Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

Matthew Macfadyen is so good in Death by Lightning, I’m totally locked in.

Idk if the reporting re: Senate Dems is accurate, but I hope they know that if they accept the mere promise of a deal, the deal makes headlines and the govt reopens, but then Rs pull something to tank the deal and premiums still skyrocket, who knows where the popular narrative will go. (1/2)

Me when Google or Meta gives me an AI summary of something I never asked for.

🚨🚨🚨 I can’t wait to rewatch, this show was so good. www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/laura-l...

Much as I love the North Branch trail (and its relative accessibility), nothing beats biking the Des Plaines River trails I grew up riding on the northwest side

NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

1/2 ICE/CPB thugs tackled a nonverbal autistic man outside a Family Dollar in Chicago’s Little Village claiming he was “noncompliant.” Witnesses begged them to stop. “Why they beating up this special boy?” one worker cried. “He comes in every day for a treat. He has the mind of a child.” 🤬🤬🤬

Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez

What kind of pasta does the mafia eat while fixing the Broadway awards?

ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler. "He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!" Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child. Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.

I really disagree with this framing. The state didn’t “bail out” CTA like some kind of overextended private enterprise. They corrected a long-standing deficit of financial support for a vital public service. Fran’s whole interview on her podcast with Leerhsen was like this, and it really irked me.

Thread about the horrors in Chicago:

California has at least 2.7m ballots left to count, total turnout will be 11.5m+, higher than the 2022 midterms

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

LOOP CLARK STREET: 211 S CLARK ST, CHICAGO IL 60604-9998

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

The evidence seems pretty clear we should be getting two COVID shots a year. wapo.st/3JwuBFj

'The use of force shocks the conscience': Chicago federal judge issues sweeping injunction limiting force by immigration agents in 'Operation Midway Blitz' www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

Federal judge blasts Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino for lying and extends an order restricting his agents' use of force in Chicago. blockclubchi.co/3WJRPe5

He can’t even fucking speak without slurring and drooling and he’s threatening war with Nigeria, a country of 233 million people. When will it end?!

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

Chicago’s showing off

remember all those hot takes during the primary about how Mamdani was the candidate for rich white liberals? a "champagne socialist" ? yeah, about that

@ramirez.house.gov says that ICE agents went room to room inside the daycare, looking for teachers to take in front of literal toddlers

If you are so incompetent as a politician that you can't figure out how to tell a story that includes a guy who just won 18-29yo men by Forty Fucking Points because he's a teensy bit to your left, you have no business running in a Dem primary at any level, from town dogcatcher to el presidente.

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

I've gotten this question a bunch. Of the races I was watching on my cheat sheet, here are the GOP wins: —Nassau County executive & DA —mayor of Columbia, SC —mayor of Binghamton, NY —mayor of Manchester, NH —prosecutor of Virginia Beach —a special election for NH state House note: all holds

Without LGBT New Yorkers, Cuomo might’ve won. Mamdani’s genuine and relentless support of trans rights was not only morally correct, but an electoral necessity.

Cuomo mispronouncing Mamdani reminds me of this

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

The latest, 11pm: —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG; & gain in House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —Krasner & Bragg win —JD's half-brother loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices + Dem are leading to flip so many local offices.

DEMOCRATS ARE CURRENTLY WINNING GEORGIA BY 25

WE DID IT, CALIFORNIA! Prop 50 PASSES! Voters stood up & fought back against Trump’s power grab. Huge thanks to every org, volunteer & our incredible organizers who poured their hearts into this fight. Now let’s bring this energy into 2026 🗳️

Cuomo's crowd booing at the mention of Mamdani, then heckling Cuomo himself for like 15 seconds when he tells them to not do that...fun!

Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social California natives Maddow and Soboroff both saying "on line" instead of "in line." What have you done to them!

Tonight we are all aloof wives 🫡

BREAKING: DECISION DESK HQ CALLS NYC MAYORAL RACE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.

A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative. (Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)

Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...

Dick Cheney will go down as one of the greatest villains in American and global history. A primary architect of the intertwined and catastrophic destruction of American civil liberties and Iraqi lives, he was willing to lie to the world to line his pockets. (1/4)

not now honey mommy’s watching @bomtellino.bsky.social’s 20 minutes of Instagram stories talking about Chicagoland public transit

A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.