What do you think would happen to you if you cost the people who pay you more than $180,000 in misconduct penalties every year for six years straight? The Chicago Police Department has recently employed TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO cops who are exactly that huge a liability.

"From 1990 to 2010, rising numbers of H-1B holders caused 30–50 percent of all productivity growth in the US economy. This means that the jobs and wages of most Americans depend in some measure on these workers." Racism and white supremacy are more important to the regime than anything else.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New report says, if rich countries want, they have more than enough money to fund climate action: $6.6 trillion annually oilchange.org/publications...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

I guess the courts get to decide pretty soon if the founders, in their infinite wisdom, sought to grant the president a "destroy any company or university he doesn't like" button

This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified. No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing. President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n

at least twice now, this federal agent has come out of the broadview ice facility with his sidearm drawn. last friday, an ice agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop nearby in franklin park, illinois.

Multiple Deans, a professor, and now a university president have all lost their jobs simply because a professor acknowledged trans people exist in a course about young adult literature. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

MMRV = measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella. RFK wants lots more of your kids to die.

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

guy advocated violence against liberals every day of his life, viewed them as subhuman, and they line up to cheer for him "the resistance" lmfao

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

Powell: "Job gains have slowed and downside risks to employment have risen. At the same time, inflation has risen recently and remains somewhat elevated ... GDP rose at a pace of around 1.5% in the first half of the year, down from 2.5% last year."

“Take care of yourself, your loved ones and the time you have on this earth.” — Tomas Lindberg Beyond grateful for everything he gave metal through At The Gates, et al. The first time I ever got teary-eyed at a show was their reunion at W:O:A ‘08 when he said, “Thank you for remembering.” RIP Tompa.

Oh a forced sale to regime allies? Shocker.

ICE shot a man dead outside Chicago and then lied that he drove his car at agents. chicagoreader.com/news/ice-sho...

What Schumer is saying here, and I am not exaggerating in the slightest, is that Senate Democrats do not want Trump to pay a political price for either his destruction of the constitutional system OR the downstream effects of his bad policies. This is a pro-Trump position. bsky.app/profile/sahi...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Source for this below. Oh, and the data center is projected to expand so that it consumes FIVE TIMES as much electricity as every home in Wyoming combined. apnews.com/article/ai-a...

If you don't stop calling us fascists, we're going to have to use the full power of the state to investigate and punish all our political opponents.

The TRiiBE is collaborating with indie investigative newsroom @unraveledpress.com and alt-weekly @chicagoreader.com to publish reports about the increased enforcement and presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents. thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...

A good time to revisit @juggaloreporter.bsky.social’s interview with @cashbrowns.bsky.social for @chicagoreader.com’s 2022 People Issue

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

i know it is all intentional but boy howdy is it crazy-making to have ICE killing people in the street and watching the once “mainstream” media still carrying water for the idea that the left has a violence problem

Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired for A: accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women B: Accurately observing that most white Americans seem permissive of white violence. It's bullshit, but almost expected in this white supremacist country.

Kaicrewsade's inaugural Crewsadefest hits Beat Kitchen tomorrow! And on Wednesday, the Englewood Jazz Festival begins its free celebration of 60 years of the AACM with a lineup that includes the Roscoe Mitchell Trio! chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

What is the sonic equivalent to “visionary” — aurallary? RIP to one of those, maybe the best of them

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

Time for Castle Rat at Reggies, cowards! chicagoreader.com/music/concer...

Charlie Kirk never had a good-faith debate in his life. And he didn't care for democracy either. Do you, Mr. Newsom?

Some of the things Charlie Kirk has said as a right-wing influencer and Trump ally: • “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s” • George Floyd was a “scumbag” • Gun deaths are “worth it” thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Millions of people will die horrible deaths globally, likely for many years to come, because Elon Musk, a single individual, wanted to punish USAID for investigating Starlink. This is why we cannot allow people to become billionaires if we want our species to survive.

The new Sound & Gravity festival starts tonight! chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

The National Guard may be skipping Chicago, but the gestapo isn't.

OK then @govpritzker.illinois.gov time to do Illinois. Eliminate every Republican seat you can. Fair is fair.

After many requests, here are the files to print three different anonymous Chicago contractor-style flyers about ICE, as well my new zine of Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago. Print and resist, friends! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I don't think it's a "What if" scenario anymore. We should fully expect this to happen.

dhs announced this morning that ice is launching "operation midway blitz" in chicago to target city/state sanctuary policies. the announcement mentions katie abraham, who was killed in a hit-and-run crash not in chicago—but 150 miles away in urbana, illinois. www.news-gazette.com/news/local/c...

Highest court in the land thinks I’m too brown to be treated like a citizen

While all eyes are on ICE this week, the city has confirmed plans to clear an encampment of unhoused people in Legion Park early Tuesday morning. Community advocates posted this flyer asking for support and they’ll be holding a press conf, alongside park residents, on Monday at 9am in the park.

"Is immigration good for the U.S.?" has been polling at a vigorous "yes" for at least 25 years, and never higher than now. But still the alleged opposition party won't fight for immigrants—for people whose only crime is to hope to be our neighbors and contribute to the prosperity of our country.

The most famous cat on the Internet has passed away from lung cancer at age 18. Rest in peace, Maru, you strange and dignified little gentleman. You gave me a lot of joy over the past 17 years. www.youtube.com/post/UgkxzuN...

Hi US citizens. You are now subject to sudden seizure at your workplace and lengthy detention, at any time, by a blitz of heavily federal armed troops—despite having committed no crime and not even being charged with any crime. Not my opinion. This is what HSI *says* that it did.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war