Some irony in the news that right-wing think tank the Manhattan Institute came out with a new college ranking system and New College of Florida—the hostile takeover of which was orchestrated by Manhattan Institute fellow Chris Rufo—didn't make the cut. I wrote about why last year (link in comment).

Are Women Real? And if so, can Ross Douthat fix it?

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

I was there; this is all true. @sarahposner.bsky.social on how digital media made critical reporting on the Christian right possible, in a time when much of the mainstream press refused to look. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/tradi...

hell cannot be hot enough

according to @jessyedwards.bsky.social of @hellgatenyc.com Curtis Sliwa just said on stage that he was offered $10 million to drop out of the race

"Others will take time in catching up to that." whew

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

lol. lmao.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists

@dieworkwear.bsky.social with a majestic post on why unions matter and how they win, Vance’s marriage, common community, coal miners and textile workers, and red bandanas. This is cultural history at its best.

Public Service/Safety Announcement:

This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.

A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her. For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here. Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest

There is zero reason for anyone, especially reporters, to trust anything that comes out of this administration at any level. This is fantastic reporting.

“The caller reiterated that the agent had the apartment numbers' on his wrist."' Audio of 911 calls during the South Shore raid—obtained by @southsideweekly.bsky.social, which has been all over this story—provide more evidence that agents targeted certain units southsideweekly.com/911-calls-sh...

I was right about her 10 years ago.

@npr.org itself reported without comment last summer that mass deportation was the Trump coalition’s housing plan

"It costs a lot more money to evict someone than to call ICE on them." A month after the military-style raid on a Chicago apartment building, residents are still searching for answers about why their homes were targeted—and the role their investor landlord played. inthesetimes.com/article/evic...

“It costs a lot more money to evict someone than it does to call ICE on them"

Strange tags on raided apartments, a slumlord speculator under water with the bank & eviction drives in a gentrifying neighborhood. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social investigates how tenants were systematically targeted during September's military-style raid of a Chicago apartment building @inthesetimes.com

I went deep on Nick Fuentes and the groyperification of the GOP with @benlorber8.bsky.social. Listen!

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it. They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

The new Pentagon Press Corps will include conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' website Infowars. It comes after the departure of most mainstream journalists over their refusal to sign up to the department's new restrictive policies on reporting.

For some prescient thoughts on how this would come to pass, read @alfatau.bsky.social's July piece @inthesetimes.com on how "MAGA’s obsession with reverse racism is the glue binding together" all of Trump's policies.

There it is: "The sharp increase in diversity has reduced the level of social trust essential for the functioning of a democratic polity" according to one of the documents. The admin should only welcome "refugees who can fully & appropriately assimilate & are aligned with the president’s objectives”

"One generation’s failure to defeat fascism becomes the next generation’s shot at redemption, and the next after that, one battle after another. It’s not much consolation, but under our present circumstances it’s the only honest one." Great piece by @davidklion.bsky.social

Welcome to Chicago, fascist. www.chicagomag.com/news/chicago...

Fearless journalists & vigilant residents are telling Chicago's story. The shocking images show ICE agents out of control, people in danger AND people standing strong. Don't look away from this unprecedented abuse of federal power. My latest: jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/fearless-j...

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In February, as a guest on the far-right podcast Real America’s Voice News, Chicago Ald. Ray Lopez said he met with “Border Czar” Tom Homan and offered to give him Mayor Johnson’s home address “so that if he wanted to arrest him immediately and do us all that favor.” thetriibe.com/2025/10/trum...

Bill filed in #Florida Legislature would make every single college & university name one street after Charlie Kirk. And the bill even specifies WHICH street at each one. (But the governor doesn't want streets used for political messages, which is why no rainbows!) www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

“Undermining this rule is extremely hard to characterize as in some way beneficial to investors and savers. Every time Trump has promised to protect the little guy, the little guy has been able to count on getting screwed.” Read @brycecovert.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com

State prosecutors should take these cases and give them serious consideration.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

www.csis.org/analysis/lef... This report is framed irresponsibly and distorts the reality of extremist violence. The header is that left-wing terror is on the rise, and of course that will be the bite-sized takeaway. (1)

i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with

“People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.“ -1984, Orwell

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

Much -- not all, but much -- of the trouble with modern newspapers is actually the deep, suppurating rot in the ranks of politcal reporters: the belief that they're largely theater critics

“Tell me why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat [filled with migrants]?” - Stephen Miller’s alleged question to an Admiral during Trump Term 1

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

In a normal government this guy would be fired instead of imprisoning people "It is still a crime for anyone to seek money to improperly influence federal contracts, the legal experts said, whether they are a public official or not, and whether they ever delivered on their promise or not."

and I think that's an easy distinction to make publicly, one that normies can understand: if ICE is not bound by the Constitution then it doesn't need to be respected by anyone - not local police, not governors, not mayors, not citizens, not anyone - ICE is a rogue, anti-American gang of thugs