Even in 1944, Nancy knew. 🚫🧊 mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/nanc... cc @rogersparkman.bsky.social

New in PN: The softest Nazis you ever did see "Call it tough guy in the streets and widdle guy in the sheets (of paper for court filings). Truly, nothing revealed this better than the DC Sandwich Guy, Sean Dunn, who a jury found not guilty yesterday."

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day to all who celebrate.

Alley

Just saw this at the Prado. Cannot believe they ripped off that pic from the memes.

My column today in the Sun-Times: www.everygoddamnday.com/2025/11/gove...

A WBEZ and Sun-Times analysis found Democrat-led states like Illinois have lower murder and violent crime rates than some Republican-led states, along with fewer undocumented immigrants with criminal records.

Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik

I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is. Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right? If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS. No one should have that much.

Here's my piece for @lawfaremedia.org on my experience covering the Sandwich Guy trial. Warning: longer than 280 characters! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...

Many thanks to @mollyroberts.bsky.social for her coverage!

An important read if you're from Chicago, because this is the lens some people in the rest of the country are seeing us through right now

About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com

Ben Patterson on the Hammond organ at Le Piano in Rogers Park.

Republican politicians can commit all the crimes they want and victimize as many people as they want because right after they are convicted Trump pardons every single one of them. Every Republican politician is above the law and can do whatever they want. Total immunity.

I was ready to be against all potential new names, & then I saw Chicago Portage Canal, & was like…umm, that’s a really good name based on what it replaced.

While there is uncertainty about the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago at the moment, there already is U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity targeted at the unhoused community. Here’s what you should know about your rights when encountering ICE agents if you’re unhoused.

Sandwich Guy, 1977 Topps style

The red states are the “taker” states.

Here's Sara Ellis' injunction order from Chicago re 1A and 4A, requiring things like advance warning before using gas and ID. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How does the Dem Party not have up a running tally of all the cancelled flights? Make it look like an airport arrivals board and auto-port in the data. Should take a couple hours to get online, max.

Amid ICE attacks, L.A. community orgs call on the Dodgers not to accept a White House visit.

This is the teacher federal agents grabbed yesterday at Rayito De Sol daycare in front of children. Attorneys for Diana Santillana have filed a petition in federal court to have her freed from ICE custody.

I don't think enough of you are seeing this work of art

Next Tue. (11/11), in celebration of Mark Turcotte's appointment as the Illinois Poet Laureate (!!!), DePaul University's English Department is hosting a special reading. Free and open to the public. Stop through!

The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse. n.pr/4qLBoeQ

Let a thousand sandwiches be airborne.

When sandwiches are outlawed, only outlaws will have sandwiches.

Neither government nor defense requests anything at this time…not even an afternoon snack. So that—and I know you’ve been waiting for it—is a wrap.

BREAKING: SANDWICH GUY ACQUITTED. NOT GUILTY!

A decade ago when I was an editor at the Chicago Tribune, my colleague Stephan Benzkofer and I created a full-page graphic examining how much the Chicago described in Carl Sandburg's poem matched modern-day Chicago.

I believe I speak for all teachers & students of Chicago literature when I say that Judge Sara Ellis opening her judgment against government goons in Chicago with all of Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" fills me with joy. My favorite line is "building, breaking, rebuilding": We will rebuild from here.

Judge orders release of US Border Patrol head Gregory Bovino deposition videos: Watch them here

Agreed. Especially with pork prices way up!

A federal judge in Chicago said she will issue a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying officials lied in their testimony and that their unlawful behavior on the streets “shows no signs of stopping.”

Holy ever-loving hell. Somewhere old socialist Carl Sandburg is smiling.

THREAD. Read this.

Shut it the fuck down. There is no magical training or reform that will fix this.

Today's newsletter is out! And it's Free Thursday! Inside: Transactions, Trump's endangered tariffs, signs, signs, everywhere signs, a dumb government shutdown gambit, how the AI crash might happen, London 101, and a lesson in pub etiquette. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

BREAKING: Scrooge McDuck is requesting government support to help guarantee his money pit is sufficiently deep for him to dive into and swim laps.

lol

Politicians can get away with lying to people for quite a while about a lot of different subjects, but they have never been able to get away with lying to them about how much things cost.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports on how Homeland Security creates recruiting videos while terrorizing Chicagoans. Remember the Blackhawk-helicopter-aided raid on an apartment building? “Security footage … shows a camera crew of at least nine people wearing street clothing filming the entire raid.”

Here's a photo of the old Chicago streetcar rails under Western Ave. that have been uncovered by construction. I took this from the Brown Line platform.

“Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” — Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas. Leia’s age: 2. Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

They are turning guys who voted for Rahm Emanuel twice into the Weather Underground

What’s more Chicago right now than handing off 200 whistles in a Portillos bag.

Some moments call for statesmanship. And sometimes you just need a guy from Chicago, Illinois.