Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry. The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand

We posted this so many times and now are really being put to the test

If you invented a fictional villain, you couldn't outdo Kristi Noem. Tear-gassing a children's Halloween parade in Chicago, using foreign prisoners as a photo-op backdrop, and always making sure her makeup is in place.

There was a very good reason why Gawker had to be destroyed...

The Epstein emails are a “skeleton key” for understanding a culture “in which the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved,” @cwarzel.bsky.social argues.

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

The copy here is an all-time example of NY Times passive voice. Matt Gaetz has no agency here. Even in the image, look at the phrase "left vulnerable to exploitation." Who exploited her?

What Trump has accomplished in the Chicago area is a dramatic increase in distrust of the federal government and widespread disgust toward his masked, armed thugs. On the plus side, it’s brought Chicagoans together in defense of their neighbors and in opposition to a would-be dictator.

Great thread.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Who could possibly have guessed MAGA Bondi would protect Trump at any cost?

An ICE agent carrying an AR-15 stole a U.S. citizen’s car keys and wallet, then abandoned her vehicle in the middle of Portland Road NE and Ward Drive NE in Salem, Oregon.

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

I’m not a parent but I’d like to hear a parent respond to this distinction when it comes to their 8yo being a bridge too far but their 15yo being, you know, basically fine.

People who did not grow up here will never understand the tears that just erupted seeing TOM SKILLING's name on this

Just in time for holidays @manruss.bsky.social joins us to talk Thanksgiving, an @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social One-Shot with gorgeous art by @mauricet34.bsky.social Even when its family you never know who's at dinner with you, Serial Killer anyone? https://youtu.be/L9XKVHDZ4I8?si=klw6avnchWxdo60E

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Shop drawing of a terra cotta Schlitz belted globe insignia, likely destined to grace a tied house 📸 Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection, National Building Museum

FIVE @storystudiochicago.bsky.social Novel in a Year classes are open for applications right now, but move quickly—those apps are due 11/14! Here are your options🧵

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...

I’ve been hired as an editor for a 24 page comic book project. I’m looking to hire an artist and a colorist for the production team. Must have professional experience working for bigger comic publishers, as we’re looking for names to draw in a crowd. If interested lmk below. Full page rate.

just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car he was married at the time

Illinois has become the first state in the nation to outlaw book bans — a landmark step in protecting free expression and the right to read.

Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

peak yesterday was 2:32 UTC (9:30PM EST) at around 218GW, so that'll be our comparison point mainly. we're rn at 169GW for 1:37 UTC (8:37PM EST), so another potential hour of increased GW.

i have said this before but i think that the people who were “charmed” by epstein wanted to be charmed

"The governor’s office did not answer Block Club’s questions about criticisms of the Unified Command mission."

Anything happening this afternoon?

He said after the ax fell.

I'll be talking about my book on the Uptown Theatre with my coauthor Andy Pierce at 2 p.m. this Saturday (Nov. 15) at the Chicago Public Library's Edgewater Branch, 6000 N. Broadway, presented by the Edgewater Historical Society. It's free. Just show up! www.edgewaterhistory.org/ehs/node/3850

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If the Republican strategy is "if you reveal the President is a pedophile we'll reveal tons of other pedophiles" then... Okay? Go for it? Take them all down? Send them all to jail forever? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

In lieu of the film business falling apart, some people have been saying to write your "fuck it" script. I don't know if that was the inspiration for this one, but it sure looks like 100 percent, pure "fuck it" to me. Which is a good thing.

Also out today and edited by me!

The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.

Larry Summers, my god

Fascinating article!

Sad news. Tony Adler, a Chicago critic, writer and Walt Whitman devotee, dies at 71 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/t...

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Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

A genuinely magical issue from a genuinely magical series. Atagun Ilhan and @jrsosa18.bsky.social are totally killing it, and I'd watch Melvin's adventures forever and ever. (CC @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social)

Remember who did this: -Richard Daley II with his parking meter deal resulting in millions of penalty fee to a private company and his underfunding of pensions & general financial mismanagement which keep screwing us now. -The cops and over $1 billion in lawsuit costs since 2000.

I love this.

Oaky Doaks and Scorchy Smith gotta eat!

just how fuckin bad are the rest of those files

I wrote about where the US's current wave of transphobia comes from, and how both Mamdani and Spanberger have shown useful ways for politicians to reject it and still win.