Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

Happy Holidays from the Chicago Police Department

congrat's to ya'll

Standard Republican "Here's a 99 year contract for all the money our parking meters collect" type graft

Almost fifty years since Renee Richards fought for the right to play. The New York Times covered the controversy closely, running this collection of responses from their readers that sounds like it could be run today

OK I’ve put together the list. Shame on all of them: Ford CEO Jim Farley Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa General Motors plant manager John Urbanic National Auto Dealers Association Chairman Tom Castriota Transportation Sec Sean Duffy Deputy transportation Sec Steven Bradbury 1/2

If that senile old man was making comments like this about me, I would ASSUME that all of my comrades would be coming for him.

This is freaking incredible

Yup, a senior advisor who served as president of a conservative Tea Party activist group, and a “nonpartisan” polling guy who previously worked on President Trump's polling team. And both are pitching third-party AI snake oil to “remake” politics. Very “independent.” (NPR, WTF are you doing?)

new: government contractors are increasingly invoking trade secrets protections to shield products like gunshot detection, dna analysis, and facial recognition from public scrutiny. via max blaisdell + matt chapman

ICYMI: cook county's 2026 fiscal year begins today! the $10 billion budget approved by county commissioners last month includes an additional $300+ million, or about 30 percent, for law enforcement.

Prospera Honduras is a Zone for Employment & Economic Development (ZEDE) backed by Peter Thiel. Trump plans to pardon the former Honduran president who championed ZEDES b4 his drug trafficking conviction. Honduras current outgoing president has tried to eliminate ZEDES, an obstacle for Prospera. 1/

4/ Ed Martin is Trump’s pardon attorney. He is close with Roger Stone who—as shown above—previously recommended that Trump pardon Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez to facilitate Prospera, a “Tech Bro” colony & aspiring “network state” in Honduras.

A🧵 This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds. The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful. THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die. 1/n

Arguing that shooting someone with a 357 Magnum is a failure of American assimilation is pretty funny.

I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

For nearly a decade, sceptics have dismissed allegations that Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Prigozhin’s troll farms successfully intervened in the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election in 2016 - now the argument is over pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...

Except in Chicago, where we were wondering the same thing in real time.

It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.

Evergreen.

Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.

i'm just hung up on "the entire media let itself get dogwalked into stabbing Democracy to death by a lady who was just doing it because she was hung up on RFK Jr.'s piss and breeding kinks", it's genuinely unbelievable to me if she were an actual agent of an enemy polity i think i'd hate it less

If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.

No accident that half the protagonists in movies are 'journalists' it is shorthand for honesty in this daft culture That's why the worst charlatans on earth wear this mask

I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.

Trump take beer.

Are you serious? Now there’s an IZZY?

I've shared on here before, why more cops do not and cannot reduce the murder rate in US cities. I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️ Now let's talk cop killings

Shades of the Great Parking Meter Fiasco right here.

It’s murder.

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Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Good for them, but from now on let’s be sure to blame the mess on “the grampas in Congress.”

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in which the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management discovers how anachronistic & damaging “the poverty line” metric is in the USA— www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

You know what I think Isaac Chotiner is right to be suspicious of the Semafor article credulously arguing that it's fine for the Saudis to be real life Bene Gesserit

a lot of interesting tidbits in this story about rep. lauren underwood’s visit to the broadview ice jail. as always, take everything dhs says with a grain of salt. but it sounds like the feds’ terror in chicago is far from over. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The article is called "Out With Woke". He specifically calls for sacrificing all marginalized communities upon the altar of the revered white male. Is that how desperate liberals have gotten for any sort of hollow "win"?

Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.

ICE abducted two people 20 minutes ago at Kennicott and Elston, in case you thought Chicago was safe.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

The Chicago Police Department’s famous torture of detainees will never be over and done with. Never.

Topsy.

so anyway I plunked myself down, read the entirety of E.B. White's 1940 essay "Freedom" for Harper's Magazine, and put it up for free on my Patreon. enjoy (or don't, I'm not your dad). there's an intro for context, and then the reading starts at 6:35 www.patreon.com/posts/e-b-wh...

But how do *they* feel about getting roped into surveillance culture?

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

I heard from one Chicago k-8 that during the height of the ICE/CBP terror (which seems to have passed, finally) 30 percent of its students were staying home.