🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

WE GOT MORE VIDEO OF ICE FALLING ON ICE

Friendly reminder that Third Way blows and anybody in the Democratic party who is listening to them should be shot into the sun (unfortunately that may require a very large rocket to the sun)

Man their drill sergeant is gonna fuck them up. Oh, wait…that’s right, these guys are almost all incapable of success in a professional volunteer military

She said I'm 56 years young and taking a flash bang for my neighbors was on my bucket list ❤️

Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.

👀 Googling says that "ASAC" stands for "Assistant Special Agent in Charge", and "SSA" is "Supervisory Special Agent" So, we got ICE/CBP agent names now

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

This whole thing is mealy horseshit but "we have to live with each other" is downright incoherent when the dispute is whether murder in pursuit of mass-kidnappings to ethnically cleanse the country is bad or not.

"empire of vice" is marked by a "brazenness with which the administration defies norms of truth-telling and decency" super helpful framing for me bc it undercuts my efforts as a teacher of children who don't remember a time before trumpism every single day www.liberalcurrents.com/to-my-studen...

Very much a "the purpose of a system is what it does" situation. The trained/"untrained" debate is just cover. Look at the system, look at what it is doing. This is a paramilitary state militia rounding up minorities and supressing dissent which is pushing the limits to see how violent they can be.

NEWS --> Reps Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman are introducing a new bill to strip ICE officers of qualified immunity, making lawsuits and prosecutions easier. They also say agent who killed Renee Good should be prosecuted in Minnesota. They break this news on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2051...

I’m not linking but I just read a columnist (one of my favorites) say Trump “has no ideology beyond his own power.” Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.

Exclusive: I obtained testimony from the Dec. trial where Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, describes an incident in June where he smashed a car window, is dragged 100 yards, and tased a Guatemalan man 10 times. "I feared for my life," he said.

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

happy anniversary of christopher columbus mistaking manatees for mermaids and complaining about how mid they were

There has to be a more complete solution than orcas

"Records show Chicago Public Media CEO Melissa Bell, who succeeded Moog in September 2024, earned close to $190,000 through the end of that year." I am very, very curious about what Bell's full annual comp was in 2025. NFP executive salaries *do not* have to outpace other staff by such extremes.

This whole “targeting daycares out of faux concern about taxpayer money” seems like another way of getting women out of the workforce w/the added bonus of terrorizing Black & Brown ppl but I could be wrong

You've all had enough time to see this movie. The funniest 6 words delivered on screen this year and it's not close.

Hey Thank you for the lovely toupée But you don’t know The life of a showgirl, babe And you’re never gonna wanna

After their violent raid into Evanston on Halloween, I'm not too surprised Bovino and Border Patrol are back in Chicagoland right before Christmas. No day is sacred to the faceless gestapo army; if anything it seems one of their goals is to destroy the idea that any time or place may be sacred.

"we have a trillionaire" I'd argue that a trillionaire "has us"

If you give multiple interviews to Vanity Fair and don’t know whether or not you are on or off the record - then you are not qualified to be a chief of staff. Speaking as a chief of staff.

Congressional Republicans just made health care more expensive for millions of Americans.

FULL STORY: CPD officials failed to document more than half of all reprimands of officers and more than a third of all suspensions between 2016 and 2021, according to an audit released Tuesday by the city’s watchdog. @wttw.bsky.social

Since the start of the year, Chicago taxpayers spent $204.6 million to resolve lawsuits brought by 22 people wrongfully convicted based on evidence gathered by the Chicago Police Department, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News. https://to.wttw.com/48PCrlM

getting above freezing today so I guess these rats think they can handle the weather again

Maybe Bovino is back bc he's got his widdow feewings hurt about the sun times telling the truth about him and his obvious hangups It would be a shame if people kept reading and sharing that story

Post-information society/ascendent fantasy society

retired seniors tend not to meet drug dealers in darkened alleys

sir the rats released another tell-all about the sinking ship

I believe in forgiveness for everyone, except people who use “So what are you working on next?” as a conversational icebreaker

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer accused of using his gun and badge to rape multiple women will be held in federal custody while awaiting trial, a judge ruled Monday.

so if whatever can be designated as a weapon of mass destruction now can the next prez do carbon emissions?

Look how they massacred my boy

Chicago hit its peak population in 1950, but it hit its peak share of the regional population 50 years earlier in 1900 when 4 out of 5 people in Chicagoland lived within the city limits. Suburbanization began accelerating after that, before exploding in the post-war years.

America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?

Yo Cook County residents - check it out: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/...

“Your property taxes are higher than they should be because commissioners on the Cook County Board of Review keep handing out massive tax breaks to corporations, which shifts their tax burden onto homeowners like you.” chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

Kaegi is the anti-machine choice for assessor, he raises commercial assessments which then get shot down by the machine controlled Board of Review. Because commercial values go down residential properties have to shoulder more of the property tax burden. Everyone then blames Kaegi for this

There are 56,000 of them, the wealthiest 0.001% of the planet with at least €254 million in assets. Together, they now own three times more than the poorest half of humanity or 2.8 billion adults …Back in 1995, the 0.001% held "only" twice as much as the poorest half. www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

A federal judge ruled in a class action lawsuit that the way Cook County handles unpaid property taxes violates the U.S. Constitution, a win for homeowners who lost their properties.

I'll never forget staggering out of bed post C-section to visit my NICU baby for weeks. It was probably the hardest thing I've lived through even though it was uneventful and the tiny baby is now almost my height. I cannot imagine what this woman has suffered. Abolish ICE, amnesty now.

“These fundamentally unjust spikes, which could put many residents at risk of losing their homes, are the result of appeal reductions in the value of downtown commercial properties.” 💯 wgntv.com/news/chicago...

I hope Santa brings me a Miwaukee Stan Perpler!

There was a tweet some years back that was like "Being a Democrat is like going to a concert where the band is telling everyone to calm down the whole time" and I think about it a lot

this is why i will never give up my circa 2010 dvd boxset of THE WIRE. i don't give a shit about high def for older tv shows, give me the original aspect ratio (need to get my hands on an old simpsons boxset for this reason as well)

I feel like the fractures we are seeing in the MAGA coalition have some people hoping the status quo will simply make a roaring comeback, and judicial consequences will simply engulf all of the bad guys. There's really no precedent that supports that expectation.