Hmm, this looks like municipal law enforcement closing off a street and setting up a perimeter in aid of civil immigration enforcement

It would be really unfair to make Charlie Kirk a saint before Charlie Manson.

What's the difference between a Klan rally and the Charlie Kirk Memorial? Everybody left their hoods at home.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

In the last year, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and John Yoo have all expressed that Donald Trump is too evil for them. Can you even comprehend how awful someone would have to be for these morally depraved creeps to say that someone else went too far?

Whom amongst us is surprised to find that it was never about free speech in comedy and only about being allowed to say bigoted things & not being told to shut the fuck up?

What happened to legalizing comedy? www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/09/17/charlie-kirk-jimmy-kimmel-abc-disney.html

Thank you Jerry Greenfield for trying to be an ethical person in an unethical economic system. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/b...

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Based.

Then they came for the porn watchers, but I said nothing because....i didn't want anyone to know that I too....

political violence www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/person-shot-after-ice-agent-apparently-dragged-by-vehicle-in-franklin-park-sources-say/3823259/

The same people trying to tone police you are the same people spewing hate against trans folks & people of color, funding genocide, sending masked thugs into our communities and deporting our neighbors, gutting the social safety net & more. Ignore them.

Political violence is the genocide in Gaza.

What kind of Democrat says in their campaign launch video that they agree with some of Donald Trump's policies? That must be why Brendan Reily has the comments turned off on his campaign launch video. What a loser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY10...

The US military got their ass kicked in Vietnam and they'll get their ass kicked in Chicago.

Donald Trump is not going to override our democracy by telling Illinois how to run our pretrial system. We made history by taking the price tag off the presumption of innocence & we're not going back. Take action to defend the Pretrial Fairness Act: bit.ly/BeatBackTrump

Chicago is doing the work.

Trump's obsession with sending military in has nothing to do with the facts but with showing force in urban centers that are perceived as "black" and have black mayors.

Donald Trump is the public safety threat. Chicago's violence prevention efforts are working and Trump's gutting of funding for these programs & social services stand to reverse the progress made. Sending the National Guard into Chicago is a political stunt.

"The Chicago Police Department’s criminal homicide tally for June, July and August is the lowest in 60 years. And overall violent crime remains near its lowest point in more than four decades." www.wbez.org/news/2025/09...

BREAKING Belgium to recognise Palestine at UN General Assembly, says foreign minister

This evening, I learned that the guy who came up with Old Bay, Gustav Brunn, survived Kristnallnacht and Buchenwald before building his Baltimore based crab spice kingdom.

Oh "The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year" fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...

A weekend read — Crime is down. Tourism is up. And Chicago’s population is growing. Don’t let the media, or President Trump, fool you. “Despite what the news says, we have a beautiful city. It has a lot to offer. And we have a lot of events.” thetriibe.com/2025/08/trum...

Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neil Burke has made clear that she intends to collaborate with the Trump administration on their fascist take over of Chicago. chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

The year was 2025, the USA was at war with the USA.

Democrats pushed the same republican narratives about crime being out of control. They saw to be more beneficial to spread false narratives than to talk about what they'd done to reduce crime. Those same narratives are now being used to justify military occupation, great job.

Does this look like somewhere that needs an invasion from the National Guard?

somehow I do not think “if republicans were really serious about violent crime, they would be sending the national guard to occupy the cities in their own states” is a winning anti-fascist argument

Don't tread on me.

Trump: we're sending the guard in to clean up the lawless streets of chicago. The lawless streets of chicago:

Greetings from Chicago.

Jesse Welles is turning into the King Gizzard of folks music, so many damn releases.

President Trump has said he wants to end the Pretrial Fairness Act and bring back money bail in IL. We are asking people from across the state to call on their legislators & Governor Pritzker to defend this historic victory from the Trump administration’s lies: actionnetwork.org/letters/beat...

New reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social, who got hold of internal standards for chatbot behavior at Meta.

A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with a Meta chatbot originally created in partnership with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. His fatal attraction shines a light on Meta's guidelines for its AI chatbots reut.rs/45DQIRj @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social

I know 99% of the people responding to the posts about Dexter Reed are deeply unserious people but for the 1% who may be sincere: - plain clothes officers surrounding a car with guns drawn unnecessarily escalated this situation. - 1 shot does not warrant officers firing 96.

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped. Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

ACAB is represented by two separate yet equally important group: The police who commit crimes and the district attorneys who never prosecute them.

Dexter Reed was killed by Chicago Police after they fired 96 shots at him 41 seconds. Our new State's Attorney Eileen O'Neil Burke calls that good policing and says no officers will be charged.

Yesterday, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail rose above 6,000 people for the first time since March 2022. Learn more about how State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is driving up pretrial jailing: endmoneybond.org/2025/07/15/c...

Vive le France! 🇫🇷 🇵🇸🇫🇷🇵🇸🇫🇷 🇵🇸

Thanks to Trump, the US set to destroy 500 tons of US-taxpayer funded emergency food that would have been used to save the lives of starving people around the world. www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/p...

It is essential that State’s Attorney Burke work with court stakeholders to reduce the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail. Failing to do so has the potential to reverse years of progress made by Cook County stakeholders while exacerbating the harm and violence in our communities.

Under Eileen O'Neill Burke, there has been a dramatic increase in request for pretrial detention, even though crime has been steadily trending downward.

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has implemented several policy changes that are contributing to a rise in pretrial jailing. It is notable that there has been no rise in crime that would explain this increase in pretrial jailing. Read more: endmoneybond.org/2025/07/15/c...

The Chicago Tribune editorial board lives in a fantasy land where shootings can be eliminated or dramatically reduced without investing in communities.

Making the US Healthy Again is going super duper well. www.npr.org/sections/sho...