This week's elections went really well. Big wins for Democrats, and little meddling from Trump. But what about the midterms? @walshfreedom.bsky.social & I talked about today here:

Democrats won everywhere this week and by huge margins. Will the Republicans learn any lessons after Tuesday's huge election defeat? That's one of many hot topics on the latest edition of Unvarnished Politics with @walshfreedom.bsky.social and me. Watch here: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

The Insider Politics Sheets Are Scurrying for New Conventional Wisdom talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-i...

Let's be crystal clear that the Trump administration is to blame for this. If you get stuck somewhere, don't yell at the airline folks, call your congressperson instead.

Jeanine Pirro just got indicted by a ham sandwich!

A terrific story by the hard working folks at the Chicago Sun Times exposes the Trump admin’s domestic war propaganda. But… On our streets people are bearing witness to the truth and because of that Americans aren’t buying the lies. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

ICE/CPB in Chicago didn’t get the election memo yesterday. Now they’ve invaded a day care facility to spread terror. Cruel fools to think Chicago will bow down. We choose to fight back. We choose to protect each other. We choose to bear witness. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...

There’s light at the end of the nightmare. Great day for a big diverse coalition

If you are a pundit polishing up your hot take about how this election is actually a warning sign for democrats, I’m begging you to STFU.

On Halloween, we saw two Americas existing under Trump's rule. In Florida, Trump's gaudy Gatsby-esque party. Here in Chicago, neighbors literally on guard to protect kids out trick or treating from out of control feds. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Holy shit

Much like dictatorship or climate change, the threat of AI taking your job is no longer hypothetical. It's here, as shown by last week's bloodbath at UPS, Amazon, etc. Should the government be sending us $1,000 a month? Is there any alternative to UBI? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

"The Steady State, ... Its members are former U.S. national security professionals drawn from intelligence, defense, diplomacy and homeland security. Their brief focuses on the stakes of the decision..." @eisendrath.net spot on www.lincolnsquare.media/p/chicago-jo...

ICYMI: @eisendrath.net hosted @jaimeharrison.bsky.social on It's the Democracy, Stupid. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/freedom-vs... Subscribe to watch the full episode and catch Edwin tomorrow at 10am EST with Joel Payne & 11am EST with @sjdemas.bsky.social — only on Lincoln Square!

Here's an idea: let's make America America again. My latest chat with @walshfreedom.bsky.social:

In Belmont Cragin on Chicago's northwest side this morning, a rally is opening in support of day laborers outside the Armitage/Cicero Home Depot. Activists are calling out the corporation for continuing to allow ICE and Border Patrol to stalk and attack immigrants in their parking lots.

Jonathan Greenblatt doing clean-up for Kevin Roberts at the Heritage Foundation is the same as Kevin Roberts doing clean-up for Tucker Carlson is the same as Tucker Carlson doing clean-up for Nick Fuentes

Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI! This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.” Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.

"Project 2025 is Jim Crow 2.0" I talked to former DNC Chair @jaimeharrison.bsky.social about how Black representation in Congress will be decimated if the Roberts Court destroys the Voting Rights Act. Listen to our conversation on @lincolnsquare.media:

We've got some fantastic guests today to help us make sense of the Trump chaos. Joining me on WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.bsky.social today: + @jaimeharrison.bsky.social + @daviddewitt.bsky.social + @timdickinson.bsky.social + @skyeperryman.bsky.social 🎧 Stream 1-4 CT bit.ly/3DAcG8s

New: I sat down with @aljazeera.com to talk about my firing from the Washington Post, being the last Black staff columnist left at the Post. And how I believe the right is not just engaging in “cancel culture”, but “annihilation culture”. Full video here: youtu.be/89qMGkK3LBc?...

My column on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times today. www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/10/the-...

Nutrition assistance is NOT corrupt. Food stamps kept my family fed when my mom had to look for work after my dad got sick with MS. The Trump administration wants kids, seniors, and veterans to go hungry. They are REFUSING to use emergency funds to keep SNAP benefits going.

Trump is conducting siege warfare. Except it's his own country he's starving out.

This is the most important thing @jvl.bsky.social has written: why? * Trumpism is a fundamentally socialist hybrid state capitalist approach with an authoritarian bent *it’s Peronist but with a balance sheet *the next logical step is for the trumpists to make the fed balance sheet their own

important 🧵

This is a Kavanaugh stop. And it shouldn’t be at all.

Still here. Still strong. Chicago.

Here, on Chicago’s streets, America can see the conflict between Donald Trump’s efforts to coerce a great American city into submission & the American people’s determination to be free, to determine our own destiny. We just want America to be America again. open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

Here, on Chicago’s streets, America can see the conflict between Donald Trump’s efforts to coerce a great American city into submission & the American people’s determination to be free, to determine our own destiny. We just want America to be America again. open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

Gayle King, the face of CBS News' morning show for more than a decade, is expected to depart as an anchor of the morning program next year, Variety reports

🚨 REVEALED: The company handling prescriptions for U.S. troops is charging $484 more per generic drug than local pharmacies — and pocketing the difference. Taxpayers pay more. Troops get less. Read the investigation by @helenwsantoro.bsky.social for The Lever 👇 www.levernews.com/how-a-pharma...

Here is DHS making false allegations about @katmabu.bsky.social. Read the affidavit and show me where it alleges that she assaulted anyone. Spoiler: it doesn't. The conspiracy charge / title of the statute is throwing people off / leading to a lot of bad faith attacks.

I knew I'd seen Bovino before.

Indoor trick-or-treat events. Candy dropoffs. Neighbors patrolling with whistles. This is how Chicagoans are helping kids have a safe and ICE-free Halloween this year: blockclubchi.co/47qJSzi.

"U.S. Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino’s standing appointment with a federal judge is off — for now." Read the always excellent @jonseidel.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Pay attention to Chicago: As Trump's agents continue to manhandle and gas peaceful protesters and journalists alike, a united population is holding the line, documenting these attacks. The facts are getting out. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

Pretty sure this isn't how ceasefires work. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

"Please help. Please help. Please help us. We have rights, we’re citizens here, please help us" My god. This 911 call with a Chicago woman pleading for help as ICE pulls pulls people from their cars, aiming weapons at them is grotesque. Monsters have invaded our city. Monsters.

Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue? MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos

Come hang with me and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for a live conversation at 3pm ET today on COURIER's IG channel about the critical role independent media is and must play in standing up to this administration and safeguarding our freedoms 🇺🇸

And here's @newsjennifer.bsky.social with the ICE siege of tear gas and fear that Chicago residents are documenting. 2/2 jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/trumps-ice...

Eight fighter jets just flew over our house in DC a few times, no idea why. I joked (sort of) that maybe they were heading to Chicago to engage against the citizenry. "Chicago is now the decisive battleground for American freedom," @eisendrath.net writes today. He may be right. 1/2

Damn. @wsj.com $UPS www.wsj.com/business/log...

NEW: Republicans are targeting the census -- again. This time, they're going after a little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” that helps keep census data anonymous. This would impact a number of vulnerable people, immigrants included. read @telliotter.bsky.social:

"On Sunday, the newspaper inserted an acknowledgement of the Amazon donation into the editorial – but only once the veteran news executive @bgrueskin.bsky.social ... noted its absence in a social media post and made inquiries at the paper. It did not flag the alteration for readers."