Ukraine facing widespread power cuts after generating capacity reduced to ‘zero’ by Russian attacks Power to be cut for as much as 16 hours a day across most of Ukraine while repairs are carried out www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The passive aggressive sulking phase has begun.

Lastly there’s Emmanuel Garcia, a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing a month ago. Houston PD had his mother’s missing persons report, but chose to call ICE. He’s been in federal custody ever since, and his mother has not been allowed to see him www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Mildred is unamused by my late night presence in the office.

National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/h... #SNAP #shutdown #hunger

For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police. It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

I’m grateful that I only have overnight work hours a few times per year. But tonight is one of those nights.

OK, I take back anything nice I ever said about Chuck Schumer. He’s an incompetent clown. And a big 🖕 to the other Dem senators who are willing to cave. Idiots.

“three former U.S. officials told HuffPost” - name them. Not that I don’t believe it, by this point Biden was completely ineffectual, Blinken a clown, and McGurk has long been a complete jackass.

Thanks to Donald Trump, we have corrections like “the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas.” Fucking monsters.

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID. He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

ICE violently arrested a protester and pointed assault rifles at unarmed community members filming today in Little Village, Chicago.

There’s been a lot of discussion about Schumer’s proposal the other day and whether or not he was caving or if he was calling their bluff. I’m now convinced that it’s the latter. The Dems next move is simple - make the fascists own it.

While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too. If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole. apnews.com/article/pets...

A Waukegan councilman was briefly detained by U.S. immigration agents on Friday, and he says the agents drew their guns on him while he was sitting in his car with his hands raised. “My life flashed before my eyes,” said Ald. Juan Martinez.

I’d imagine that Judge Ellis will be displeased when she sees this.

A photo album of Trump Gestapo motherfuckers in Chicago on November 7, 2025.

The photographer who is aiming his camera at this federal agent aiming a gun back at him works for the Chicago Tribune. He is not a “protester armed with (an) iPhone.” Please credit the source and use alt text with the photo. Here is the original: bsky.app/profile/mand...

I’ll believe shots were fired when there’s evidence that shots were fired, because I don’t believe a goddamn thing that spews forth out of this regime’s pie hole.

CBP/ICE was supported by the FBI this morning in Little Village, with reports of plainclothes feds seen in vehicles across the area. This also included using Chicago FBI HQ for staging. Bovino is seen here doing rock paper scissors with another agent for the DHS cameras, as people yell insults:

Bari Weiss crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to falsely portray herself as a scrappy "Pittsburgh Girl". The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News. paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...

For Trump: Seafood towers at Mar-A-Lago For Americans: Bread lines

We will not let Minnesotans go hungry.

Schumer responded on the Senate floor today:“For this administration to go all the way to the Supreme Court just to get out of having to pay SNAP benefits for hungry kids is pathological levels of vindictiveness. This crisis is in the administration’s hands. It’s all them, not anyone else.” C-SPAN

Paging Jake Tapper. Just kidding, plenty of real journalists have actually called this out, but it doesn’t get the same traction.

Trump saying Biden didn’t know who he was pardoning is an accusation. Trump saying Trump didn’t know who he was pardoning is an admission. Plus, can we talk about the guy Trump pardoned?

Why in the hell did Oregon’s quarterback just run out of bounds? He could’ve had at least 10 more yards. Are you kidding me? OK, it looks like he’s hurt .

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

I’m going to try and nap during this Iowa Oregon game because I have to work tonight, but until I fall asleep I’m watching the Ducks left tackle who could be a target for the Bears in the 26 draft.

This is great advice. The next time I’m going out to protest or whatever, I’ll be removing jewelry before I leave the house.

If the pattern follows B-18 here in LA, DHS is clearing out Broadview to hide the human rights abuses. The magistrate will visit an empty facility. And three days later DHS will have it packed again.

GUS-SPLOSIUON

Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won? People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.

I could watch Pedo State lose every day. What a catch by Omar Cooper Jr!

In a fear-mongering hit piece, the Washington Post Editorial Board calls the newly elected NYC mayor “Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani”:

“These are people who did everything by the book, paid taxes, had no criminal records, opened businesses and contributed to their communities...now they have become collateral damage in this cruel, unjust and inhumane political game.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Thinking, again, of the words of Ursula K. Le Guin "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now...to other ways of being". Speaking to capitalism and greed and change. A very good 6mins (2014) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW0V...

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.

A friend of a friend is at risk of losing her home and sadly rehoming her beloved dog due to falling on hard times. Regina was let go recently and hasn’t found stable work yet, and she's lost her mom and other dog recently. if you can help them stay together, here's a link to their gofundme:

In my years working in public interest communications, I learned reporters often have the story they plan to tell already formed in their minds before they contact “sources” and will use—and even shape—what is told to them in the service of that narrative. Peter Coviello testifies to that process:

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.

Chicago police officers securing an exit path for Border Patrol vehicles in Little Village. Ald Byron Sigcho-Lopez (he's the one livestreaming) has some words for them as they drive away.

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