UPDATE: At 1:27 a.m. on Sept. 28, Unraveled Press reports that co-founder Steve Held has been released. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

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They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.

🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

The US's martial law fiasco is coming, and the pro-Constitution objectors won't be getting any medals under this administration.

temp check from Chicago: just witnessed four wine moms in the wine bar in a Marianos grocery store on the Far North Side swapping recommendations on where to buy “Fuck ICE” t-shirts

Will TikTok users sign off after this new deal puts the algorithms in MAGA/Tech Bros control? Parents w/kids addicted to TikTok...what now? Major social media platforms are controlled by *anti-democracy forces* that want users hooked, manipulated. What's the plan? #Resist 🧾 is.gd/TjKLmc

This is a thoughtful and interesting conversation. (Written transcript as well as audio.)

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

I often think about all those cartoon characters jumping into leaf piles, because I've looked at what's in the leaf litter. Slugs, ticks, centipedes, spiders, all kinds of bugs. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

we do need this one on T-shirts actually

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

They're not even going to pretend to be subtle about turning TikTok into a 24/7 MAGA propaganda machine

Bird migration sights and sounds from the wee hours over Chicago

Which makes it funnier that one of Elon’s first lines of attack against DJT was that DJT is in the Epstein files. “I know you are but what am I?”

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

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I would not schedule 7 and 9 am breakfast meetings with different people, but then again, who doesn’t love second breakfast?

My digital subscription to @rollingstone.com auto-renewed for another year. Only $9.99! I go there for the political reporting, which eschews both-sides-ism. When so much news media is complying in advance, it's good to support news providers that don't. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

That was unexpected! Got a call from a Congressional candidate. She's been calling Dem voters around the state to see what issues matter to them. We actually had a nice chat! Now I have her cell phone # & can text her. It's a crowded field, about 20 candidates to replace Jan Schakowsky.

"Jim Crow is over and the tradeoffs we face today are nothing on that scale": oh, is that so? Are we sure? (h/t @sorayanadiamcdonald.com)

"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.

And regarding Tylenol... bsky.app/profile/drer...

This is, I think, the best push alert and makes me wonder why this directness isn’t the norm.

If it were Biden saying not to take "aceto---well how do we say that?" then righties would be POUNDING tylenol right now in defiance.

I love how the Lenny Kravitz scarf meme from 2010 keeps resurfacing

Co-sign. My local pantry has gotten a monthly donation from me for a while, but it’s even more necessary now.

It's the Equinox...time again for me to remind you about the EquineOx: that mythopoetic, all-knowing horse/ox hybrid. Mysterious bringer of socks & other sundry goodies. A godling of the changing seasons. Friends: may the EquineOx bring you many blessing this day!

As I've said before, for a chronic, loggorrheic liar, Donald Trump can be shockingly honest, such as when he said at Charlie Kirk's funeral: "I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them.” That's why he wants to send the military into Chicago. Not to reduce crime, but to hurt the city.

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Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Please read about the terrible impact(s) of tear gas which is a weapon of WAR: issuu.com/projectnia/d...

The Feds were extremely violent towards protestors today, including public officials and the media. thetriibe.com/2025/09/and-...

Also ew. A month later, and ICE still thinks trivia buffs who respect knowledge are interested in becoming ICE agents. I assume our taxpayer dollars are paying for these TV ads?

The really interesting part of this obit of the Olive-Garden Reviewer (I'm using my library sub to read it) is she had a BA in Journalism - but faced gender discrimination when she graduated. So she was a professional journalist in a college town who raised kids & tried to freelance.

"If you had to guess what percentage of American adults are transgender..." Survey Guess: 21% Actual Share of the US Population: Less than 1% - YouGov -

As we move toward our fall subscription drive, we hope you’ll consider supporting us in part bc we are an independent media company. No, crosswords are not as vital as journalism. But yes, all content that we consume matters, and it should be as free as possible from corporate control.

If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters

Every trans person i i ow who has spoken out about the trans athlete issue warned that this would happen to cis girls. We were showing compassion for female athletes even as everyone else was calling us the worst imaginable names and slurs possible and denying our genders.

what I'm learning from the fact that every one of these decisions has a "huge merger waiting to be approved" factor is that we should no longer allow mergers sorry, you can't buy any other companies anymore, too dangerous to civil society only antitrust breakups allowed

Question Mark xkcd.com/3143/

Frankly, find it frustrating the 2-18 recommendation. It doesn't reflect IMO the harms of Long Covid, which the only way you're not going to get is to not get Covid, which vaccines reduce the risk of (as does masking, clean air etc)

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

Attention #CrosswordConstructors! A Life-Long Learners Club in Huntley, IL, would like to hear a talk on crossword construction. Anyone close enough to want to give that talk? @giltcomplex.bsky.social? @sallyhoelscher.bsky.social? @aaronson.bsky.social if in town?

I will never understand people who go to get a COVID vaccine but don’t wear a mask while getting one. It takes a while for COVID vaccine protection to kick in, you are still at risk while you are getting vaccinated and several days afterwards.