Probably 40+ border patrol some holding automatic weapons on South Michigan Avenue just now 12:20 pm. Fully masked. #NoIceInChicago. @icirr.bsky.social @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social

Chicago: Heads up, lCE is downtown. Just got this text alert from @icirr.bsky.social. Reminder that you have the right to film police activity, the right to remain silent (the right to say I do not wish to speak with you), the right to speak to an attorney, & the right to refuse to sign anything.

Yes, arresting a journalist for doing their job is a big flashing red light. But I don't want people to forget the whole reason everyone is out there. This is what I saw inside: Four holding rooms. Two smaller rooms were being used for holding protesters. Two larger rooms held ICE/CBP captives.

NEW — From our editor-in-chief: Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about Anne Frank. She and her family went into hiding to avoid persecution. In Chicago and its surrounding suburbs, there are immigrants who are afraid to leave their homes. thetriibe.com/reshape/how-...

I’m out, I'm sore. I'll have more later, but right now I have to say a couple of things. First, walking out of there to learn about the kindness, support, and quick action from so many of you all has meant the world to me, my wife, and co-founder, Raven. Thank you.

Steve is fine/uninjured. Some neck pain from being tackled. His biggest concern while in custody was what was happening to people outside the facility since he couldn't hear any of the munitions from inside. In typical Steve fashion, he also made a number of new friends while detained.

"describes himself" is very disappointing language. freedom of the press is deeply at risk, we need our local media to stand together. he's a journalist just like the Sun Times visual journalist who was struck by munitions yesterday.

Journalists, who are either Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim, told Prism that they were shut out of covering Israel’s genocide in Gaza, while white, Jewish, or Israeli—even former soldiers—journalists took the lead. Read @laubast.bsky.social's report on how US media capitulates to the Israeli narrative.

I wrote a little blog about Radio Garden, an app that lets you listen to more than 40,000 radio stations around the world open.substack.com/pub/taylormo...

my brain filters out all Abundance-related posts, articles and discourse. that's none of my business

And here's how @nytimes.com covered Israel's accusation that Al-Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif was a "Hamas fighter posing as a reporter." The NYT is perfectly capable of calling out government propaganda and lies — but not when it comes to Israel.

Here's how @nytimes.com covered Russia's accusation (followed by a sham court conviction) that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was a spy:

has anyone figured out what protein is

To restate the obvious, this is not ultimately just about immigration. This is going to be a huge, well-armed, and often unidentified force under direct control of the president that can and has been drawn on for suppression of political speech and activity

I really appreciated this! At the Chicago Reader, where I edited the arts calendar for years (a “Goings On About Town” analog), we had a completist approach to listings that was integral to the health of the city’s artistic fringe. It wasn’t a job that won awards, but it was incredibly fulfilling.

only one thing can truly fix everything wrong with all of us: another massive and extravagant world’s fair in chicago

I wrote about the beauty (and virality) of Iranian brickwork

NEW: On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away. These are their stories.

The #93 bus extension south to Logan Square might change my life. Good transit week for me www.transitchicago.com/cta-to-exten...

Our long national nightmare is over (All four Red Line stations finally open)

Several detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz,” Florida’s new immigrant detention center, described infrequent showers, little food, sleep deprivation and more. “It’s a tinderbox,” one detainee said in an interview. nyti.ms/3Gs68j2

Someday we need to have a convo about how "rest" as a concept has been commodified by woo-woo scam artists who, instead of using corporate buzzwords, charge $$$ for breathing exercises and talking circles focused on "healing" and "liberation" for "BIPOC"

If Mamdani had checked just Asian or say, Asian and white (bear with me) NYT would never have run that story. The only reason they ran that story is because of the cultural belief that being Black gives you leg up in society despite research that says that isn't true.

Fact-checkers always want the facts. That’s why Snopes is unionizing for transparency from management. @snopes.com

I mostly don't regret deleting all my tweets, but it was at times an historical record

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

I am weeping

Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

25+ million dollars. A former president. Some of the richest people in the US. The entire liberal and conservative political establishment. And Zohran Mamdani — and all the people behind him — beat it all.

After resigning in disgrace, Cuomo attacked the women he harassed with vexatious, punitive legal filings meant to bankrupt and humiliate them, and threatened to sue them for defamation. He wanted them to shut up. At great personal risk, they didn’t.

The worst people you know are having the worst day of their lives right now

Turns out there was a more exciting message than better things aren’t possible

living in Chicago watching the New York mayoral primary election results

andrew cuomo is emblematic of everything people despise about the democratic party and zohran is everything people want in politics, he represents hope for a better world

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.

As we head to Election Day, for folks who voted early, thank you. I know some folks have not yet made up their minds. I am making an appeal to you. Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.

13 women risked their safety and livelihoods to reveal how Andrew Cuomo treated them. It’s easy to forget just how bad it was—so let their words remind you. And share them with any voter you know who’s still on the fence. (and, help us run this as a final ad: actblue.com/donate/dream...)

Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.

Randomly missing Pacific Standard six years after the magazine shuttered, especially for its culture writing... Not many places nowadays for a young culture writer to get their start, short of starting a Substack. And there are enough Substacks

This story will continue to grow for as long as they continue to attempt to punish Anthony for his journalism. Please continue to spread the news & politicize this issue. Thank you and FREE ANTHONY!!

I was deported by the U.S. for reporting on the Columbia University student protests. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

A thread: Many of y'all know I left my position as a race and identity correspondent at NPR. Perhaps tellingly, a recent story of mine was just "reviewed" by NPR's new "content review" process (a new initiative that began last year). Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/03/17/n...

She dreamed of seeing Coldplay live. She loved trying new foods and was learning Italian. She wrote poetry. She was so proud of summiting Iran’s highest peak that she mentioned it to everyone she met. She was 23 when she was killed with her family @yjtorbati.bsky.social has more wapo.st/4n3Gdyf

Mind-blowing from @writeralejandra.bsky.social: tenants in substandard apts assert their legal rights, landlord retaliates, tenants sue over retaliation, landlord files evictions anyway. Then, to drop the evictions, landlord requires tenants to sign NDAs. www.injusticewatch.org/civil-courts...

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.