Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

I’m not Mormon anymore, but am beginning to build a real Sabbath day back into my week: no work, no social media (except the odd train post), no housework. Just rest, time with friends, a good movie, and maybe some extra time for spiritual devotion. It’s a good thing. I need this to stay sane.

Saw trains today instead of watching the Kirk memorial…was a good choice

I think this argument (see picture) by Jamelle Bouie, and the points that followed from David French, are exactly right. The right has gotten the idea that politicians and elites control American culture in a very top-down way. This is mostly, as Bouie says, "a bit of projection"...

Another way to build a sense of community and shared purpose with others without completely disrupting the lives young people are already living would be to expand and strengthen labor unions.

Why is fascism so stupid

We heard you like irresponsible journalism so we did some journalism from our national platform as irresponsibly as humanly possible about a community going through a major crisis, pls subscribe

T r a i n s Seriously though, this is fucked. Turns out firing a shitload of knowledgeable workers isn’t ever a good idea when you’re trying to preserve the job

The line to walk through the old engines at the train festival is over an hour long but when I was walking up the steam engine let out a whistle and I may have lost my shit a little bit

Yes hello, I am at the train festival having the time of my life

Train festival at Union Station today. You already know where I’m gonna be heheheh Me, staring at all the pretty locomotives later: ⚫️👄⚫️ T r a i n s

NEW DIGEST IS UP: Backlash to Kimmel’s firing reaches a fever pitch, Teamsters endorse Ramaswamy in Ohio, and other headlines you might have missed.

This old guard of doddering old fools are simply not equipped and unwilling to meet this moment…at all

So good. They unleashed the comics.

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Support the journalists taking pepper balls in the face

Look, if we're getting rid of the First Amendment, apparently we're getting rid of all of it... (the proper response from journalists here is "fuck no" and if you lose your press pass, so fucking be it, and start working on building up your sources inside the pentagon to continue your reporting)

One final thought, as well--if you can't handle it, don't stick it out. If it's overwhelming, you're struggling to breathe, you can't see, you're panicked, panicking, or about to panic, get the hell out of there. Live to fight another day, because trust me, there will be another one like this

Tell Hegseth to go fuck himself, and then go find five leakers who can tell you exactly how many times a day that man spills his spiked coffee as an extra fuck you

I know half a dozen women in Portland whose reproductive systems have been fucked up ever since the cops here blanketed protesters with tear gas every night for weeks. One of them had to have a hysterectomy because it was the only way they could make the bleeding stop.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Ask me how I know ;] I decided against bringing proper PPE out on Labor Day and DHS sent pepperball shrapnel at head-height into the crowd outside the MDC. We're near the end of the month and my eye is still inflamed and irritated. Just--trust me, bring it

You might feel weird carrying a helmet and a gas mask on your backpack, like you shouldn't be prepping for that kind of pitched battle on the streets of a Chicagoland suburb---Whatever cringe you might feel tacking it to your backpack is no match for what you'll feel if you decide not to bring it

Get the good PPE out, folks, seriously, especially if you have a uterus. Get gas masks with good filters, not paper masks or N95--those aren't nearly good enough to protect you. Get a full-face mask if you can. Make sure it fits well. They're relatively inexpensive--I'm serious, protect yourself.

The ABC10 news station in Sacramento was shot at today, with at least three rounds making it through the front window and into the lobby. No one injured, no clear motive; still, chilling:

The 400 richest people in the U.S. are now worth a record $6.6 trillion after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year.

I think this abbreviated version conveys the practical implications of the longer one: Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Kill People www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration? This will end it pretty much entirely. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

This is exactly how you should respond to the WH asking for your sources pre-publication, no nonsense, period. Don’t call back sources asking if it’s okay to give their names, don’t hand over the list in exchange for WH comment, say no, absolutely not.

For my latest, I wrote about how Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension is proof that when it comes to American media, it’s time to change absolutely everything:

Broadview, IL - For a few minutes, periodic arrivals of SUVs. Gregory Bovino, who recently ran deportation operations in the LA area, exited one of them, stood in front of the gate in what appeared to be some sort of stare down. A few paper balls. One man hit with at least 7.

Broadview, IL - One protester outside the facility near the gate was just hit with chemical irritant pretty dead on. Protest medics took care of him, Broadview police just arrived and are transporting him to a local hospital. Said they’re going to take a battery report.

Good morning! I’m at the Broadview Detention Facility in Chicago, Illinois. Several dozen protesters are here protesting against the ramp up in federal deportation raids in the Chicago area. Things are testy already, several attempted arrests from DHS.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Yeah man, if you’re heading out to a protest these days, assume you are being surveilled and act accordingly. Images and video that you didn’t know were taken will end up in indictments, fusion center reports, and any other intelligence file they got

The WH won’t give comment without you first divulging your sources pre-publication, then you put both middle fingers up and put that extortionist nonsense in the article The fuck

Moments from today’s protest against ABC in support of #JimmyKimmelLive ✊ #WGAStrong

A reminder that journalists should not give out source names willy nilly to government officials in exchange for comment

Several hundred @wgawest.bsky.social writers and allies raised their voices to protest ABC cancelling Kimmel at Disney today.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

ICYMI: LMU Board of Trustees decided late last week that they would invoke their religious exemption at the Catholic university and try and bust their NNT faculty union. The move is wildly unpopular, and at a 3-hour town hall on campus early this week, admins were subject to intense public shaming

Cry baby with the nuclear football

Increased consumer spending by America’s plutocrats masks rising unemployment and food insecurity for everyone else. @ddayen.bsky.social reports: trib.al/dWjy00s

After leaving his immigration hearing with his sleeping daughter in his arms, a man is confronted by ICE and CBP. He passes the child to his wife in the waiting room, shares tearful goodbyes, and is then detained and escorted toward the staircase where he’ll be brought to the 10th floor.

lmao w u t

Help em out!

This is what fascist scholars mean when they say "don't give them an inch."

lmao this is so dumb why can't our tech dystopia be less boring