NYE win = child in bed and asleep by 8:15pm + I’m not asleep.

Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

Suspect still at large in the Brown University shooting. Suspects in the Stockton shooting are still at large too, and that was weeks ago. This is what happens when experienced FBI agents are fired. Thousands were reassigned to pursue law-abiding undocumented immigrants.

Indiana’s Senate has voted AGAINST the GOP gerrymander that’d have locked in a 9-0 map. This keeps the 7-2 map in place, saving two Democratic seats heading into 2026. The vote failed big, 19/31. The MAJORITY of the GOP senators opposed it!

If you get a high score of One Trillion Dollars…you should be congratulated, the credits should roll, and the game announces there is nothing more, and you die.

happy bday British writer Joseph Conrad, b.1857 “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. “Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

Surprise! The “peace plan” is really just a plan for Trump, Witkoff, Don Junior and their friends to get rich. Everything is a grift. (And the Hunter hunters are silent) www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Abraham Lincoln, 1855. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

The Magnificent Mile’s vacancy rate has gone down in recent years; among them, Uniqlo is opening a store at 600 N Michigan soon. The vacancy rate of the retail space in Trump Tower, a few blocks away, has always been about 95%.

I'm struck by how many Chicagoans have seemingly felt compelled to write and share reflections on "this is what it feels like in Chicago right now". We know we're going through something awful together and we want the world to understand it. Threading several of these pieces below.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Chicago Public Library's budget cuts would mean losing HALF of the materials budget. It would mean losing 90 staff members. Cop budget's fine, though.

Woke up to news that a church in my town was vandalized with a swastika. Please get out and vote in your state and local elections today. The presidential elections aren’t the only ones that matter.

That train is never late. youtu.be/poqoClsEhR4?...

Within 2 weeks, within a mile of each of 4 directions of my home, tear gas has been thrown. Today, the arrests of AMERICAN CITIZENS was less than half a mile from where I live, on one of my running routes. All around my home + business. It is terrorizing. 1/3 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

sorry but nothing can be worth $5 trillion, we don't live in a cartoon

We live in a country where the media is focused more on who a Democratic mayoral candidate defines as his ‘aunt’ than on the DHS Twitter account putting out white nationalist propaganda and replying to Nazis online.

They’re working their way down the list of who they are coming for at a very fast pace.

If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military. The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history. Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.

There are more people living within five miles of my home than in the entire state of Maine.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

As a student, I always loved the Purdue Exponent, and now my love has grown deeper.

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

One continuous scene of two separate run-ins with ICE from an alley in Rogers Park this morning, from three entirely different POVs. 1. www.instagram.com/reel/DPt0Roi... 2. bsky.app/profile/roya... 3. bsky.app/profile/juri...

Hey, it’s your daily reminder to get out there and do something! Our neighbors have been terrorized more over the weekend and are pretty scared. Hearing there’s been a lot of interest in rapid response, but schools may still need help. Talk to “friends of” or parent networks at your nearest school.

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

I am so angry, my heart is broken. Young children are waiting at school for this mother to pick them up. What will happen to them? What will happen to her? To her car, her purse? Why does it take over 12 heavily armed men to kidnap her? Is she really "the worst of the worst" or just a human bounty?

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species

Tossed into the neighborhood as feds were departing and other times

Fascism relies upon the privileged illusion of normalcy to thrive and take root.

BACKGROUND — In April, we dug into how asylum seekers from Latin America landed in Black Chicago neighborhoods like South Shore, the community rocked by a militarized federal agents raid earlier this week. thetriibe.com/2025/04/some...

Watch this. This is what this criminal administration wants to do to all of us. Find the groups in your community that are standing up against ICE and join them.

If you live in Illinois, we need your help. This will take less than five minutes and will truly pressure your local elected officials to stand with the people rather than ICE.

Our cities aren’t war ravaged. They’re ICE ravaged.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

youtu.be/Da18u8fog24?... Listen to this when you have a minute.

Now that summer is over, Chicago is still on track to have fewer homicides in 2025 than almost any other year since 2001. This is especially impressive considering that the five most violent years of the 21st century have all been in the past decade.

Trump once suggested that injecting bleach could help cure COVID. RFK has a long, long history of peddling medical misinformation to enrich himself. Please talk to your doctor. Please talk to your doctor. Please talk to your doctor.

50 years after punk’s birth, a sociologist looks back at the heyday of the anarchist-inflected punk scene in Philly in the 1990s and 2000s, and how the political ideology and activism – encouraging opposition to capitalism, government, power and more – is still influential today. buff.ly/hVoWiDG

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.