Police clearing roads and pushing protesters back from a government building is really standard shit, and necessary for the court cases bring brought against military deployments. You can't order state police to oppose the Feds unless you're confident they'll obey or it's about to go down anyway.

It’s a complicated dynamic. Without police at Broadview, the feds escalated at-will, deploying chemical munitions & physical force without provocation. The police presence has provided an argument against deploying the National Guard & ppl haven’t gotten gassed. But it frees ICE agents to grab ppl.

Pritzker also says ICE's treatment of peaceful protesters has gotten so bad that Illinois law enforcement has to protect them *from* ICE. "We’ve got Illinois State Police standing in between ICE and the protesters," he says. This is the America Miller wants. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2016...

I wish the Lord would rapture me away like this

Canceling the 21st century version of the Hoover Dam to own the libs. This would have been such an easy thing for Trump have named after himself. Really wasted opportunity for a narcissist like him.

Person who thinks facebook AI slop is real

Whatever this winds up being will result in the fastest detection of nonexistent A.I.-generated cited sources ever

Blowing ganja smoke on my keyboard like a reggae musician expelling duppies to get the AI assistants out of everything I use at work. Begone, demons!

Oh well chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

Apparently the Humboldt Park beach use to be oriented such that you could enter from the the lower level arcade of the field house, as shown in these old Tribune photos. That would be so rad!

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Just randomly thinking about how thousands of refugees were trafficked to my city by Republicans... who then stormed the city to root them out and terrorize everyone in the process

Elected officials questioning the legality of ICE processes being arrested

Anything that can be used to pass off fake things as real, can be used even more potently to pass off real things as fake

Imagine denigrating military facial hair

Now more than ever I'm sick of people trying to performatively have more hardline political tendencies, or more exclusive taste in art, than everyone else

My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe. Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.

Cyril E. Power, "The Escalator," c. 1929 collections.mfa.org/objects/479542

Watched two kids all day long and now babysitting three of em. I've got this stepdad thing on 🔒

Shit seems pretty nuts huh

He's too pure 😭

Anyone know if [Ahmed] is still coming to Chicago this fall?

Logging on:

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Downloading the complete run of Jimmy Kimmel from BTN to guard against ideological encroachment on availability of media in ephemeral formats

Some days you eat the bear, and some days... Well, some days the bear eats you

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

LRT Two fun stories about our most glorious AI companies shitting the bed... I'll take it

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

How’s that for timing www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

I don't mind seeing some Bsky posts twice, but the feed here loves to make sure you see certain posts dozens of times

If you ever think your life is miserable, just remember there are Chicago Bears fans out there

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

Man I gotta start doing ambient music. What a fuckin racket

Anyone know if [Ahmed] is still coming to Chicago this fall?

the great khan of the plains is undefeated. he spreads his protection and his bounty across the land

genuinely shocked that the pritzker pushback was successful

I'm getting really good at making fried rice. Just in case you were wondering

please do not post things you don’t want to see on The Free Press and Fox News later this evening

Student in the weightroom at my work just said I'm "super strong" and asked if I was a professor. I'll take that double W for the week

Chicago protesters, remember: milk is not an effective eyewash if you've been tear-gassed by the jackboots. Mutual aid medics should keep appropriate supplies at hand.

There's a video going viral in Chicago right now by a guy claiming large scale raids will start around 2AM in specific neighborhoods. It's BS. The person who posted it has a checkered history of false claims to try to gain followers and drum up business for a private security company he runs.

Sickened knowing some of my neighbors may be spending their last moments with their families right now

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

Me and who

Anyone in Chicago trying to buy, Susannah is the best! She's still helping me navigate home ownership years after my purchase.