These men say not only was their boat destroyed but they were taken aboard, handcuffed, made to wear hoods, their phones were wiped of any photo evidence, and “US personnel boarded the fishing boat and stole the crew’s food and the beer.”

More evidence that passive submission doesn't protect you. SPLC has largely disappeared from the the public debate and has done almost no anti-extremism work under Trump 2.0, yet is still targeted.

Imagine this being your legacy.

A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. There are five mouths to feed, so the parents are staying busy! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding

It's a real shame nobody invited him.

Cook County's top prosecutor wouldn't denounce Trump because she wanted to 'maintain' her relationship with the feds, emails show. The latest on a bid for a special prosecutor to take on Operation Midway Blitz agents, w/ @sophiesherry.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Medieval floor tile from Gloucester Cathedral. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #GloucesterCathedral

Soaring in the City at Sunrise. Today in Chicago.

These two Mourning Doves at my feeder cam look like they just rang my doorbell because Tony Soprano sent them to collect a debt I owe.

I never thought they could ruin weed

"For the second year in a row, the annual Cinco de Mayo parade in Little Village has been canceled due to immigration enforcement concerns, organizers said." "People are still avoiding public gatherings out of fear, organizers said, adding, “there is nothing to celebrate.”

There is no particular reason why non-US persons *shouldn't* be able to open a US bank account, and the only real reason you'd want to link citizenship to banking is to encourage self-deportation at a massive scale

While everyone is correctly calling this a mass shooting, it's also a family annihilator case. Most of the violence in our society comes back to intimate partner violence. If we care about peace in any way, we have to care about violence in the home.

in general, & across the world, the political gender divide really opens up around 2016 wonder if something happened then?

On Saturday, I saw some American white pelicans flying over Big Marsh Park on Chicago's Southeast Side.

Obviously, this goes well beyond Panetir, although this is a particularly dangerous company and Thiel a particularly dangerous individual. But Amazon, Oracle, Musk-related companies, etc. cannot be trusted either! All either support or submit to US authoritarianism.

One observation: Palantir's manifesto uses language from the far left ("decadence of a ruling class") and far right (national strength, hard power etc). The common thread is the breakdown of liberal internationalism and democratic institutions/ideals.

Palantir has been leaning into the "we are fascists" branding for a while now, they put up these recruiting ads at colleges last year.

If you haven't seen this yet, uhhh, it's wild.

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth. Carved in wood, painted. Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC. 📷 Royal Ontario Museum 🏺

Congratulations to whoever took over the lease on this old law office and had an idea

Raincoat, late Edo Period, 1790–1800

Reminded of this writeup by Your Local Epidemiologist a year ago.

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The contrast continues to this day. Half the US policy establishment is self-flagellating about how shock therapy, NATO expansion, etc. "lost Ru" and we need to fix it, while in Ru everyone is brainstorming how to bring the American enemy down (militarily, disinfo, bribery, destabilization).

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

“I do not think 62 million men are preparing to actually commit rape in some kind of Purge-like marauding spree, but I do think all 62 million were entertaining a fantasy of dehumanizing and violating women.”

you’d really think an industry pretty openly saying “we intend to make most of humanity useless” would actually get more backlash

A helpfull teardown of Flock camera internals and parts by The Center for Human Rights and Privacy. There's some good stuff in here!

Oh boy

The Nerve weekend dish: Jad Youssef’s Lebanese chicken with garlic, lemon, potatoes and coriander 🇱🇧🍗🍋🧄🥔🌿 The restaurateur shares a tray-bake recipe for djej b’sayniyeh – a longtime family favourite – from his debut cookbook Lebnani @mezepublishing.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-di...

Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman who was shot 5 times by a Border Patrol agent, will testify before the Homeland Security Committee — and Dems are also requesting White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and border czar Tom Homan appear. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

iconic gala swag, nice work PP

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.

Remember this? “Purchases included $15.1 million on ribeye steak, $6.9 million on lobster tail, and $225.6 million on furniture” people.com/pete-hegseth...

🙄 make it stop

New from 404 Media: Thomson Reuters shareholders demand investigation into the company's ICE contracts. The shareholders demand explicitly cites multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that shows Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a Palantir ICE tool www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

How music therapy is helping stressed out dogs, cats and staff at the city's animal shelter: blockclubchi.co/48IuC23

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

And again this morning.

She was obviously targeted: “Batra, who has spent nearly half her life working in immigration courts, stopped working for the government’s side in immigration proceedings—instead helping only the immigrants seeking status—after seeing the conditions in detention facilities...”

U.S. prepares to refund billions from Trump tariffs, starting next week - report @seekingalpha

God bless you @colsonwhitehead.com "Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it."

Anyone else get a weird email from Netgear announcing that they’re now blessed by the FCC? I didn’t know about the foreign-made router thing, but this article kind of explains it. Gotta say, not sure that bragging about an FCC security approval in the current situation is a good selling point.

This is outrageous and terrible. Yet another reason to continue boycotting Target, to not use self checkout anywhere, and to rid ourselves of AI.

So, ancestry doesn’t appear to let you pause membership anymore, just cancel. Sucks to see all the hard work just disappear.

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...