Jessica French

DO YOUR DUTY, CHICAGO

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

Fair use.

Awww enjoy! I have a tabby whose attention span for fetch consistently outlasted mine when she was a kitten. She’s 13 now and doesn’t do it as much, but she’ll still drop her fave pompom on my lap and headbutt me when she has the senior kitty level of zoomies.

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

Who is going to remind Alan Dershowitz of his promise

MAYOR MAMDANI!!!!!

A photo of senior reporter Maya Dukmasova holding a print guide for Chicago renters

A photo of a stack of print guides for Chicago renters in a wire rack at a Chicago Public Library branch

Print versions of our toolkit for Chicago renters are now available at every Chicago Public Library branch! Learn how to research building code violations and property ownership in Chicago and Cook County. Look for them in the free resources area near the library entrance.

The parties are back in court for more proceedings on Illinois and Chicago's attempts to block the deployment of national guard troops in the state.

District Judge April Perry has just taken the bench.

Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’ WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...

A fundraising text NEW MESSAGE FROM: Chuck Schumer Meredith, is there anything I can say to convince you to donate $20 (becomes $80!) to help take back the Senate majority

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

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.

The violence that caused his death is a direct product of his own life’s work. There is no “other side” to this. Also, his violent rhetoric was lazy and riddled with logical fallacies. That’s not debate or discourse. That you find it interesting is a “you” problem.

That’s because you clearly value order more than justice. His life’s work, no matter how “pleasantly” delivered, called for the dehumanization, subjugation, and elimination of marginalized human beings. People have acted on it. Are doing so right now. That’s violence.

Funny, the only time this expectation to “talk through differences” comes up is when something happens to a person who has devoted their waking hours to the dehumanization and destruction of “different” people. The merest whiff of accountability and here comes the respectability theater.

It is time for media to cover the community of tens of thousands of active and open neo-Nazis on Twitter, who publicly talk about adoring Hitler and killing Jews and minorities, who are frequently retweeted by Elon Musk, and who are currently working hard to incite mass violence.

We are a group of journalists across newsrooms in Chicago, collecting video related to use of force, stop & frisk, and traffic stops conducted by federal agents and the National Guard.

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago.

Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email chicagojournalists@protonmail.com.

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. 1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know your rights, Illinois.

Stay safe and stay informed.

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Two small gray (Russian Blue) kittens, about 12 weeks old, are laying on their sides on a cushion inside of a circular cat tree, just generally being adorable.

Itty bitty Jake and Elwood.

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless SACRAMENTO, CA—Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who targets the homeless populat...

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

Two cats sitting on a gray sofa, with sunshine coming in from the window. Cat on the left is a brown tabby, whose head is facing right and is licking the ear of the cat to the right, a gray Russian Blue with an orange collar. He has his eyes closed and is leaning in with obvious pleasure. Most of the time she (tabby) doesn’t like him (Blue). When she does tolerate him, it’s magical.

It caturday!

An east facing view of the Chicago city skyline around 7 PM CT with a tree in the foreground and the Hancock building in the background.

This is what it usually looks like at this time of day, this time of year.

A photo facing east in Chicago from the near north neighborhood. The city skyline should be visible, but is almost entirely obscured by a gray/brown “fog” of dust. The Hancock building is less than a mile away and can barely be seen through the dust.

That’s (supposed to be) the Hancock building, less than a mile directly east around 6:50 PM CT. The wind is still whipping. This is pretty wild.

I think I started from a different point in up-thread. I’m not arguing anything inconsistent with this. We can do stuff on our own, and also engage our pandemic apocalypse team, and also scale to neighborhood/community. I grew up where that was required to get by.

Community = whole neighborhood. = Scale.

All or nothing is not what I am saying, at all.

Like I said, it’s not *scalable* as in yes it works on an individual basis. I can do it. I can also save seeds and container garden from my window. But this could only be sustainable at the individual level if there aren’t a bunch of other needs. Sharing skills and resources is scalable.

For sure. I am saying that it’s not scalable and sustainable, as in each of us doing our own canning and preserving only works for as long as we can access food without issue. Scaling requires community.