temp check from Chicago: just witnessed four wine moms in the wine bar in a Marianos grocery store on the Far North Side swapping recommendations on where to buy “Fuck ICE” t-shirts

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

HOMEBOUND - India's submission to the 98th Oscars - opens in 154 US theaters today. It's terrific. My review: accessbollywood.net/2025/09/26/m... #DesiWatch

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

Vikramaditya Motwane's BLACK WARRANT Season 2 is indefinitely delayed because Netflix execs wanted more creative control over the screenplay, demanding things like "a faster hook and more punch." www.mid-day.com/entertainmen... #DesiWatch

It’s not that it should surprise you. We know prisons, surplus population, wage theft go hand in hand. It’s just an elegant little case — as employers terrorize workers with AI replacement threats, and compel them back to the office imprisoned people are “WFH” www.mainepublic.org/2025-08-29/i...

another volley of pepper balls, this time with a side of tear gas. i cannot overstate how arbitrary it seems. masked federal agents appear and fire off chemical munitions from multiple directions with no directions or even seemingly a plan other than to drive away protesters.

So the poverty rate was lower during a period of the pandemic when the economy was in fact not great. And it's because the government showed they actually could provide a generous safety net. The Manchin and the GOP killed it. Like there is a great leftwing story here that Jacobin just misses.

DHADAK 2 and SON OF SARDAAR 2 are now on Netflix. Links to those and more in today's Streaming Video News: accessbollywood.net/2025/09/25/s... #DesiWatch

Men do not have solidarity and have trouble with the concept of love and closeness, men don't cry in front of each other or say they love each other, it sucks!

Border patrol is patrolling the dangerous border between the Loop and... the other part of the Loop

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

everybody hates these guys, their ideas are stupid, and you do not have to fall into the trap of assuming trump’s win says anything meaningful about what americans actually want. for instance, americans actually don’t want to ban vaccines. they want this guy banished to a desert island

How to wash yr hands

one less thing i need to pick up at the grocery store

"Trad influencers gloss this unjust workload as a homage to homesteading (and leverage it to market unsubstantiated remedies) instead of calling it what it is: picking up the state’s slack. Cuts to education seem less threatening when you are convinced your role is to homeschool your children" #NCEd

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

Having spent a lot of time around old money types, it’s always been notable to me that the extent of their “social liberalism” is rooted in the fact that their children could always potentially be gay, but would never be black.

Le timing de l'annonce, c'est *chef's kiss*.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

It’s kind of bizarre to feel relieved at hearing someone with power lay this out so clearly, but here we are.

The democrats had a combined 12 years (8 Obama and 4 Biden) to break up Sinclair. People were hip to this stuff in the 2004 election.

The YouTube channel L.A Flights is watching all the official national planes carrying UN delegates land at JFK. Awesome to see a couple of planes with "Uzbekistan" livery on the ground in New York: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZXV...

The replies are wonderful.

it's HAPPENING! I've revealed the subject of my next book and it's YES of course, it's a deep dive into #BattlestarGalactica! For that news and a few thoughts on the #BSG convention that just took place, read this! 💚🔥 www.moryan.com/its-official...

"Italian labor unions led a massive 24-hour general strike on Monday to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, with estimates of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rallying in dozens of cities across Italy."

google has been trying for months to build a new data center not far from my house. tonight was the final city council meeting and they officially withdrew their proposal! the data center isn’t moving forward! public outrage works!!!

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

I’ve always wondered why the Jewish High Holy Days and Navaratri typically coincide. I’m so dumb because it only just hit me that it’s because both religious traditions use lunar calendars. Today is the first day of a waxing moon after the autumnal equinox. Happy Navaratri! Shana Tova!

We need a good overwrought melodrama every now and then. My review of SAIYAARA, now streaming on Netflix: accessbollywood.net/2025/09/22/m... #DesiWatch

A rich and powerful man voluntarily bearing a cross onstage, but adding wheels so it's not remotely difficult, is the perfect picture for our country.

"Fifty-three percent of Democratic voters said they preferred politicians described as similar to Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani, while 33 percent favored those similar to Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi. Fourteen percent didn’t choose."

Whatever happens at tomorrow’s announcement by RFK Jr, know this: autism spectrum disorder is not caused by one thing, and I refuse to let mothers be shamed for taking Tylenol during pregnancy.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

This needs to be an Olympic sport!

YES and this is acute among white people, this has to be said.

You cannot understand US politics without understanding racism. It's impossible.

If there's one thing Covid should have demonstrated to everyone, it's that there are lots of people who would rather put their own communities & families at risk, would literally rather *die*, than submit to the call for solidarity. It's that repellant to them.

One of the FOUNDATIONAL parts of fascism is to CONTROL PEOPLE'S BODIES. My God. Bodily autonomy is ANTI-FASCIST. Begging these white men to please SIT DOWN.

i do like that The Mouse failed to foresee liberals voting with their wallets almost a full year into a boycott that is bleeding Target dry as we speak

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

Between Netflix and Hulu, we've got 3 new Indian series to watch this weekend. Links to all in today's Streaming Video News: accessbollywood.net/2025/09/19/s... #DesiWatch

A picture worth a thousand words. “None of us have ever done this before. All of this is new, and I just wanted to stand up as American and be seen and make my presence felt.” - 65-year-old Evanston resident Curtis Evans, holding an American flag.

Interesting

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