Chet Ritlin

ICE is in the area - I can hear the helicopters - and now the superintendent of our K-8 district just emailed to say all schools will have indoor recess today as a precautionary measure.

Such cruel, craven men terrorizing Chicagoland and elsewhere.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @mluckovichajc)

I’m pretty sure their whole plan is

1) make life so miserable and expensive that many end up homeless or in jail

2) profit off of labor from prisoners & homeless people forced into facilities

There’s absolutely no chance whatsoever Nixon resigns if he had today’s information environment.

Which I guess is the whole point of it.

A declaration of war is Constitutionally required. Congress must be reconvened. Immediately.

A vote must be taken.

Johnson basically says it here

note how the messaging has shifting from "we're targeting criminals" to "we're deporting everyone"

I guess someone heard from Tylenol’s lawyers.

BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

this might be one of the best videos i’ve seen all year and also one of the most terrifying things i’ve ever witnessed in my entire life

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.

Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀

#PublicHealth

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Astronomer Gael Gomez impacted by Trump revoking TPS But Gael Gomez wants people to keep looking up — at the sky and in life.

Gael Gomez first used a telescope at nine in Venezuela.

He's one of the brains behind the Mount Pleasant Sidewalk Astronomers, bringing views of star trails, nebulas, and Saturn's rings to the tight-knit neighborhood.

But now, he might have to leave the country, @samdelgado.bsky.social reports:

It’s worth considering how an Andrew Cuomo mayoralty would objectively be a disaster and everybody knows it—especially his backers. But they don’t give a shit about the day after, only thwarting the rise of any potential alternative. A striking demonstration of the nihilism of the political centre.

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that the FDA's unnecessary restrictions on medication abortion are unlawful and must be reconsidered.

This ​decision reaffirms that our access to safe and essential medicines should be dictated by science, not politics.

JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."

My God!! EVIL!!!
They cannot do that!!!

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

American citizens have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

I think they should invent a drug that lets you wipe your memory of John Carpenter movies so you can watch them fresh every Halloween. And then John Carpenter should make a movie about this drug's terrifying side effects.

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

gavinnewsom on Instagram: "Our founding fathers didn’t live and die so we could act like a bunch of cowards.The richest people in this country are selling out…" Our founding fathers didn’t live and die so we could act like a bunch of cowards.The richest people in this country are selling out this country.We have a supine Congress, universities bending the knee, and law firms selling their souls.It’s disgusting.

Our founding fathers didn’t live and die so we could act like a bunch of cowards.

The richest people in this country are selling out this country.

We have a supine Congress, universities bending the knee, and law firms selling their souls.

It’s disgusting.

www.instagram.com/reel/DQazrPe...

Some White House ballroom contractors go underground Some firms involved in the White House ballroom project appear to be trying to lower their online profiles.

Bastards! Can’t believe any of them would’ve accepted the job of destroying the White House.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/som...

We should have punished the Confederates.

We must not allow a decades-long drug abusing dark tetrad to 'test' nuclear weapons under any conditions.

I hate these liars so much man. you can't just go out and make shit up every day without consequences, that's not what society is

I maintain that every one of these people should be forced to live on SNAP for a month.

got some real monsters out there this halloween

Today I'm calling on @governorferguson.bsky.social to declare a state of emergency: the expiration of SNAP benefits for nearly one million Washingtonians will be a disaster for the health of many, and for the economic health of the state. We must join other state governments and act swiftly.

THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.