ICE in Chicagoland today: CBP agents were seemingly everywhere, with arrests across several neighborhoods and the suburbs. Exact numbers are unknown. Neighbors in Garfield Park witnessed feds choking a Black man in the street, and Border Patrol snatched people at retail strips and traffic stops.

Half the Answer #36: Trent and Caitlin talk with political science professor Matt McManus about far-right thinkers and their journey through the past two decades, with some nuggets of wisdom from Charlie Kirk's books dropped along the way. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Brazil and the US are working to arrange an in-person meeting between Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Donald Trump, with a potential encounter likely to take place in a third country

The partial collapse of a public housing building in the Bronx followed an explosion in a ventilation shaft connected to the boiler room. nyti.ms/4mNGmo9

A legal battle brings conditions at the immigration facility to light.

Bad for civilization

Absolutely brilliant chat that @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I had with the marvelous @mattpolprof.bsky.social regarding the roots of the far-right, Charlie Kirk’s collected works, Socrates, de Maistre, the vanity of cats, and, somehow, much more; we stay boogying

Well the Pope et al. disagree so lol

I think it’s not refreshing to have an idiot as the president actually lol

An important economic threshold is crossed

woody guthrie would like a word

@hagenblix.bsky.social i am screaming again youtu.be/lp8SeaO_gTc?...

Cervical cancer has a known path of prevention with the HPV vaccine. But that also means it falls at the intersection of three cultural issues that are facing strong political opposition — broad access to low-cost or free reproductive health care, access to vaccines for children, and sex education.

It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

Jane Goodall, RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Software knows if you have visited abortion clinics, churches, and other sensitive sites.

Lmfao that’s because it is obviously and wildly inappropriate

watching Hegseth it was just completely obvious this is a *highly* neurotic man with extreme and well-deserved insecurities about his value to the military paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bulging-bi...

Trump administration backs off 100% pharma tariffs threatened to start today www.statnews.com/2025/10/01/t... via @statnews.com

In a statement, Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, specifically mentioned the expansion of the Second Avenue subway line and the construction of new train tunnels under the Hudson River, a $16 billion project known as Gateway.

Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life”

I just received this statement from ICE re: Barbara Mariana Gomes Marques May in which they can't even be bothered to get her age right (she's 38.) She never received the notice to appear in 2019, and was at the final step of her green card process with her US citizen husband when she was taken.

The best way to support me and my work: 1) Consider a paid subscription to my (now liberated) writing on Substack: karenattiah.substack.com

My latest in my fight against the Washington Post. I’ve filed a grievance against the Post through the WaPo Guild— and have sent a letter to Washington Post challenging my firing. Proud to have @normeisen.bsky.social + @katiephang.bsky.social in my corner. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

I discuss the authoritarian fallout from Charlie Kirk's murder with @liberalcurrents.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW54...

You know, I thought it would be obvious that I question DHS’s claim they have done nothing wrong when this is an article about a bullshit arrest and also me personally getting shot at. But apparently some people cannot grasp things unless they’re spelled out.

And I don’t think I’ve posted my book here so: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708739...

SCOOP: At 9:35am on Wednesday, the first morning of the US government shutdown, employees at the Small Business Administration (SBA) received a template from human resources for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.

In two weeks, Robert Roberson could be the first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis. Share his story far and wide and urge Gov. Abbott to stop Robert's 10/16 execution: 737-277-6778

Here are three more factual statements: 1. 25,000 of Mike Johnson's constituents are about to lose health care 2. 27,000 more are about to have their premiums skyrocket. 3. A 60 year old couple in his district would pay $19,000 more a year.

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.

The full report brightlinewatch.org/violence-red...

Happy Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on where you are

“The fact that Greg Abbott has refused to act should be repugnant to anyone who has a sense of justice.”—me (feat. @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social & @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social of @liberalcurrents.com).

Whether or not we can say definitively that liberal democracy is a major cause of modern economic growth, we can definitely say with great confidence (as I do, here) that what today's right wingers put forward as their theory—you know the one—is wrong.

Shutdown update: there are currently two Continuing Resolutions under discussion: 1) The GOP version represents the current status quo 2) The Democratic version represents the pre "Big Ugly Bill" status quo 3) Neither of them contains provisions around trans healthcare

The lawsuit against Russ Vought for threatening mass layoffs during a shutdown makes the correct point that a shutdown confers no new authorities to fire employees. Who knows what our Supreme Court will decide but they could do that now, shutdown or not. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has the story.

That’s on him. This is not how shutdowns work lol

One defense official called Hegseth’s address “garbage,” using a term the war secretary used during his speech. Another said: “We are diminished as a nation by both Hegseth and Trump.”

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that Trump loyalist Sigal Chattah has been unlawfully serving as Nevada’s U.S. Attorney since July. Chattah and her office are now barred from prosecuting cases — the second Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney disqualified within 2 months after Alina Habba in NJ.

Classic

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

The correct headline is actually that the party controlling all three branches of the government failed to pass their own bill along on party lines, or even with some Dem help.

www.politico.com/news/2025/03... Ever get the feeling that the Administration just doesn't give a damn? #Econsky #mutuals

🇫🇷 France has detained the Boracay oil tanker, part of Russia's shadow fleet. The vessel is subject to UK and EU sanctions. In early 2025, it was detained in Estonia—at the time, it was called the Kiwala. Estonian Navy found 40 deficiencies, including sailing without a valid national flag.

We’ll see now how it all shakes out. No point in helping the GOP crush the nation; let them own it. Let them own all the insanity. But fighting back against fascism and authoritarianism is good, actually.

man they are leaking to the *Intercept* that's how mad some of them are

A great chat about such topics as @hagenblix.bsky.social touches upon below

Always Doing Loser shit

Yea I mean, until the invasion ends lol obviously Russia is a greater current threat to them and any existential goals they have than the Ukrainian government they’re allying with. No need to think they’ve changed their stripes with everything being considered.