HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

Since 2022, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, and Friko have gone global—but what happened with the teen scene they grew out of? I talked to 18 different people about the Hallogallo scene now chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

I read a few paragraphs. Cause I rarely do. This guy is in so over his head.

At least 26 unhoused Chicagoans have been kidnapped by federal agents since September, including a man I'm calling Theo, a quiet day laborer who lived near Gompers Park. Two other people were also recently taken from this community. chicagoreader.com/news/ice-bor...

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

startin to feel like 2026 is the whole story

The shutdown is about not letting Trump have unfettered access to our tax money because Congress has decided it doesn't need to exist anymore. Government is literally just a big bank account we all pay into. And we're getting zero in return. That's what the shutdown is about.

FULL STORY: Finding that federal agents repeatedly used force that “shocks the conscience” and lied about their actions, a federal judge issued a sweeping injunction designed to permanently rein in agents’ use of tear gas and pepper balls. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2025/11/06/f...

still believe, more than ever, in the power of good still news photo

And this is what they call “the ole Chappaquiddick Farewell” in the Kennedy family, dude couldn’t help it, it’s in his blood.

Something I think gets lost in the debate over ACA enhanced premium tax credits: 65% of ACA marketplace enrollees have incomes under 200% of the poverty level ($31,300 for a single person). These are folks who make too much for Medicaid but don't have access to employer coverage.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

This seems like a really *really* good point that needs making

"Several teachers fled with a student and hid in a back of a pickup truck, “terrified of being found,” Meadow said." “They weren’t sure what was going on. ICE, an attack on the school — they didn’t know,” Meadow said."

Dems took multiple votes in 2021-2022 on the Freedom to Vote Act, which would ban partisan gerrymandering, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would (re-)ban racial gerrymandering. Republicans blocked them every time.

The Murray Rothbard articulation of the conservative movements goal to “undo the twentieth century” is often cited in their attacks on the accomplishments of the New Deal and the Civil Rights Movement, but they very much mean the Second Wave feminists, too.

Team reality is winning. At least in this courtroom.

Good golly #Nuggets

Worry about this a lot

This is the teacher federal agents grabbed yesterday at Rayito De Sol daycare in front of children. Attorneys for Diana Santillana have filed a petition in federal court to have her freed from ICE custody.

It seems like a post-Trump left-wing US government, obsessed with pursuing revenge against Trump and Trumpists, would be an absolutely perfect weapon to destroy corruption in FIFA and thus gain the gratitude of the world's soccer fans.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who is still ruling, indicates a preliminary injunction is on the way.

Ellis attacks the characterization of rapid responders as "agitators": "Describing rapid response networks - neighborhood moms - as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are," Ellis says.

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I can’t count on the ADL to defend me or my family from the White Christian nationalists who control the federal government. I can count on the ADL to attack my political allies (especially people of color!) fighting for freedom and justice for all. They should disband.

All things go motherfucker

Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Was today the first good day of 2025

Felt like a ho-hum standard Jokic game. Kinda bonkers that it could have easily been 20 assists.

Nikola Jokic 33-15-16 on 12 of 18 shooting, three steals and three turnovers. Unreal. Nuggets win, they're 5-2, undefeated at home.

Herro’s cap lol #Nuggets

Big Val flubbing #Nuggets

Nugs are putting on an absolute clinic on flubbing insane Jokic passes

Joker’s fifth triple-double of the season. The rest of the #nba also has five. #nuggets

#Nuggets

Jokic behind the head no look pass out of a double team, finish your drink.

How many times have you seen the pass from Jokic parting Sabonis’s hair #Nuggets

D from CB! #Nuggets

THAT PASS #Nuggets

Going to need a second quarter highlight reel #Nuggets

This was an insane needle-threading, on both ends #Nuggets

You mean markeiff morris him #Nuggets

The NBA is really gonna shorten Jokic's career with the lack of protection he gets. Watching him get clawed every possession down then seeing "Andrew Wiggins" get a touch foul next time down in the post. The whole point of fouls is to protect from injuries, in case you forgot.

Hardaway is good. #Nuggets

like CB’s rebounding. Been waiting for that to kick in #Nuggets

“Spoelstra is having a Howard Beale moment here” lol #Nuggets