Obviously corrupt on its face but even worse when you remember that Congress refuses to create a damages remedy for people abused by federal law enforcement, including ICE, and SCOTUS has narrowed the court-created remedy to almost nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

This question ? Should be the starting point for real discussions of moderation and the post Twitter internet It started then well it be what it be ( also I shall be quoting you)

NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

If politicians can only seem to do anything when rich people are inconvenienced, I feel like it is our duty as just regular degular folks to inconvenience the rich as much as possible. Get on their fucking nerves.

Anyone know a bond fund for immigration cases?

For years I've reported on the tech and tools that bounty hunters have access to. I think people would be shocked it is often essentially what cops can have too, w/ less accountability - license plate reader databases - credit header data - smartphone location data www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

I live directly south of a car dealership so the light pollution looking north is atrocious. Using my eyes turned up nothing - same with my camera an hour so so back - but with the camera it’s so pretty!

Sharpie has never really been a cat who drops his toys at my feet to show off his hunting skills, but this week he found a stiff plastic cord (for shipping I think) and keeps jumping onto the bed to drop it in front of my face. It’s very cute.

At some point embarrassment MUST come

It's Tuesday. It's November. And it's been awhile. So lets tell the story about the eel, the scheming wife who ate it, and the talking magpie that ratted her out! That's right! It's time for the eel tale from the 1370s blockbuster hit, "The Book of the Knight of the Tower." 1/5 🗃️🧪

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

It’s now a week since I started to feel a bit sick and yet I’m still miserably congested and waking myself up coughing. Haaaaate.

When you see someone share their premium increase this week, bite your tongue about universal healthcare. Americans KNOW this is a shitty deal forced on them. They still need their meds and doctors. You don't pull over at a car accident and say "well *my* car is fine".

Yes. We need to end the mythology that having a job equals enough money to live. Affordability was already an emergency before Republicans voted to raise the cost of healthcare for millions, and eliminate it for millions more.

Good God

If at any point you are tempted to feel sorry for that miserable waste of skin please remind yourself that he has murdered a quarter of a million children and counting

welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place

Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year

This is shocking to only about 8 people.

anyway

this is literally never not accurate

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

Do you want to curse a Senator? I am going to make some Roman curse tablets tomorrow.

When you try to discover the reasons why something was done, it is easy to get them mixed up with the excuses that were thought up after it was done.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

We cannot let “haunted ICE agent regretfully explores his feelings/past/guilt” become a genre the way we did with every bad actor since the Confederates.

Same as they did to force people to go back to work while still sick and contagious with covid

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

"We can't stop the machine that keeps encouraging people to kill themselves or the economy will implode" is such an apt description of the state of global capitalism.

It is embarassing that only a news outlet from the UK has an accurate headline while our local papers keep saying "reports" without specifying a liar made that report. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Chicago area art/craft fair people: do you know any local artists making Chicago Flag necklace pendants?

Is anyone keeping some sort of online archive of outrages & lies perpetrated by ICE (or CBP) in Chicago? Links to videos, independent journalists, as well as big news outlets? Something people can show to people from the rest of the country, who may not know? If not, I think this needs to be made.

Shouldn't our alder's be declaring street fests in their wards, and blocking the streets to all car traffic that's not vetted? Shouldn't those fucking anti protestor deployed CDOT plows be in little village and pilsen and Albany Park? Shouldn't we fucking Mayor Daley and Meigs field roads by ICE?

Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.

When are people going to start talking about the clear cognitive decline of the president?

Pre-writing your enemy's obituary in case you go first is top-tier hating

This is the most comprehensive reporting released on the DHS-alleged shooting so far. Read the entire story (reminder: reporters don't usually choose headlines). For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

“Characteristically, people stay and help each other”

let's just pause and think about the fact that a trillion is a thousand billion, or a million million. he could have given each of the 400,000 kids he starved to death a million dollars and he'd still have 400 billion dollars left from this pay package the shareholders just approved.

PERIODIC REMINDER THAT IN THE UNITED STATES YOUR *RIGHT* TO DISCUSS YOUR SALARY WITH YOUR COWORKERS IS PROTECTED BY FEDERAL LAW AND YOU SHOULD ALWAYS DO THAT

The extra strength menthol version of ricola is gross.

10/10 take. No notes.

🚨Warning for everyone watching out for ICE: they are attempting to camouflage their vehicles with this sort of crap

Nancy Pelosi secretly being queen of the stock market and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vocally opposing elected officials profiting off the stock market feel like intrinsically connected facts that quietly explain their instant bad blood the minute they became House colleagues