District court judges are engaged in a bipartisan project of [forgive me] actually calling balls and strikes. Republican circuit judges are largely going full-tilt partisan. Stats as of last month: courtaccountability.substack.com/p/where-law-...

What time do you get in?

Single-digit lows next week?

Child care workers are building a network of resistance against ICE, @the19thnews reports. blockclubchi.co/44wlKum

A story in 3 acts:

A winter storm to impact the Northern Plains, Upper Midwest, and Great Lakes this Thanksgiving week. Periods of heavy snow and gusty winds may make travel difficult at times. Be sure to check weather.gov for more information. ❄️

Everyone who makes a ketchup joke gets one hour in the rack.

Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.

I’ve never seen “outreach” used that way and I am 100% against it.

Everything wrong with political journalism in one graf. This is not a policy proposal that exists but that doesn’t matter, what matters is that someone “won” by asking it bsky.app/profile/larr...

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

Time to mute me for a few hours. Let’s go Bears.

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

Travel in full pajamas this holiday season and the airport b-roll will look magnificent.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Colleagues and I were just talking about this: The CTA holiday train is the purest experience of joy in the city. -No one- is so jaded that they don’t light up when they see it. Commuters get genuinely excited. People smile and laugh and text pictures to their friends. It’s a delight.

NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated. I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble. But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash. Waiting for the feds? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

You know You know where you are with You know where you are with Floor collapses floating Bouncing back and one day…

More like anal bean.

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

not sure how I've never seen this before, but damn it's brilliant

At a time when we are drowning in police misconduct settlements that are costing the city millions and forcing the city to take out massive loans with HIGH interest rates… this seems like such a slap in the face. This is not accountability and this is not responsible governance.

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

In 1981, eight Louisiana hillbillies tried to invade Dominica, kill Eugenia Charles, and take over the government. One was Don Black, who later founded Stormfront. They claimed at trial that Ron Paul knew about their plan and encouraged them. A brave headliner writer got “Bayou of Pigs” out of it.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

NEW: Body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent in Chicago using ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images,” Judge Ellis reveals in a scathing written ruling. Story here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...

For those keeping track: The government pursued charges against five people arrested outside the ICE facility in Broadview, IL during a protest there on Sept. 27. As of today, all five of those cases have now been thrown out.

I’ve been saying this for ages: These folks are doomed to be permanently angry because they’re angry about aspects of the culture that policy ultimately can’t change. They’re seeking political power as a consolation prize for lack of cultural power, and will always be dissatisfied.

Finally healthcare for men!

Now THAT is good feature writing.

SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend. Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.

Stupendous journalism by a consortium of independent newsrooms (incl @blockclubchi.bsky.social @southsideweekly.bsky.social @thetriibe.com) chronicling nearly 50 times federal agents wantonly gassed people—mostly protestors—across Chicagoland, & the harm it causes southsideweekly.com/feds-tear-ga...

DOJ going full Sol Rosenberg in federal court is quite the gambit.

In 1970, the NYT reported on new private schools blossoming in the south. These all-white segregation academies were formed expressly in response to racial integration in schools. Proponents immediately saw that they needed resources. So began efforts to take money from the public school system.

Man, CBS must feel really stupid right now! Just kidding, CBS wasn't settling a lawsuit. They were paying a bribe and they knew it.

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

Bluesky is simultaneously a bubble of leftist indoctrination and a bubble that shields us from leftist indoctrination.

"Extremely long sentences, strange syntax, unusual structures, etc., don’t exist to punish readers but to provide other aesthetic experiences and different types of stories. Story is never separable from execution. So-called difficult books couldn’t be made into easy books without ruining them."

No, the neo-Nazism of young Republican staffers is not driven by economic anxiety www.vox.com/politics/468...

This is how our forecast Polar Vortex Breakdown - Sudden Stratospheric Warming - plays out over the next 2 weeks ~20 miles aloft, as per the GFS model. This top and bottom comparison is a good visual on how breakdown occurs… 1/

Is the “quiet, piggy” thing real

The number of AI commercials during MNF is insane. And they’re so bad!

People keep saying Bondi will use the new investigation to block the files. But she’s also made clear she’s only investigating democrats. So if she does use that excuse, she should be asked why she won’t release files related to Trump, who is not under investigation.

Nine percent less. C’mon man.

NFC North suddenly looking like a pretty mid division.

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men