This isn’t making our communities safer; it’s a performative show of force and a waste of taxpayer dollars. It needs to end. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/a...

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

The government funding deadline is tomorrow, but Trump remains focused on holding the government hostage to lock in his healthcare cuts and claim more unchecked power. Your Democratic senators need to hear from you. Urge them to keep holding the line against any deals that hand Trump a blank check.

All these Just For Men beard nazis sitting on their phones then running like dinky dog catchers after the nearest brown person. Like just any non-white person in the vicinity is their target and I can’t believe Dems aren’t saying fuck this we’re shutting down the government.

Waiting in line for bagels w/5 year-old son. Cybertruck pulls up, Elon-bro gets out and into line. Son says loudly “dada look, a cybertruck!” Elon bro gets excited, waits for compliment. “Dada that truck is SO UGLY” Elon bro looks absolutely gut shot in front of entire line. Parenting win.

Behind the headline—Laura Ng’s archaeological investigation of an anti-Chinese race riot in Wyoming doing some excellent epistemic justice here, amidst a deeply Trumpian context. www.npr.org/2025/09/28/n...

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

I just spent way too much time scrolling through the replies and liking every one that mentioned the Dave Matthews Band.

Washington Spirit games have become a massive bastion of protest against Trump's military takeover of DC. Thousands of people chant "free DC" at the 51st minute of every game now.

the opened up the first lesbian sports bar in chicago yesterday and they had to shut down for the rest of the weekend because they ran out of liquor😭😭😭

I thought this one was gonna transform two day ago and he just kept eating, could not be prouder of my enormous son

A super cool thing that men can do super easily is just leave women the fuck alone.

Happy Spooky Season! 9 years of my favorite Halloween video... David S Pumpkins. youtu.be/rS00xWnqwvI?...

Thread — observations from inside the ICE facility in Broadview:

A man here is passing around Italian beefs to people protesting Border Patrol.

online style accounts that try to look rich vs actual rich people

This is, incidentally, also true in physics

GOOD GOD, this exhibition!!! Sometimes subtle, sometimes in your face & provocative, Catlett's work is always powerful. Get yourself to the Art Institute IMMEDIATELY & then make plans to go again. Elizabeth Catlett: “A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies” is on view through Jan 4.

one of these guys is going to get spooked and kill a civilian any day now. nobody is safer because of this

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You're the DEMOCRATIC PARTY House Leader. Zohran Mamdani is the DEMOCRATIC PARTY candidate who won the DEMOCRATIC PARTY primary election for the nomination. So there's only one Democrat running for NYC Mayor right now. Weird that you're not already endorsing him.

Hey @democrats.org @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov Your current message seems to be "Trump is doing horrible illegal things. Let's ignore that and talk about healthcare." Y'all need to know this makes you look like weak-ass losers.

Here's a thought. Fuck these guys.

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

Good morning Bsky

Bringing these shirts back for the fall, shipping in early November 🫡 squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/bina...

pretty sly of melville slipping his own name into moby dick by making the captain “ahab” (assigned herman at birth)

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

There was a post going around asking why water tastes different when it sits overnight and someone replied, “because it’s haunted.” So now when I change the cat’s water I tell them I’m getting the ghosts out. #caturday

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

[turns on a PBS station] Why the fuck is Bob Ross painting Florida?

I lost it at “FUCKING KYLE!” #caturday

A statue, Refugees, by Judith Peck, now on display in the entrance to Fair Lawn Public Library, North Jersey.

Re: today's march in Chicago at 1 pm at 50 W Washington: I have seen some people posting complaints about this march that don't make sense, and I want to respond. First, some people complain that folks should take action in affected communities. They are. It's called rapid response. (Thread.)

Donald Trump can take the Department of Justice’s independence and its commitment to the rule of law. But he can never take its norms. by Merrick Garland

Nearing the end of my TBR pile, so stopped by the bookstore last night.

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

Hi, just a note— The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

I wish I was a fat bear eating salmon

Yes sir we're chanting "Release the Earhart Files"

These rooms should be filled with newborn cries, the beeping of monitors, pregnant women being cared for, patients finding relief amid a genocide. Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza.

Today, a no-holds-barred clash between a grumpy old librarian and young white male entitlement. SEE the red mist obscuring my vision when I'm told that the student deserves the study room more than the person currently in it. HEAR the indignant outrage when the student is told "no."

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

History should make you uncomfortable.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

@weirdguitars.day I saw a video of a 1993 Velvet Underground reunion show and this guitar Lou Reed was playing ...

Happy Neko Case album release day to all who celebrate nekocaseofficial.bandcamp.com/album/neon-g...

Autism doesn’t need to be “fixed.” Fascism needs to be neutered.

We need to get some orcas in lake michigan