Oh fuck, they just gave Trump airtime during the Lions-Commanders game. 🤮🤮🤮🤮

A lot of viral video of Bovino’s terrorism yesterday in Little Village. This frame shows a branch of Self-Help Credit Union in background. Self Help, out of North Carolina, has a storied legacy as a CDFI, a program Miller-Trump is trying to destroy. It’s all coming together for the far-right.

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

Same. Durbin seems bent on completely burning up what is left of his legacy. It’s sad and infuriating thing to watch. Hope I’m wrong.

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

I am a Lions fan but, man, glad the Bears won. Chicago needs all the wins they can get right now. Of almost any kind.

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

In Georgia’s statewide races on Tuesday, the two Democratic candidates won 8 counties where, in 2024, Kamala Harris had received UNDER 40%. via: almanacofamericanpolitics.substack.com/p/democrats-...

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

Never mind the fact that a 50 year mortgage is a bad idea [rate will be higher so won’t save much, build equity more slowly, and could have a (likely small) upward effect on prices] It’s hilarious he is calling FDR a great American president as he’s gutting the safety net.

I have had other colleagues from Europe tell me they simply will not attend conferences in the US for the foreseeable future because they no longer feel welcome. They have seen the stories of travelers detained and don't want to hand their social media over to the current administration for approval

Going to a research conference next week. One of my panels featured researchers coming from Asia, who decided to withdraw given the uncertainty about domestic travel with flight cancelations. Just one more reference point for how the US under Trump has become seen as a basket case country.

Glad this appeared in @chicagotribune.com today. Includes signatures of CEOs of Chicago & Illinois Chambers of Commerce & other business folks, & from faith & philanthropic sectors. But worth noting how few business types actually signed, & that some of these business orgs helped get us here.

'delights in being mean' says the guy responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths after just a few months of his work...

Glad this appeared in @chicagotribune.com today. Includes signatures of CEOs of Chicago & Illinois Chambers of Commerce & other business folks, & from faith & philanthropic sectors. But worth noting how few business types actually signed, & that some of these business orgs helped get us here.

This, but for those critical scholars who dismiss the work of scholars who engage in actual policy work and pushback against power, while they say nothing and play up to various power structures. They save their radical fervor for articles that will likely be read by a few dozen academics, if that.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

“…approximately 48 hours after U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered federal agents to stop using “riot control weapons,” including “chemical irritants” to disperse crowds if they could injure anyone “who is not causing an immediate threat of physical harm to another person.”” #Chicago #ddrm

More Bovino-led horror in Little Village today. Matt is a reliable leader in the community. www.linkedin.com/posts/matt-d...

Never mind the fact that a 50 year mortgage is a bad idea [rate will be higher so won’t save much, build equity more slowly, and could have a (likely small) upward effect on prices] It’s hilarious he is calling FDR a great American president as he’s gutting the safety net.

At least two people were arrested by Chicago police and shots were allegedly fired at Border Patrol agents conducting immigration enforcement operations as tensions flared in Little Village Saturday morning.

For the reply guys: Yes they are often going after workers (of all sorts) in these affluent communities, that's obvious. It still is an attempt to intimidate communities (or parts of them). And yes, people are fighting back! That doesn't deny attempt to intimidate with shows of force.

This featuring @donmoyn.bsky.social is spot on. Helps explain why ICE/DHS activity lately has moved from working class suburbs & Chicago neighborhoods to more affluent north side and northern suburbs, like Evanston & Wilmette. They want to intimidate/scare *everyone* including the "liberal elite."

And this.

Patronizing Pilsen (Chicago) Mexican restaurant with some excellent mole.

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)

/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.

I need to emphasize what I say down-thread: this is a temporary, procedural move known as an administrative stay issued in haste by Justice Jackson. Little to nothing should be read into this ruling for how SCOTUS might ultimately rule on SNAP—either way.

Referring the admin’s emergency petition to the whole court would have slowed down getting the payments out. We expect a First Circuit decision within the next day, day and a half. Monday a.m. tops. Stay tuned.

The wording of this is highly unusual, and suggests that Justice Jackson is expecting the First Circuit to rule on a stay pending appeal (a longer pause of the district court's order) in the next few days. I'll have more to say about this in "One First" as soon as I can write it up.

I worked for a community development corp working with small businesses in Humboldt Park (Latino nabe in Chicago) in 90s. What’s going on in Chicago is, among other things, destroying countless latino-owned business, likely setting back community development in these nabes decades. Just horrifying.

Love this map. But also fearing the Georgia Democratic Party (esp without Warnock on ticket and with its tendency to run to the mythical milquetoast “center”) will find a way to screw this up.

Cue Jake Tapper…

This is the guy who is still working for Trump. An “independent” Fed is no longer.

Folks may say “we already knew that” to this. That’s fair. But what makes it particularly important is where it’s published — in a top finance/econ journal — where the bias against publishing anything that even hints at racialized or discriminatory effects in housing markets remains strong.

Love this map. But also fearing the Georgia Democratic Party (esp without Warnock on ticket and with its tendency to run to the mythical milquetoast “center”) will find a way to screw this up.

I worked for a community development corp working with small businesses in Humboldt Park (Latino nabe in Chicago) in 90s. What’s going on in Chicago is, among other things, destroying countless latino-owned business, likely setting back community development in these nabes decades. Just horrifying.

This is JD Vance, a licensed attorney, confessing to contempt. Which means he should probably lose his license.

"As of November 5th, it estimated that USAID's dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

What are the effects of the shutdown on SNAP users? Propel provides an app to SNAP users to allow them to track their spending and so can offer real-time estimates of needs. About 70% of SNAP households have a $10 or less balance on their SNAP card accounts. www.propel.app/shutdown-fun...

SNAP surveys SNAP users. Already half of them are saying they are skipping meals.

Atlanta establishment prevails in city races, despite strong progressive challenges Democratic Socialist Kelsea Bond scored an outright victory in crowded District 2 city council race, as five council and school board races head to runoffs

“After conditioning on a rich set of controls and individual appraiser fixed effects, we observe lower appraised values (relative to benchmark valuation estimates) for Black owned homes. Hispanic and Asian owned homes are also under appraised, but to a lesser extent.”

Hmmmm. Rarely, in my experience.

Part of the story of the Trump administration is the effort to demolish state capacities. Some will be very hard to rebuild and that is the point (thread)

I have canceled my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/9hUJhN2u

When the primary concern you articulate as a religious "leader" about Miller-Trump immigration policy is that detainees be able to receive the sacraments, I think maybe you've lost the plot... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Hmmmm. Rarely, in my experience.

Yes, because the best way to avoid a bubble in an asset is to heavily subsidize the financing of more of it.