The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page. No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.

Insanity

DOJ & Halligan attack Judge Nachmanoff. But he did not call Halligan a puppet. He asked the defense if its legal position was that Halligan had been acting as a stalking horse or puppet--doing a vindictive president's bidding. (Which she almost certainly was.)

By contrast I have not seen a single take on the shutdown that didn't consider the accrued costs to federal workers and others that rely on the government for benefits or support.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Bookmarking this to remind me to donate to some primary challengers in 2028.

Cc: Tim Kaine

This guy gets it.

Here's the unbelievable "undo" letter USDA sent: www.fns.usda.gov/snap/updated...

Genuinely disgusting. One would hope the alumni association will let them hear it. Ah for the good old days of rebuking your alma mater for quaint infractions like hiking tuition during significant economic downturn

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

so where are the op-eds about republican overreach today? where’s the commentary about donald trumps war against american citizens or his terror campaign targeting brown people? where’s the pearl clutching over the conservative social media bubble reliant on nazi propagandists?

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

@openargs.bsky.social maybe you can get your buddy to answer this one?

the most popular and widespread form of theft is wage theft from employers. the fact that your employer can call the police if you steal from them but you can't call the police if they steal your wages, should tell you almost everything you need to know about the police and their function in society

So they were innocent. That's what that means. They extra judicially executed innocent people.

Examples of how fascist untruths get regurgitated as fact by LLMs are ubiquitous, but this one is really jarring. The Harvard Kennedy School article Gemini scraped is entirely about how the claim is false. Gemini cannot parse this, instead sharing DHS propaganda as fact when you search her name.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

lol. LMAO, even.

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

Bad journalists support other bad journalists because it makes them think they’re actually good at their job. Neither of these people are a good standard for journalism. They’re bad and should not have the positions they have.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th” 👉👉 nokings.org

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

"cleansing" huh I wonder what that could mean.

Actually it did begin with a parade of tanks

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Taking a noncontroversial Let People Enjoy Things position on the Taylor Swift record. Good to see people hyper-analyzing a new album, ranking songs, comparing it to old work. Every minute they do this is a minute not spent watching slop.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

Republican state rep calls for Democratic congresswoman's execution.

The thing is. No one is surprised. We know how the Native Americans were treated. We know how slaves were treated. This unexceptionalism is the stuff Americans were made from. They just made loud and noisy movies and people forgot for a while.

She is SO CLOSE to getting it.

BREAKING: Two of the three people shot at a Dallas ICE facility are dead, officials say. All three people shot were detainees at the facility, an ICE spokesperson says.

Today, I was laid off from Cascade PBS along with my entire team and most of the newsroom. I'll have more to say, but I have loved my time as news editor alongside some of the best journalists I have ever worked with. Every time a newsroom closes, stories go with it. The silence that follows is loud

Starbucks says surveillance clears an employee who’d been accused of writing “Loser” on a cup when someone ordered Charlie Kirk’s “favorite drink.” The accusation was originally posted by a Republican party official. It forced the store to shut down for safety. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

A white man killed another white man, but Black people are catching death threats. So, instead of talking about white feelings again, I explored my own death threats, and tips for others who are unused to white America. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This is going to literally kill children. What are we doing?

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Balo is the No. 9. Roldan is an animal. Arfsten — surprise! — is a wingback, not a fullback. Takeaways from USMNT-Japan, with @paultenorio.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/661...

Cristian Roldan's performance alone is going to make heads explode on Twitter. But this lineup minus several eurosnob faves taking it to Japan after getting a very poor result against lower ranked South Korea (while getting scored on by an MLS player) is going to cause actual spontaneous combustion.

NO WAY 🤬 School children and teens on their way home using the Washington DC Metro were allegedly stopped, forced to show ID, and thrown to the ground in and around Union Station by multiple law enforcement agencies while the National Guard watched (Sept, 3 2025)