Today in Google death rattle: tried to find a female editor’s review of a male journalist’s book by searching their names together, and the AI summary informed me that my query was likely the “result of a misunderstanding,” as the male journalist is in fact married to a different woman

I talked to staff members who work near where federal agents were seen on video choking a Black man on the West Side. thetriibe.com/2025/10/vide...

Yeah, I don’t think Ezra Klein does any advocacy that is specific or well-defined enough to call him an activist. He’s a liberal ideologue caught in a lifelong Sisyphean effort to patch over the contradictions of his beliefs. And to the extent that you can be “good” at such a thing, he is

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

THE MEME IS REAL

Crazy how you can orient your entire life around capitalism being the problem and still discover in new ways each day that capitalism is the problem

Glad to publish this by Ben McCarthy about how mental illness came to be mischaracterized as a primary cause of homelessness in the United States—and how that misunderstanding obscures the most devastating impacts of the hypercommodified housing market progressive.org/the-real-cau...

"Because here in Gaza, sometimes the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end."

Full support to Zohran as always but he should not have apologized for calling the NYPD racist

this goes so hard

Other recent sentences I never imagined hearing include “they tear-gassed Daniel Biss”

Was not prepared to read the sentence “if elected, he would be the city’s first openly polyamorous mayor” this morning

love to procrastinate on solving present problems by imagining how I will solve impossibly distant future problems. I just caught myself thinking through how I’d go about trying to establish dual citizenship between the Great Lakes and New York if I’m still alive when the U.S. starts Balkanizing

If you're curious about the Minneapolis mayoral race, @theprogressivemag.bsky.social's wonderful intern Owen Jakel wrote this piece about Omar Fateh and the DFL snafu which gets into some very thoughtful specifics about what's actually similar and different about Fateh's and Mamdani's breakthroughs

NEW — President Donald Trump appears to have backtracked on his threats to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago. Organizers are shifting their tactics to fight the surge in ICE activity taking place in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. thetriibe.com/2025/09/what...

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

oh shit www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Condoning this kind of rhetoric will not only lead to more brutal violence against unhoused people with mental health needs (who are already victims of violence far more often than they are perpetrators) but will hasten the right-and-center coalition's efforts to fully return to the age of asylums

Glad to publish this by Ben McCarthy about how mental illness came to be mischaracterized as a primary cause of homelessness in the United States—and how that misunderstanding obscures the most devastating impacts of the hypercommodified housing market progressive.org/the-real-cau...

Now and forever 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️

Also from October to April if you are valiant and pure of heart

Love to stumble across irrefutable evidence that editing is still a necessary human service

Don't think I've ever seen someone in more desperate need of formal psychoanalysis than Ezra Klein

there should be more people in public office with this kind of prodigious ability to respond to things without taking the bait from hostile opposition or accepting their bad-faith premises (Mamdani is also a good example)

This is what people trying to put themselves in a better situation lose when you convey that experiencing a loss of safe shelter is unlawful.

tonight I saw Ric Wilson for $10 at a street fest, earlier I went for a walk at the beach

Daniel Biss is currently doing a live video on Substack (?) about the feds coming to Chicago, so I tuned in for a bit thinking it might be about community response, protection strategy, etc...and it's him interviewing a constitutional scholar about whether or not it's legal for Trump to do it

we need to petition the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce to change its neighborhood festival’s name back to “EdgeFest”

If you’re still in line to enter the IL-9 race, stay in line!

My most deeply held conspiracy theory is that Chicago real estate companies are paying random people online to post obscenely exaggerated shit like “Chicago’s so expensive, you can’t even rent a studio in Lakeview for less than $2k now!” to psy-op naive people into being willing to overpay

Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel. Now she's a member of HTC. Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.

Godamnit, I love Rogers Park. Glenwood Avenue Arts Festival! People, art, music, food and drink. Ran into old friends, and nodded at new neighbors.

not trying to be despairing but it’s really fucking hard to watch the discourse around Trump’s order to expand use of forced psychiatric treatment and the derision toward psychologically vulnerable people who’ve fallen down horrifying AI rabbit holes happening at the same time!

Got to edit this extremely cool piece of reporting by Giles Clasen about a group of Colorado farmers with a moonshot plan to saving their farms amid water shortage: start a nationwide rye beverage craze! progressive.org/latest/the-g...

Got to edit this extremely cool piece of reporting by Giles Clasen about a group of Colorado farmers with a moonshot plan to saving their farms amid water shortage: start a nationwide rye beverage craze! progressive.org/latest/the-g...

@Chicago hospitals

There’s so much happening in New York that isn’t possible even on the scale of Chicago and every time I’m here I do have a “what if” moment, but then I see this stuff and I’m like great, see you again in a few months, gotta get back to our barely functional trains covered in schizophrenia study ads

Art in Uptown and Edgewater

Anyway I just helped edit this post by Nourdine Shnino about struggling to feed his infant son in Gaza City. I hope that those who deny the reality of genocide and famine in Gaza someday have to look at this with open eyes and feel the weight of what they’ve done progressive.org/latest/there...

Anyway I just helped edit this post by Nourdine Shnino about struggling to feed his infant son in Gaza City. I hope that those who deny the reality of genocide and famine in Gaza someday have to look at this with open eyes and feel the weight of what they’ve done progressive.org/latest/there...

I struggle to imagine that a person coming in with absolutely no preconceived ideas as to whether or not there’s famine in Gaza could read the original text of these people’s objection to the NYT photo/story and not conclude “oh these are a bunch of pedantic cynics desperately grasping at straws”

HOORT HOORT

This is a really good example of why I think living in Georgia is such a nightmare. Law enforcement and the people in power there are punitive and addicted to ruining lives for literally no reason. If this is the shit they're doing to rich people you can only imagine how regular people are treated

So glad I got the opportunity to edit this review from Paul von Blum, who places Eli's body of work in the long tradition of leftist cartoonists capturing the visceral grossness of their respective eras' reactionary freaks and weirdos!

the horrors persist as ever but at least the @mike-eagle.bsky.social show at Schubas last night was a certified Good Fuckin’ Time

The sound of the trains on the new tracks

We're fighting back

An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!