ICE has targeted and tear-gassed Black and immigrant families on the South Side—and AT&T is profiting from them while they do so. Tell AT&T: #dropthecontracts on Nov 16. Join Chicago's corporate speakout, 2–3 & 4–5 PM: https://ppls.ac/att#dropthecontracts #ATTLovesICE #DropTheContractsATT

i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak

"During last month’s IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington, Barclays organized a private meeting to talk investment opportunities with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado... widely attended by investment firms, hedge funds, and others" www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

List of Congresspeople signed onto Tlaib's resolution to recognize Gaza genocide AOC Omar Carson Casar Balint Dexter Frost Garcia (IL) Green (TX) Jaypal Johnson (GA) Khanna McGovern Lee (PA) Pocan Pressley Ramirez Simon Velazquez Watson Coleman

Looks like Indiana's Republicans are telling Trump to eat shit and die when it comes to redistricting. I guess not every Republican is prepared to take orders from a 79-year-old man suffering from dementia www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/p...

ICE vs the clergy

From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning: "God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."

This is the future that liberals want

Thesis: dominant fake “universalism” Antithesis: identity politics Synthesis: true universalism

"China now makes a lot more from exporting wind turbines, electric cars, solar cells and the like than drill-baby-drill America makes selling fossil fuels." #climatechange #cleantech #electrotech #climatesolutions www.economist.com/special-repo...

Landing of a must-read thread.

'Indeed, Third World delegates to the WTO meeting in Seattle interpreted the demonstrations, not as evidence of a new internationalism, but rather as the expression of a national-protectionist agenda on the part of Northern labor in alliance with Northern governments.

"In less than two years, Chinese firms have invested well over $1.3 billion into Nigeria’s critical mineral value chains, particularly lithium... A U.S. military incursion, or the resulting instability, would endanger these resource supply lines and financial commitments."

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Can anything halt the decline of German industry? – FT: ‘Industrial production sits at the 2005 level even after a partial rebound in September. “Many of Germany’s economic core strengths have turned into vulnerabilities,” says Marcus Berret’

I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.

Rosalía, LUX, Rosa Luxemburg

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Popular sentiment in the US regarding China has bounced back to pre-COVID levels. A majority (and a supermajority among Democratic voters) support cooperation over containment globalaffairs.org/research/pub...

On Monday we had back to back events at Cornell with an anti-Zionist Jewish speaker and a Uyghur activist. Both extremely sensitive topics that have been subject to censorship on US campuses. Both went off without a hitch, no crazies showed up to either. Take advantage of the space we have!

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

incredible breakingdefense.com/2025/11/guam...

Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.

Literary Chinese for Pedophile Rulers: 嘉靖壬寅年，宮婢相結行弑，用繩係上喉，翻布塞上口，以數人踞上腹絞之，已垂絕矣。 In the ren-yin year of Jiajing, palace girls conspired to commit regicide by strangling the Emperor with a rope, gagging him, and getting several girls to sit on his chest to suffocate him until he was nearly dead.

NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇

Sen. Durbin’s plan to “use every tool at my disposal to push back against this president’s attack on our democracy”: 1. Repeatedly surrender all negotiating leverage for no reason 2. Write a sternly-worded op-ed 3. Retire from the Senate in ignominy

Is Fetterman planning on leaving the senate to start a new career as a professional whiner?

"This is the most brazen and outrageous use of Chinese economic coercion ever." (Doshi) "The regulations mimic rules the U.S. has implemented to restrict other countries' exports of semiconductor-related products to China." (Reuters) www.reuters.com/world/china/...

We live in that devastating moment when thigs are going so much better—and so much worse!—than we ever expected. At the same time.

A 1-year-old girl was pepper-sprayed through the window of a moving vehicle by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Chicago. She was briefly hospitalized.

I think it’s now safe to call this race. Progressive urban planner Katie Wilson defeats centrist incumbent Bruce Harrell and will become Seattle’s next mayor.

New collaboration between Charli XCX and John Cale (!) hits the spot

I learned about the BC Municipal Finance Authority from @thomasmarois.bsky.social @publicbanking.bsky.social and I think more Americans should hear about this publicbanking.mcmaster.ca/app/uploads/...

At COP30 in Belém, the U.S. is absent as China steps up, supporting a global carbon market, 2027 sector caps, and exporting green tech across the Global South.

“a cleansing primary season”

Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market on.ft.com/4p3frWX

DHS lies constantly, and this has been confirmed in court. There is no evidence that any shots were fired at federal agents. The fact that the claim has no known basis in fact should be out front here.

This is also said about Europe's approach to China and I simply don't believe this is true. I was at conferences with senior US folk in the early 2010s and none thought China would become more democratic or liberal. We thought we could compete.

I appreciate that Senate Dems are trying their best to create ideal conditions for anti-establishment challengers in next year’s Dem primaries

Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Ooh look. Now they're trying to sell you Thiel's electronic collar because "China bad".

How many people are they gonna arrest for praying? I might like to test that out blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

Members of the community argue with federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday in Chicago.

It was always obvious that the Biden White House-- which had openly discussed charging Putin with war crimes and genocide over Ukraine-- privately discussed Israel's genocidal intent in 2023/24 and decided to lie about it. The belated confirmation is still important. www.haaretz.com/gaza/2025-11...

Three masked agents questioned an Illinois Department of Transportation employee about his immigration status — and if he had traveled to New York and was “aware” of the mayor-elect in New York City, the governor’s office said.

This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area. “We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”