BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

it’s like Peter thiel and elon musk and Jeff bezos and Sam Altman and mark zuckerberg watched black mirror and were like fuck yeah that seems so cool let’s make those technologies

all i want is to lose everything to Jennifer Tilly at the poker table

technology should have stopped here

this is what happens when you go to hud.gov just fyi

Put in a fantasy trade and now I’m checking my phone like a teenager waiting for their crush to text back

me trying to offload chase brown for a running back who will actually get me some fantasy points after 3 weeks of pure shit from him

are there any people out there who want to have an opinion on my fantasy lineup bc honestly I could use some input

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

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BREAKING: CDC's ACIP just voted 8-3 to change vaccine recomendation and stop recommending MMRV to children as their first dose.

someone good at fantasy football tell me what to do about WR: WR1: Puka Nacua WR2: M. Harrison Jr. FLEX: Hollywood Brown Bench: Romeo Doubs My Q: should I make changes? Packers are playing the browns so maybe Doubs will have a big game? Same w/ Hollywood against the giants?

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

this is the first article I’ve read that captures why Melissa Hortman was such an incredible leader, public servant, and person. I’ve met many elected officials, but few have ever been as effective and universally beloved (even by opponents) as Melissa www.newsfromthestates.com/article/reme...

Thinking about the family of Representative Melissa Hortman & her husband who were assassinated at the hands of a radical MAGA shooter in June. Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.

southeast Kansas cattle rancher/veterinarian and business owner who graduated from West Point is running for a historically republican congressional seat as a democrat and tbh he has a good chance at winning bc Kansas easily goes blue for dudes like this

JUST IN: A judge quashed the subpoena to Boston Children's Hospital by the DoJ that sought the records of trans patients. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I strongly suspect members of the media arrived at this conclusion largely because a disproportionate share of them are from or reside in MAHA-adjacent affluent communities.

This is censorship from an authoritarian regime that wants to project the illusion that they face no internal opposition or dissent. No other way to describe it.

Things should simply become more normal for once

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

More than 20 years ago, N.C. legislators passed a law requiring that landslide hazards be mapped across 19 mountain counties. But after only four of those counties were mapped, lawmakers gave in to developers who said it could harm property values. (Published May 2025)

armadillos are bugs and it’s about time we started being honest about that

Hi I’m casually looking for a new job. If you need someone to do state level government relations work and you want someone who has a law license and is willing to travel for the job but is not willing to relocate from chicago, let ur girl know

what Americans seem to want is to be able to buy whatever product they want without government interference but also an ironclad guarantee that all store-sold products are safe, and we just need to recognize that these are contradictory ideas and we're gonna have to make people mad about the former

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝗦 𝐠𝐢𝗿ʟ 𝐢𝗦 𝙩𝐡e 𝗻𝐚𝗦𝙩𝐢e𝗦𝙩 𝗦🇰𝐚𝗻🇰 𝘣𝐢𝙩Ϲ𝐡 𝛪'ᴠe eᴠe𝗿 𝖒e𝙩! 𝖣𝖮 𝗻𝖮𝙩 𝙩𝗿𝘂𝗦𝙩 𝐡e𝗿! ꜱ𝐡e 𝐢𝗦 𝐚 𝑓𝘂𝐠ʟу 𝗦ʟ𝘂𝙩!

close enough welcome back Lori lightfoot

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

Leprosy is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the solipsism of “these guys are nice to me, personally, so they cannot be that bad” is i think the root cause of so many of the elected dems’ problems

the number of elected dems who actually understand the republican party is shockingly small. rather than giving them better insight, knowing and working alongside republicans has blinded them. it’d be fascinating if it wasn’t such an existential threat

Did you know that if NY had kept its original gerrymander for 2024, there’s a very good chance the Dems would have kept the House, giving them leverage to stop the gutting of American state capacity and oversight? You can’t unilaterally disarm in a war, and this is a war.

has anyone in Chicago seen the diet cherry Coke at Mariano’s yet?

bidens “border bill” wasnt just immoral, it was one of the biggest political mistakes ive seen in my lifetime not only immoral but completely handicapped the party from capitalizing on this backlash, everyone involved should be drummed out of politics forever

It's just hilarious (in an existential dread sort of way) that SCOTUS didn't consider Covid and climate change emergencies meriting extraordinary executive action, but Trump's completely made-up migrant "invasion" and laughable fentanyl-tariff link get complete deference.

weird that jamelle pointing out that the reporters didn't do their due diligence and were platforming a eugenicist violates social media standards

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. When it comes to leaked docs about JD Vance it's like "Eeek nooo, not sure we can use those."

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Here is an article detailing Center Square and Franklin News methods in Colorado elections coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/09/stea...

This group of accounts is worth keeping an eye on. They're growing followers by linking to local news, and if they continue as aggregators they could be harmless enough, but this is often a strategy to deliver pink slime later. I'm wary that none of the accounts in this network disclose ownership.

“I don’t need a vaccine,” said one West Texas man. “I don’t get sick.” “It’s measles. It’s been around forever,” said another woman. “I don’t think it’s a big deal.” From our April story:

great! i know a lot of people were hoping to become stateless due to coding errors

Which means a baby born in New York to undocumented parents will be a citizen. But a baby born to undocumented parents in Kentucky will not be a citizen. This is madness.

Justice Jackson in dissent: "The Court's decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law."