They're grabbing journalists in Chicago tonight. @peoplesfabric.com is half of @unraveledpress.com. The work they do is critical and unparalleled. He needs to be released immediately.

To do what they are doing at this scale you have to dehumanize. It's just not possible to be this cruel and believe that these people are just like anyone else. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

are there some movies you should only watch sober? find out tonight as I try my first David Lynch (Mulholland Dr)!

(If we can try to support living authors, that would be especially neat btw)

ICE has promised a "shitshow" tonight because their feelings are hurt that they were asked by the Broadview mayor to stop bombing the neighborhood with chemical irritants. The federal agents are rioting. @govpritzker.illinois.gov needs to respond.

The last time we went to India, my father was going around telling people that infrastructure, crime and safety nets are worse in the United States and, not to be a cliche, but MAGA *does* feel very much like that 1984 quote of "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears"

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

These people need to spend a week with my most well-connected relatives overseas

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence... Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

There's been growing attention on state supreme courts, as spaces that are more insulated from SCOTUS, & can develop different approaches to the law & people's rights. Do you know how your state supreme court works, why it matters, & why you should care? We at Bolts put together a 🔥 explainer!

💸 💸💸 Big week of spending for ICE 💸💸💸 According to procurement records, ICE awarded 66 contracts worth more than $64 million to 53 companies. Here's how they're spending the people's money 🧵

you know things are bad if cops are complaining about other cops

Ok so maybe I'm more willing to wake up early for rare produce than birds

De minimis bullshit finally hit my @pikaole.bsky.social subscription 🥺 I'll keep supporting! This is really sucking for creators though!

I used to think the obvious answer to the trolley problem was minimize harm, but so very many people have shown they care more about how they *feel.*

A lot of folks view their vote as a little gift they give to a politician who catches their fancy, rather than an act of collective action on behalf of the less fortunate. You are not giving out a rose on The Bachelor, you're acting in solidarity with millions of other people.

I feel so awful for parents of newly diagnosed autistic kids right now, being drowned in such hateful nonsense. You deserve better. Your autistic kid deserves better. My kid was diagnosed 20 yrs ago; please let me give you hopeful advice: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/09/afte... #autism #parenting

It’s 100% time to gird your loins and get your head ready to fight any government that tries to bail this out when it pops. This isn’t the banks, which are essential to everyone’s well-being. It’s not even a railroad or an insurance company, where failure would harm a subset. This isn’t essential.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Well don't I feel stupid

I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.

As a shutdown approaches and Dem leadership does its usual schtick, just re-upping that basically every fed employee I've heard from in recent weeks (anecdotal, yes, but still!) is pro-fight, pro-shutdown-if-necessary. As I wrote a couple weeks ago about NIH: www.gravityisgone.com/the-walls-ar...

SIR MIX-O-LOTL

thread even says they're committed to avoiding 'AI' completely :')

🚨 ACTION: The U.S. should welcome foreign journalists—not kick them out. DHS is trying to gut the journalist I visa program and weaken press freedom at home and abroad. ▶️ Will you join over 13,000 and submit your own comment?: newsguild.org/action-newsg...

ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

Took fire to the face. ICE definitely isn’t aiming at ground and firing at people’s heads again.

Over half of Palestinians weren't even ALIVE when Hamas was first elected. Even if you assume Hamas did everything they're accused of on 10/7, the fact that people STILL conflate that with every Palestinian is racist and deranged.

the trucking industry has an over 100% turnover rate - literally drivers have *multiple* jobs in a year (H/T How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman)

The gig economy is fucked up, Actually

if you can help me (oh my god please help me) i have a glorified tip jar patreon (ive been doing co working two hour sessions and a monthly session for questions. this month i was going to play with the story engine so people could meet it) please don’t use the app they will take 30%

Tbh I think Westerners have a fundamental belief that progress is linear, and this has caused an inability to grasp that sometimes things in the past were better

Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, died in ICE custody on Monday. He was brought to the United States at four years old and lived most of his life in Westminster, CA. He was the 14th person to die in federal immigration custody this year.

likewise, you can ask your library to order a copy!

"The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services" but still!

We’ve been stymied for months trying to trace what’s happening to taxpayer dollars. No matter how hard we tried, we kept hitting dead ends. I’m not alone. Even members of Congress are in the dark. Even the nerdiest budget wonks. So we wrote about why.

TRUTH

*side-eye at Eurovision*

I'm going to leave this here because I even see a lot of leftists regularly speaking about 'what the country wants' when in fact NO. MOST PEOPLE DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN and LESS THAN 50% of people who voted actually voted for him.

NEW: A Senate report has shocking new detail on how DOGE—which is very much still active, even as government agencies deny it even exists—put Social Security at up to 65% risk of a catastrophic data breach, per agency estimates, as well as viscerally disgusting detail on its sleeping arrangements.

Trump take electricity heatmap.news/politics/ene...

The Street Vendors Association of Chicago is raising emergency funds to support vendors who can't safely work right now. They have a significant goal of $300k for impacted workers + families. GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st... Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago

"fun" sidenote: Palantir got a contract to aggregate COVID data under trump. Peter Thiel is getting his money's worth

If you live in a region where your local stations are preempting tonight's Jimmy Kimmel, send them an email tomorrow morning with a firm "I had no idea you were one of THOSE stations and I'm contacting your ADVERTISERS!"

Why do I persist in always getting vaccinated on the side I sleep on 😩

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A reminder of how Nexstar has completely trashed @wgntv.com's news operation. From April 2023, WGN's election night coverage. Of note, @thetriibe.com's Morgan Elise Johnson, the only person who provided insightful commentary, has not been invited back. www.tdogmedia.com/2023/04/lets...

Oooo I am so sad I missed this

I'm also liking the callout of *who* benefits--as the author notes, publishing is still leading with bias.