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Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

Whether you're a casual news reader or a breaking news reporter at the NYTimes, I implore you--please, please, please--do not believe or report DHS/ICE/CBP's side of events uncritically. End the state's monopoly on legitimate storytelling. They are not the objective arbiter of what really happened.

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I’m in chicago and remembering it’s the best city on earth.

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Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

Rodrick Johnson, a U.S. citizen who was briefly detained, said agents broke through his door and placed him in zip ties.

“I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer,” the 67-year-old told the Chicago Sun-Times. “They never brought one.” https://to.pbs.org/4pWhXzN

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The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

If Trump's deportation machine were an army, it would be the 13th largest on earth, ahead of Poland, Canada, Iran. The funding increase kicked in Oct 1, as federal agents unleash violence on the Chicago area, raiding communities and brutalizing protesters. By me & Lindsay Koshgarian, 📷 Steel Brooks.

Gov. JB Pritzker says Texas National Guard expected to join troops from Illinois as deportations escalate Gov. JB Pritzker said he has learned that likely hundreds of National Guard members from Texas were preparing to be sent to Illinois as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moved to deploy 300 Illinois N…

Release the Epstein Files.

"The White House confirmed on Sunday evening that the National Guard troops being called up to the Chicago area would be working without pay until the ongoing federal government shutdown, which began on Wednesday, is resolved."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/05/p...

Reining in Rogue Presidents How ambiguities in the law gave Trump power he could seize—and what a future Congress can do about it.

All of these excesses can be reined in, if not entirely eliminated, by Congress—or at least by a Congress not under Donald Trump’s thumb. All it needs is the wisdom to recognize its own crucial role in creating this problem.

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

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I'm at the American College of Surgeons annual conference, which is usually a glam affair with 15,000 well-healed attendees and the air of a college reunion. This year it's at most half that, glumly eating warm mozzarella sticks at cash bars. This is an extremely bad economic indicator.

This is the precise reason why I make and send Holiday cards every year, no joke. I maintain a contact list. I keep up with addresses and relationship changes. It means I don’t rely on gigantic, evil companies to mediate my access to my network of support.

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

I’d never been a big antichrist guy before, but man.

Chicago is our heartland, a center of art and architecture, theater and improv. It is a melding of people from across races & places, where the Great Migration drew the brave against all odds. Chicago rose from the ashes, re-routed the river & will always stand strong.

If the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress exhibit hall is any kind of economic indicator - and i suspect it is: buy gold.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

I wish Iain Banks was around to tell these people what he thinks of the way they misunderstand his work.

increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down

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So much to mourn here. ICE shot and killed a single father just after he has dropped his two kids off at daycare. Their justification for stopping him was traffic violations form 12 years ago. Their justification for shooting him was that he was driving away.

A completely needless tragedy.

There’s no rule of journalistic neutrality that requires you to say something is “unclear” when that is objectively untrue. It would be illegal. There’s absolutely zero ambiguity about that fact. Saying it’s unclear is making a false statement in your reporting.

And then the hospital gets stuck with the bill, not the taxpayer.

Also when people without money or insurance go to the hospital, the bill is paid by the hospital, not the taxpayer. Which is why hospitals suck right now.

The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.

Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.

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