Hundreds of people have packed into Chicago's Thalia Hall tonight for a community listening session on CPD collaboration with ICE/CBP. Police district councillors who gathered petition signatures required to hold tonight's hearing are opening by thanking the community for showing out.

About god damn time.

This is what our government has sent into cities across the country to arrest normal, nonviolent working people. Insanity.

Fascinating and important new research: Some men may downplay climate change risks to avoid appearing feminine www.psypost.org/some-men-may...

I've already RTed The Americans and The Leftovers, which are both incredible, but I think my actual answer is The Good Place. I watch the finale every time I need to cry and it always works

The Americans series finale is fantastic.

It’s the leftovers series finale and it’s not even close.

(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee

"Pope you need to do better"

There should be one day a year when cats can talk and we can understand them

bro they made a ballet out of Eugene Onegin??? joffrey.org/performances...

Among everything else, congestion pricing does something exceptionally rare and good when talking about transportation in the United States: it puts the costs on drivers, to the benefit of everybody (even including the drivers willing to pay for it, who get a better experience from reduced traffic).

telling my boss I can’t come back to work because I’ve discovered the joy of doing nothing

A thing I learned this year: It takes surprisingly few emails/calls to get a rep's attention. As a strategy, it's probably more effective per person to call Congress than it is to protest. Our leaders love to ignore us, but they do actually get worried when enough of us overwhelm their phones.

you’re looking for your Pam Beasley… I’m looking for my Aragorn Son of Arathorn… we are not the same

If hollywood wants more movie ticket sales they should simply make more heist movies

You can leave a message with Durbin’s Springfield office as of about 2 hours ago 217.492.4062

insider sports betting on regime change What a future

Thread of Chicago-area House and Senste responses (candidates and sitting members) to Trump’s attack on Venezuela. Duckworth’s Chicago office still lets you leave a voicemail, unlike Durbin’s: 312-886-3506

why would you even bother getting into elected office to watch democracy go quietly into the night. christ

I dunno gang, if the consul keeps engaging in self-aggrandizing imperial adventures while the senate sits impotent I might just have to retreat from public life and disappear into a dionysian mystery cult

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

2026 is the year we hold Chicago’s leaders to account for the promises they made and have abandoned. No, you do not get to kill #PlowTheSidewalks, fight against safe streets legislation, rip out safe streets infrastructure — or threaten to defund it — and call yourself a transportation champion.

Cities become so much better when we make the bus suck less; there are still many, many ways we can make the bus suck less; and as a whole we should be trying to make the things we already know how to do suck less instead of waiting/wishing/hoping for vaporware tech to save the day.

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In a year when Donald Trump called Chicago the “most dangerous city in the world," citywide killings fell to a 60-year low, down ~30% from 2024, as overall crime kept dropping. It’s the first time in a decade the city has had <500 slayings in a year. 🧵/6 w/ @sophiesherry.bsky.social & Kade Heather

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Always worth a post

Is there anywhere in Chicago where a girl can get a sauerkraut ball or 12

The California DMV is in deep need of reform. Enraging stuff, uncovered by a team of reporters at @calmatters.org calmatters.org/investigatio...

I have four cookie doughs in the fridge waiting to be baked tomorrow and now I'm too wired to sleep. this is 33

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

We tracked around 1,600 people detained in "Operation Midway Blitz" - the Chicago-area ICE raids that took place this fall. Here's where they ended up. @themarshallproject.org @geoffhing.bsky.social @shannonheffernan.bsky.social

I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines

Another way to look at it: for every $1 a bike causes, an SUV causes *$55k* worth of damage to a road

A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.

me and who

Payrolls fell -105k in October and rose +64k in November. August and September payrolls were also revised down a total of 33k. These data suggest VIRTUALLY NO EMPLOYMENT GROWTH since April ("Liberation day"). Unemployment is now up to 4.6%. This is a tricky report, so stay tuned.

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

ICE snatched a human rights hero. Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices. On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.

Watching Wake Up Dead Man and oh my goodness can we please get more smart movies about faith pls thx

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They should invent a city that doesn't spend 60% of its budget on cops

Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

oh I HATE liquid glass