Chicago: ICE heavily active in West Ridge and Edgewater. Landscapers heavily targeted. Put on your whistles and patrol if you can.

LOUDER

glamour shot

Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...

thank you

Elizabeth Warren, who endorsed Mamdani fairly early, says he has a lesson for Democrats: “that Americans care about what living costs them every day. Zohran put together an entire campaign around bringing down the cost of child care, groceries and transportation, and he's going to win on that.”

I might be celebrating just a bit, and calling forth good outcomes.

Less than an hour until polls close, Virginia! If you're in line at 7 p.m., you can still vote.

PHOTOS of #ElectionDay 2025 in Virginia: virginiamercury.com/2025/11/04/e...

One hour left, Virginia! The polls close at 7 PM, but if you’re in line at 7, you can still vote. Stay in line and make your voice heard.

Bright orange flames reaching high in a bonfire

Celebratory campfire

Protesters hold LED lit letters that spell "RESIST ICE."

I love my community.

(Photo by Andy Thayer)

have any fascists not endorsed cuomo yet there is still time on the clock

harvesting parsley by Moonlight

We Have to Move "There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

Lying Cat from the graphic novels SAGA calls out a liar.

Hmmm, perhaps he is...

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown

30 Years Later: Groove Theory, “Groove Theory” - Longreads "Groove Theory" tries to make the work of staying in love feel as easy as possible, even when it isn’t.

Thirty years ago tomorrow, Groove Theory released their one and only album. Throw it on and read the great Hanif Abdurraqib unpacking its many gifts.

longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...

Just thought about the assignment in my 11th grade high school English class in which we were to create our own Utopian society. We had read Animal Farm, etc. Mine was the only one that did not involve a police state. Haunts me to this day. That was 1975.

Multi-color elder cat with green eyes sitting on a wooden bench looking directly at the photographer.

Giving my elder cat Tyga a massage, and I remember a vet telling me that cats have "tiny bones".

YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

Inventing Antifa In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

"I've told the story of Akromiya for 20 years. I’m telling it again now, because today is No King’s Day, and I am afraid that 'Antifa' is the American Akromiya: a fabricated entity made by state propagandists to persecute anyone who opposes the government."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

omg what

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

Multi-color cat curled into a ball snoozing on a blue, grey and white Mexican blanket

Tyga says goodnight. Love you.

Sun reflected in water

In the middle of a lake, I took a photo of the sun without looking at it, and ended up with this

Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

This is exciting!!