“Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.“

Thank you. The world needs to know what's going on in Chicago.

Thanks to this, I learned why my corner courtyard building has no central corridor.

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

Democrats are captive to outdated etiquette. It’s endangering democracy | Ryan W Powers

"Babies receiving early intervention through IDEA Part C and Medicaid funding have healthier developmental outcomes and are less likely to need special education by the time they enter kindergarten, which can save states millions of dollars."

If you're pregnant and you show up in an ER, it better be in a state that isn't threatening doctors with criminal charges for anything abortion-related.

Elwood, IL is also home to the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, a beautiful final haven for military veterans.

"We are trying to hold our ground against an intractable enemy. We are trying to out-think brute force. We are moving in opposition to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, without the infrastructure or resources that our efforts require. We are stretched. And there is no end in sight."

Eh

Want to see a "virgin on screen?" Any actor who has not given birth could be a virgin. Unless you really believe in immaculate conception -- which AI is. Whoa, Ok, that's a lot for a Monday morning. 🫨

"But why should we sit by while you take our money, defund our priorities, and shit on our values?" Some interesting ideas here.

"Outside the federal government, ICE is recruiting municipal police officers and sheriffs’ deputies at a fast clip—even offering to pay their salaries and hand out bonuses to departments that round up a high percentage of the undocumented immigrants ICE has tipped them off about."

Straight up: I’m not onboard with farmers getting another bailout when so many voted for Trump two and three times. But what Trump is doing to them is brutal. I want to believe they’ve learned their lesson this time, but I don’t. Watch all the way through.

How Chicago is resisting Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown - video

"We need a serious left project with all of its material underpinnings about what type of energy system we would like to build or what type of green ecological society we would like to build."

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

The cherry on the Sunday.

🎵"Franco's reign in Spain should see out the '40's..." 🎵

My feet got old and all of my shoes turned into Bstocks. Ugly? Hardly when you can walk comfy in teal EVA and big buckle high shine black.

Hey Law Enforcement: the right don't think you protect them enough.

If you voted for him, you've done this.

Excellent summary of our potential future. (Original link from @newsjennifer.bsky.social)

Chilling dispatch from Mario Guevara, the journalist trapped in ICE detention for...doing his job.

"The readers are telling us sometimes pretty directly, we don’t want to use these tools, we don’t have an interest in them. But there continues to be this impulse from organizations to build them anyway." @andrewdeck.bsky.social ethicsandjournalism.org/2025/09/18/n...

ICYMI: Chicago hosted its first open water swim in nearly a century. I covered the historic event for @insideclimatenews.org

It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.

Oh no, he's not "planning on" it. He's been doing it since Jan. 21. His head just swiveled back our way. Like the tie, tho.

This was coming because of demographic changes, but got a turbo boost after Trump Regime One. DuPage County progressives, especially women, started organizing in December 2016.

"To be insulted by these fascists/is so degrading." David Bowie

All of this Jimmy Kimmel stuff makes me realize how much we have opted out of mainstream entertainment. No broadcast channels come into our house. Everything we watch is streamed or on DVD. And rarely anything new or premium, so I have not seen a commercial on my TV in ages.

Please take care of yourself.

3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter. They had kids, too.

1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.

EIGHTY SIX PERCENT of Americans DIED last year from drugs‼️

cursed chicago fact: because of the north shore and cal-sag channels, most of the city is technically on two islands that meet at the main branch of the river in downtown

Three simple facts for climate change sceptics ... 1. Climate Change means the breakdown of traditional climate patterns. 2. Warmer means wetter, due to more water evapourating from the sea. That's why we have more flash floods. 3. The last time there was a major climate change, we lived in caves.

For women who won't get pregnant (ever or again), the Roe reversal still has consequences. Comprehensive women's healthcare requires knowledge about the reproductive system as a whole, which we won't get if abortion providers disappear.

Wow. I guess Bourbon Row is in the Gaslight District.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.

Northbrook Court had a Magic Pan Creperie, which I was jealous of because Oak Brook Center, my hang out, lost theirs in the 80s. In the 90s, when I started working full-time after college, Northbrook had a Liz Claiborne store took remaindered clothes, so I got some nice things cheap.

*points to self*

Really at a loss to explain why there has been little cooperation between states so far. If it is happening behind the scenes, it needs to move to the main stage. There is no "back to normal." The only two ways forward are states working to provide services OR further descent into violent chaos.