a time of monsters, but it's also a time of new and creative solidarities growing up through the pavement.

Copies of The First Amendment and you. An all ages zine for Chicagoans

Inside of First Amendment and you zine

I'll have some of these available today.

Inktober drawing of a wet cat with the prompt "blunder"

Day 16 "blunder" #inktober2025

cthulhu aid a pastiche of a soft drink with an octopoid pitcher

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Immigration agent who shot Chicago woman drove ‘rammed’ vehicle to Maine, attorneys reveal The immigration agent who shot a woman earlier this month after she allegedly rammed his vehicle in Brighton Park was allowed by his supervisors to drive the government-issued SUV back to Maine bef…

The immigration agent who shot a woman earlier this month after she allegedly rammed his vehicle in Brighton Park was allowed by his supervisors to drive the government-issued SUV back to Maine before it could be inspected by the woman’s attorneys.

'Startled' judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes A judge says federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other aggressive steps against protesters.

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

There’s a lot to be upset about, and I don’t advise putting your head in the sand, but it is really bad for your brain to be mad all the time on a purely physiological level.

If you possibly can, take time to put down the mad.

It will help you think more clearly and remember why you’re doing this.

I've written pretty critical stuff about Brandon Johnson in Chicago but cops said this exact same thing before his election and afaik it has not transpired at all

"Once Brockman was handcuffed and placed in the van, the agents pulled out, clipping the rear bumper off of a stopped car partially blocking their path and speeding away past an approaching elongated CTA bus and through the busy intersection."

I really have never loved Chicago more than I do now and I am yelling about it whenever I can to whomever I can

The conservatives are too embarrassed to make the argument they've tangibly supported for decades, "your life is too expensive to save." They are stuck making the incredibly fake argument that someone else's life is too expensive to save.

Thread that went a bit insane now has a link to my publish story at the end of it (and here: www.economist.com/united-state...)

If Dems win in 2026, we need hearings to publicize the abuses by federal law enforcement. Then pass a bill creating a path to sue for those abuses. Trump will veto it. Let him. Let the public see these videos & hear from victims, & then learn there's no way to hold the abusive officers accountable.