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!

Apparently if everyone who liked the book put “liked it” you could all trick the algorithm

ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

The Street Vendors Association of Chicago is raising emergency funds to support vendors who can't safely work right now. They have a significant goal of $300k for impacted workers + families. GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st... Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago

NEW: After one of Kristi Noem’s major financial supporters contacted her, the DHS chief quickly expedited more than $11 million of federal money to rebuild a historic pier in Naples, Florida, records obtained by ProPublica show.

WOW People are going to die. Insulin and so many other drugs were already too expensive for many people.

The Black Antifascist Tradition Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2223-t...

Dozens of prisoners who were on federal death row but had their sentences commuted under former President Biden will be moved to supermax prisons, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced thehill.com/homenews/adm...

“reporters must pledge not to support - report on classified or even unclassified material …If you don't agree to this, you'll lose your press pass and you can't report from the Pentagon…you'll be barred from any U.S. military base around the world.” www.npr.org/transcripts/...

The Anatomy of Fascism www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/128540...

AP: “Blaine Milam, 35, was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m. [Thursday] following a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.”

A delivery robot collided with a disabled man on L.A. street. The aftermath is getting ugly

A government communication reviewed by the Sun-Times showed that a request was made to have several Border Patrol and ICE boats and vehicles use the Chicago Harbor Lock as part of Operation Midway Blitz. trib.al/BlzJrzv

Holy wow

I'm a reporter not a political strategist, but one answer to the question of "What can the opposition do?" is "Use the extraordinary investigative powers members of Congress have even when in the minority to get new information courts and journalists can't get."

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

This is insane—a school is paying to put its students under AI surveillance, empowering a glitchy system to delete schoolwork, expose student journalists’ sources, and out queer students to their parents

I think this is a meaningless stat given how much CEOs are pushing workers to use AI tools as well as how usage could vary widely from occasional usage of ChatGPT to rephrase emails to vibe coding entire apps. Does anyone think we’ve hit a monumental milestone for tech workers and AI usage?

"Yeah, it was clearly illegal, but what are going to do?" becoming the defining legal mantra of the Trump era. All of this conditioned by SCOTUS refusing to act with any sort of urgency until the damage is done *except* when Trump asks them to jump in to facilitate the damage.

A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists. www.wired.com/story/armed-...

Really good article. “There are autisms, rather than just autism.” While it can be challenging, let’s try and celebrate diversity; let’s face it: it’s the thing that not only makes human culture fertile but is the root of all life on earth.

Amazing how other countries do this.

This is great.

Vought’s threat all but calls forth Lincoln’s searing argument at Cooper Union: “Plainly stated … you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”

Black WWI veterans played a pioneering role in the early civil rights movement Black men drafted into the National Army (where they toiled primarily as menial laborers in segregated units) were significantly more likely to join the NAACP & become community leaders academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

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So my health policy (and probably tax, because it's always tax somehow) friends: why does such a thing as "open enrollment" exist? If I know what options I want to select for my employer-provided insurance for plan year 2026, why can I only tell my employer that in a two week period in November??

It was bad. This is good advice.

This book promises to be one of those works that cause us to reevaluate what we think we know about the struggle for civil rights.

Wish I were a fly on the wall to hear the difference in *practice* between using a tool with a 20% hallucination rate and one with a 40% hallucination rate. Or how getting students "comfortable" with westlaw's tool returning incomplete results 60% of the time gives "competitive edge" per one heading

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

WTF. This guy is the bias adviser? Was Alex Jones not available?

I was just notified of ANOTHER death in ICE custody — the 16th since Trump took office. The second death TODAY. This is absolutely unacceptable.

I’ve had this with other types of prescriptions, it’s intensely frustrating.

Pretty shocked the right moved on this quickly tbh considering there was entire websites established to track anyone who didn't praise him properly

It’s Time to Forgive And Free the Aging Prison Population

The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war. Menno Simons

ICE held a 5-year-old girl, with autism, hostage yesterday in Leominster, MA. Used her as leverage to try and get her dad to give himself up. ICE said that's not what they did. There's a video. #SheShed

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

Read the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure newly published report, "On Title VI, Discrimination & Academic Freedom." The report addresses the issue of discrimination and the investigations opened by the Trump administration under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

There are 69,484 Black immigrants in the Chicago metro area originally from a country in Africa, making up 5.2% of the city’s population, according to an American Community Survey analysis of the 2023 Census.

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...

Christian nationalism is impoverished as it seeks a kingdom without a cross. It pursues a victory without mercy. It acclaims God's love of power rather than the power of God's love. N. T. Wright

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

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.

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...