Gady Epstein

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Read this graf pls

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

I’m demonstrating faux-bravery on here by not taking the bait from that troll

Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, and the Cost of Civility-Theater Liberalism “Talking across divides” is laudable—until it becomes a license to launder antidemocratic and dehumanizing ideas.

"The twentieth century’s worst episodes did not begin with gunfire. They began with named categories—“parasites,” “vermin,” “degenerates,” “enemies of the people”—ways of talking that prepared the ground for ways of acting."

newrepublic.com/article/2009...

Whoa. The criminal charge was for failure to file a change of address under 8 USC 1306(b), which makes it a crime for any noncitizen (of any legal status) to fail to register a change of address with the government within 10 days of moving.

Unheard of to charge for that.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours.

'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either

“The censorious right does not represent the entirety of conservatism, but it is one of the movement’s most persistent and dominant strains” — much-needed corrective on the real history of cancel culture www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

He’s so good at the practice of politics and persuasion, to coin a phrase that’s popular this week

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

"An attorney for a building trades union told me that a witness in a wage theft case in another state was recently targeted and deported by ICE. The union believes the employer encouraged ICE to target the worker, in a bid to undercut the wage theft case. "

prospect.org/labor/2025-1...

Good succinct thread on the scorching opinion re targeted deportations of pro-Palestinian academics

Great piece

Sup Brett Kavanaugh

I do!

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’ Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

Chappelle’s defense of his anti-trans material, unpersuasive as it was already, certainly hits different now: “The more you say I can’t say something, the more urgent it is for me to say it.”

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

“Kavanaugh stop” seems objectively accurate here

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

Very good thread, the category error Klein makes on Hillary Clinton’s remarks (confusing the dishonest narrative about them for their actual substance) is pretty telling

Forcing everything through a narrow lens of campaign strategy is not only morally flawed, it overweights small movements in polls far from elections, prompts negotiating against yourself, and creates excuses for weakness.

Everyone doing that type of “strategic” thinking would make for bad strategy.

Very notable move by Microsoft

Very good piece

This was six months ago

Mario Guevara

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.

The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

OPINION BRET STEPHENS Now the Left Cares About Free Speech Again Sept. 23, 2025

Hold on, need to email someone’s boss about something they tweeted about me

One of the most interesting things about Jimmy Kimmel, and what I loved most about his conversation with Bill Burr a few months back, was that they’re both middle-aged white comedians who heard how culture has evolved, took notes, grew up, didn’t get defensive, and became *even more* successful.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

“But, despite his busyness, he came to the book party”