Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

I am so late to a Vindman becoming a congressman, I am the worst. I love all the Vindmans, they make me genuinely patriotic

Currently watching “All Her Fault” (so bad) which is set in Chicago and just got to the part where a character with a troubled foster son from South Shore says, “oxy has destroyed that whole neighborhood.” South Shore needs to sue this show

Not naming the main perpetrators of the atrocities or the major backer of the perpetrators (the UAE)

man it would suck if you wanted to provide aid somewhere and dismantled your agency that does that

Pope Leo should be visiting Broadview, where @govpritzker.illinois.gov is using Illinois State Police to guard a facility that locks up the migrants that Pope Leo is constantly speaking up for. Instead he meets with Pritzker himself, the guy enabling ICE? Just ew. cc @unraveledpress.com

Pat Fitzgerald right now:

HUGE development IN hearing for Comey selective prosecution motion, It turns out that the grand jury NEVER saw the operative indictment. Whole separate basis for dismissal. Standby for more.

The world (led by Russia) allowed the Assad regime to do unspeakable things in Syria for 13 years. So gut-wrenching to think about www.wsj.com/world/middle...

NEW: In light of widespread allegations of civil rights violations arising from Trump's immigration crackdown, Democrats are renewing efforts to pass legislation to hold federal agents individually accountable: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

We have been so lucky to have Jon Seidel’s reporting during and after the Border Patrol’s assault on Chicago. Protect this reporter at all costs @chicago.suntimes.com (and give him a raise)

Broadview ICE facility population dwindling as feds shift focus from Chicago: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Choosing a solid police commissioner is literally the only good thing Brandon Johnson has done in Chicago during his otherwise ridic administration - Snelling is incredibly popular here. This was so, so smart on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s part and is a really good sign

NEW: Following a legal fight, ICE freed a blind Ecuadorean man who was being held in isolation at a New York county jail. He was one of several Hispanic men picked up by ICE in Queens in recent days. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/n...

Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨 Here we go again. Govt cover up. Surveillance footage that could provide evidence of abusive, inhumane conditions at ICE’s Broadview Detention Center in suburban Chicago is somehow “irretrievably destroyed.” DHS has no explanation. 🧾 404 Media: is.gd/WWnaOn ⚖️ Court records: is.gd/d4n98Y

She won 51.7-47.9 in a district that broke 50-47 for Trump in the same election. Let her cook.

If you're calling a Democrat who beat an actual Neo-Nazi twice "Mein Kampf" then you don't even have politics. This is basically nihilism. You're telling the world there's no political coalition that you want to be in bsky.app/profile/pope...

A site that can be mad at Schumer and Jeffries and Ezra Klein and the New York Times can muster up a little annoyance at Chuy Garcia.

Here are the 23 Dems who voted to rebuke Rep. Chuy Garcia D-IL for quietly making sure that his chief of staff would be the only candidate in the D primary for Garcia's seat in 2026.

why did the democrats not support this. they cant really think anchoring with a dead weight candidate like chuy would be smart in a us that is becoming anti democratic

I really hope more than two Democrats vote to support @gluesenkampperez.house.gov and her motion. Also, I cannot overstate how insane @ramirez.house.gov sounds. Way to abuse the word “authoritarianism,” Delia Cc @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

The guy who bonesaws journalists smirking next to the guy who wishes he could. I hate this country

Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems. "Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map." Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So funny: Rich Miller of Capitol Fax writes an EXTREMELY sympathetic column about Chuy's shady ways; Jake Tapper then picks up Rich's column and absolutely DEMOLISHES Chuy and Chicago politics. Good job Rich! chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

No one guessed this one

live across all the great lakes! @lake-michigan.live @lake-superior.live @lake-huron.live @lake-erie.live @lake-ontario.live

Dear granddaughter of Charlotte's Web: they did the same thing to the Battle of Midway when they came to Chicago. They destroy and ruin the meaning of everything they incorporate

Pope Leo to #COP30 “It is not the Paris Agreement that is failing, we are failing in our response. What is failing is the political will of some. True leadership means service, and support at a scale that will make a difference.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

The Lake Superior and Lake Michigan live accounts are the best things on social media

I get that Blue Sky is the worst possible place to talk Chicago politics if you aren't a die-hard progressive but um there is a reason this property tax revolt is happening www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/17/c...

🧊✈️ BACK TO THE WAR ZONE ⛓️😲 ⚠️ The U.S. government is removing 80 or so Ukrainian refugees back to their war-ravaged country tonight. We should be sending weapons instead 🇺🇦

New in the federal class action alleging inhumane conditions at the Broadview, IL ICE facility: District Judge Robert Gettleman has certified the plaintiff class, defined as "all immigration detainees who are detained and those who will be detained in the future at the Broadview ICE facility"

Does anyone know if the day care teacher detained and then released by ICE has given any interviews yet? Would be good for her to talk about Broadview's conditions if she isn't too traumatized to be interviewed abcnews.go.com/US/chicago-d...

Um www.fox32chicago.com/news/cook-co...

Every time Byron Sigcho-Lopez opens his mouth, ten more Chicagoans leave the city. Literally the most embarrassing Dem (if you can call him a Dem) in the city, state and possibly America

they must have hired an actor for the shot of Bovino arresting a significantly shorter man

It is dizzying watching @jbpritzker.bsky.social play resistance hero at the same time that the Illinois State Police are beating up priests at Broadview. Pick a lane, JB bsky.app/profile/revd...

Rooting so hard for Gen Z in Mexico, Nepal, Serbia and all the countries where they are rightly like “AYFKM” to the ruling class

All of them "social activists" and fakeleftists who said they opposed the PRI dictatorship in power until 2000. Only to destroy democracy and install their own dictatorship: López Obrador controls the executive, legislative, judiciary electoral institute. Allied to drug cartels.

Who sent provocateurs to the Gen Z demonstration? Faces covered, with phony nazi costumes; the police charged right on cue. First suspect: Sheinbaum. Second suspect: her boss López Obrador. Third suspect: her adversaries inside the dictatorship: Mexico City Mayor Brugada, ISSSTE director Batrés.

The Chicago City Council is currently in a raging fight over the terrible budget from @mayorofchicago.bsky.social. Please do a better job than this, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @mayorofseattle.bsky.social (well, Harrell’s successor). Progressives HAVE to show they know how to run cities

If you're going to ruin your life by sports betting, at least ruin it a little more slowly by avoiding parlays and prop bets. You're welcome, degens!

The issue with this entire enterprise is that she seems to be writing from the foundation that "wanting to fuck RFK Jr." is "hot" -- or at least, relatable. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...

bro there's a whole paragraph about his brain worm lmfao

It has in effect been: Hugs for drug cartels, bullets for the people. There is no democracy in Mexico anymore: López Obrador controls the executive, legislative, judiciary, electoral powers. Still allied to drug cartels.

if by some small chance there was an editor for this they need to sue for worker's compensation

I would give anything for Avelo to be headquartered in Chicago so I could protest the hell out of it. What a nightmare company

Melissa Conyears-Ervin (the corrupt treasurer of Chicago) writes a resistance-y op-ed on why she won't invest in U.S. Treasuries anymore (so insane). Man I am tired of local Illinois and Chicago officials responding to Trump's horrors with ineptitude www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/17/o...