Zohran Mamdani taps Lina Khan to co-chair transition team. LFG! thehill.com/policy/techn...

And his Netflix show, Karma's World is beyond amazing! ✨ www.romper.com/entertainmen...

A federal judge slammed the Trump administration's immigration enforcement officials for allowing detainees in Illinois to live in "disgusting" and "obviously unconstitutional" conditions, according to a new report.

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

“In her letter, @crockett.house.gov cited multiple reports of the President exhibiting visible swelling, discoloration, difficulty walking, and cognitive lapses during public appearances.” crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

Israeli police arrest ex-JAG who leaked video of Israeli soldiers raping a kidnapped Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman, she also went missing earlier today but was found.

This is 🔥, y'all. Ghana. Upcycling all that used clothing sent over there. It's not the answer to the problem, but man, I love Black creatives! 🩷

The company behind ChatGPT is converting to a for-profit company and settling an investigation by California’s attorney general. Experts and advocates say the company could still exploit its charitable roots. bit.ly/4oJqKnd 📝 @levisu.bsky.social& @khari.bsky.social 📸 Eric Risberg, AP

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Why aren't people protesting every week? Asked by people who don't protest. It's so damned annoying. ALSO people ARE protesting weekly. Why the hell don't you join them????

The Department of Justice misspells Kat's name several times in several ways throughout this indictment. She is being charged with protesting outside of an ICE detention center, and the indictment dropped just days after she released an ad campaign showing the horrors of ICE detention.

Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago? NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations. www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

It’s past time to upgrade the criticism of @nytimes.com leadership from “sanewashing” to “democracywashing”. “Democracy-washing”: When news journalists / editors / media orgs present the news distorting the reality the US is no longer operating as constitutional democracy with rule of law.

2) Republicans use polls to shape strategy, not to shape their positions. Public opinion is malleable. Most people don't have firm opinions. Republicans shape the river. Democrats chase the currents--and it hasn't worked. @anatosaurus.bsky.social has written on this also

When we first heard that Bari Weiss had been hired as the new editor-in-chief at CBS News, we knew we had to call in the Cancel Guncle himself, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social! An interestingand hilarious conversation ensued... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNlW...

As some professors feel their work is being threatened, a faculty group wants UNC officials to be more precise about which activities are protected. www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

i expect to be UVA in the hot seat again next year when its black enrollment has not dropped to 0%

This MFer "President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

ICYMI, Dominion Voting has been acquired by Scott Leinendecker, a former GOP election official from Missouri. Leindendecker is also the CEO of electronic poll book supplier Knowink whose product manager, Mitch Millville, was Ed Martin’s campaign IT director in Missouri in 2011. This Ed Martin. 1/

U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia joined L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Monday to call for a congressional probe into allegations that federal immigration enforcement agents have been unlawfully detaining U.S. citizens. bit.ly/4olhcPH 📸 Etienne Laurent, Getty

Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2

Watch Live: #NoKings Chicago in Grant Park www.fox32chicago.com/news/no-king...

Not only that. they NEED your attention. Deprive them of it and keep it moving.

There is absolutely no reason for this. Trump is doing this only b/c Santos sucked up to him. The case against Santos was solid. He was a total fraud and violated assorted campaign finance laws. Noah Lanard and I broke a major piece of the Santos story in 2023: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The White House has created an official Bluesky account. [ @whitehouse-47.bsky.social ]

About the critique of being performative, @prisonculture.bsky.social said, “I'm super bored with the concept of performativity. I believe in strugglers and I believe in coworkers and I believe in solidarity. I believe we need more people all the time in all of our work, in all of our movements.”

At 7 a.m. sharp Tuesday, tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees across California walked off the job, starting the largest strike in their union’s history. https://cal.news/4hwnE3L 📸 Justin Sullivan, Getty

Losing Bowie, Prince and George Michael told me we were on a downward spiral and it just keeps getting worse.

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications. Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 . sudansolidarity.com

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction reenacted at Colonial Williamsburg. Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting. This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.

CFA today filed a lawsuit against the CSU. We seek an order prohibiting the CSU from disclosing CFA members’ personal info in response to federal subpoenas without providing notice to workers and an opportunity for them to object. Read more in our press release: www.calfac.org/cfa-sues-csu...

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Let’s go Chi!!!

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

had never before considered that the inflatable costumes offer pepper ball protection

Dean of Harvard College says that he will not investigate a conservative student publication that echoes Hitler because he has not yet received complaints. (Guess it's time to complain.) buff.ly/jb1cghb

Show Me, Howard Hewitt

I’ll Dip, Aretha Franklin

Show Me What Cha Got, Jay-Z. The song and video just sounds and looks rich. lol

Everything Is Everything, Lauryn Hill

The last section of the long version of “When Doves Cry.” Right where the lead guitar comes in underneath and then takes over. Makes me cry sometimes.

Jasmine Guy, Try Me. Sorry but she ate and yall slept.

Lisa Stansfield, This is the Right Time