Don’t shop at Target.

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance. If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

That’s a monstrance - the Blessed Sacrament - a very big sacramental deal to Catholics (and many Anglicans and other high liturgy folks also). A powerful statement about the Body of Christ, which includes the immigrants being held inside that facility.

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Folks who think "cats are not loving" have never been loved by a cat.

Antisemitic much?

"Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job" - chant that has become a regular part of the Broadview demonstrations, according to the Rev. David Black, as reported by @jackjenkins.me

A lot going on here, but a religion note: DHS Assistant Sec. Tricia McLaughlin refers to Rev. Black as a "pastor" here — using quotation marks. It's a notable slight against a faith leader's status, as Black is, in fact, an ordained minister of a church operating within the Presbytery of Chicago.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Forgive, restore, and strengthen us

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not. “Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Repeat: Mass cruelty targeted at vulnerable kids

They can call it whatever they want, but by setting up a "Unified Command" to handle crowd control at Broadview, the Cook County Sheriffs and the Illinois State Police are performing security work for ICE—something that is not supposed to happen in this state.

This ruling is bad, but it is a lot scarier than just removal of this specific book. The argument that public library collections are "government speech," as accepted here, could be leveraged to undermine the entire existence of libraries period. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/fede...

Good morning! You feel like you’re going crazy because their attempts to bludgeon you into submission with weaponized unreality aren’t working on you. Keep it up. You’re doing great.

What in the actual.

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

Nah

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time Klein: "Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic." They lynched a kid last week.

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The Deputy Chief of Staff... is in charge of military strikes? Do we even have a president?

“I’m all for unifying, I’m all for bridging gaps, but not at the expense of my neighbor’s humanity. I just can’t.” Thank you for this, Ta-Nehisi Coates. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ta-nehisi-coates.html

Remember when Elon sent a mini-sub to rescue the boys from the cave in Thailand and the rescue diver said it would never work so Elon called him a pedophile? Anyway, Elon is in the Epstein files.

More than 1800 detainees who were interned in Trump's shuttered Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp have now disappeared without a trace. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

I was at an event tonight where a French cardinal spoke. The room was quite chatty when he stood up, and he said: “Hello. (pause) (somberly) Do you… know the silence?” Now, I am almost certain this was a lost in translation thing—but IF EVER there was a message from the global Church to the US!!!

Businesses, residents, and municipal officials in Wisconsin are being asked to turn off non-essential outdoor lights on Wednesday night from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. to help protect migrating birds.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

One side has UNLIMITED no strings attached money and the other asks for 50 pages of paperwork for $10,000.

If you have not yet read this book: get it. Read it. Absorb its lessons. I have met the author and heard her speak. This is solid stuff.

Kimmel was suspended for offending the president, after coordination between the FCC commissioner and a huge media company. This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.

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

Oh you thought all those people subscribing to watch Andor didn’t understand what the show was about?

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

“As a religious leader, I don’t serve political powers, the principalities of this age. I serve Jesus of Nazareth, who came as a stranger, was oppressed by a state system and taught us and told us to welcome the stranger and to stand with all who suffer.” — Episcopal Bishop Julia Whitworth ⚓️

Exactly this

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

This is five times the number of people who die each year worldwide from all causes.