Israel’s killing of two young Palestinian boys in Gaza for supposedly crossing the Israeli military’s ever-shifting yellow line last week is “horrific” and must be investigated, the UN has said. “It’s hard to see how two boys, eight and 10, can be considered a threat.”

Happy Holidays from the Chicago Police Department

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

so proud of my comrades

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.

This is what Snelling said two years ago. Every year, the superintendent pinky swears that this time for reals, he’s going to let Charlie kick the football.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

🚨 On Sunday, November 23, U.S. Border Patrol illegally entered the No More Deaths’ humanitarian aid station and arrested three people who were receiving aid, without a warrant.

WE NEED TO QUIT BEING COWARDS AND EXPAND THE MARKET INTO THE FUCKING STREETS YOU DON'T NEED TO DRIVE EVERYWHERE IN THE LOOP ANYWAY FOR FUCK'S SAKE

"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."

@fivefourpod.bsky.social @fleerultra.bsky.social @aywarhiannon.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social y'all should do a 5-4 episode on Kent v. Dulles if you haven't already, if for no other reason than to share Paul Robeson's incredible testimony while being questioned by HUAC

Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union. They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration. More updates TK.

snapped some photos of this baddie the other day while a chicago finance department worker was booting a car. this van—which, again, is from the finance department!!—has two license plate readers mounted to its front and 360 degrees of surveillance camera coverage.

"Usually she had warned her father about immigration agents before he went to work on construction sites. 'That one day he was taken, that day we didn’t say anything,' Delila said from her new home ... 'Can I get a second chance?' she choked out." 💔 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/c...

Are their board members in the files?

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

I hope everyone understands that this means that many people who are undocumented will no longer come to any court hearings on any matter. Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.

every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy

the state can abide by gutting part of the prison system after all, so long as it helps the state abduct and imprison even more people

One thing that is tough about rapid response/patrols, besides constantly being threatened by armed secret police, is that for the most part they see the defeats. There are exceptions, but you’ll never know how many people were saved by slowing feds down, whistles, community alerts, etc.

It was one of the most interfered with elections in history - objectively, openly, not just my opinion - which is why I don't listen to any nonsense about "THE VOTERS" and what they did wrong. If you're not looking at this first, your political analysis is worth a wet fart.

At a time when we are drowning in police misconduct settlements that are costing the city millions and forcing the city to take out massive loans with HIGH interest rates… this seems like such a slap in the face. This is not accountability and this is not responsible governance.

🕯️ today is Trans Day of Remembrance. 🕯️ spend some time with the loved ones we’ve lost. www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam

when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"

if you're wondering why we don't see as much gaza despite the steady trickle of reports that israel continued strikes throughout the "ceasefire," it's because they deliberately killed most of the journalists in palestine

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

"The attorneys spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. All three said the plan is not regional to New England, but a nationwide strategy."

Ladies and gentlemen, the progressive mayor: COPS OVER LIBRARIES.

To process those applications again is going to cost so much time and money. They are spending money to starve people. And given the level of corruption, I have no doubt that applications with names indicating certain backgrounds will be conveniently "misplaced" for weeks if not months or years.

“straight up giving the president a bar of gold” is where we’re at now on the “corruption isn’t real” scale good work, John Roberts

Chicago folks giving helpful advice to Charlotte folks... 🤜🤛 🇺🇸

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure

"There were spaces to meet (and argue), spaces to organize and plan – and spaces to socialize too... Having different groups sharing the same space provided opportunities for people to learn how to organize together." "Yet now, the left is looking at a very different and less vibrant landscape."...

AGAIN WITH THE BUTTON

broadview mayor katrina thompson blames today’s brutality on “out-of-town protesters” who’ve “chosen their fists” over their voices. does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

they got megyn kelly up on tv doing the ol libertarian its not pedophilia its ephebophilia shuffle

calls to abolish ice didn't start when trump got elected in 2024 or even in 2016. ice has operated the detention center in broadview, illinois, for ~20 years. the chicago field office, which covers six states, surveilled 20,000 people on electronic monitors as of sept 2024.

I wonder how many people will never hear from their loved ones again because of this shit. A real life horror show.

never been jealous of the ICC before

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

Again, maybe what the takeaway we should have from political reporter after political reporter not just getting chummy w ppl like Trump or Epstein (or RFK Jr 👀) but actively running interference for them—either in their coverage or privately—is that its an industry full of ppl that are Bad Actually™️

On Oct. 31, a judge acquitted former Cook County juvenile jail guard Kevin Walker of battery and official misconduct saying, “The defendant puts his hand on [the boy] and maybe pushes him at best.” Now, you can watch the video for yourself.

e.g., etc etc bsky.app/profile/slko...

NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying. The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.

A new investigation by Drop Site News explores Jeffrey Epstein’s deep ties to Israeli intelligence, revealing how he acted as a high-level “dealmaker and fixer” and hosted Israeli spies at his Manhattan home.

This is unbearably funny