On top of everything else, you can hear people blowing whistles in the background of this video as ICE rampages through the Chicago suburbs on Halloween.

UNMUTE. And look after your people. You have neighbors who might be struggling? Show up like “help I made too much bread, would you like some, I won’t use it all in time” Invite the next door kids over to help you make cookies, feed them lunch while they’re there.

it's entirely his fault things are this bad. He could have stopped this on 2021.

It is a relief to hear the reframe! Media reporting on the shutdown isn’t merely “incorrect” but feels like gaslighting at this point.

i don't throw around the word "hero" too often,

Look out my window and see masked armed men in military fatigues coming down the alley and no not being paranoid this is real life this is really happening.

If anyone’s interested in saving the US Entertainment Industry, here’s what we need: - Anti-Trust Enforcement - Bring Back Fin-Syn - Trust Creative Execs Over Algorithms - Ban David Zaslav

Something I try and tease out toward the end of the essay is how I think the ballroom isn’t just a symbol of authoritarianism but actually a weapon in cementing Trump’s power.

Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Rollins & Johnson called 42 million Americans losing SNAP benefits a “silver lining” because it sparked “a national conversation.” Imagine being so detached from hunger that you see families skipping meals as a PR opportunity.

Lie and blame anything bad that’s happening on the current president while insisting that you can easily fix it might work in a campaign. Lie and blame anything bad that’s happening on the former president after insisting that you can easily fix it when you’re in charge of the government, less so.

The ancient Romans were extremely proud of ending this practice and it was also bad then. They also thought it was incredibly barbaric that it was widespread in Carthage. And this isn't just their accounts, we have extensive evidence this was true.

He is the barbarian at the gate that he preaches about, because the so-called barbarian had always been our worse nature telling us that some human beings don’t deserve care and compassion.

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.

It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

An authoritarian... stifles dissent/speech persecutes opponents bypasses legislature uses military domestically defies courts declares false emergencies vilifies groups controls info/media controls universities creates cult of personality uses power for profit manipulates law to stay in power

A new federal lawsuit alleges detained people are suffering from “horrific and inhumane” conditions at the ICE processing facility in Broadview. blockclubchi.co/4320Suw

The group chat pings around school drop-off and dismissal time. “All quiet at [Elementary School X],” one message says, or “smooth sailing at [Middle School Y].” Neighbors are on heightened alert because a federal government helicopter has been doing laps over our communities…

An enormous expansion of power indeed. POTUS is asserting a license to kill based solely on his own say so.

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Can DHS just write in a memo that none of have rights and that's that? The best time to abolish DHS was before they created it, the second best time was any time over the last 22 years, the third best time is immediately

I thought that name was familiar. This guy's a kick-ass entomologist studying disease-bearing ticks at Texas A & M. www.researchgate.net/profile/Tae-...

Great stuff from @davekarpf.bsky.social on Daily Blast podcast today, aside from his unprovoked attack on Chicago bagels.

Another of Trump’s liars lying

A 61-year-old Tennessee man posted a liberal meme on Facebook after Charlie Kirk's death. A conservative sheriff had him arrested. Bail was set at $2 million. He spent nearly 40 days in jail before charges were dropped. Now he's planning to sue. Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

More of this please.

Baker & Taylor and Ingram were the foundation of Amazon’s early operations as the two biggest book distributors. I have stories about B&T that I probably can’t tell still from my days (briefly) as an early Amazon employee.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

crimes of public immiseration and disenfranchisement are the most heinous crimes anyone can commit — please do not offer me counterexamples — and i firmly believe that more people thinking this way, and that they should be punished commensurately, would go a long way to getting us out of this

My local newspaper wrote this up, read it instead www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

These heavily-armed goons in Halloween masks who are terrorizing our children are *federal* agents, thank you, and you will show them the level of respect they deserve

“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols. The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

For fuck's sake. The lawmakers behind Oklahoma's new "public obscenity" law seem to be asking for the power of prior restraint — that local cops can block an LGBTQ+ event before it happens because they believe it might be obscene. Which is not how obscenity works, but it is how censorship does.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Laws and rules cannot restrain King Trump except this one made up one that won’t allow him to feed hungry Americans

There is not a loophole to the 22nd Amendment. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn’t understand the Constitution. Don’t listen to them.

thinking about Adorno in light of those AI Christian slop videos on YouTube

Let the campaigning begin.

will kim is still in ICE detention

It's no surprise that people blame feminism or #MeToo or whatever but it seems to me that the blame lies with these manosphere grifters giving young guys awful advice that renders them unfuckable to 95% of women for profit.

A lotta ink has been spilled on the loneliness epidemic among young men. But I was talking dating with my 25-yo niece (who's smart, funny and hot) and she said, 'you have no idea how bad all these red-pilled dudes are these days. They're basically undateable.'

Read this thread. Listen to Justin.

"You see we're hurting people on purpose because we think Americans won't know it's us that are hurting them. When do we go on the air?"

Trump and Bessent are bragging about China promising to buy far fewer soybeans from U.S. farmers than usual. That’s not a win. It’s proof his reckless tariffs failed. Trump's trade war is hurting families, farmers, and businesses – and giving China the upper hand.

During a press conference, Kristi Noem claimed that ICE has not detained or arrested any US citizens. This isn't true. The reality is that at least 170 citizens have been held by immigration agents, including two kids with cancer.

ICE assaulted and abducted Jaykie Funez Andrade. A legal US Resident taking her daughter to school all because she couldn’t remember her social security number. Harrisonburg VA. This is despicable.

The Walton family surely does