About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com

Tomorrow marks the first time the federal government has failed to release a jobs report two months in a row. Without these data, unemployment insurance claims provide the most up-to-date read on the labor market. As the shutdown drags on, continued UI claims by federal workers hits 30k. #EconSky

These are crimes against humanity.

Guy whose entire career has been writing one column a week has thoughts on "the workplace"

The average income of the top 5% is $526,000. Trump cut their taxes by 2.5%. Their current tax rate is 23%. Trump killed 600,000 people and gutted our government in order to save people making $526,000 an extra tax burden of $13,000.

Nope

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered government officials to provide immigration detainees enough food, water and bed space, among other remedies, finding that the conditions at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview do not “pass constitutional muster.”

New list: reporters posting live coverage of court cases related to DHS activity in Chicago. Currently just @djbyrnes1.bsky.social and @jonseidel.bsky.social who have both been regularly sharing live updates. Open to adding others consistently on this beat. bsky.app/profile/did:...

It feels like just yesterday you discovered trash cans and now look at you!!

"you're canadian this doesn't concern you at all" you forget that zohran also had the better fonts. a win for Graphic Design the world over

A few minutes after 9pm. Here it comes.

People are calling this hopescrolling?

Welp — @davidhogg.bsky.social to Scott Jennings: "People are tired of being lectured by men with Rolexes on CNN about affordability in this country. That’s why Zohran is resonating."

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Was just reflecting on this. Your local politics can be what they are and this can still be happening.

People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!

mamdani has focused relentlessly on affordability issues WITHOUT COMPROMISING support for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers like, he released an entire campaign video about sylvia and mother marsha!

I feel like this is an important aspect to emphasize, loudly, to everyone who endorsed Cuomo. they chose to side with a known sexual predator for personal gain and frankly that should be disqualifying for public office. you knew who he was and decided the women he hurt were acceptable losses

Capitalism is now illegal

Great verb choice on that headline. “Kicking and screaming” comes to mind.

As a Bostonian, I am conflicted about how many positive feelings I'm having about New York at this moment

over in Maine currently, Voter ID is dead and gun restrictions are ALVIE

I bet he can pronounce it now

LOVE TO BE RIGHT

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

We're monitoring this -- this post comes at a time when USDA has already directed states to move forward with partial SNAP payments for November. Our take forever and always: feed the kids.

I know the sandwich throwing trial is more "fun" but I hope folks will pay attention to this trial in Chicago today. People held at Broadview share details of the disgusting, inhumane conditions. A man said agents told him to sign self deportation papers and lied to him about what they were.

It’s lib Christmas

More ballots in, and Mamdani's lead is up closer to 9%: 50% Mamdani, 41% Cuomo

Border Patrol was seen again at the O'Hare taxi lot today: www.instagram.com/reel/DQpqorP...

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

If poor people shouldn’t be allowed to buy junk food with food stamps then rich people shouldn’t be able to buy politicians.

Bottomless Pit of Screams Endorses Cuomo.

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

Weirdly its legal for RESTAURANTS and other retailers who don't accept SNAP to give discounts to SNAP recipients, but illegal for grocery stores than normally accept SNAP to do so.

Obligatory

Over 100 people rallied in Brighton Park Saturday to support tamalero Fausto Valladares Alvarez, who was taken by federal agents. “My dad is not a criminal,” his daughter said. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/01/b...

one of the things we see reasonably often at checkout in my store are people who are distraught when they find out that the already-cooked rotisserie chickens are not covered by their SNAP benefits.

🧵 Heather Cherone, senior Chicago politics reporter for WTTW public television, does an outstanding job keeping track of what Homeland Security is doing in court and in the streets.

🧵🧵 This thread highlights some of media people and organizations energetically covering the Trump regime’s campaign to terrorize Chicagoans. These folks are well worth a Bluesky follow. Of special note is Unraveled, the kind of independent journalism we need when some legacy outlets are in retreat.

People don’t know what the federal government is doing in Chicago. Share this article far and wide. Not just here but to your friends and family elsewhere

there’s a new ad running at wapo where you can access all of their articles for free without a sub if you read using comet, an ai-powered browser controlled by perplexity perplexity is an amazon-backed ai product i have no other words, really

This week's Chicago Hack Night will feature Cook County's IMPACT Program, which is funding solutions that address digital gaps and leverage storytelling. I write about it and showed what I wish were on websites like theirs. mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/2025/11/cook...

"If you’re not choosing, someone else is. And that person is responding to incentives that might not align with your values or best interest." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... (aside, Apple News share URLs should go to the original publisher and not Apple News 😡)

This story was so good! But I couldn't help but think about "the incident" while reading it. I understand them not including it in the story, but that feels like pretty important context, tbh. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/et...