CFD: “What you’ve got going now is a good size. Before, it was too much.”

Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency

Year of Games screenings this week inadvertently covering the birth of AI (Computer Chess) and its logical endpoint (Summer Wars)

I hope he ChatGPTs himself

Impossible to keep up with the amount of activism happening across the country.... www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/29/t... [Gift link]

[Chicago pride intensifies]

Smiling serenely as I imagine an organization called You Can Play, Pride Tape www.nytimes.com/athletic/699...

Chicago, please vote so this doesn’t wind up being Antonin Scalia

Language that democrats are using that is not radical or solutions-oriented at all: “Law and order” “Untrained” agents Abolishing “Trump’s ICE.” I write op-Ed’s about narrative change for TRiiBE members. Sign up to read. thetriibe.com/reshape/lang...

This triangulating horseshit drives me up the wall! Just call for her impeachment if that's what you actually believe! An IL Rep introduced legislation to do just that, which you could endorse!

This isn’t complicated. My opponents should be able to say clearly and directly where they stand when it comes to funding ICE and impeaching Kristi Noem. The fact that they haven’t says it all.

Rat hockey at the outdoor rink is still on this morning, but I'm the only one who made the trek in the snow 😩

I had avoided knowing anything about MARTY SUPREME before seeing it, so what a delight it was to see Jack Fisk and Abel Ferrara working on the same picture!

I guess only 4 movies were released last year. Wild

This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.

My main question after viewing The Testament of Ann Lee: Why does Bill Pullman’s kid look like William Hurt?

Folks be out here rediscovering the imperial boomerang from first principles

Maybe It Will Happen Today (Bears win)

When filmmakers say their print is "wet from the lab" it is usually hyperbole, however Bela Tarr actually meant it

“Don’t walk in” instead of “just walk out.”

Really looking forward to our cross border film festival next Fall 🫠

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

I'm at the point with Alejandro Iñárritu that just reading about his new film has me rolling my eyes and flailing around like Paul Rudd putting his tray away in Wet Hot American Summer. Tom Cruise dancing around in the trailer? Four screenwriters? The tagline "a comedy of catastrophic proportions?"

Brother, just wait til you see the bill for an appendectomy

Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow chicagoshovels.org

Every day we get a comment from someone demanding the SA "prosecute ICE" and we once again invite you to Just Google Her

Oh with NWR one row behind, I have 100% projected a film for this man no doubt in my mind now

Incredible to think there’s a non-zero chance I’ve projected a film or two for the pope over the years

Not that I’m surprised, but these losers wouldn’t give $500k to our local bus system - which operates for free for Cornell students - to avoid service cuts.

My birthday week has seen some incredible Ws thus far, between Democratic sweeps on Tuesday, court orders against DHS in Chicago, and now this. My actual birthday isn't until Sunday though, so there's still time for the BIG PRESENT 🙏

Insane that this is a *different* drunk-driving ICE agent than the one who threatened to deport the arresting officer

At Woke Nuremberg instead of last words they’re gonna make these guys do a land acknowledgement

The way NPR keeps saying Cheney “ended his life as a critic of Donald Trump” this morning makes it sound like he wore a suicide vest to a rally

Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.

“Chicago has long been a laboratory for policing. From the repression of labor movements in the early 20th century, to COINTELPRO surveillance, to Jon Burge’s torture regime... the city has been central to testing and refining state violence.” -Ilā Ravichandran truthout.org/articles/thi...

Do you love the Chicago Public Library? Do you not want to wait weeks for books? Do you still want to be able to go to programs? Send a letter to electeds ! In the budget, Brandon Johnson is proposing 89 cuts to positions, and cutting our book budget in half. actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...

No! You’re Wrong is Crispin Glover’s Megalopolis, in production timeline, aesthetics, themes, and roadshow touring strategy. I don’t know what to make of it yet!

Jimmy Carter watched over 480 movies in the White House movie theater during his presidency, a lot of them all time bangers (List here gizmodo.com/every-single...)

Federal agencies paid $1.5 million to a local nonlethal weapons manufacturer in Chicago for air-powered guns and pepper balls. It also paid $7.3 million to a downtown real estate company to relocate ICE agents leading up to Operation Midway Blitz. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/23/c...

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

🚨Huge!! If you haven't seen Tulio's films, you're gonna FLIP! Levoton Veri is positively unhinged stuff. Impossible to believe it was made in 1946!

Surreal experience to be at a bar and look up at the TV to see your own stupid mug in a bumper for TCM

Chicago arts folk: Lawyers for the Creative Arts is hosting an online training next Tuesday, "ICE Actions at Arts Venues" to provide specific best practices and advice in responding to federal immigration enforcement: law-arts.org/event/ice-ac...

Join us at the University of Chicago's Film Studies Center this Friday at 7pm for a FREE screening of films by Chicago-based photographer, writer, filmmaker, and man-about-town Bill Stamets, who will be appearing in person!

The world lost a special person this week. Read Media Burn founder Tom Weinberg's tribute to artist, poet, actor, and Chicagoan, Tony Fitzpatrick, “a roisterer, a prodigious giant with gigantic appetites.” https://loom.ly/CTAFD28

Certainly looks like Warren Kanders' Safariland didn't exactly divest of chemical munitions after all, unless this is dead stock that DHS is burning through... www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/a...

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

The only ice I ever want to see in Chicago