ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Looks like before he crashed through the doors and began to shoot, he somehow set a fire trapping people inside. Chief says he expects to find more victims: www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

"Students objecting to the video say it equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. At one point the narrator compares critics of Israel to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, and uses a controversial definition of antisemitism." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

American Apartheid

Light, shadow and movement... these are stunning etchings.

the weirdest part about trumps fascist regime is they only seem bothered by people pointing out that’s what it is. i’m just baffled they haven’t just embraced it with a full endorsement already

This is infuriating. 🤬 And the poor kids--helpless witnesses to their mother's assault.

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

You should read the actual Comey indictment. It is shockingly weak — in a manner that makes the true authoritarian intent even more obvious www.vox.com/politics/462...

Kimmel was one high profile example of job termination directly related to comments made in the wake of Kirk's death. But there were reports of scores of regular people across the country fired for the same reason, such as this university art professor. In this case 1st amendment rights prevailed. 💪

So @jimmykimmel.com's first words back tonight--"As I was saying..."-- were an homage to Tonight Show host Jack Paar, who used those words when he returned after walking out on his show in a censorship dispute with NBC. From 65 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrhQ...

Important to remember that H1B visa holders have their whole life in the US. The home they rent or own is here. Their family. Their kids go to school here. Being locked out of the US is also in many cases rendering them homeless and away from their family, with no obvious path to return

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

WHAT THE HELL

The re-whitewashing of American history continues.

I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.

It's really amazing how much of the effort to retaliate is focused on people who're like, "Here are the things he said." As if Charlie Kirk's legacy cannot stand real scrutiny.

Real life meets satire. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social called it.

Genuinely starting to think that they know it's someone on the right.

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

have spent the last 12 hours in some sort of pre-grief for what's clearly coming, an imperial boomerang with x-ray vision now unconstrained by whatever law we had left

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

Academics, check for your published papers.

The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.

John Oliver calling @columbiauniversity.bsky.social "the little bitch university" for caving to Trump is fantastic... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk94...

[CROWD BOOING]

DC showing us how it's done. 👏

ironically the education for its own sake, Enlightenment-coded, Great Books-ass liberal arts degree is one of the better employment bets you can make. learn how to read, write, think critically, develop curiosity so you can pick up new skills quickly, etc etc

This isn't correct. The Department of War, for nearly 150 years, was just the Army. There was no unified military cabinet level post overseeing both the Army and Navy until DOD. That umbrella was created in 1947. The Dept of war became the departments of the Army and Air Force.

So cool that the only way the state of Illinois is aware of the federal government's operations is because individual employees and military members are leaking info to Illinois. What a well-functioning country.

Drug smugglers or migrants, it's all the same in Trump world.

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

Ursula von der Leyen’s plane targeted by suspected Russian GPS interference

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

It's uncomforably explicable as eugenics. They appear more than comfortable rolling back medical protections in ways that tend toward mass death for the fragile.

This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.

Call me crazy but I don’t love the idea of them controlling ways to escape.

After RFK Jr's was confirmed in February, I made this new version of Donald Moffett's iconic "He Kills Me" poster from 1987 that captured Reagan's insouciant response to AIDS. Read the alt text for Moffet's description of making the poster. ACT UP. Fight Back! bsky.app/profile/lisa...

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

The long-standing tradition of throwing food at bad acts stands strong. 👏

A new paper by Harvard professor Claudia Goldin found that countries where men take on more of the household labor and child care have higher fertility rates. 19thnews.org/2025/08/fert...

They envisioned Trump. They never envisioned Republicans.

This is quite the thing! The last post in this thread contains the 🔗 to the archive of these illustrations.

The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy