Hey next Feb/March I'm helping the incredible @meganstielstra.bsky.social with a class she's teaching called "Writing Rage." The amazing @smashfizzle.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and Carmen Maria Machado are also helping. Will be wild. www.offassignment.com/writing-rage

this is pure joy

1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties. 🧵👇

It’s flabbergasting that you could pick just about any random American off the street and they would show infinitely more political willpower and courage than our entire cadre of alleged leaders and titans of business. We’re a nation occupied by a tiny upper class of cowards.

I'm so fucking furious. What was the point of the last month of we're all walking away with the same bag of shit as day one.

The No. 1 thing people say they want Dems to do is fight. Over and over: We want them to fight for us. And yet............

Lmao it’s wild how ONE Black president and several years later the shit is what’s fueling so much vitriol and wanting to fuck up shit. Like antiblackness is CRAZY, but many just don’t fucking care until it hits them personally. They really wanna undo shit that happened back then

Things are fine.

Bovino went into popular Carniceria Aguascalientes in heart of Little Village. “They said they were just here to buy something,” said Elizabeth Gutierrez. “I told them we wouldn’t serve them and escorted them out. Bovino seemed upset, but I don’t care.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

From 2016: “Almost half of the people who die at the hands of police have some kind of disability, according to a new report, as officers are often drawn into emergencies where urgent care may be more appropriate than lethal force.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Could there have been live ammunition used? Attempting to kidnap a child.

aphyr.com/posts/397… Read this about Chicago

Working winter afternoon light.

Der Spiegel: "Trump no longer matters." This is about climate and how China now leads, but we can hope it will be an all-purpose headline....

Whenever secret police kidnap and disappear people, atrocities are happening behind the scenes.

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Fort Leavenworth - no longer feeding soldiers. "For most junior enlisted soldiers, DFACs are one of the few on-base options for meals, especially if they don’t have cars to get off post."

Mamdani hasn’t even been mayor-elect for a day yet and @dens.nyc is bringing back the peak-era Foursquare energy of NYC innovation and city exploration with @djbeebot.com: dens.medium.com/say-hello-to... I’m excited to check it out!

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Feeling inspired by all the winning so far? runforwhat.net - it's not too late to get on the ballot for 2026.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Democrats over-performance tonight is bad news for Joe Biden.

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...

Jon Ruth.

Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

Nothing like holding a gilded Gatsby party while killing the food lifeline for 40 million people.

"ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor in Broad Daylight. The Aftermath Left Me Reeling." by Freddy Martinez truthout.org/articles/ice...

Rahm's entire constituency is The Atlantic

The person who oversees healthcare coverage for more than 160 million Americans is lying about healthcare coverage

84% of political science experts said creating such a force poses a threat to democracy, including 65% who said the threat was extraordinary or serious brightlinewatch.org/violence-red... However, it is overwhelmingly popular among Republicans brightlinewatch.org/violence-red...

ICE followed the mother into a school and aggressively detained her along with her children. This is so heartbreaking 💔

Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled. www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away

Straight up driving around gassing neighborhoods on a Saturday morning

militarized federal agents tear-gassed chicago’s irving park neighborhood *twice* this morning before 10:30 a.m. agents are active and have been abducting people, including reportedly a u.s. citizen. the dhs helicopter that was earlier circling waukegan has made its way to the west side.

ice and border patrol and continuing their terror campaign across chicagoland this morning. masked agents are active and making abductions in waukegan, des planes, and along the northwest side of the city. abductions from windy city produce and yet more tear gas near schurz high school.

Context for non-Chicagoans: The median list price for homes in Lincoln Park is $758,133 according to Zillow. It's also 80% white. When they go after places with that much privilege, know that no one is safe. And the vulnerable are even more so.

do to a slight and annoying migraine like headache i am currently coding with sunglasses on. it is a vibe

Are we doing a group trip to see Bad Bunny in Tokyo or what?

On This Week in Tech, @leolaporte.me, @byjacobward.bsky.social, @harper.lol, & @abraralheeti.bsky.social discuss decades-old vulnerabilities, covering California's new AI law, Meta's camera roll access, & how anyone w/ $750 can intercept satellite data! twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1054

Does seem like there’s a non-zero chance that the shutdown never really ends and that Congress has already abolished itself.

Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

This “appeared to be” takes CYA caveating to the next level. If the New York Times is doing it here for an obvious authoritarian propaganda fantasy, they may as well stick it into every headline from here on out as AI videos of plausible events become more prevalent and realistic.

Amazon’s Ring is partnering with Flock’s network of AI-powered license plate readers, to enable police and ICE request doorbell footage for investigations. This is the first time I’ve seen cross-app integration built to serve law enforcement instead of end users.

It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.