Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Costs of War Project: "An estimated over 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001-2023. Of these, more than 432,000 were civilians."

See also Richard Nixon: From 68% to 24% in one year, six months, and 20 days.

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.” @nytimes.com #OKgov www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

On April 11, 1943, James Hatsuaki Wakasa was walking his dog at Topaz when he was shot and killed by a guard. His fellow prisoners erected a stone memorial. When the U.S. government ordered it destroyed, the prisoners chose, instead, to bury it where it remained hidden for nearly 80 years.

If anyone has a video of Pete Hegseth lifting this kind of weight, my DMs are open.

"We took the freedom of speech away."

RIP CNN as a news source.

During the fall of Afghanistan, a free press repeatedly surfaced new info about how U.S. troops were in danger and coping w/ an unprecedented situation, prompting adjustments in a crisis. That's the job. Not repeating talking points.

Urgent new statement from the Pentagon Press Association, on Pete Hegseth’s new, forthcoming media restrictions:

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

On the left: Sept 2: Judge Breyer opinion (in CA case) showing DoD's own instructions of actions that violate Posse Comitatus Act (eg "crowd control"). On the right: Sept 26: DHS request to DoD for military forces in Chicago "in direct support of ... access control, and crowd control."

I don’t really understand the people who think we shouldn’t situate the current moment in context of the last 25 years in American politics, including the actions of the three Democrats who were president during that time

Ohhhh not staying the order is *really interesting*. The tidal shift we're seeing in the past two or three weeks in how much judges are *completely done* with the presumption of regularity and refusing to play Calvinball is fascinating

Ariyoshi Kondo, sketchbook

93 million U.S. residents are immigrants or are U.S. born and have at least one immigrant parent.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

A Spanish-language journalist who lived and worked in Georgia has been deported to El Salvador.

Eugène Jansson's painting from 1898 depicts the large expanse of water in central Stockholm known Riddarfjäden. Jansson was one of the most significant artists in the last years of the 19thC to create a style of painting that reflected the essence of Scandinavia.

"We watched from behind glass and steel and wire and cement, watched her chase birds, stalk around, watched her be free and choose to be here, with us."

Former VP Mike Pence is right: “We've got a longstanding policy, Posse Comitatus, that does not permit the use of the American military against the American people.”

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

If you are following the story of The Pentagon's new policy, nicknamed, "you must check with us before you dream of doing any journalism," you may enjoy this update from @status.news

Ansel Adams, Basketball game at an Internment Camp for Japanese American citizens during World War II

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

Watching Trump's speech to the generals and it's self-evident he's now cognitively incapable of making nuclear launch decisions—a decision which cannot be delegated.

The latest post from the President of the United States is an AI video of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, which includes statements Schumer never made and features Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero and fake mustache with mariachi music in the background.

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

Georgia O'Keeffe, Nude, Watercolor on paper, ca. 1917

"Disapproval of the war appears to have prompted a striking reassessment by American voters ... with slightly more voters siding with Palestinians over Israelis for the first time since The Times began asking voters about their sympathies in 1998."

If you wondered how many of the major newsrooms covering the Pentagon would give in to Pete Hegseth and sign a new agreement if they wanted to maintain access, it looks like the answer is... none. So far. Via @status.news

So exhausting..

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

Catching up with the 27th (!) season premiere of Law & Order: SVU. The villain is ICE. When you have lost the Dick Wolf universe, you have truly lost the center.

ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.? #Chicago

"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.'”

BREAKING: Mayor Eric Adams is dropping out of New York City's mayoral race. nypost.com/2025/09/28/u...

No Concentration Camps In My Backyard

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

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🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.