ICE is thug trash, chapter eleventy www.wpri.com/news/local-n...

After seven years (and an hour’s worth of technical challenges), we are about to kick off the first drum marathon I’ve done in like seven years! 12 hours of drums! For Extra Life! Get in here! Twitch.tv/nextlander

NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man. We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:

A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

#Wisdom is back! The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds

private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money

"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...

Snowy Owls still present at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary, Chicago. 11.19.2025 #birds #owls

Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said. newrepublic.com/post/203321/...

except it’s not a preschooler, it’s a grown man, and that man is also the president, and it is deeply surreal and unsettling to freefall into the gulf between words that should come out of a president’s mouth and that word coming out of a president’s mouth

The internet does not have to stay broken. Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION walks through how we reached this point & what steps can move us toward a healthier digital world. 📆 Fri Nov 21st 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451... @AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social

When asked on Air Force One if there was anything "incriminating" in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger at the female reporter's face and said “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”

Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.” Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.

Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Fired Bryan federal prison nurse says Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment — and she has the emails via BCS journalism treasure @rustysurette.bsky.social www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...

I'm off to get a working phone. In place of the photos I couldn't take, here's a sketch of the coyote we saw on the sidewalk in front of the house yesterday.

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

Went to this last night. It was a good time. Lots of powerful voices. Shout out to the dood in Popeye's who wanted to throw down and called me a suburbanite. Sorry, I couldn't play; my wife wasn't having it. Also, I've likely lived in the city longer than you've been alive, young buck.

This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...

1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

It’s pretty simple. When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.

Last photo before my phone bricked itself yesterday afternoon. What are you doin' out here in the open, little dude?

PBS did us a solid and dropped the whole Epstein emails. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

I’ve watched this so many times.

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

Welcome to Target.

The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick

If all you naysayers have a better way to remove frown lines from baby's face, I'd like to hear it.

Park mugging.

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

Go 🐓

A recommendation on a proposed data center near Warrenville and Naperville roads has been postponed again after dozens of opponents flooded the Naperville Planning and Zoning Commission meeting Wednesday night.

Let’s go!

“New York Times conducts hostile interview with children’s education influencer questioning her recognition of comprehensively documented war crimes” is not a sentence I could have imagined a few years ago

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

On this day in Horror History, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET was released in 1984.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

An ICE agent is facing DUI charges after his car hopped a curb and he drove into a tree line, according to bodycam footage and report obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times from Oak Brook police through Freedom of Information Act requests. chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/1...

Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

"Is equality ruining the workplace for white men?" "Can tradwives fix it?"

They simply do not give a fuck

Bumping this devastating, essential reporting by @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social again. Rideshare workers, already treated terribly by the union-busting corps they work for, are being kidnapped from O'Hare as city-hired security guards watch.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.