Evan Simko-Bednarski

A class act from the best essayist on television.

Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL

Border Patrol grabbed workers from the front yard of a home in Edison Park this afternoon then took them behind an office building in Niles and passed them off to a prisoner van. Woman came out to MF them and said "you're in the most conservative neighborhood in the city and nobody wants you here."

Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago

the thing about the RSF is that once your state decides it needs death squads for regime security, it's the death squads' decision, not the regime's, whether the state needs death squads anymore

New NYC subway cars mean return to shorter trains on C line The MTA’s recent order of 378 R268 cars includes 11 eight-car trains that will be sent to the C line to replace the still-new, 10-car R211 sets that have been running for less than two years.

SCOOP: MTA's new subway car purchase will bring shorter trains back to the C line.

He worked the pile after 9/11, got sick and now can’t get help amid turmoil at RFK Jr.’s CDC Richard Volpe, who spent six months both at Ground Zero and at the Staten Island landfill where he sifted through the mangled remains of the Twin Towers for human remains, suffers from IgAN Nephrop…

"Since Kennedy took over HHS, 9/11 advocate groups haven’t been able to officially speak with anyone to learn if the WTC Health Program has verified any of the new medical conditions or if any studies are being conducted on new maladies 9/11 sufferers are facing."

50 Years Ago, My Father Wrote the Headline That Refuses to Die

“He chuckled as he told me how he had been fired from his first job at The Indianapolis Star for ‘writing bad headlines.’ It was really for union activities, he said, but they needed an excuse to let him go.”

“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”

50 Years Ago, My Father Wrote the Headline That Refuses to Die

“He chuckled as he told me how he had been fired from his first job at The Indianapolis Star for ‘writing bad headlines.’ It was really for union activities, he said, but they needed an excuse to let him go.”

That's the conventional wisdom, certainly

Effectively the same line as from Andy Byford last week.

The Art of the Bluff?

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases.

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“These reporters are still kicking ass and taking names,” said Bob Liff, former City Hall and Brooklyn bureau reporter for the Daily News.
“This is the hometown paper. This is the soul of the city. We need that.”

New York Daily News Flashback: “Ford to City: Drop Dead” In perhaps its most iconic front page, The News hit out at President Ford for saying he would veto any bill calling for a federal bailout of New York City and proposing legislation that would make …

50 years ago today:

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

In Which We Deserve Options Other Than Rapists and Robots I don’t want to be assaulted by a driver, nor surveilled by cat-killing robot cars. Is this really the best we can do?

“It was so cheap in those days…and I was so broke. Those companies were dealers, got you hooked, lulled you into complacency with rates that made no sense unless someone was getting exploited, which of course we understood. It wasn’t actually cheap: We just paid for it in other ways.”

I would read the hell out of a deeply reported piece on how the media/political elite addiction to Twitter is shaping their views, which in turn shape the views of millions of people. It's a total reality-warper.

CORDER LIST: 607 U.S.) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2025 25A443 ORDER IN PENDING CASE TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. V. ILLINOIS, ET AL. The application for stay presented to Justice Barrett is referred by her to the Court. The parties are directed to file supplemental letter briefs addressing the following question: Whether the term "regular forces" refers to the regular forces of the United States military, and, if so, how that interpretation affects the operation of 10 U.S. C. §12406(3). The briefs, not to exceed 15 pages, are to be filed by Monday, November 10, 2025. Letter reply briefs, not to exceed 10 pages, are to be filed by Monday, November 17, 2025. Any brief for an amicus curiae under Rule 37.4, on that or other aspects of the application, must be filed by Monday, November 10, 2025.

BREAKING: SCOTUS defers any ruling for now in DOJ's request in the Nat'l Guard deployment case out of Illinois.

Instead, the court asks for briefing about the term "regular forces" in Section 12406 — a matter raised by @martylederman.bsky.social.

The means the TRO stays in effect for now.

Appeals court temporarily calls off Bovino's daily meeting with judge It did so after Justice Department lawyers called Judge Sara Ellis' standing appointment with the Border Patrol boss an “extraordinarily disruptive requirement.”

DEVELOPING: Appeals court temporarily calls off Bovino's daily meeting with judge

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New Yorkers all over the five boroughs are standing with the Daily News. Join them as New York's hometown paper fights for a fair contract from our private equity owner, Heath Freeman head of Alden Global Capital.

🤦🏻‍♂️ I am always making this mistake

How dangerous is it really to work for ICE? According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19.

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And they say there’s no money in media

In this house we believe

Today, City Hall Park, noon.

Local immigration court ousts reporters from hearings HYATTSVILLE, Md. – Federal officials ordered two reporters out of immigration court on Tuesday and barred them from observing future proceedings until they get permission from the Trump administration...

Reporters (one of whom is my daughter) were ousted from covering immigration court hearings. Trump regime using shutdown to impinge on free press and coverage of their actions. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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