At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

A bicyclist right in front of me got hit by a car that turned right into front of and into him. We were in a prominent bike lane.

Emails also suggest that @nytimes.com knew more about Trump’s involvement with Epstein than they acknowledged.

Here's Hugh Canning's review of the Paris Iphigénie en Tauride and Faust. cc @eliiiiise.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/operalog...

It’s been a busy writing week! In case you missed it: On Rosalía’s new album, and why the classical-pop divide matters less than we might think

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

Very nice piece, @kevinng.bsky.social , about Nadine Sierra bachtrack.com/interview-na...

A star is born : Tamara Bounazou is the best Iphigénie I ever heard or saw. Phenomenal voice and stage presence. Brava!

Argentina President Javier Milei doing the “Trump dance” at Mar-a-Lago after getting an $40 billion bailout. Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling? Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Do yourself a favor and read through @jonseidel.bsky.social's entire 🧵on this morning's hearing. It's incredible to see the truth about Chicago acknowledged & the rule of law holding firm. "Ellis also finds that the feds' use of force in Chicago "shocks the conscience."

I'm thrilled to be back on stage @lyricopera.bsky.social! I have a non-singing acting role in Cavalleria rusticana. I'm in a balcony in the first scene & appear in 3 more scenes. Gorgeous music! Rave review from the Chicago Tribune! There are 7 more performances. www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcomi...

An exchange from Trump's "60 Minutes" interview about his family's crypto empire was not included in the extended version shared online. Trump sued and settled with the network over the program's editing of a 2024 Kamala Harris interview.

Let's not mince words. This isn't an "enormous expansion of power"; it's a US president using his office to order his staff & security forces to commit acts of #PremeditatedMurder on his behalf. Nothing less than that. He needs to end his days in a cell in den Haag. It's better than he deserves.

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

Those Epstein Files must be a DOOZY

New from me: Emmanuel Macron delivered remarks in Germany recently that I think could serve as a template for an outside-the-box, ambitious political figure. But timing and breaking with prevailing orthodoxy would be critical. www.offmessage.net/p/defiant-re...

Evanston Mayor Dan Biss on today’s ICE raids in his community: “What federal agents are doing in Evanston right now is monstrous.”

If only Tennessee had US Senators who could do anything.

My whole feed is full of @theonion.com knockoffs

Donald Trump and Peter Hegseth have now murdered 57 human beings on their boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. That means they've passed Seattle's "Green River Killer" (49) to become the most lethal serial killers in American history Where is The Hague?

This guy may as well be Trump.

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

I’m probably going to have a LOT to say about this after I read the piece.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

A very disturbing video has emerged from today’s ICE/CBP operations in Avondale. An officer pushes a woman to the ground, prompting bystanders to react angrily and throw what appears to be a rock at a moving unmarked vehicle. This seems to be the new normal in Chicago.

Video of the tear gassing at Roscoe and Harding in Avondale via source.

There is a 3D printer design if you know folks with one www.printables.com/model/417238...

If the stuff happening in Chicago were happening in New York City it would be on every television on earth right now

A high school friend always said my mother looked like June Lockhart, and she always called my mother “June.” 😢

Happy #worldoperaday #diva #JuneAnderson

Video from today's first gas attack. Saturday morning in Chicago.

it’s beyond comprehension that scenes like this have become routine in chicago. masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets. this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*

I've asked that question multiple times and all I get is silence or anger as they walk away.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

You won't find any better opera production than Lyric's Medea, and you have only one more chance to see and hear it, this Sunday at 2pm. A monumental performance from Sondra Radvanovsky and stellarsinging from Matthew Polenzani, Elena Villalón, Alfred Walker... www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcomi...

News we can definitely use ✅

Good evening from Chicago

Donald Trump's masked agents believe that their actions are immune from investigation or accountability — they're not. I've signed an Executive Order today establishing the Illinois Accountability Commission to create a public record and capture the impact on our communities.

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

IL State Rep. Hoan Huynh says CBP agents surrounded his car and drew a gun on him on the Northwest Side of Chicago this morning

Sure glad I got to see this! @govpritzker.illinois.gov and Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune. Gov Pritzker has an authentic passion for good government and human rights.

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record: This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

#HandsOffChicago #NoKings

March on, my fellows!

A diagonal good morning from Chicago

In the past 24 hours: ➡️ Politico revealed hundreds of antisemitic & bigoted messages b/n young Republican leaders; ➡️ A swastika was found in a Republican House office; and ➡️ Trump's Border Patrol posted a reel with an antisemitic slur. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.