Jackie Evans

Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

Yes, very weird. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.

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Trump to federalize Illinois National Guard, Pritzker says “This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum," Pritzker said.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The partner of the first person in the UK to die from a filler Brazilian Butt Lift believes she would still be alive if the government had acted sooner.

Alice Webb died in September 2024 after having a non-surgical BBL.

www.itv.com/news/2025-08... #BBL #cosmeticsurgery

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DAILY BEAST: “White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called out after a fire tore through a South Carolina judge’s house… Goodstein had reportedly been receiving death threats for a few weeks…” www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill...

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

BREAKING

A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial.

Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.

For years, Black troops fought for policies that allowed them to thrive in the service—including around grooming.

To Hegseth, that’s the whole problem: a military with Black leadership and without obstacles to a diverse corps is one in which white men have to take orders from the wrong kind.

Buttigieg: "We are not getting the leadership we need to bring this country together from the White House ... in order to deprive political violence of its power, we have to reject anyone who would try to exploit political violence. The response to this cannot be for the government to crack down."

What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING

You can't guarantee email recipients will see the images in your email, but they'll almost always see the text.

That's why it's so crucial not to give in to the temptation of an image-only email.

Also they're just a bad idea.

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Completely agree. It’s absolutely outrageous that nobody stood up for @yamiche.bsky.social — media spinelessness has played a major role in how we got here.

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Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

A screenshot of a post on X. It's a double quote tweet. The original post is a photo of bacon in a frying pan and the caption says, "Just wanting to share some bacon with all my lovable Muslim peeps this monning. It's the least I can do." Then another account quotes that with the caption, "Hey @ZohranKMamdani this is for you, Bone-petite!" And finally Zohran quote tweets that with the caption, "my brother, this isn't garlic and we're not vampires."

As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here.

Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago.

It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

Morning Bluesky.

Tesla had its seventh straight monthly decline in European sales in July, dropping 40% to 8,837.

Chinese rival BYD surged past Tesla with 225% sales increase, to 13,503.

An apartment complex. A headline reads: "Did Switzerland Solve The Housing Crisis?"

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...