They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.

I wrote about the painful, hopeful, often absurd process of picking out a brand new wardrobe -- after coming out as a brand new gender-- for @flaminghydra.com: flaminghydra.com/issue-442/?a...

'We will win': Six Broadview protesters plead not guilty to conspiracy, decry attack on First Amendment UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

a “Space Force”, if you will

Pictured: Dave Franco and the only person who could get a kick out of this Now You See Me: Now You Don’t activation

What Is the Point of Voting for Democrats? www.splinter.com/what-is-the-...

Doing stretches, cracking my knuckles, etc. to lead what’s sure to be a 20+ minute standing ovation at the end of Now You Three Me

On Wednesday, Conde Nast management illegally fired four union leaders. While our union fights these illegal dismissals, the “Fired Four” have been left with no severance or COBRA coverage. Please donate to help cover their living expenses at the link below.

A marketplace no one can afford is not a marketplace at all.

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WALMART. (This is real. I took the screenshots.)

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...

Pondering the AI apocalypse

I cannot fully vouch for the final Predator ranking here, but always a treat to read @rockmarooned.bsky.social Run The Series www.avclub.com/predator-run...

I'm going to have a lot of fun covering PLURIBUS for The A.V. Club. My review of the first two episodes, in which I talk about the traditions the show fits into (and defies), Vince Gilligan's visual style, Rhea Seehorn's ability to hold multiple notes at once and more! www.avclub.com/pluribus-pre...

This isn't the first time that Donna and I have written about the same show, but this is the first time that we'll be doing weekly reviews for different publications at the same time. You won't want to miss Donna's, so please subscribe if you aren't already!

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Rally to protest the teacher violently taken by federal agents at a private daycare this morning on Addison near Western.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world

why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop

Teen Vogue has produced some of the strongest and most important political journalism of the past few years. This is a monstrous development. I am so sorry for everyone.

Absolutely mind-boggling decision when people like Lex have made Teen Vogue a must-read

A pair of provocateurs put generative AI into their festival films this year and, predictably, it pissed people off. We talked to them about why. www.avclub.com/ai-filmmaker...

I find it immensely heartening that so many normal people are seeing and defying the obscenity of what ICE/CBP is trying to do in Chicago, but stories like this also make clear how much more disciplined those people are than the state violence worker guys. www.reuters.com/world/us/wer...

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

We launched just five months ago, and since then, we’ve led the way in fearless reporting on the reproductive rights and justice beat. We've done that as a team of two working part-time—now we need your help to make our work sustainable. Help us raise $50,000 by 12/31 with a tax-deductible gift:

ICE Broadview. Tense. there have been arrests & clashes. wearing a gas mask bec we just got gased a couple times. I heard there are pepper balls but I didn’t see any. I just posted an Instagram reel — Illinois State police & other cops are facing off in Beach St, www.instagram.com/reel/DQhmRip...

Last night, the National Guard chased children who were out enjoying Halloween in Navy Yard. There is no valid reason for armed soldiers to terrorize children like this. End Trump’s occupation of DC. National Guard out NOW.

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670 Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy? You’re doing their dirty work.

Perfection

On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

ICE is in the area - I can hear the helicopters - and now the superintendent of our K-8 district just emailed to say all schools will have indoor recess today as a precautionary measure. Such cruel, craven men terrorizing Chicagoland and elsewhere.

Always with the “overspending” and never with the “underpaying”

It’s me! I don’t see many people talking about Gibney in the context of King’s work, and I has thoughts.

Grab a blanket and a bag of candy, because director Oz Perkins helped us prepare a 24-hour horror marathon for your seasonal delight:

Singing “This Year” at karaoke will continue until conditions improve

Did you know that, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible?

Leave it to @salonig.bsky.social to find the most hidden gem of a Stephen King adaptation

1985's The Mist is not a good video game. There are no good Stephen King video games. 1985's The Mist helps explain WHY there are no good Stephen King video games.

We started our Stephen King retrospective with a look at why The Stand seems to defy adaptation. Now here's @plumberduck.bsky.social with a corker of a piece on why a successful video game based on King's work remains even further out of reach.

The hunger police………….