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A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

I can’t stress this enough. They want to do inside the US the kind of extrajudicial murders they’ve been doing internationally. This has always been about normalizing the ability of Trump to smite his personal enemies without suffering legal consequences. Trump’s testing for compliance & resistance.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.

its always cool when democrats think republicans like reagan bc of the morning in america rhetoric and not bc he killed millions of LGBT people

Graham Linehan @Glinner • 37s The left has conditioned you to associate the name 'Soros' with conspiracy theories. They even tried to paint the late Magdalene Burns as an antiSemite when she drew attention to his links to political troonery. Calling me a bigot is how @F Politics_ earns his keep.

blaming jews for the existence of trans ppl is nazism. like the nazis actually did that. that’s literally why they started burning books.

Old frog shouts at scorpion

In 2012 The AV Club decided to shutter their city-specific sites, and simply delete the sites themselves, with the YEARS worth of writing and history just thrown away. I was the Denver/Boulder city editor at the time. I am still Big Mad about it, 13+ years later.

Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement

The print version of @theonion.com is worth every dime.

They hanged the people who got us the 8-hour workday.

Immortality is a child's answer to death anxiety, not a real thing with which humanity will ever have to contend. No king's alchemist ever granted him eternal life, and it isn't going to start happening now just because of Computer.

The Walton family surely does

GOP is illegally refusing to fund SNAP using contingency funds specifically for the service*

digital paintings of five rat busts on a white canvas

i havent done any digital painting in a while, so i wanted to get in some practice with the boys!

DHS still can’t or won’t say what they did with the two U.S. citizens they detained on 9/30 and called CPD to request a vehicle for.

They first sent a statement about the South Shore raid—an entirely different incident—and when I asked again they sent this deeply unserious response.

hello! my friend was assaulted and threatened by federal agents for the crime of "not liking them". please help him sue the shit out of these fascist thugs chuffed.org/project/free...

Nanci Koschman, long-grieving mother, dies 21 years after her son was killed by Mayor Daley's nephew In the face of a Chicago police cover-up, she couldn't get answers until a Sun-Times investigation prompted the appointment of a special prosecutor and Richard J. "R.J." Vanecko's conviction.

She got a “little justice” for her only son — who was killed by the mayor’s nephew.

But only after a @chicago.suntimes.com investigation.

Life was never the same for Nanci Koschman.

May her - and David’s - memory be eternal.

chicago.suntimes.com/koschman/202...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

I hope people connect that the open fascism we see in USA today & the speed with which it is swallowing our institutions could only happen if our politicians had spent decades engaged in a bipartisan effort to build a healthy infrastructure for fascism in the 1st place.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Image of a grimacing hooded wizard holding a flaming skull, above him are the words "Death is Certain".

Kudos to South Korea who understood the assignment: play him like a cheap fiddle.

In ICE’s Expanding Chicago Blitz, Federal Authorities Turn Resistance Into A Crime Federal authorities are increasingly using charges — or the threat of them — to counter resistance to the immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago.

“they are extremely frustrated and they’re really trying to bend every single rule possible … to fight against the really well organized resistance that Chicago, and the Chicago area, has put up"

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/22/i...

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

fixed that for you

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

“The bottom line is that the country — the US and all its legal forms and structures — doesn’t exist to help the working class; it exists, at bottom, for the wealthy…This land is not “our” land. In a very real sense, it’s theirs.”

Utah has just approved a 1,300-person “mega camp” for homeless individuals,This camp lacks transportation, features locked units, and even imposes forced labor.

They refer to this facility as “work-conditioned housing,” but we simply call it what it is: modern-day internment.

Why not just cut to the chase and pull the plug on the networks entirely and send the reporters to go spit-polish boots at the white house

so mike johhnson lied when he said earlier today that there was no legal way to access the contingency funds

It’s not just that they don’t have to turn off SNAP benefits — they’re not legally allowed to. They legally must use the contingency fund.

The admin is pretending they can’t use it even though their own guidance from a month ago (that they’ve since deleted) contradicts that.