JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

Tis the season day fourteen

On @cinapse.bsky.social is my rapturous rave of @realgdt.bsky.social's NIGHTMARE ALLEY, presented in a new black-and-white Extended Cut that finally makes it feel like an unearthed noir classic, unbound from the Hays Code morality of previous adaptations.

Out from @criterion.bsky.social 10/28!

What a coincidence, The Atlantic has no value and lots of functional substitutes.

Anyone advocating a literacy test should be required to pass the one they want others to pass.

Actual footage

Tis the season days twelve and thirteen

Eight seasons would take a while.

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Wow. Shocked.

Oooh I have those

Rockford Files. Crazy over-due for a remake, although with my luck they'd give him a gun or some other horseshit.

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Oh my god

Fuck Meta, as well.

Chess Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk won't play in Saudi Arabia:"In a few days,I will lose 2 world titles bcs I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia.I refuse to play by special rules,to wear abaya,to be accompanied by a man so I can leave the hotel,&feel like a 2cnd class person.

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

That’s not how consent works.

"What is a basis point?"

The weird table is what nailed it for me. Reflecting in spots, transparent in others but still feels "filled".

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

Any night playing MYZ: Zone Wars is a great night.

Once again, Joe Manchin can go fuck himself.

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Tis the season day eleven

Wow.