Journalism, the job where when someone powerful lies you describe it as "not strictly true" because describing facts would be bias bsky.app/profile/atru...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

RIP to the great Jane Goodall who had THE AUDACITY to SUGGEST that Trunt's behavior was like a male chimpanzee's....What a LIFE/CAREER...Jane, not Trunt. @drginnymac.bsky.social @gmf1369.bsky.social @misslizzy.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social @danableedgreen.bsky.social @themrrudy.bsky.social

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Broadview officials have opened three criminal investigations into actions by ICE agents and the Department of Homeland Security around their facility in the west suburb. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Broadview Police have opened an investigation into an attack from federal agents on a CBS crew at Broadview, per BPD Chief Mills.

👇🎯 We are where we are as a country because not enough people on the right half of the political spectrum cared about democracy & the rule of law above all the other things the way @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social clearly does. When the chips were down, he stood up. We need more to follow his lead.

🧵 You don't have to ask <if> or <when> American democracy will backslide. All you have to do is look around, every day now, at the things we've totally normalized that would have ended presidencies immediately in years past.

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting The names of the dead and wounded Jose Andres Bordones-Molina Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

Your eyes can see the truth

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

“When you feel the very tight hug, that’s where she left off.” — Phyllis. @stringtheoryyarnco #fairisle #kindnessofstrangers #looseends

This was completed by a @looseendsproject.bsky.social artist in my state for my sister. My mom, who died of metastatic breast cancer in 2024, had started it years ago & left it unfinished. #cancer #kindness

Feds just fired a tremendous amount of pepper balls at Reverend David Black, a regular protester here. A number of them hit him in the face and head.

It's been another morning of terror in Chicagoland. ICE is snatching people across burbs + city. More cars abandoned on the side of the road, & more day laborers disappeared. A van rolls into the Broadview "processing facility." After gates close, agents move 3 men in shackles into the building.

This. He was steeped in it and acted according to it.

A visual aid—two of the main sites of DHS/ICE activity OTG in Chicagoland right now are not in Chicago proper*, the end

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

I mean. It doesn't matter if people celebrate or not. Fascists are gonna do what fascists do. They never actually need a real reason.

The second this Texas A & M story broke I said to a friend “we’re going to quickly learn that this student is the child of some county GOP chair.” I was close. Of course the entire episode was not spontaneous, but was part of a PR stunt that’s now ruined several people’s lives.

Side effects like pneumonitis, fatigue, diarrhea plague cancer tx. Patient Centered Dosing Initiative (therightdose.org) blew the door off this topic and @fda.gov + @ascocancer.bsky.social are out with further guidelines that make sense w/new classes of drugs #cansky www.raps.org/news-and-art...

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

beautiful

There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.

I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.

Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

lol “tactical empathy” just means you’re [going to be] using other people’s ethical behavior and humanity against them. It does not mean you are “empathic”. It does mean you see others’ empathy as a weakness. Welcome to narcissism and fascism and capitalism (also @nytimes.com is a rag)

The media is far more likely to frame liberal-left politicians, like Mamdani, as extremist than they are the President, who has made no attempt to conceal his authoritarian inclinations.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

1. Since Roe was overturned, Republican AGs have engaged in aggressive legal campaign to limit abortion not only in their states, but across the nation. These efforts are being financed by major American corporations — including CVS, United HealthCare, Airbnb, and the parent company of Coachella

My column on page two of the Sun-Times today: www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/08/foot...

Enjoyed this👇 thoughtful piece on an AI issue that matters when talking about AI in scientific research. I’ve proofread/edited-for-language grants and papers that refer to LLMs, training sets etc and it’s nice to think about it differently. #researchsky

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If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

Great @propublica.org article about why Revlimid @bristolmyerssquib.bsky.social costs $$$ with no changes to its efficacy, safety, toxicity over the decades. A terrible story to read when you get a different cancer treatment with essentially equally expensive biosimilars #cancersky

Astoundingly revealing letter. Is it any wonder people are disillusioned with democrats?

I’d heard of extravasation and knew the signs. When my own cancer treatment leaked out of the vein, it wasn’t “dangerous” but it *was* a reminder of self-advocacy & the many ways patients are gaslit #cancersky #cancer www.curetoday.com/view/iv-comp...

I miss this round up of breast cancer blogging from Marie Ennis O’Conner, which was a regular read for me. This week, theres a link to my Cure Today piece on a recent cancer IV that was placed incorrectly & more #cancersky #cancer journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/2025/07/27/weekly-round-up-494/

Are you connected to a Black public high school that operated between 1870 and 1970? Please contribute to this survey that lets you help shape the preservation and commemoration of these important institutions. And please share with networks and communities! asalh.org/asalh-nps-co...

Just remember... there was nothing normal about the U.S. Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell. No protocol allows it. No precedent supports it. No sane explanation justifies it.

60. People who don’t themselves use public libraries are unqualified to pontificate on their social value. I challenge anyone to go and witness who is using their local library and how they’re using it and not come away thinking of it as a valuable space.