The biggest thing that stands out to me on this list is that a bunch of them you either have limited choice as a consumer and/or your choices are all bad.

@chicagoreader.com old school iconic box spotted in an ER episode 🤙

shotspotter just so effective:

NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

re Homan’s latest attempt at washing every murder by ICE as avoidable by simply complying: it really is something to exist along all these people who are so evil they can’t actually get approved to a position of power and have to rely on participation trophy appointments.

FWIW that's *this* Unraveled

immigration agents are terrorizing people rn & getting off scot-free this is an impunity problem that the Supreme Court helped create but a sufficiently motivated Congress could address it, in part by literally making immigration agents pay for what they’ve done ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

after filming ICE agents abducting a grandmother:

ICE executes the nonwhite while the White House and State Department look to declare the U.S. left a Foreign Terrorist Organization. We've been heading here since 9/11 @attackerman.bsky.social

Perhaps DHS “believes a lack of transparency is institutionally safer than candor. But secrecy does not strengthen law enforcement; secrecy weakens it. A government agency that will not fully explain a fatal shooting should not be surprised when citizens question its judgment.”

drove through Wisconsin back home today and the smoke was so unbelievably thick - I feel like I just got off work gargling zebra mussel shells for six hours despite wearing a mask in the car for a bulk of it.

we won’t forget any of them.

😇

I love Todd Haynes

the uncomfortable fact of the matter is that this thing exists because Congress created it. It would be better not to leave loaded weapons lying around.

'Police said they stopped a man in his vehicle not far from the scene. They seized his car and gun and identified him as Brandon Booth, 42, an employee for Geo Group.' The Geo AUS subsidiary runs Junee, Parklea, Fulham & Ravenhall prisons in NSW, QLD & VIC. 🥳💰 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In this piece the NYT gives Gregory Bovino far more space to make spurious claims about the fantastical dangers federal agents faced as they violently occupied major cities with impunity than any of the people he’s on video assaulting himself numerous times.

am about to be mostly offline this weekend watching birds and overdosing on friendship along the Mississippi River but boosting this little essay again - a) because I wrote it and I like it b) I have firm convictions that our shared resistance to this tyrannical violence is making someone beautiful.

legit thought this was another Chicago morning picture on the timeline.

Such an insane news week I missed this article days ago with some wild details but also registering this quote from Mullins: “My goal in six months is that we’re not the lead story every single day.” They killed Renee Good on January 7th, then six month exactly killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

is my headache from the wildfire smoke making it a 700 AQI day or from not drinking enough water or from crying watching a mother mourn her partner while unable to tell her three year old daughter that her dad isn’t coming home since he was executed in the street by a domestic abuser federal agent?

this agency is rotten to the core. abolish all of it or men just like this will continue to have guns and immunity for their violence.

cry laughing at this pity throw from Bessent amidst Rubio and Miller frothing at the mouth.

Last night we gathered in Little Village to remember two fathers killed in their cars within a week but 1,900 miles apart, but also all of the fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, and friends who’ve faced this new wave of violence in a system designed for just that. A familiar sound kept me looking up.

median Republican staffer

Mick Records

honestly it’s not that far off

Okay okay okay let’s go

jesus christ - we all know they’re craven sadists but still

so great to wake up with a dull headache that’s only going to worsen all day because outside is legitimately caustic to exist in.

Blue Island, a suburb of Chicago with a huge Mexican population, is one police agency sharing immigration data with ICE. Via @eff.org www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Note: Most of the children in our story never interacted with ICE. Instead most were briefly detained at the border by U.S. Customs and Border Protection then transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of Health and Human Services. ORR contracts with nonprofit shelters or foster care.

“Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have to indulge the president’s delusions?” I don’t think toadies like this can actually be ashamed but it is helpful to point out repeatedly that they should be to regular people.

mood

Every ICE death I think of those that came before and how their loved ones live with these constant reminders of the violence wrought into their lives by this agency, how grief just circles back and never leaves when you can’t move on because there’s nowhere to go that isn’t a mire of murder.

love to wake up every day thinking about how nobody in charge of anything should ever be in charge of anything ever again

Khalil is also suing some of the biggest conservative groups targeting pro-Palestinian activists. trib.al/E9hc0qn

There’s a few ~fancy~ steakhouses in Carmel, IN that I bet would love to know how people would feel about them hosting a white supremacist AI slop-fueled gathering like this.

BREAKING: I am suing Northwestern University, a member of congress, two cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General of the United States. I explain why in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/when-we-figh...

Guess I should just get used to this being the norm for every summer weekend I plan to do anything up north.

without a doubt ICE will still be trying to hit these numbers with other tactics, including targeting courthouses and other previously off limits areas. They’ve also been repeatedly been raiding construction sites in southern states this week so expect more of that style of raids in your locales.

meanwhile, at the current geo group-run ice jail in colorado:

ice contractor geo group has officially inked a $529 million deal to reopen a shuttered prison outside denver as an immigration jail. as part of the deal, geo will pay the owner of the private prison, chicago-based highlands reit, $958,000+ per month—a figure that will increase annual by 3%.

they’ll never make me hate you.

They should never be forgiven for what they’ve done to us, for what they’re still doing to others.

Still one of my favorite photos I’ve taken - about three years ago now

I’m so fucking incandescently mad and seeing the journalistic essence of an ambulance chaser trying to capitalize on yet another death very might push me over the edge tonight. It’s all so vile, just repugnant and inhumane.

“At Menard, the plaintiffs were confined to cells in which they could “not fully extend their arms, and that are far too cramped to allow for meaningful body movement, much less exercise.” Imagine being in a room like that for 356 days of your life. All because guards found a needle for tattooing.