They had hundreds of years of the British selling titles and the church selling indulgences to go on re: quid pro quo exec corruption. More likely they didn't plan for 2 legislative bodies so beholden to interests outside their constituents that they refuse to exercise the speedy, obvious remedy

The caregiving industry could not survive without immigrants. But a third of the staff at one Miami nursing home lost their jobs after the Trump administration ended the programs letting them work legally. www.notus.org/immigration/...

And it's not just seniors. There will be the same devastating impact for disabled people. The staffing crisis is the same.

When I got a haircut last fall, the stylist referenced "looking up" about 4-5 different topics "on" ChatGPT including important health info and I bit through my tongue But then she said "but sometimes it isn't that helpful, bc... ...who wants to read allll that text" I think of this All The Time

This story covers so much ground between the maze of rules seemingly designed to entrap people, a cpd detective’s “erroneous” reports, ICE, and the city’s relentless pressure on people with no permanent shelter. Great reporting.

Not one person is made safer by categorizing people as unworthy of housing. #DismantleChangeBuild

THANK you Also. I have only heard the ICE song but I truly don't think it's doing what people wish it were doing.

American democracy is under siege, yet Editorial Boards are silent on the remedy of impeachment (and calls for resignation). The Founders would be appalled at such timidity. The Publisher of the Sentinel shared insights into his outlets process and rationale. Please read the full interview.

A 🧵 How many newspaper Editorial Boards have called for Pres. Trump's impeachment (or resignation)? As far as we know, only one: @sentinelcolorado.com Our 2 part series: journalism, trust, press freedom & how a local newspaper serves its community-and democracy. open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...

I would like for Mira Nair to pass me 5 more blessings.

A heartwarming story would be if 400 fewer people spent Christmas locked up not 400 more spending Christmas locked up but 150/5,600 went to church

Since last year, the jail population has grown by almost 3x the total number of people attending Christmas services

UPDATE: Cupich again held a service for 50 people. Rainbow PUSH had 100. There were 5,615 people in Cook County Jail on Christmas Eve 5,465 (97%) did not attend either What was the holiday like for 97% of the people there? Often, holidays mean fewer, colder meals. bsky.app/profile/chic...

90% for me whiffed on music and development, boo

At least one answer is in @injusticewatch.org’s Best of 2025, if you want to cram before you take the test. www.injusticewatch.org/staff-news/2...

There is already plenty of gender segregation, both by school and *within a school via gender-specific curricula* - in both K-12 and higher ed. This fight is about whether it's appropriate in *public* schools as well. It is not. (No, not even at that charter school everyone calls inspiring.)

People are much more comfortable pretending Stephen Miller doesn’t know what he’s saying than contending with the fact of white supremacy.

"Penalizing truthful reporting...criminalizes homelessness rather than enforcing registration law” Totally agree with Lori Jo Reynolds. This part has been 🤯🤯 I don't know what lawyer told CPD it could simply refuse to accept entirely accurate forms but that person should no longer advise the City.

there’s a lot more in the story, including a cameo by the u.s. marshals and possible cpd collusion with immigration and customs enforcement. give it a read.

i tried many times to talk about the city’s hostility toward unhoused people with mayor johnson’s office—including his chief homelessness officer, his deputy mayor for community safety, and his director of reentry. i never heard back.

the policy banning weekly registrants from sheltering on the cta stands in stark contrast to mayor brandon johnson’s public comments vowing to reduce homelessness and criminalization. but it’s in line with his admin’s push to force unhoused people off public transit and out of public parks.

the move to restrict registrants from public transit comes as the cpd—and one detective in particular—is increasingly charging people with providing false info on their weekly logs only for their cases to later be dropped.

unhoused people of all backgrounds depend on public transit for shelter. and chicago police have, since at least 2018, allowed weekly registrants to list buses and trains on their weekly logs. but in late november, the cpd told registrants they can no longer stay on cta property beginning jan. 1.

state law also says unhoused people can’t stay anywhere more than two times in a year, otherwise it becomes temporary/permanent residence. this means unhoused registrants have to come up with 183 different addresses each year.

in illinois, unhoused people on the sex offense registry must report in person to police every week and provide a log of every place they stayed. missing even one week or recording one address incorrectly on a weekly log is a new felony charge.

NEW: beginning january 1, chicago will ban unhoused people on the sex offense registry from seeking shelter on public transit. it’s the latest in a concerted effort by mayor johnson’s admin to criminalize homelessness on cta trains + buses and in public parks during the coldest months of the year.

six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

PSA, despite the way the White House is phrasing this, the DOJ has not "received these documents from" SDNY and FBI; they are offices housed entirely within and governed by DOJ. What DOJ did was "fail to assemble and review relevant documents under its control"

hey you know how victims + evidence keep placing these 2 men in the presence of girls and young women at each other's houses on the mainland And how that's consistent with POTUS' denials[/confessions], repeating over and over how he didn't [have to] travel to the USVI

she's so brave for bringing Merry Christmas back

One of the 'original' Chicago Janes—arrested in those famous mug shots—has left us. Bless Judith Arcana and her work, then, and throughout her long life. kboo.com/media/131081... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Two Pritzker professors argue Northwestern’s deal with the Trump administration violates federal law, citing government coercion, demonstration policies and data-sharing requirements. — Reported by Hannah Webster

CBS averaged 28 million NFL viewers on Sunday Worth considering that part of the strategy of "holding" the CECOT piece may have been not just to change content but to avoid dumping several million more viewers straight into the gulag torture story, vs. finding some later, slower week

No sensible person should use an AI summary to make a determination about anything. But sensible people use Google and are presented with lies as the top results. So.

say it harder, everyone 📣📣📣

truly cannot get over Alito writing up how some people who protest ICE had sEmIaUtOmAtiC guns

Alito: "Multiple rioters have been found with loaded guns, some of them semi-automatic" I thought that was the most important right?

If the government illegally abducts you in March it might be forced to do something about it by January but in the meantime it will have issued 9 months of credible threats of torture to millions which is why courts are not the primary way a democracy deals with an antidemocratic government

Happy Holidays, Chicago 🎁 Sorry America that at least 1/3 of SCOTUS is still juntamaxxing

Realistic Hallmark town economy: the gas station sells some extra stuff people baked at home and the "craft fair in the square" is 75% temu and MLM vendors

The Hallmark aesthetic is always replicating all of the things we like about cities but pretending they are in small towns. Like I'm sorry a town of 2,314 people cannot sustain an independent boutique, a book store, a brewery, and an art gallery.

🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. Read/share 👇

This looks like the logo for a private prison contractor Well-suited to this location

Sounds like local police in northern WI are probably assisting ICE in unlawfully executing administrative warrants.

This is fascinating. Also shows how fed research gap results in people extrapolating observation (sharks taking 1/3 of snook catch) into unsupported conclusion ("overpopulated" sharks that should be fished) rather than alt theories (runoff + climate = small fish dieoff = sharks surviving on snook)

“In my 20 years of incarceration, I’ve been strip-searched at least 500 times,” writes Carla J. Simmons in this powerful essay for @prismreports.org. “Early on, I found that in order to endure strip searches, it was necessary for me to detach myself from what was happening to my body.”

"Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel" [Goose chasing meme voice] why isn't he mayor any more????

When police returned Reggie Williams’ wallet, an officer told him: Don’t do anything bad and keep your ID on you. To Williams, the warning echoed a slavery-era requirement that free African Americans carry documents to prove they weren’t enslaved. (Published Nov. with @mlk50.com)

Your US Rep knew or should have known about the US-backed torture at CECOT this whole time and has not tried to impeach Kristi Noem