Nextar has now also folded and will start airing Kimmel again. Remember this next time they tell you we are powerless in the face of rising fascism. Companies capitulating to Trump need to feel heat. Keep it going. apnews.com/article/jimm...

You can see the white powder on the back of my head from where they'd already shot at us and hit me, and then deliberately aiming at me while I was on the ground recovering. Very legal, very cool

Hi, just a note— The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

Florida Man has complaints

morning lol: "Over the past three years, leading tech firms have committed more toward AI data centers like the one in Ellendale, plus chips and energy, than it cost to build the interstate highway system over four decades, when adjusted for inflation." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b... (WSJ gift link)

The Johnson Administration had fought off ward-based restrictions on ADUs because of a 2023 federal ruling that aldermanic prerogative leads to segregation. Trump’s HUD freed the mayor to wheel & deal with alders. @danielkayhertz.bsky.social on this: illinoisanswers.org/2025/09/25/c...

Compromise ADU ordinance PASSES City Council in a 46-0 vote, ending a 7-year legislative battle over a modest affordable housing tool already common elsewhere in the country. Story TK

Another volley of pepper balls. One agent ran up along this fence to the right firing at protesters (and journalists) from closer range.

The patchwork sux What happened during the 4.5 year pilot: - 435 units have been permitted - 78% were interior units - at 374 houses/buildings/properties The positive: eligible area established today (to go into effect on 4/1/2026) is 135% larger than the extant pilot areas (and can get larger)

Folks are leaving handwritten messages on the fence. One of them reads, "You are not forgotten. ICE will meet justice in our lifetime."

A few dozen protesters at 25th and Harvard are walking back and forth across Harvard where ICE vehicles are now entering and leaving. As a couple ICE vehicles depart, Broadview PD clears a path for them.

TFW grade school kids are smarter than the assembled brain trust of Silicon Valley

"you’re not going to investigate a federal officer,” [Franklin Park police chief] Witz says. I would. You mean *you're* not going to.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Per photographer Matthew Kaplan this morning, ICE has now fenced off the street in front of the Broadview processing facility.

Is this legal? Can the government just claim public space to make protest less convenient or effective?

“It raises more questions than it answers. Everyone’s being very quiet about it. They are just not saying anything” metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/c...

😂 could paraphrase this by quoting Billy Madison www.goodreads.com/quotes/10486...

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

"'To me, it seems to me that the idea with the Wintrust mural is, "Let’s hire a Chicago artist to do it."'" blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/22/o...

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Roger Meyers, Sr., the gentle genius behind Itchy & Scratchy loved and cared about almost all the peoples of the world and he, in return, was beloved by the world except in 1938 when he was criticized for his controversial cartoon 'Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors.

“‘Oh, it's like slightly better search. You can generate a picture of Garfield with an AK-47. You can do code that opens up security vulnerabilities.’ It's all a bit worrying when you say it out loud.” www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...

“the team and its security service have been allegedly collecting biometric information in the form of facial recognition data without giving proper notice.” www.si.com/mlb/cubs/new...

So Tom Homan has long been plagued by scandal. Despite being appointed "acting director of ICE," He was never confirmed in Trump 1.0 because people thought he was too shady. He withdrew from consideration. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Re: ICE "evacuating" the Broadview facility I am hearing from some folks that ICE made a similar claim about a facility in Portland (that it was winding down operations) that was basically a fake out, with normal operations resuming there before long, so we are going to have to be vigilant.

I’m at a community meeting about resisting ICE in Chicago. There are about 400 people in this high school auditorium. Chicago is showing up.

“‘What is alarming today is the emerging pattern of shadowy deportations of people who have not had access to a court or any meaningful form of due process — removals that bear the hallmarks of forced disappearances under international law’” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

They like Trump and want to help him

This is just empirically not true? it could also be done by activating eligible non-voters, a far larger bloc of Americans than Trump voters

Abortion is much more popular than Democrats, but obviously they won't promote any people who point out this plain and obvious fact that you can glean from every poll on the subject in every state.

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

"Between Jack’s land, which he began to restore twenty years ago, there is a 36-inch drop down to the land next door. It is a stark illustration of soil being built up versus soil being depleted after years of tilling...'That’s the loss of soil carbon.'" www.gardenista.com/posts/low-im...

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Noah’s got a lot of good takes. $30 is a bargain

“Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them and call them slurs. He also told his daughters detainees are only given food and water based on good behavior.” These are the conditions at the site of yesterday’s protest.

Almost certainly illegal and likely to be struck down in court. Congress has only authorized the government to set fees to recover the cost of adjudicating the application. There is no statutory authority to impose fees designed to limit the use of a visa.

Hundreds of peaceful protesters and I got tear-gassed at the ICE Broadway facility this morning - this is what your taxpayer dollars are being used for

Learning that federal agents took a demonstrator during this chaotic moment. It’s unclear what happened to the person at this moment. Three agents reappeared atop the roof abut 30 minutes after that incident. Protestors shouted at them and eventually they left. 📸: The TRiiBE

Protesters were tear gassed, shot with pepper spray bullets and some detained by ICE officers outside of a facility in suburban Broadview Friday morning. blockclubchi.co/3VslkAr

This does not mean that there aren't brave individuals [there are]. It means that most people aren't brave individually and that's why there's strength in numbers.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

“Don’t give fascists a reason to be angry at you” is the highest level of apology and collaboration

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

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