I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open

~4am today: video shared to social media by a neighbor shows an early morning raid with flash grenades on a house in Cicero. Border Patrol agents are on the scene, including one who looks a lot like Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino, seen alongside a person filming.

The first of the new five-show batch of WTTW-Ch. 11’s documentary series “Chicago Stories” arrives this weekend and continues to premiere new episodes at 8 p.m. Fridays through Oct. 24. Each show comes with what WTTW calls a “companion microsite,” which gives you more, more, more.

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

Solidarity signs are popping up in restaurants across Los Angeles. They're a simple but powerful way to say we know our rights and we've got each other's backs. To download your own solidarity sign and for more free Know Your Rights resources, head to ilrc.me/protect

"The goal seems to be to use the military almost at random — not to advance a goal or deter a threat, but simply to exercise power and terror."

I haven't had time to read up on the latest shooting, but I'm going to post my incredibly radical position that a shooting is bad no matter who did it and no matter who was shot. Stop trying to crack the code of a shooter's motives and focus on the one thing they all have in common -- the guns.

The Stupidest Speech in UN History! “Everyone’s saying so,” writes @billmckibben.bsky.social “the shots of delegates looking on in disbelief as Trump vented about broken escalators, MAGA hats, & his general greatness for nearly an hour (ignoring the 15min time limit…)” Global embarrassment. Joke.

No journalist wants to be the next Woodward or Bernstein. No publisher wants to be the next Katherine Graham. No Republican wants to be the next Howard Baker. No lawyer wants to be the next Joseph Welch or John Dean. We have become a nation of greedy cowards.

Wind and Solar Take Over: 93% of New Power Generation in 2024 @KingsmillBond, @ember_energy, how renewables are taking over global electricity supply. This is how the world electrifies. #canada youtu.be/Pr6Dp6coFSw

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

NEW: Reporters at the Pentagon have been told they can no longer report information which has not been approved. Those who refuse will lose their press credentials - WaPo

📣 Political violence is gun violence, and it’s silencing our First Amendment freedoms. The ‘individual right’ to carry guns isn’t from 1791 — it was created by the gun lobby Supreme Court justices in 2008 (Heller) & expanded in 2022 (Bruen). #PoliticalViolenceIsGunViolence #EndGunViolence

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois: a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work. a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

DISNEY: Wins 5 Emmys for ANDOR, a show about resisting fascism ALSO DISNEY: Bends the knee to the federal government and suspends Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

NEW from LCRW: Things moved fast after Charlie Kirk was murdered. @azrww.bsky.social, the staff & I tried to encapsulate the bizarre first week after his murder in as much minutiae as we could stomach. The end of every graf felt like the most gut-punching absurd kicker I've ever written.

Just when I thought I couldn't hate Trump voters with greater intensity...I found out it goes to 11.

Just goes to show you that the boss class has the aesthetic sense of a sprouting potato

I agree with Marc Maron. They won. The most graft takin', crypto sellin', child molestin', felony convicted, lie tellin', supreme court ownin', Congress bullyin', media controllin' President in history, won. Schumer and Jeffries have surrendered. So my question is... why are they so angry?

In honour of Hank Williams birthday Ron sings "Why Don't Yo Love Me" RS youtu.be/Zhb5V5f0ffk?...

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

This has me dumbfounded. A father of 2 was shot and killed by ICE last week, and this jagbag is only worried about labor costs for his restaurant. I hope he gets boycotted. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/16/p...

Via @thetrace.org: From 2015 - 2021, ICE agents were responsible for at least 59 shootings-- 23 fatal. I am embarrassed to admit this, but I had no idea that ICE agents used lethal force so often. www.thetrace.org/2024/08/ice-...

I'd rather keep talking about Robert Redford but: if Ezra Klein sincerely wanted to "discuss de-escalation," he could've asked Ben Shapiro why the Daily Wire still employs Matt Walsh, the great replacement theorist who recently called for the Chicago mayor's execution

Trump's dictator-like administration is attacking the values America holds dear---by Robert Redford RIP (from 2019)

How much will it take for people to accept that Israel is committing a genocide, and how many reports need to be released for our governments to stop it?

Today Raven Geary of @unraveledpress.com reports on the spate of kidnappings and violence against immigrants in the Chicago area over the past week or so including a man who was shot to death by ICE on Friday. www.welcometohellworld.com/theyre-kidna...

A must read. Sure, the National Guard backed off Chicago, but the ICE goon squads are like sharks, circling the waters on the fringe of the city where we’re thin on the ground. They’re snatching our people without warning, even killed a man for no good reason. It’s heartbreaking. 💔

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

This man was picked up by ICE in Chicago's Archer Heights neighborhood on Sunday. By Tuesday he had already been deported to Mexico.

This used to be called an "international incident" and would receive intense press coverage. Not so much anymore.

Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Reign of Terror Everything you love or hate about Donald Trump’s America, you cherish or intensely loathe about Stephen Miller’s republic of fear. Read about Miller’s eight months of remaking the nation and world: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

ICE killed one of our people, and lied about it.

We have the good people at Dominion Voting Systems for the continued presence of Kilmeade in our world. If they had gone to trial they could have taken ownership of Fox News. Instead they took 30 pieces of silver to shut up and walk away.

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Welp. Trump and Thiel and the Turtle and Clarence Thomas and every single Trump voter now have the country they always wanted. Hate and greed reign supreme. Anyone who sees a better way can go to hell.