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...

Lawlessness on top of lawlessness. A judge denied Trump’s deployment of Oregon’s Natl Guard to Portland, so the White House sends California troops instead. Way to go, President Steven Miller! From his golf cart, Orange Fatso took a moment to sign Miller’s memo, I speculate.

Another Kavanaugh stop, another family harmed. #ICE #Chicago #occupiedcities

This is the only actual strategy I’ve seen articulated so far. Not reactive. Proactive and forward looking. A blueprint for a future that is positive, the kind of world we want to live in.

The famous have no talent And the talented have no fame It’s the era of social media Thanks?

My valentine to public health: If remaining disease-free were an individual responsibility, most of us would already be dead. Microbes would rule the earth. @pestilence4all.bsky.social maryjaneosa.substack.com/p/filth-pove...

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

This is distressing. It’s a beautiful day and then … Some of the officers crowded on a Gold Coast intersection were greeted with chants of “shame” from neighbors, video shows. “I think it’s horrifying,” Danielle Rabie said. “We should not have armed militias walking down the street with guns.”

Estonia seeks urgent Nato consultation after Russian jets violate airspace - BBC News share.google/H9tdDq4DxbTP...

From Ye Olde Chicago Reader, c. September 18, 2025 #Chicago #ICE

ISN’T PAST YOUR JAIL TIME??

Ick

Jamelle Bouie. This👇 “To embrace nativism in a global, connected economic world is to sacrifice prosperity for the sake of exclusion” (Gift link)

More of this, please

Timothy Garton Ash, on our fragmenting democracy "the distinctive features of the US case: excessive executive power; chronic gerrymandering; endemic violence; and the way a would-be authoritarian can exploit the intense capitalist competition that permeates every area of US life."

Foreign correspondent William L. Shirer witnessed the failure of democracy in Central Europe *twice*--once in the 30's and again, in 1948. He has something to teach us. My latest: maryjaneosa.substack.com/p/please-cou...

Thinking about all the recent chatter about “debate” as an unassailable value. You can win a debate and still be wrong. Knowledge is a higher value.

Finally. An explanation.

“Assassinated?” Really?? youtube.com/shorts/PO9yy...

Face to face. That’s how we build solidarity. “I hate Illinois Nazis.” Jake & Elwood

Chicagoans are using whistles to alert people that ICE goons are in the vicinity. We went online to buy a couple of whistles. Tried to purchase from Amazon, but rec’d message: CANNOT DELIVER TO YOUR ZIP CODE. Dick’s Sporting Goods, same. Corporations for fascism We have whistles now - so there!

This will hurt artisans selling their creations on Etsy. A lot. So much for Free Trade

Onion = Truth

Dangerous and petty at the same time. These creeps are surging ICE to wreck a Mexican festival in Grant Park. 24,000 people attended last year's festivities with no incidents. Business and joy, both quashed #Chicago #ICE

Our pleasant urban hellhole. “The biggest danger on the Riverwalk is someone stepping on your toe.”

When things are normal . . . "Trained and experienced specialists handle the myriad details of modern life to ensure society functions smoothly. The majority of voters don’t have to pay attention to politics for the system to work. And so they don’t."

I'm so woke, I barely sleep at night. Kind of like 2017-2021 . . . only worse.

Oh, and if you're done working . . . Illinois doesn't tax IRA disbursements. Like New Jersey does.

LOSS: The 5th Circuit upholds parts of a Texas voter suppression law that restrict how people can assist voters in casting ballots, reversing a lower court decision that found the provisions violated Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act.

OK at the risk of making too much of this: one thing I like to say is that the scientific revolution and the republic of letters was a small island (large relative to history mind you) in a larger ocean that was, as an information environment, absolute shit

What’s next? Dysentery?? That’s where we’re headed …

Uh… there’s one. One Black lady in a red hat boosting Trump. It’s been playing on local TV B-roll for the last couple of days whenever they want to run this story

Resistance in 3-D. Yeah, the memes are good, but this is better.

My urban hellhole in the morning. Quick! Send in the troops! #chicago

Yeah see those bruised things on Donny's hands? That looks just like what my Dad had. And then he died.

The Gov is ready to rumble! Nowhere in his speech did Pritzker say “I am smart.” He didn’t have to.

Proud to be an Illinoisan today. Governor Pritzker stands up to Trumpist bullies, starting with El Grande Hijo de …. "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law." #pritzker

“This is nuts.” —- Franz Kafka

The Democrat nobody needs. F U, Rahm Emanuel said if he was still mayor he would call on the president to act like a partner and, although crime was coming down, to “work with us on public safety” to combat carjackings, gun crime and gangs and not “come in and act like we can be an occupied city”

Calling in sick to work and heading over to Wrigley Field— a Chicago tradition. But this was a sad occasion & pretty emotional for a lot of people. A sweet memorial

I don’t know what‘s going to happen. But I don’t think this will go well …

Probably, yes. We're ready.

My urban hellhole

Outrageous behavior challenges the expectation of public civility. When conventional norms lose their power, conversations become more difficult. As a result, people feel stressed and less secure going out in public. But what is civility, exactly? My Civility essay is at maryjaneosa.substack.com

The eye roll, the stink eye, and the side eye . . . all rolled into one.

Civility, anyone? Rebuilding a framework for social solidarity through interpersonal engagement is the key to democratic renewal. #sociology #politicalscience #politics #psychology

Wake up, America! "The future election of any Democratic president must be a moment of far-reaching democratic restoration. The clock starts ticking the day after they are elected. Any Democratic president who fails to govern with that reality firmly in mind, must be reckoned a failure."

Just remember, guys— Paul Krugman and Larry Summers can *both* be right. Just not at the same time.

Mark Zuckerberg is a greedy, mongering lowlife. “Meta’s internal guidelines for its AI chatbots permitted the technology to flirt with children and generate racist arguments, according to a Reuters report published Thursday.”