Emily Raymond

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

How out of touch can Donald Trump’s top economic adviser be?

A 60-year-old couple making $85k/year will have to pay over $22,000 more EVERY YEAR.

TWENTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.

Please note that, unlike the president, the deputy chief of staff does not have immunity from prosecution for official acts per Trump v. United States

Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86 Update: FBI Director Kash Patel says a person thought to be the suspect is now in custody. Utah police also confirms a man named Goerge Zimmer was arrested in the aftermath of the shooting but isn't thought to be the suspect. 4:35 PM · Sep 10, 2025 · 535 Views

We will see, not that Patel is a reliable source.

Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"

Holy shit. This legit gave me chills.

Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.

WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.

one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?

You don’t have to put the military at every polling site to suppress votes.

You don’t even have to put the military at any polling sites to suppress votes.

All you have to do is roll a bunch of tanks into Atlanta or Detroit or wherever a few days before an election and see what happens

Masked men jumped a San Bernardino family in unmarked cars, opened fire, and shattered their truck windows—all while the family was just coming home from work.

The feds later admitted it was CBP, but the family says the agents never showed warrants or IDs.

I’m not going to be able to take any vacations this summer, so I’ve just decided not to give a fuck for a few weeks

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Border agent charged with child sex trafficking, fraud in Cochise County A Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent has been indicted on 24 felony charges, the latest in a series of sexual-misconduct convictions or charges against CBP employees in Arizona.

tucson.com/news/local/b...

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

Ghislaine Maxwell Can’t Help But Notice Interview Room Covered In Plastic Sheeting TALLAHASSEE, FL—Perplexed that the Department of Justice had chosen a setting with such strange decor to ask her about Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators, Ghislaine Maxwell confirmed Thursday that she ...

Ghislaine Maxwell Can’t Help But Notice Interview Room Covered In Plastic Sheeting

City Attorney Election Puts Seattle's Renewed 'War on Drugs' Under Scrutiny - Bolts Over the past year, Seattle has begun barring some residents from entering certain neighborhoods of their city.  A new ordinance has given local judges the authority to ban people from... Read More

NEW: Seattle has a rare Republican in office, its city attorney.

She championed a policy rolled out last year — when you’re so much as charged (not convicted) of a drug offense, a judge can ban you from setting foot in select areas, like downtown.

She’s also up for reelection in a few weeks:

Any American journalist who doesn’t *instantaneously* see what this is—Ghislaine Maxwell, desperately seeking a pardon from Trump, negotiating privately to say whatever he wants her to say in public to get a pardon (now or anytime during her twenty-year prison bid)—should quit their job immediately.

Take a look. Not ICE. Just ordinary “officer friendlies” doing what this country allows them to do to unarmed Black men. Remember?

Um, does this mean you eat them unshucked? 😉

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Well, this majority-minority state keeps chugging out some terrible politicians and it’s not only due to gerrymandering unfortunately.

POLITICS THE CASE FOR TREATING TRUMP LIKE A NORMAL PRESIDENT Both the president-elect and his opposition should behave differently this time around. By Conor Friedersdorf

CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC Conor Friedersdorf & @conor64 Follow I am astonished by the number of people just now realizing that neither Donald Trump nor most of the people willing to be subservient to him are honest or principled.

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This is illegal: these are civil servants who cannot be fired except for cause. The Trump administration is claiming powers here it does not have, assuming the Supreme Court will continue to let it act with impunity.

Sad update: it appears that the crazy people I've spent years training to be rabid animals have, for reasons too complicated to explain right now, completely turned against me

Honestly it’s good to know that when a guy who spent decades hanging out with a famous pedophile and is accused of being a pedophile himself spends years hyping up the existence of pedophile files and doesn’t release them, people will only elect him president twice before they get suspicious.

REPORTER: Yesterday you said you were not sure who ordered the munitions ordered to Ukraine. Have you figured it out?

TRUMP: I haven't though about it


REPORTER: What does it say that such a decision could be made without you knowing?

TRUMP: I would know. If a decision was made I will know.

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

Note that grok has gone fash, and Musk revealing the wizard behind the curtain of not just Grok but all LLM, exactly at the moment when many elementary schools are deciding to adopt AI learning in classrooms.

This is such a great observation. Musk has laid bare precisely how unreliable generative AI is.

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.