'To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism...we may need to reckon with the fact that, more and more, ideas can achieve influence and credibility by circumventing the world of academia altogether.' outstanding write-up from @will-davies.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

The Silicon Valley Consensus: a persistent but fragile pattern for overbuilding, overvaluing, and overinvesting in tech to enrich networks of capitalists & advance their (reactionary) political projects. 1st iteration focuses on AI capex, first half today. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-silico...

look at that, a shooting targeting ICE *detainees* that, remarkably, still left shell casings behind engraved with “ANTI-ICE” per Kash Patel www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

the lessons we are teaching the world right now include truth does not exist, accountability does not exist, corruption is fine, wanton and brazen state murders are fine, laws aren't real, and there is no rule that cannot be broken. unqualified to lead anything

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

even with all their tac gear & guns these guys are still just chickenshit it’s astonishing

defense contractors finally just offered him a cut

best meme i ever made

This essay is so damn good. I love to see @edwardongwesojr.com digging in the crates to find sharp, prescient critiques of technological political economy from Victorian literature that could / should be written today. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...

Tens of thousands of protestors marched in dozens of Italian cities today while strikes brought trains and highway transport to a halt after unions called a nationwide walkout in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

General strike in Italy for Palestine, here’s the amazing view from the top of Termini station in Rome. The people – not the government – stand for solidarity and justice (da Matteo Pucciarelli)

oh no what happened

Support the journalists taking pepper balls in the face

Gas canisters launched directly into crowd; pandemonium again.

i was on the ground today with our team and @mulchy.bsky.social and @djbyrnes1.bsky.social. being in a situation where feds are unafraid to shoot pepper balls and tear gas at protestors AND elected officials AND the media… we are in truly scary times. and it’s only the beginning.

“Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit.”

the ICE and border patrol thugs terrorizing our communities are part of a larger transformation of the state away from 20th century liberal democracy into lawless rule by stupidity, a uniquely American autocracy rooted in the decay of the market order itself brooklynrail.org/2025/09/fiel...

This is definitely a gun/not some other kind of munition:

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Frantic scene just unfolded - federal agents pushed aside protestors in the way of several vehicles coming in; agents unsuccessfully attempted to grab a protestor in the chaos, but did move the vehicles in. Above, a federal agent kept a pepper ball gun aimed at the crowd.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

During a scuffle to move out the same van, federal agents just grabbed a protestor and brought them inside the facility.

Chicago Alder Andre Vasquez addresses the protest crowd, as the ICE facility blares a dispersal warning on a loudspeaker on repeat. It's been playing the warning for the last ~10 minutes.

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

given how great everything is going this covid-era gem from @davidjroth.bsky.social deserves a bump, it really gets more relevant every year www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

in wheaton, illinois, this morning— it appears bystanders helped chase off this crew of ice agents, who had boxed in a person's car outside a convenience store. multiple people showed up and recorded the interaction. after a brief back-and-forth with agents, the feds got in their cars and left.

The Spectre of State Capitalism cited in an El País newsletter on the return of the state as an economic actor. Also gave comments on the future of state capitalism and the stunted green transition

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

based response to Ezra Klein’s asinine eulogy for Charlie Kirk from Ta-Nehisi Coates www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

ILC Chicago's monthly member meeting is coming up! Join us on Sunday, September 21st at 1:30pm. New to the Independent Labor Club? Use the form here here to get in touch! ilclabor.com/chapters/ilc...

The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded, after studying the evidence exhaustively, that the Israeli government and military are committing genocide in Gaza: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

truly one of the greats, rip

Chicago police are on scene at Andre Vasquez’s 40th Ward Alderman’s office where a note and a dead rat have been left on the front foot of the office.

Fell for it again award

ICE has fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters outside their Broadview facility. They are terrorizing immigrants across Chicagoland. The time to resist is now. It will only get harder as authoritarianism tightens its grip. Please pay attention to this struggle.

Huntington Beach, CA - As Patriot Front, Ryan Sanchez and Neo-Nazi groups are leaving they began to pummel one man in a leather jacket, who told me he was there to mourn Kirk but “hated Nazis.” Attackers include members of the GDL and Robert Wheldon.

Thinking a lot this morning about how the dispersed nature of these kidnappings over such a broad area makes it so easy for them to avoid making bigger waves. The surface can appear totally calm while they're grabbing neighbors, and most people have no idea until/unless something flashy happens

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...

a chicken in every pot and an all ages hardcore show in every neighborhood

As the far-Right and Trump ramps up talk about "left-wing violence," here is our roundup of far-Right, neo-Nazi, and pro-Trump mass shootings and attacks that have led to the deaths of over 10 people and multiple injures across several states - just in 2025.

Every editorial board, columnist, cable news panel, and polling outfit that uses terms like “very conservative” or “very liberal” simply cannot comprehend these kinds of intra-party factions, which is why no one feels represented by these places and they’re losing their audience to the internet.

its funny to be ruled by internet-brained idiots like this, when anyone with a passing familiarity of this internet political moment knew instinctively this was going to be an incoherent brain rotted gamer white boy who sees politics and violence as entertainment