Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

In New Yorker Humor, some rules for children at the brewery. www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

I feel like it’s a bad omen for 2026 that I witnessed squirrel cannibalism today. I don’t have a picture. You’ll have to take my word for it.

The @chicagotribune.com did back of the envelope math and conservatively found that Operation Midway Blitz cost the taxpayer $59 million. Good reporting from @danvock.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...

13k per arrest

Consider also that prosecutors use AI to summarize AI-written police reports. We’re trying to discern the truth through a machine- driven game of telephone.

Posse comitatus! No national guard in IL without our Governors consent. A Christmas miracle

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

RIP to Frank Gehry. His buildings live on

Interesting thread discussing the rise of pro se plaintiffs with ChatGPT (or "pro se gpt"). www.reddit.com/r/Lawyertalk... "People say AI will take our jobs but so far it's just giving me more work."

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Shaken baby syndrome diagnoses have allowed courts to wrongfully convict parents and caregivers even when there is no history of abuse, no broken bones, and no bruising. Appellate courts are also reluctant to consider new testimony from experts. Its a prison trap for innocent people.

"You’ve been obsessively trying to prepare for it, but who knows what will actually happen."

Thread summarized: CBP agent shot a Chicago woman 5 times unprovoked and then lied and said she was a domestic terrorist

This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents

A monstrous, illegal waste of taxpayer dollars. Donald Trump must confirm if this estimate is true and disclose the full total he's burned through with his unlawful military deployment into our cities. The American people deserve to know.

In 26 states, there is no requirement that a lawyer be present at pretrial motions, but in jurisdictions that ensure counsel at first appearance (CAFA), lawyers note key benefits for defendants. A new policy brief from @innovatingjustice.bsky.social advocates for CAFA in all 50 states:

Forget this loser. Get your stocks out of Tesla: Elon Musk Wins $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Package www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...

Really missing NYC today!

Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come. Mamdani’s Election Victory Speech: Full Video and Transcript time.com/7331243/watc...

In Chicago, DHS refused to pause the raids and arrests so kids could go trick-or-treating without the risk of getting tear-gassed or subjected to violence. Meanwhile, DHS agents in Los Angeles celebrated the holiday by conducting raids while wearing horror movie masks. Sadism as public policy.

Subramanyam Vedam, wrongfully convicted for the murder of his friend in a racially biased prosecution, now faces deportation because he did drugs fifty years ago. This is who ICE apparently considers a threat to Americans

Trump is pushing private equity and crypto into YOUR 401(k) – putting your retirement savings at risk. These shadowy markets lack strong guardrails to keep your money safe. We can’t let Wall Street gamble with Americans’ hard-earned savings.

Here's @joycewhitevance.bsky.social with an update on DOJ norms being shattered, and a much-needed word of tempered Hopium that No Kings is the path through podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Amy Coney Barrett says that the court has not issued their last ruling on these shadow docket cases. Let’s hope that’s correct. They gave ICE and DHS the benefit of the doubt. They shouldn’t have. #KavanaughStops

Apologizing for the crimes of the government, crimes that he himself played no part in, became the signature legacy of his life: RIP #TomiichiMurayama www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/w...

The new film “Roofman" transforms an absurd tale of a criminal on the run into an intimate character study, grounded by highlighting life’s mundane thrills, Shirley Li writes:

Feds just making up laws on the spot to try to scare people from reporting on their activity.

In his first major teaching document, Pope Leo XIV addressed "all Christians" worldwide to care for the poor and people on the margins, echoing calls from his predecessor on the importance of social justice. https://to.pbs.org/4h06dIm

#SisterJean gave so much of herself to Loyola for so many years. She is famous for cheering on our basketball team, but she supported all of our students. She would take an impromptu meeting with any student and was their fierce advocate. We will surely feel her absence. What a gem.

Here are a few useful and surprising ways you can use your phone. Plus: how to stay off it.

before and after hegseth's directive

Much of this story covers Cook Co. prosecutors' unwillingness to systematically examine the many similar coercion allegations against Det. Brian Forberg & partners. Of the 24 known people charged or convicted in cases involving a coercion allegation against Forberg et al, every single one is Black

Just a post to applaud our very competent IL Governor who has been a leader in criminal Justice reform in the state and who inspires me with his insistence that we not remain silent in the face of an authoritarian takeover of our city. Go JB! @govpritzker.illinois.gov

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Finally got around to reading Danielle Sered book “Until We Reckon” which presents a strong and inspiring argument for this. People who have committed crimes have so often also experienced victimization.

NEWS: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a grand jury, just days after Trump demanded the DOJ prosecute him “now” and fired the prosecutor who refused to bring the case

Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

A Northwestern prof has gotten death threats for speaking out against hate speech. A soc prof who studies social stratification is condemned for "racial ideology." These attacks on academia are not new, but they've taken a disturbing turn. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Cook County officials are calling out federal immigration agents for their “deceptive” tactics amid an increase in detentions and arrests carried out by masked, plain-clothes officers. news.wttw.com/2025/09/17/c...

For folks who are wondering just how long #SCOTUS has had the power to behave the way it’s behaving on emergency applications (mostly since 1925), and whether the Court’s recent behavior is meaningfully different from, say, prior to 2015 (it sure is), you might find my book at least somewhat useful:

While unconstitutional and un American, this ruling is not unexpected. SCOTUS has long legitimized racial profiling to determine reasonable suspicion.

Perhaps. But I also have hope that Chicago could be a model for peaceful nonviolent resistance that achieves its goals. From the times: Chicago Could Be a Powder Keg www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...

Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in

Cause Chicago is not gonna be a cakewalk. And his people know it.