greg bovino and a caravan of roughly 10 border patrol suvs are back to terrorize cicero. they continue to return to the same places again and again. reports of abductions at the home depot. one at the bp station. a return to the walmart parking lot they kidnapped someone at yesterday.

DHS used a wide variety of weapons against people in Elgin yesterday, not only tear gas. Some wild photos in this writeup from @domguan.bsky.social:

I should have expected it, but it still shocks me how little news orgs care about the fact that corruption has destroyed nearly all consumer/labor/environmental/public safety protection and corporate oversight during Trump's second term media ownership supports this outcome

Reining in large for-profit academic publishers and valuing researchers for quality over quantity must be central as we reimagine the future of scholarly publishing.

Reminder that the CSU system is spending $17 million on ChatGPT.

The absolute fucking irony.

Our ten years of work is finally out in Current Biology! We reveal a new mode of action of the bacterial phytotoxin coronatine produced by Pseudomonas syringae. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Another great story on fANTastic biology.

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..." Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Been thinking a lot abt James Baldwin’s excellent Report from Occupied Territory in the context of ICE abuses & military deployments to our communities. Couldn’t be clearer that “occupied territory” is the form of governance pursued by this lawless regime.

I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

JUST IN: The Justice Department formally appeals U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction, which restricts the use of force against protesters and journalists.

As recently as the late 1980s, tuition at @uwmadison.bsky.social was <$1000/semester. In current dollars, that's about $2500/semester. There is one central reason for that: the <massive decline in state funding>. This was a choice. Other choices remain readily available.

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-...

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:

And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.

This thread is about Evanston, but this has also been going on without reprieve in Elgin, Aurora, and other Chicago suburbs—a metro area of nearly 10 million people.

I’ve been tracking this contract since 2023, and last week, Cook County quietly renewed it. As ICE raids continue across Chicago, the board approved another $1M deal with a data broker tied to ICE. My latest for @southsideweekly.bsky.social

"it seems reasonable to conclude that the administration, through Miller and his team, is selecting boats more or less at random, and intentionally killing people who could be captured, because they think it’s fun." prospect.org/2025/10/23/p...

Pretty insane to think there will be at least some number of Americans who will get their military news from a conspiracy-poisoned pillow salesman

One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NEW: A Border Patrol spokesperson could not tell @wttw.bsky.social whether these agents' body-worn cameras recorded this interaction. A federal judge ordered all federal agents to have their cameras on while interacting with members of the public.

Border Patrol has reportedly detained several people in Little Village this morning. Video from Facebook shows Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and his agents walking the streets as warning whistles blow in the background.

US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold. [In some cases, to zero.] Story by @alexwitze.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BREAKING: The Trump regime is now illegally and unconstitutionally slashing the DOE national labs. The DOGEing continues. * widespread RIFs * Sandia California in Livermore may shut down entirely #nokings cc @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @energycommerce.bsky.social

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

ICE spotted near Kenwood Academy today.

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists." Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.* newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Big girl admiring the alleyway Physalis

Nobel Prize given for showing the importance of investing in science for innovation and long-term economic growth. Basically the opposite of what the US is doing. 😭

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Four cemetery workers, all U.S. citizens, arrested during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that crossed over onto the private Concordia Cemetery in the west suburban village of Forest Park.

thirteen people were arrested on charges of "disobeying a police officer," per ccso news releases. there's no criminal charge in illinois under that name, but there is a similar violation listed in the illinois vehicle code: (lawyers plz correct me if i'm wrong) www.ilga.gov/Documents/le...

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word. share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...

Current view outside the Broadview, around 50 or so people with lawn chairs, yoga mats sitting a listening to speeches from Jane Goodall.

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care. Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park. His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win. But at NIH we have seen this exact play before. It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture. A 🧵:

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning. A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

When sex chromosomes turnover, they can reset the rules of genomic conflict. New preprint exploring how turnover reshapes barriers to gene flow through an “escape-hatch” model for mitonuclear conflict. Any feedback would be welcome! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

saw this message today on the natural resources conservation service website while downloading some weather data. I'm no lawyer, but it seems like this type of messaging is pretty plainly illegal under the Hatch Act

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Important piece from @brianbeutler.bsky.social One feature of conservatives’ refusal to provide any reasoning in emergency docket orders is it allows to see which way the political winds are blowing when they finally rule on the merits & adjust outcomes as needed open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...