Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.

Here’s the plaque at West Point with the relevant text highlighted

I know people are going to revel in the schadenfreude here, but this is really just an admission—given how close the House is split—that they’re just mad it didn’t work. Fewer than a dozen House GOPers could change America tomorrow. That they’re not proves this is just about losing, not principles.

I pushback on it’s going to take generations to undo whatever stupid thing Trump is doing analysis. It won’t if people (white people) decide they give a fuck about a functional government.

A good time to re-up the closing ad of Mamdani's campaign--a master class in how to use history to make the case for a progressive future. bsky.app/profile/zohr...

Although she’s Spanish, my wife was was born in Germany. In the 70s, her parents had to go there to find work. On this 50th anniversary of Franco’s death, EL PAÍS has a great article about how the country has transformed since 1975. Unfortunately it’s paywalled so I can only share screenshots. 1/3

We took on the case of a couple who had been detained during their green card interview. This was a couple who had been married for decades and never spent a single night apart. After being detained, they were immediately separated and sent to 2 different detention centers.

Here’s a thread on how an attempt on Venezuelan oil could go horribly wrong. I watched it happen in Colombia for years. Now add cheap drone technology to the mix & that oil infrastructure becomes EXTREMELY vulnerable to sabotage. Refineries & storage tanks weren’t designed to withstand attacks.💥💥🔥🔥

NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man. We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:

Check out his services page: "Policy Name Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Et magni architecto cum labore quas aut amet harum et corrupti autem est dolor quia ea reiciendis blanditiis. Est repudiandae dolorem eum nihil reprehenderit.""

Cut-through driver sailed through the stop sign on our street that every driver blows. He was four feet from me and my six-year-old, we were halfway across the street. Looked at us as he sailed by. Told my son that people who do that should lose the privilege of driving for the rest of their lives.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

LOL. nadignewspapers.com/residents-sp...

“In other messages, Epstein described Trump as a ‘maniac’ showing signs of ‘early dementia.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

My latest story about how the community at Chappell Elementary in Lincoln Square are trying to help a family after ICE took their dad. It’s a look at the disruption and resistance roiling Chicago www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/l...

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

Seeing this chart as an impressionable young man was a formative moment in my political development

Behold the losers, showing us who they are. What a satisfying read. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.

We got half as many trick-or-treaters this year, and we also convinced the six-year-old to trade 3 lbs of his 8-lb haul for Hot Wheels. My wife (high school teacher) took ~8 lbs of leftover candy to school and put it on her desk. This is how it looked after two classes.

It’s a damn shame—and I hate to even have to say it. But, the Trump Administration has no remorse for targeting innocent kids and families on Halloween. Stay safe, stay vigilant tonight.

A house on our block gives out full-size candy bars. All the neighborhood kids know it. My son (6) is considering making three runs using previous years’ costumes: #1: Darth Vader, #2: Pirate, #3: Spider Man. This is a conspiracy, but if he insists on going through with it, I won’t stand in his way.

alt headline: Illinois Legislature adopts transit revenues and reforms to ensure that drive times don't worsen

A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

Independence Park

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

They also got the kids halloween parade in the neighborhood cancelled. Had they deployed 30min later it would have been right in the middle of it!!!

Families were making their way to the neighborhood Halloween parade being held two blocks away from this tear gassing. This is life in Chicago these days

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ut oh, Gregory. Now you've gone and done it.

Text thread from my wife’s CPS high school mentions kidnapper goons spotted near her school (in West Town) and by Lincoln Park HS. Teachers walking kids to 66 bus and Blue Line.

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“Range Life” piped out on the Riverwalk today during my lunch break. 👍 🛹

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench for a hearing about to use tear gas during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social:

These clowns keep trying to use the armed forces as props to portray strength, and they keep failing miserably at it.

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Some people are torn on whether to wave the flag. To each their own. I’ll have this little one with me today. USCIS gave it to my wife in May when she was naturalized a U.S. citizen. At her oath ceremony were 99 people from 42 countries. She sat between a woman from Germany and a woman from Ghana.

block this shit

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

In the wake of the Hegseth/Pentagon press ban, I'm reminded of this section from Sebastian Junger's National Review essay, 2024. www.nationalreview.com/magazine/202...

This exchange lends a ton of support to this New York Times story from January that the White House previously denied. Trump reportedly joked in 2024 that Stephen Miller wants to purge the country of anyone who doesn't look like him — and Trump fully supports what he is doing.