Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

* Most October layoffs since 2003 * Most Q4 layoffs since 2008 * Most YTD layoffs since 2020 * Least YTD hiring since 2011 * Least holiday seasonal hiring since 2012 The labor market has a problem. www.axios.com/2025/11/06/l...

Dear people who don't live in the Chicago area, Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.

So after the billionaires failed to launch themselves and their billionaire friends into space, with our tax dollars. They've decided to let their billionaire defense contractor friends build a "ballroom" with our tax dollars. Billionaires should've read a little world history. #SheShed

If the government was a private company, it wouldn’t be paying $5 million a year for Vought’s personal security detail.

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A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)

The Sun-Times has been tracking prices for 35 grocery items across four stores, since December. We found most stayed the same or increased, with our shopping cart’s total price rising by up to $11. We plan to continue tracking prices and sharing results. https://trib.al/KANj27U

There is plenty of fraud and grift in the White House. We do not need any more, and we certainly don't need to risk Americans' hard-earned savings just so that crypto billionaires can get richer. I'm voting NO on the CLARITY Act.

Hey, if the media is interested in a cover-up of a senile president who's not really in control of his White House, there's one going on right now?

John Sununu got forced out of the cabinet for improperly spending $615,000 ($1.4 million today) on travel.

Silenced Science Stories is “an illustrated series of portraits and stories of scientific experts whose work is being affected by federal budget cuts and mass firings”. [kottke.org]

I've noted before that to become an elected Republican in DC requires you to be a fascist, a sycophant or a coward. There's something for all of their competing factions on the floor next week. But there is nothing to address the very real and urgent issues faced by those we are sent to represent.

Collapsing US equity markets as investors flee not only equities but also US treasuries leading to a weaker dollar, all self-inflicted by Trump's tariffs and a growing natsec crisis at DoD... and here's what the House GOP is prioritizing for the next 2 weeks.

This is really bad. The Trump WH is treating the health of the planet with the same ignorance and disregard that RFK Jr brings to the health of the American people. Being stupid and relying on quack cures while you stick your brainwormed head in the sand solves nothing. www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/c...

@wgntv.com good morning. You’re doing your viewers a disservice by not including the fact the would be Trump assassin wanted to instigate a race war by showing chaos. He also is reported to be a fan of Neo Nazi philosophy. I’m unclear if he was a formal member of a group.

@durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @seancasten.bsky.social

We will make national parks and historic sites free for all Canadians this upcoming summer.

Imposing tariffs that will make nearly everything more expensive to remake the US economy to include more... low/mid-wage manufacturing jobs? From people who fight against wage increases, regulations, and unions? Who coddle tech bros wanting to replace jobs with software/robots? What could go right?

if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders

This is fascinating - and also resonates with my last couple of months on X before the Musk-Farage race riots led me to delete X completely.

Big Balls & Co. wreaking havoc in people's lives

The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."

And I don't know if anyone at the K9 unit has one, but remember that they can't even use a government credit card to buy dog food, since DOGE set their credit limits to $1. Officers will have to sneak in dog food they bring from home or otherwise pay for personally.

Congrats to the 99 Senators who decided this man should be Secretary of State

McConnell abused the filibuster to make America worse. Schumer is refusing to use the filibuster to... accomplish what, exactly?

OUTRAGEOUS: A Canadian woman was put in chains for 24 hours and detained by ICE in an “inhumane” facility after trying to get her new visa.

Trump's Acting SSA Commissioner just changed the agency's policies so when they make a mistake, beneficiaries pay the price. Their new default overpayment withholding rate means recipients could lose their entire check. It's cruel and just the beginning of Trump's plans to destroy Social Security.

What happens after we have demonized everyone who doesn’t look, move, or pray exactly like we do? What happens when fascism takes over? We are not doomed to repeat our history. We can learn from it, and we can reject hate and authoritarianism.

Cowards all the way down. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

Is anybody else a little concerned that the tech whiz kids who have the keys to virtually all government systems and are canceling federal cyber security contracts experienced a paralyzing hack of their most recent employer?

Grim thread:

Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in Texas. By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill

wait, you’re telling me that by objecting to unanimous consent, a single senator can grind the body to a halt?

At 5 pm Fri, the Social Security Admin announced that it will withhold the *entire* Social Security benefits of overpaid seniors & people w/disabilities, even if not their fault—reversing a Biden-era reform that limited repayment to 10% of the monthly benefit. This will cause needless suffering.

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

Stock manipulation

Why I'm not going. casten.house.gov/media/press-...

The idea is that Ukraine should trust Russia enough to make peace but the same people who push Ukraine to trust Russia are not willing to deploy troops to Ukraine to protect the peace, because they don't trust Russia.

US Border Patrol doing a bang-up job, detaining a German tourist with passport & visa indefinitely because...she might tattoo here. Just one of countless horror stories... German tourist held indefinitely in immigrant detention facility www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

It is reprehensible that the President of the United States is abandoning the rules-based post-WWII order is abandoning it. Why is the party of Ronald Reagan unwilling to lift a finger to defend the United States against Russian assets?

Vance and Trump are, for all practical purposes, Russian foreign assets. Zelenskyy has more patriotism, decency and commitment to democracy than these two will ever know.

Imagine being so terrified of Elon Musk and Donald Trump that the only way you are willing to advocate for the HUMANE treatment of federal public servants is to do so *privately*.

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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

Donald Trump promised to let Elon Musk self-police his conflicts of interest. The result? Those investigating his companies have been fired. Cases against his companies have been dismissed. The corrupt self-dealing is staggering.

This is the right approach with Trump. He is a bully, and like all bullies, he is a coward. He only hits people who fold. Hit back and he moves to weaker targets. And if we all stand up, his narcissism will self-destruct on himself. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...