I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening. A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

Federal agents warned the Broadview Police Department there would be “a sh-- show” in Broadview in response to Mayor Katrina Thompson’s comments that ICE is “making war on my community,” village officials said.

This is going to be hard on couch fuckers (see what I did here @profgalloway.com?)

NPR's @ayesharascoe.bsky.social heads to the club — the Earlybirds Club — and dances until the break of 8 p.m.

There are signs that while ICE is driving around, they may be scouting out homes where they see any signs laborers are present. If you have people working for you, whether it’s roofers, painters, landscapers, carpenters, whatever, you should have a plan to protect them if ICE shows up.

This morning's front page @chicagotribune.com. Photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social

It's time to go listen to Rage Against the Machine on repeat and let the anger flow through me.

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

1. Reaching for your wallet at a farmers' market. 2. Waving to your neighbor on your way to yoga. 3. Gesturing wildly during an argument with your spouse over which Property Brother is which.

"For the Oval Office, we asked, 'What if Liberace and Marie Antoinette had a baby? And what if that baby projectile-vomited all over the room?' Empty space was our enemy. The clearance aisle at HomeGoods was our answer." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tru...

Men doing their fair share of housework and raising children in hetero partnerships equals women wanting to procreate with them in larger numbers Ya don’t say

This is a small thread about the difference between a distraction and a diversion: When bank robbers wire the hostages to blow up while they escape through a network of tunnels, you're still going to need to both defuse the bomb, *And* catch the robbers. Diversions can cause real harm. …

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

Every single gen X scrub had two years of high school typing class and hunt and pecks 20 wpm. Every single millennial never had formal instruction and types perfect form 100 wpm because of AIM

I think the most intractable form of bigotry might be misogyny solely because we have a lot do studies that suggest that when dominant populations (read: straight white males) are heavily exposed to people who are different from them they become less biased — with one exception

Their aesthetics help to reinforce a system of gender where everyone fits in a pink box or a blue box, where the highest status people in the pink box are the pinkest and the highest status people in the blue box are the bluest, and where the whole pink box is lower status than the blue.

The older I get, the more my disdain for fireworks grows.

“I was in the midst of preparing for a potential move to Washington, D.C. to take on a new position at FBI headquarters…But, it turned out, I had made a terrible mistake: I had remained friends with someone who had appeared on Kash Patel’s enemies list.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

If it doesn't have IRB contact information it's bullshit until proven otherwise

“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

no amount of free money is going to get people to have children in a stagnant society of rampant corruption and dwindling opportunity

The ‘dog days’ of summer get their name due to their association with the Dog Star, Sirius, found in the constellation Canis Major. The first visible rising of Sirius occurs during the hot stretch from early July to early September. Woof.

A bunch of Gen Z who didn’t have to live thru “you’re either with us or against us” from the lowest days of the War On Terror and about to experience a reality tv version of a speed run. Enjoy, children!

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Elect a Republican, start a war. Every Republican president since i was a child has started a new war.

Women are lagging behind on going bankrupt on DraftKings, drinking themselves to death, and fist-fighting anyone who looks at them funny on the subway but they can catch up.

Is there a Trump policy where “people will die” doesn’t apply.

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

my current favorite TikTok account is this guy who tries to replicate women fitness influencers

Big turn out for Donald Trump's army parade

I've spent much of my career studying the legal institution known as "the posse comitatus" as well as "The Posse Comitatus Act." Here's a quick thread. Cites at the end. Posse comitatus is Latin for "power of the county," or temporarily deputized people obligated to assist law enforcers.

Notice how while ICE arrests people without a warrant, invades homes without a warrant, & disappears people into death camps—NRA is silent. Know why? Because NRA was never about firearm protection—but about white supremacy protection. As long as ICE targets mostly Black & brown people, NRA is happy

If ICE agents have families who haven’t convinced them to get out of the child snatching profession, then they can get bent too.

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

Pieces like this denigrate and demean the way people talk about trauma on the internet, but they reveal a refusal to reckon with the reality that people who love each other can also hurt each other, and we are all navigating this from birth with varying degrees of honesty and accountability

Dems really need to look at their own party mechanics as a reason people don't trust the party, rather than just focusing on messaging on "kitchen table" issues. The party spams and scams people for money and that cannot be helping the relationship with voters.

Lotta PCPs are gonna get weird patient-reported histories this year.

Kumail Nanjiani on Murderville is up there.

"You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage. I’d like to introduce you to my daughter."

To mark VE day, I am posting an old folder of anti-fascist posters from the Spanish Civil War. I originally started collecting these to try and choose an image for my book cover, and kept going because they're objectively awesome. Lost many in the last laptop migration, but the best remain...

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

Call me crazy but I don’t think unsafe baby products should be on the market. I don’t think a baby should die just because their parent didn’t replicate the NHTSA in their kitchen.

always remember: not everything is your fault, just the stuff that happened since you were born

What am I thinking! Of COURSE a nation that didn't act in any meaningful way when 20 kindergarteners were shot won't do anything to stop brown skinned stage 4 American toddlers from being illegally exiled

Thinking about how many people had to willingly help — or just not stop and say “hang on, really?” — to “deport” a US citizen child with cancer.