More on SAIC's shameful treatment of the Video Data Bank.

From @chicago.suntimes.com on the now-public body-cam footage that was relied upon by Judge Sara Ellis. H/t to @sophiesherry.bsky.social, Kade Heather, @vimiller.bsky.social @angelamassino.bsky.social and Kaitlin Washburn for taking on a holiday evidence drop: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...

Harlem — Gordon Parks, 1948

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

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.

No. 7 (Dark Over Light) https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4862

Judge Ellis says all these errors, no matter how minor, add up. "[A]t some point, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything that [DHS] represent[s]." E.g., a top officer testified protestors had shields with nails in them; there were no nails and mostly it was carboard.

It is unconscionable what @saic-edu.bsky.social is doing to the Video Data Bank.

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

Lemmy (very politely!) declines an interview request from Ratso the puppet because: “I don’t really talk to puppets. I’m 53 years old. I’m kind of past that.”

On Nov 19, 12 PM, join us at UIC: 909 S. Wolcott, Room 585. We're marking the 50th anniversary of the Cook County Hospital doctors' strike with a free screening of "HSA Strike '75" and a discussion on its legacy for healthcare and labor. Event info:https://loom.ly/IhTLmVI

You're on Bluesky so I am going to assume this is relevant to your interests. www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

Hey everybody, Spice says let's go!

Disgraceful!

Lovely little archival interview with Yvonne Rainer

RIP Tony Adler. Here's a lovely video of him teaching poetry to senior citizens from the 1970s.

The episode also features an introduction from the great Forrest J. Ackerman, of Famous Monsters of Filmland fame!

Studs’ Place: The Lost Sitcom That Put Working-Class Life on TV. Our latest blog post by scholar and guest author Jason J. Nebergall offers an analysis of how Studs Terkel's radical, working-class ethos was translated into the emerging television medium. Read more at: https://loom.ly/JDD26kA

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

This story now includes video, released by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, of the baby being exposed to chemical irritants fired by federal agents from their convoy into the car she was riding in with members of her family near 26th Street and Ogden Avenue in Cicero.

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

My 100% American born, Puerto Rican uncle who is a CITY ALDERMAN was just held at gunpoint by ICE in Waukegan IL, north of Chicago. The incident was captured on a doorbell camera. They didn’t care about his status before drawing 4 guns on him -Tamara Gonzales www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/w...

Federal immigration agents have deployed gas in Little Village, on 26th between Komensky and Pulaski, per videos shared online after 11 am this morning.

Ratso the puppet interviews Sleater-Kinney for Chic-A-Go-Go, from July 2000. Carrie and Janet (aka "Mitzi") show off their juggling skills. Talk of favorite foods, their new album, and how many Grammys the band would win if Ratso joined.

These were all over the place in DC.

"Let WLIB-AM's Eye Opener, Chuck Stephens and his gorilla 'Big Boy' help start your morning off right..."

Mother speaks out after ICE raids #Chicago day care center. “They are coming for all our children!” #immigration

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

A gift from Weasel Walter to all who might partake, available as a free download on Bandcamp: Chicago No Wave Audio Documentary, various artists

Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...

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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

Spooky Halloween music from the legendary Chic-A-Go-Go. Dance along with Miss Mia and Ratso to Chicago's Team Satan! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfm6...

Shoutout to @alternatehistories.bsky.social's new public service announcement!

Newspaper ad for Studs Terkel's TV show "Studs' Place" and for its sponsor, Manor House Coffee - which would soon take the show off the air bc it didn't like Terkel's history of supporting Civil Rights, rent control, peace with the USSR, and other progressive causes.

Studs Terkel on Reagan: "I've got this hearing aid. Ronnie Reagan has two. Of course, there's nothing in between his."

A house is not a home, by Rein Kooyman, 2025, 📸 via @mlbonfox

"ELEVATED HORROR" DIRECTOR SEEING ANY WOMAN OVER THE AGE OF 45: ahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AIEEEE!!!! AAAuuUGHHHH!H! OUGHGHGHGGHHGHGHGGHHG

Christina's World https://www.wikiart.org/en/andrew-wyeth/christinas-world-1948

Steamfitter http://www.moma.org/collection/works/44814

More from the scene

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.

Anybody in Brooklyn should go see the absolutely delightful "Having a Ball!" by Stephanie Coleman and the House of Avant-Garde at BAM's FLUXX screening tonight! www.bam.org/film/2025/fl...

All rats love punk

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

Every ICE agent is a monstrous goon familiar to all of history and every neighbor protecting neighbors from ICE is braver than the troops chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Melting Point of Ice, 1984 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5287