will be disappointed with less than six inches, i think, given all the hype

Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the loss of the Great Lakes freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald and all its 29 souls, The ship that followed it across Lake Superior, the Arthur M Anderson, was still sailing last year, seen here in Buffalo last November. She spent 2025 in layup.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

i once thought one of the more explanatory differences was that republicans are threatened by violence from their voters and democrats do not feel threatened by violence at all—but then the republicans literally tried to kill the democrats in congress and that still didn’t change their behavior

the second these guys had to deal with the smallest personal inconvenience in the form of flight delays they folded like wet cardboard

going to piss on this motherfucker’s grave when he finally croaks

one serious problem i see that i am not clear how we solve is, probably 50% of the GOP voting base if not more is really not interested in being part of a democracy anymore. and the only alternative is guys who think democracy means finding common ground with those people

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

I think dem senators should not be able to go in public without having literal actual dog shit thrown at them until they resign

We can’t threaten Durbin with being primaried, so we have to make clear he won’t be able to go out for lunch in Illinois without people screaming in his face if he votes for this cowardice.

Mitch McConnel's singular political insight is that Presidents get punished for Congressional obstinancy and he used that insight to get the Right an unbreakable majority on the Supreme Court, so of course Chuck Schumer's iteration on it is to proactively let democrats take blame after tangible harm

you can reach both durbin and duckworth this way, for whatever it's worth

I feel like I just found a gold nugget! During my daily streetview ambling I just now discovered a 1925 apartment building designed by RM Schindler that was thought to have been demolished for the 101 freeway. But it wasn’t! It was *moved.* (first screenshot is from US Modernist)

the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years

dick durbin genuinely might be one of the most damaging people to come out of illinois in the last century

the show at the renaissance society, on the other hand, was characteristically good and weird

DURBIN'S NOT EVEN RUNNING AGAIN, the gutless fuck.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

i take no pleasure in reporting this, but the theaster gates show at the smart museum isn’t very good

A Chicago legend, too.

remember feeling a little moved during the april no kings march when it looked like the FBI rapes me daily guy had moved from his normal spot to “join” …turns out on weekends now he always stands at michigan avenue in front of the cultural center

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.

If the political opposition doesn’t put these ICE & CBP institutional criminals in prison, annihilate their budgets, purge the datasets and repeal their authorities, this will keep happening. And that opposition will reveal itself as a false, controlled opposition that is no less predatory on people

I'm struck by how many Chicagoans have seemingly felt compelled to write and share reflections on "this is what it feels like in Chicago right now". We know we're going through something awful together and we want the world to understand it. Threading several of these pieces below.

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

My nearest library has a sign up saying ICE is not welcome, CPD helps ICE even though it's against the law. Which one should have its funding cut next year?

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.

Reminder that Google maps aerial photography of Belle Isle was coincidentally taken on the day that Mark W. Barker lost power and hit the island (everyone was fine so it was funny)

Bovino went into popular Carniceria Aguascalientes in heart of Little Village. “They said they were just here to buy something,” said Elizabeth Gutierrez. “I told them we wouldn’t serve them and escorted them out. Bovino seemed upset, but I don’t care.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

It's incredible that we let billionaires bloviate about their policy views without throwing tomatoes at them. We know what they want, they want policies that work for a few dozen people and immiserate the other 300 million. Not interested!

"overwhelming defeat" is when you lose by a point and a half (historically narrow) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

It’s always ordinary people with everything to lose showing incredible bravery and doing the fucking work while our useless mayor and governor waffle between shrugging at the whole situation and throwing their own cops at us

Every day these fascist pigs go trawling for a violent reaction they can use to justify a bloodbath and every day Chicago angrily denies them that satisfaction

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Alderman Sigcho Lopez’s recent IG live is worth a watch. 22 min of him talking as he follows federal agents. He talks about what happened today in Little Village and this week. He calls out CPD for protecting ICE at one point & also speaks to an escalation in the attack on our communities.

It's not even noon yet and feds (specifically Border Patrol and BOP officers in this caravan with Bovino) have fired tear gas, pepper balls, and bean bag rounds at people in Little Village and Cicero.

i wrote about the old wieboldt's department store on milwaukee in wicker park—fire, labor strife, leveraged buyouts, and the idiotic urban renewal plan that leveled much of the surroundings for a 600+ car parking lot and a jewel osco in the early 1980s www.postcard-past.com/wieboldts-de...

This is a house in Northwest Indiana, not a battlefield in Iraq. There are SEVEN armed & masked agents prowling through here with weapons drawn looking for a ....mom and her daughter. The story only gets worse from there...

i love how frequently busy beaver pops up in this kind of thing, great article defector.com/wilbur-huckl...

I love how slow Wikipedia moves during controversy. For YEARS after the "GamerGate" harassment campaign, editors refused to give up the URL of the *original* meaning of the word: A gamergate is a kind of ant. Without a consensus to the contrary, the ants keep it.

New: Pablo Moreno González and Felipe Agustin Zamacona, two men formerly held at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, and now the named plaintiffs in a federal class action alleging inhumane treatment at the facility, are being released from federal custody per a successful habeas petition.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

idk if schumer made the offer expecting it to be rejected but i am once again concerned that the lack of prioritizing defending the people from ICE signals intent to “moderate” on the american gestapo if dems ever get power again.

This gives Democrats a clear win and helps vulnerable people whose ACA premiums have skyrocketed. Now, if you will excuse me, I am going to take a big drink and Google Trump's track record on spending money that Congress has directed him to spend based on their clear Article I powers....

Throwing away all your political capital after a historic off year election for a 1 year continuation of ACA funding is absolutely pathetic.

quick, somebody check, did Ja'mal Green do a study-abroad in Norway?