I have to go eat radioactive eggs tomorrow morning so they can do a "stomach emptying study." Yay me.

I’m. So. Tired. I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Come for the food. Stay because the US gov't threw tear gas at you and your grandma.

Hello from Occupied Chicago.

“Thanks to the solidity of Bearded Vulture nest structures and their locations in the western Mediterranean, generally in protected places … with relatively stable temperature and low humidity conditions, they have acted as natural museums, conserving historical material in good condition.”

Based on the latest reporting about the Border Patrol shooting in Brighton Park this morning: A Chicago woman was shot by CBP and is in fair condition. DHS claims CBP vehicles were rammed & boxed in. Other parties involved say CBP’s vehicle hit a car, possibly crashing that car into another.

I'm furious on behalf of everyone who was brutalized by ICE today in Chicago. My GOD, this is completely horrible. I've been in meetings most of today and I just checked messages and see that comrades & friends were part of the people they brutalized today.

In July, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

Violation of the Illinois TRUST Act.

Join us Kristi Noem! 9AM Press Conference at 1930 Beach St

Veterans are speaking out against ICE's "mob tactics" in Broadview. "Our democracy is being crushed." blockclubchi.co/475z6iV

obligatory sturgeon mention content

10/3 is Mean Girls' Day and it's also supposedly Day 1 of DHS's "Operation Freaky Friday." What world am I living in.

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

This story is so complex, and worth a read. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/s...

all mammals share an instinct to destroy their ancient enemy, the loathsome gourd

"Paradise Lost" by Raqib Shaw @hleisthen.bsky.social

Me thinking "George W Bush will be the worst president in American history" in 2005

One more reminder: tomorrow is the first day of our #bsbookclub reading of M.R. James' Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories. Details are in the quoted post; let me know if you'd like to join. Expect a lot of antiquarian ghost story posting from me this month! 😱

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war.. is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health" www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Any man may kill a snake, but only a Perseus, a St. George, a Coffin, have the heart in them to march boldly up to a whale.

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

John Darnielle just gave a shout to Chicago for showing the country how to turn up when the fascists show up. ❤️

youtu.be/yVbv1qQPD7U?... Even better @hleisthen.bsky.social

I’m a writer, dumbasses, and I can still hear you when you do this!

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Breaker breaker 19... 😱

ummm.. holy shit? tool use in bovids confirmed? holy holy shit?

They're dangerous scum of the earth, but if I have to see a flotilla of CPB officers riding boats like goddamned George Washington crossing the Delaware in their janky ass Walmart camos, I may fall down from laughter. Truly the most absurd thing I've seen in this city and I have seen A LOT.

In a statement ICE claimed Arias-Mendoza had a number of previous arrests and entered the country illegally at some point. This journalist is not in the business of taking ICE at their word.

As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.

My god Chicago is a beautiful city.

This is how our government communicates with its citizens.

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago this morning. Protesters here for this morning's action are gathering off 25th now that Beach has been fenced off. A pair of men peering through the fence at ICE vehicles shout, "Get the fuck out of Chicago, you terrorists!"

Things at Broadview are escalating.

There are videos all over social media now of Border Patrol having moved on to the Home Depot at Western & 47th. Early reports suggest they may have snatched a tamale vendor.

STICK TO THE BOAT, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when LEAP FROM THE BOAT, is still better.

As if their extreme human rights violating bullshit weren't enough, ICE is now responsible for soggy bread.

“...there are about 35,000 to 40,000 veterinary clinics in the U.S....Private equity firms held a 29% stake, while corporate owners had 19%...corporations own about 6,600 vet clinics. Nearly half, or 45%, are owned by Mars, which has 3,000 vet clinics.” (Pres. Doug Drew = former investment banker.)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a... 🎁

Shut it down.