NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

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.

If DC elects a socialist mayor I’ll share the recipe

Imagine having to write two losing speeches for the same election

Tropical theme at the watch party to celebrate Andrew Cuomo’s new address

Zohran Mamdani missing his own 12-3 canvassing shift because he’s watching Arsenal at Slavia Prague

I’m also this

I knocked so many dang doors today

A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

Old bay shrimp curry

imo Poch is way underrating how much time it takes to get your best XI clicking and way overrating how much he needs to see bubble players perform in front of him this late in the game. Like what are we learning from this that we need for the World Cup itself?

Went to the hardcore show and everyone said they liked my sweater

Where do we think I could write a short article in praise of the Airbus A340-600's Grand Cargo Hold Toilet Cathedral? Soon they're retiring and one of the most hilarious aircraft ever will be no more

*At the Savannah Bananas game* RIP Kurt Vonnegut you would have loved this but just for normal reasons not to do with your writing

Lost decade indicator

Blueskyism? It’s just called being outside, why are we making up new words for it

College football is back

Danish publication reports that some Trump-connected goons are attempting to infliltrate Greenlandic society as part of a takeover plot www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Deal-making law firms generally weren’t trying to avoid executive orders—they were trying to signal a willingness to do work that accelerates crony capitalism and authoritarianism. Just look at the kinds of deals they’re getting for clients now (fully explained on Substack): cohen489.substack.com

You’re writing an urgent memo for work. Suddenly the cursor and keyboard freeze. Your browser tabs blank out. Excel crashes. Finally the culprit of the surge in memory demand reveals itself. On Teams, an AI tooltip lets you know you can switch between “month” and “week” in calendar view

COME ON YOU BEES

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Watching Leagues Cup tonight and redoubling how annoying the Apple deal has been for MLS and soccer in the US writ large

Problem with BlueSky is we don’t have”tweet your drafts day” here yet

As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down. In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...

Like most baseball fans who played the game as a kid, I imagine what life would be like if I made the big leagues. Unlike other baseball fans all my fantasies involve getting signed by the Blue Jays so I can address Vlad Guerrero Jr. as Vladimir Vladimirovich

In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

The four horsemen of American cities that were briefly richest in the world Reedville VA New Bedford MA Galveston TX Virginia City NV

Mocha’dib, the Swiss shack Laderach

Laughing unreasonably hard at Hutch yelling “trumpet!” to cue the sax solo

when he was asked about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, former national security adviser/ future UN ambassador Mike Waltz told Chris Van Hollen that upstanding US veterans were working on the project. Here’s one of those veterans saying he’s never seen brutality against civilians like he saw there

*wipes tears away* I love this man so much

Fascinating pro-NATO poster with Trieste as an independent member

I saw one in Gowanus and it had the big bow on top like in Christmas commercials and the bow hit an overhead wire and fell into the canal

German beat for beat remake of a Spanish movie about a party where they can’t text except in the remake it all goes wrong and everyone hates each other by the end. Comedy!

If you were a party of four on Amtrak’s Northeast Regional would you sit like THIS, or like THIS? Because I can certainly tell you how a certain group chose this morning

Bryan Mbeumo’s transfer fee could rise to as much as £71m with fees. The Brentford Community Stadium (Gtech) cost £71 million to build.

This was Vin Scully's call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. Tonight Major League Baseball cut off the first sentence, starting it with the "What a marvelous moment" part because they don't want to anger the white supremacists who run our country and of whom Rob Manfred is an ardent supporter.

Pat McAfee, former NFL player, podcaster and college football commentator, has died from eating a car battery. He was 47 years old

espn elevating Pat McAfee really feels like “you know the dumbest guy in the fantasy league? We’ve decided he must be your favorite part of all sports”

Alright listen up New York can we at least stop pretending summer is good for today? This sucks. Nobody is happy in this weather

This Chelsea strategy of “not letting them play the entire game in your own half” might just work

My baseball walkup song would be the National Geographic Symphony. I would search the crowd for a flash of recognition and make eye contact, communicating that I also loved the orca tape and the one about DRC volcanoes. Finding a fellow traveler in the crowd I’d effortlessly hit a triple

Republican Congressman Bresnahan recently sold his stock in Centene, a Medicaid health care provider. The stock has now fallen 43% since his sale. His sale seemingly coincides with his vote to advance Trump's budget bill that will kick 17 million Americans off their health care.