Pierce Nettling

It happens! Did you get looks? I can understand this as I only really understood this until I experienced Canada, where the middle and uppers institutionally mix but are apart. But you sort of learn along the way your class position here.

Had a similar experience at Third Degree in February. My general feeling is that high public sector or other technocrat upper middle class spaces or industries lead to the colonization of the mind for clothing as an expectation. You wake up one day and you realize that’s all you have to wear.

You've done it again with a book pitch about architecture, urban history, and deindustrial landscapes. "Rubber Spokes."

An infographic reads: If you need assistance due to ICE detention, or to report any suspected ICE sightings, call 855-435-7693. Visit icirr.org/fsn for hotline and Know Your Rights info.

An infographic reads: Llame a la linea directa de apoyo familiar 855-435-7693. Obtener apoyo legal de deportacion, reportar cualquier actividad de ICE, obtener referidos para servicios legales y socialies. Ayuda disponsible en Ingles, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, Polish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Haitian, Creole, Quechua, Ukranian, Russian, and Hindi

With credible reports that there will soon be a major increase in federal immigration enforcement activity in Chicago, I want to once again highlight the Family Support Network - a rapid response resource run by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). Use it if you spot ICE.

Sounds on brand for the Post.

A new Springfield, IL public statute just dropped.

Wild, thanks for looking that up. It has to be exhausting for sure.

Screenshot from TRNN doc report showing Max listening to immigrant day laborers outside a Home Depot. Captions read "We're not criminals, and we've been here for years now..."

"We’re not criminals, and we’ve been here for years now, some fifteen or twenty years, trying to make a living. We always pay our taxes, just to have them do these terrible things to us. I think that he [Narciso Barranco] was older, which is why they took him down. He wasn’t doing anything, he wasn’t stealing anything, he wasn’t doing anything wrong at all, he was just doing his job. So why do other people, those who commit greater offenses—the corrupt ones, some working for this very government—why aren’t they paying attention to what’s happening among themselves? They only focus on the poor, the people who are fighting to make a living, trying to earn enough to feed our families. Those of us living here aren’t criminals. Sometimes the police drive by when we’re waiting for work, and if we were criminals, they would’ve taken us away by now."

"Day Laborer 2: No somos criminales, nosotros ya tenemos tiempo aquí. Quince, veinte años, trabajando, siempre nosotros pagamos nuestros impuestos y para que nos hagan este tipo de agravios, yo pienso que el señor este ya era mayor y porque se le fueron a él si él no estaba haciendo nada, él no estaba robando, no estaba haciendo nada malo, solamente andaba trabajando, y porque otros, los que comenten más grandes errores, principalmente los corruptos, del gobierno mismo, entre ellos no se miran, miran a la gente pobre, los apenas andamos luchando para ganar algo para la familia, para la pan de cada día de la casa, aquí no somos criminales, aquí la policía a veces pasa aquí cuando estamos aquí esperando trabajo, si fuéramos criminales ya nos hubieran llevado a la cárcel"

"No somos criminales..." In our latest @therealnews.com report from Southern California, I spoke w/ immigrant day laborers outside a Home Depot right next to the IHOP where Narciso Barranco was beaten & abducted by masked agents. I just learned that ICE swarmed that same Home Depot on Friday.

I didn’t actually know the overlap occurred until this morning. I had always thought or remembered Osheaga to be later in the summer.

Wild to me, but probably normal to global touring musicians. This weekend is a double header for the Osheaga (Montreal) and Lollapalooza (Chicago) music acts. Browse both schedules, and a lot of bands will be at both. Solidarity to their tour staff in planning and operating this movement of sound.

Propaganda --hidden hand, the market, American way, that's the way it is, hard work, everyone gets a fair shot---anxiety "oh god, Sam Walton, if the people start getting this on the ground, we won't be needed."

I probably could find 19th-century examples, but these refrains are for me a 20th century propaganda and anxiety dialectic of material interests and the requirement to sustain the social order/hierarchy.

The White Sox are not a bad team this year. They are, instead, simply unlucky. About 10-12 games this year that they have lost were ones where a break didn't go their way. Second, their run differential is not obscenely bad--better than Baltimore, for example, a sub .500 team.

No one:
Me: St Louis cuisine food truck

I am not 100p certain, but from what I’ve read a lot of the failure on 2020 has been centred on LL. Didn’t go to bat, and ends up hanging with Bailey in 2024? The can’t win without downstate framing, but you need Chicago pull problem.

Pritzker seems to have run away from his institute the progressive income tax effort during the LL years.

Public transit funding bill missed a big deadline. What happens next? Now it's unclear if lawmakers will approve the $770 million needed to cover the transit agencies’ budget holes in 2026 when federal pandemic aid runs out. But the feared 40% “doomsday” service cuts…

CTA, Metra and Pace said Monday they would soon be planning cuts in their 2026 budgets, after state legislators missed their first big deadline to fund public transit Saturday.

It is going to be hard to plan any trip to Mad Max Chicago in 2026. No one can afford the horse and buggy.

Meanwhile, the G7 Central Bankers are currently in the Rockies and have signaled forever unity with the US against China.

Carbondale's new train station has more seats for people to sit than Moynihan at Penn. What a legacy for Cuomo. I really hope this is a new era for Southern Illinois.

The profound melancholy of visibly becoming more proficient in reading a second language from a linguistic space you will never again experience or require.

Great to hear! I need some positive mental visuals after everything that happened yesterday.

I would imagine it depends on the farm dust bowl particle percentages per breath intake ratio.

Volunteer opportunity this morning, please share!!!

From Action STL:
Saturday Volunteer Assignments
We will focus on the Penrose, O'Fallon and College Hill neighborhood in North city.
Date: 5/17/2026
Time:10am-3pm
Location: O'Fallon Park Rec Complex, located at 4343 W. Florissant Ave, 63115

I am unable to process what happened yesterday in St Louis.

4 dead after storms and likely tornado rip through St. Louis A Friday afternoon storm left a wake of damage from Clayton to north St. Louis.

NEW: Four people are confirmed dead and others are injured after severe thunderstorms and a tornado hit the St. Louis region Friday.

Now that the secret White Sox fans are out and about, there is no possible way the south Loop stadium gets built, or the team moves to Nashville. None.

I'm not sure the world is ready for Midwesterners.

If the Leafs win the cup, the Yes vote in Alberta will be higher than 1980.