What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba

Millions of Americans understand that scapegoating minorities is wrong. But many cannot see or respond to conditions in which scapegoats are the majority in a society. "Women ruin everything" has deadly material consequences not just for women, but for societies as a whole, as 2025 has shown us.

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

The feds raided an East Chicago home, arrested a mother and her 26-year-old schizophrenic daughter. She's been here since she's 2. In ICE custody, she had no meds and chose to leave the country. Now she's in Mexico, barely speaks Spanish, and her family can't find her.

NEW: A civil rights organization sued the Trump administration Saturday over a new policy barring nonprofits from helping new U.S. citizens register to vote, calling it part of a “broader effort to ensure that new Americans cannot exert their democratic will on the nation.”

ICE has arrested more than 3,000 people in New Jersey since President Trump took office for a second term. Advocates are pushing lawmakers to enshrine into law a directive that limits cooperation between ICE and local law enforcement.

"[T]his is not just a secret war, but a secret unauthorized war. Or, in reality, a make-believe war, because most of these groups we probably couldn’t even be in a war with,” said @bcfinucane.bsky.social about US claims it is in armed conflict with 24 cartel groups theintercept.com/2025/11/07/t...

"'Everyone is staying home, everyone is scared,' Macias told me. 'There's so much uncertainty. COVID was bad, but this is way worse.'"

Thinking about the many times I've seen "Obama is ignorant" or "AOC doesn't understand economics" or the like while Trump belches out a half-baked insincere proposal for a two-step version of the same ACA subsidy he's trying to eliminate.

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

Not the onion

from a GU colleague: bsky.app/profile/stev...

what's there to say, really?

just a reminder that yesterday ICE tried to probe northwest portland and got shut down by blocks worth of people roving the streets looking for them. they didn't return today.

My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.

A couple episodes into the pandemic and the critical role cast is just dying laughing about a game of boulder parchment sheers. Hydraulic theory of emotions.

San Francisco International Airport: Important Travel Notice ✈️ The FAA is requesting a reduction in air travel, starting tomorrow. Airlines are responding to this request, and will notify their passengers of changes to flight schedules. Please make sure to check […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

So glad the NYT is open to printing such brave differences of opinion on topics that are under serious discussion in this great nation.

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

Whenever I can, I go to Broadview ICE, where BP and ICE agents are coming in and out, and I hold a sign that says ICE IS EVIL, and I say those words. Because this is evil. It's just evil.

Okay so it was 10 years ago but it also involved Michael Chiklis

@mcuban.bsky.social do you believe democrats are making a big mistake by not engaging with the Stew Community?

"--what recourse do you have... but to live?" #frankenstein @realgdt.bsky.social

this is still so incredibly condescending though. as if zohran is less serious than eg cuomo about his duties and his public responsibility??????? which of the two ran a campaign that actually connected to the needs and struggles of the electorate and which is the fucking serial sexual harasser ????

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

even the FBI under Patel can't keep a lid on this

New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky

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.

Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?

Of course the president can’t subvert the Constitution by lying that there’s an emergency. If lying that there’s an emergency is a magic loophole granting the executive branch the powers of Congress, there’s no point to Article I. The fact that this is even a question is a sign of degradation.

this is genuinely wild

HE DID IT!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 I am literally crying. I don't even go there. But I'm so happy for my friends in New York.

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

What we know so far, 9:30pm —Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani up —Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy. —Dems sweep Orlando council —PA: Dem justices up big —Maine anti-mail vote measure down —Krasner wins

Zohran Mamdani wins! He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win. Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.

Philip K. Dick gets it right again. Let's hear it for the vague blurs!

Recall a similar observation being made after Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico — hurricanes don’t just kill with wind and rain, but also (and mostly) through power outages, displacement, and fracturing of support networks.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

this is America

Why the news discourse doesn't really matter. It's so wild for isolated bubble (elitist???) me to ask someone what good shows they're watching and get YouTube links. Don't get me wrong there is good stuff on there. But it's what my Trumpist in-laws watch.

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

got lucky enough to see him in a small combo a year or two ago and it was like being transported to another, much better planet. His bassist did a nearly 10 minute-long thing with just a loop station and it made me spontaneously weep.

My 8th grader had a lab report to finish this weekend. I plotted his data and estimated a linear regression model. The model explained 98.8% of the variance! I was so jealous... the lab applied a constant heat source to an initial mixture of ice water, but still! 98.8%!!

The science is clear: SNAP is critically important for the health of over 40m Americans. We are mobilizing @standupforscience.bsky.social to collect food, in partnership with local food banks all across the country. 🤝 Get involved here: www.standupforscience.net/sufs-food-dr...

I’ve been told this neighborhood is pro-cop and went for Vallas, and that literally single-handedly convinced me to come back tomorrow am.