New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

Yeah. Should have gotten fair market value and then some. MY least favorite UR story is when they wanted to build a beltway in Akron, Ohio which immediately devalued parcels only to never build it (without ruling it out). Overnight people lost 20-45% of their value; of course in a black maj n'hood

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

Look at my “opposition” party, dawg. We are so cooked.

NEW, from me: I talked to Aliya Rahman, who was dragged out of Tuesday's State of the Union + arrested for... standing up. Really. Rahman, who is autistic and has disabilities, was a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar + was previously brutally detained by ICE in Minneapolis. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

Tbh I’m annoyed that so much of the sexism targeted towards my candidacy is about painting me as an influencer rather than a journalist. It COMPLETELY erases my bartending career.

"At the same time, this moment carries a real risk of instability that could push the region into a spiral of violence."

Inbox: 46th Ward Ald. Angela Clay is endorsing Mike Simmons in #IL09

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

And finally, please email your legislators about supporting Bike Grid Now's agenda this session. (8/8) bsky.app/profile/bike...

OPPONENT! HB4588 would reintroduce minimum parking mandates on non-Chicago transit stations that were removed under the People over Parking Act (included in SB2111) (7/8) ilga.gov/House/Hearin...

HB2934 lowers the maximum urban speed limit from 30 to 20 on roadways and from 15 to 10 in alleyways. Please file as a proponent of the original bill and HCA1. (3/8) ilga.gov/House/Hearin...

HB2454 makes bicycles intended users (rather than permitted) of a roadway, excluding interstates or controlled access highways. This allows bikers to hold the city accountable for hazards on all roads, not only bikeways. (2/8) ilga.gov/House/Hearin...

HB4333 lowers the BAC threshold for DUI from .08% to .05% (NHTSA recommendation). This week we are being outslipped by a coalition of bars, lets get ahead of them! (5/8) ilga.gov/House/Hearin...

The ultimate problem here is that there's an entire class of political pundits like this who have cooked their brains on X and get their entire view of trans rights advocacy through an explicitly right wing framing, a result that was the explicit goal of Elon buying and manipulating the platform.

Trump's nominee to lead the National Park Service, Scott Socha, helped run a company that claimed trademark ownership over historic place names at Yosemite—many rooted in Indigenous history—then sued the NPS over name use, costing taxpayers millions. Now he wants to run the agency? Disgraceful.

CAMPAIGN IS LIVE Please send a letter to northside alders to voice opposition against the plan to build over 300 new parking spots next to the Red Line Write a letter -> actionnetwork.org/letters/stop... And fill out the Cubs survey -> chicagocubs.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

See the banned Talarico interview here: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Ugh. Like seriously, ugh. And this is on Amtrak. How much are they overcharging ConnDOT for electricity to make them prefer running diesels? And this will make Amtrak have to deal with slower, lower performing SLE trains! www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...

The burbs are trying to reinstate parking minimums near Metra stations and busy Pace routes. Don’t let them. Submit an “opponent” witness slip below.

What's up with Rep. Hirschauer trying to modify the ban on parking minimums near TOD (People over Parking Act) to make it apply only to Chicago? If you want to slip against this (ilga.gov/House/Hearin...) ilga.gov/Legislation/...

This is a stark departure from common practice in journalism. Looks like an attempt to punish AOC for having the temerity to talk overseas. If the NY Times quoted everyone like this – not cleaning up stammers, repeated words and "um" – its quotations would look much different. They'd be a mess.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

These are the people who don’t believe Republican’s policies could actually be what they are. But even they cannot deny the evidence once those policies are enacted. The trick, and I have no idea how to pull it off, is for them to actually remember this for more than a month after an election.

its wild but the state of texas just legalized murdering your own children if you dont like their political opinions cause this guy is off scot free nypost.com/2026/02/10/u...

The El Paso TFR issued by the FAA even grounds medivac flights. NO EXCEPTIONS. Any flight operating in the area may be deemed hostile and “the United States government may use deadly force against the airborne aircraft.” Anyone needing a lifeline flight to a hospital or outside El Paso will die.

just a fucking weird statement on it's face but also highlights how filthy rich and completely out of touch trump's whole cabinet is. a private boat for a family vacation? stopping by a billionaire's island for lunch? nannies, plural?? the epstein class, indeed.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

“The operational logistics are equally difficult to envision: To serve 1,000 travelers an hour, the low end of Boring’s estimate, would require a car with one passenger to depart every 3.6 seconds.” Otoh: You’d need just one New York subway train — www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

They put in their own newspaper that they got mad!

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Loud heavy long sigh. This has it all: Bashing his own successful policy Making up numbers about fare evasion Complaining that the MTA isn’t doing something it’s currently doing. This tedious asshole nearly became mayor. x.com/77wabcradio/...

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

Disgusting. In an email on Sept. 11, 2013, Mr. Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, wrote to Mr. Epstein, “It was really nice seeing you yesterday.” He added: “Any time you’re in the area would love to see you. As long as you bring your harem!” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Interesting …

Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

Jesus Christ

So QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.

I think more candidates running for office in Chicago should tell the Tribune Editorial Board to get fucked.

Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules