Bovino’s Buffoons detained three people in Bridgeport today — one three blocks from my flat. Here are two ways to get involved and fight back tomorrow and Saturday.

You should read Heather Cheron'e thread that I reposted. Throughout, Judge Ellis takes the DOJ and Major Lockjaw to task for constant lying.

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

Judge Ellis rn.

Thanks to Heather for coverage and for this detailed 🧵. Looks like Judge Ellis believed her own eyes instead of the testimony of Major Lockjaw.

Open enrollment at my job is now open. If I stick with my current plan, I'm going to see a 13 percent increase in my cost next year. That is nowhere near what some folks getting their health insurance through the ACA exchange are seeing, but it's still a shock. #Medicare4All

New York City is one of the financial capitals of the world. It doesn't need resurrection; it needs parity between the haves like Jamie Dimon and the voters who embraced Mamdani's message and platform. Maybe Jamie Dimon should sit this one out.

The bodycam footage is outstanding.

Oh, they're going to Staten Island and the Manhattan pockets that trended for Cuomo for those pieces.

My job's open enrollment period started today but that hell can wait until tomorrow.

Never open your door to a cop without a judicial warrant. Full stop.

This is "Rosemont Banquet Hall" font.

Either he wants his Cabinet to fawn over him like Putin or stand stoically at his side like Xi. He can’t have both and, knowing his fragile ego, he can’t go a nanosecond without the validation.

One day, I will solve in one. Wordle 1,600 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I have family who razz me for my vocabulary. I just tell ‘‘em to fuck off and open a dictionary to learn words like I do.

Someone on CNN should have asked Rahm Emanuel about Laquan McDonald. He loves talking about that.

Trump will deny it’s a referendum on him. But it’s a referendum on him and his disgraceful regime that couldn’t care less about the needs of people.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

As you celebrate Mamdani’s victory, I want to take in that it was not a victory for the Democratic Party. He won in spite of the party.

Did Cuomo catch the last train of the night to Westchester after? Or did he drive to the suburbs in his prized ‘96 Bronco?

And he clearly knows how to hate.

That was a hell of speech—as local as it comes yet a national gauntlet from someone who can’t run for president. Mamdani is saying New York will show others the way.

New Yorkers who elected Mamdani tonight are feeling as Chicagoans who voted for Brandon Johnson did two years ago. And while Johnson had his stumbles, he 1) began to feel more comfortable as mayor and 2) found a foil in Donald Trump. Maybe we *can* build a better America from Trump's destruction.

GET FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED

What did P.J. O'Rourke write? "The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it." This may be more impressive than the wins by Mamdani, Spanberger and Sherrill tonight.

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Perhaps major media outlets should pay attention to what happened tonight and recognize that bending the knee to Trump or pandering to a MAGA audience they’ll never win over is not the path forward, morally, journalistically or financially.

"By Bovino's logic, anyone who shows up to protest is presumptively violent." Armed and paranoid is no way to go through life.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Reporters need to start asking Mike Johnson on the record what it feels like to be second in the line of succession to the presidency and be so woefully uninformed of what is happening with his government.

Does Mike Johnson know anything? Nope!

But what about the emotional damage?

Post a bird announcing Dick Cheney is dead.

Curtis Sliwa both objectively a terrible human being but someone who loves New York City. Andrew Cuomo is objectively a terrible human being who hates New York City. Here's hoping voters there make the right choice and send Cuomo back to the suburbs like Chicagoans did to Paul Vallas two years ago.

More evidence that maybe the Zoomers won’t save us.

Always happy to oblige.

And Adam Isaacson blocked his post, which is easier than admitting he was wrong, I guess.

The photos in this Chicago Tribune piece... It's Edison Park, a quiet middle-class neighborhood within the city limits. It neighbors the suburb of Park Ridge residents identify with that area, but it is most definitely Chicago. (The Beetlejuice inflatable screams Park Ridge, tho.)

The only difference between the Heritage Foundation and Nick Fuentes, IMO, is that Fuentes forgoes the dog whistles and says the things that Heritage's members believe, out loud and with his full chest.

These Chicago restaurants are offering free or discounted meals during SNAP pause: blockclubchi.co/47DM5Ys

The president of the Heritage Foundation is Rorschach.

@wanlittlehusk.bsky.social helped me put together a food/food donations resource sheet that can be distributed tonight at trick or treating for anyone in the greater chicago area - or any time after!

Has Zohran considered saying that he recognizes the Baileys' right to exist as an imaginary couple?

FAFO: Dilbert Edition

Friday night's @chicritmass.bsky.social was a reminder of all the things we're fighting for when we take to the streets to protest and document what ICE and CPB are doing. Seize joy where you can find it — it serves as fuel for the fight ahead ahead of us.

An essential 🧵 featuring journos that are doing the essential work covering the federal occupation of the greater Chicago area. Most of these reporters/photogs have been tagged, so that you can create a list for new updates moving forward.

There are so many factor playing in to our current situation. The New York Times' inability (refusal?) to meet the moment and normalize this is one of those factors.