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.

Heck yeah!

It all comes down to credibility, which means we owe a profound debt of gratitude to everyone (journos especially) who put themselves at great personal risk to document and report out what has actually been happening.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

What a time chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

As you fight ICE in your neighborhoods, always look for potentially positive outcomes to counterbalance your anger and despair. For me this continues to be meeting more neighbors, talking to more neighbors, and finding that others close by have also been fighting in ways I was unaware of.

With all the caveats about anonymous posters, this is still staggering, a revelation of what a sliver we see reported across mainstream & alt media combined; and this itself is obviously just a sliver. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded. “A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected. “Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed” 🎁 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Chicagoans & neighbors, if you haven’t already, now is the time to save the ICIRR hotline in your phone: 1 (855) 435-7693 And read their advice for documenting ICE or Federal Agents - posted with alt text here. We can see how much documentation matters.

Arby's used to be called Arbitrary's 😔

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

There’s certainly nothing more in Hegseth’s letter than that which Immergut found insufficient as to Portland in Saturday’s ruling.

Pritzker warned Sept. 2 that Trump was preparing to send members of the Texas National Guard to Chicago. A spokesperson for Abbott told me that was “not accurate.” news.wttw.com/2025/09/02/t...

Jesus

There is no rebellion in Oregon. Today's ruling is a healthy check on the President's power. As the President, you must have actual facts (based on reality), not social media, or just your gut feeling, if you want to mobilize the Military here in the United States. - Dan Rayfield, AG of Oregon

Queen

CPD has 20+ injured on duty this afternoon, most/all from federal use of gas. Related: no arrests by CPD, no documented uses of force by CPD. (I wasn't everywhere / didn't see every skirmish. And possibly some late-entry TRR forms to come.) Saw two federal arrests, saw one on video didn't witness.

The best case interpretation of what we’re seeing is bad.

No, this is not the first time ICE has opened fire in Chicagoland. They killed a man at a traffic stop three weeks ago. Important context.

A woman was shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents Saturday on Chicago’s South Side, marking the second shooting since President Trump’s administration launched an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the area last month.

Phidippus cardinalis boys appear to be velvet ant mimics. It works for them. ❤️ #Arachtober

They zip tied children.

“The functions performed by the position you encumber…”

The Cook County Public Defender’s office is calling on Chief Judge Timothy Evans to put a stop to warrantless immigration arrests in and around courthouses. trib.al/hnqDpTH

“It felt like a war zone,” O’Loughlin said. “It feels like people don’t know the extent of what is happening unless it’s on Michigan Avenue.” “They tore the whole building apart,” Szymanski said."

This is like those turtles in the Super Mario World castle

Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT: www.wbez.org/immigration/...

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

The right wing media machine incentives the constant production of “evidence” to fit their frames. News influencers “work” by selectively amplifying content that aligns w/ their frames/goals. The left seems to be catching on, but they need to do more than just solicit content, they need to reward it

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

The Street Vendors Association of Chicago is raising emergency funds to support vendors who can't safely work right now. They have a significant goal of $300k for impacted workers + families. GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st... Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago

Video shows aftermath of controversial ICE shooting, including agent originally described as critically injured (gift link) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/v...

The amazing team at @sciencevs.bsky.social dropped a #Tylenol podcast a few days ago, giving explanation of why the link has been made and how it's not quite as it seems A great example of bias and confounding, and how meta-analysis isn't always the pinnacle of evidence #EpiSky #MedSky

This is exactly what a baby trying to convince his doctor not to give him a shot would say.

This is a really good read, and I definitely see myself in some of the early misapprehensions described.

Kirk du Soleil

I’ve met a bunch and hands down it was Jerry Orbach.

“Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them and call them slurs. He also told his daughters detainees are only given food and water based on good behavior.” These are the conditions at the site of yesterday’s protest.

🖼️ Emmaranthaceae

honestly everything we've figured out to do with grain is choice as hell, like humans are very real for what they've done with grains

hadn’t seen the actual letter. this is a dream exhibit. a unicorn.

Alan @sepinwall.bsky.social moved his newsletter from Substack to Ghost and there’s a bunch of neat features! alansepinwall.ghost.io

Protesters and media have blocked off Grand and Emerson in Franklin Park, next to the vigil for Silverio Villegas Gonzalez who was shot and killed by an ICE officers during a traffic stop last week.

Get at it, people less tired than me!

“Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. But . . .” This is one of those rare instances where what follows “but” is not terrible—not throat-clearing weasel words—but something glorious.

Everybody should watch Somebody Somewhere. I’m not kidding. Just watch it. You will laugh and cry and feel lots of feelings.

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This seems…well handled?