What is happening across Chicago is an act of terror and incitement. This is what modern conflict begins as and escalates out of control and the terror and violence amp up Here is an Illinois state representative Jimenez speaking about what is unfolding today.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Raise your hand if you suspect these two are MAGA. How long til a fellow Floridian grandee like Matt Gaetz carries water for their pardon?

Just gonna leave this right here

University conference on censorship canceled on account of panelists being . . . censored. www.sltrib.com/amplify-utah...

Today in “dc street signs”

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

its weird that the president brags about inflicting pain on american citizens and cities right?

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Murphy to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "If we’re going to sign on to a full year budget, it must have constraints on corruption & illegality. We cannot sign onto a budget that basically puts a bipartisan endorsement of the illegality. We’re literally signing our own political death warrants if we do"

What we just saw: state police not only assisting federal agents with crowd control out here, but also protester arrests. All morning, this has been a nonviolent demonstration. Have not seen a single crime from this crowd (not that that would excuse the brutality).

Yes. And, yet, this arrived in my mailbox yesterday. I am begging people not to sanewash this man. Is he "winning", Chronicle of Higher Education? What does that mean? Driving other schools into the ground?

The top 10% of households, who earn $250,000 or more per year, own 93% of all stocks.

Seeing some of those aforementioned federal prison officers on site now. This one is wearing a special ops response team patch.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Release the jobs report. And while you’re at it, release the Epstein files.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov are the IL State Police at Broadview to arrest or to protect protesters?

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Mentally ill? What makes you think that?

Secretary Noem: this is the third time this year you've tried to use Illinois as a background for your media circus. We’re not a photo op. We respect the law and due process. We demand you do your job and answer for ICE’s horrific acts in Chicago.

Kristi Noem's on the roof at Broadview surrounded by snipers and Kat is still out there demanding to see what horrific conditions are going on inside.

Northwest side rapid response reports ICE snatched a man at Leland & Knox this morning.

Friday, October 3 - Support IL Senators in the Funding Fight / Spread the Word for the No Kings! Rally and March / Oppose the SAVE Act

🤮Kai Trump faces viral backlash from Taylor Swift fans Fans noticed Kai’s logo closely resembles the logo of NFL star Travis Kelce's apparel collaboration with American Eagle, Tru Kolors. It has caused a stir online, as fans question whether the young influencer copied the design.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

hats going for $50 each via the official trump store, being advertised with the caption "the future looks bright! rewrite the rules with the Trump 2028 high crown hat"

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

Has anyone investigated how many cats this psycho has killed?

Good news, Chicago? Karl Rove thinks Rahm is right on point in Iowa. www.wsj.com/opinion/can-...

We believe healthcare is a right for every American. But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies. Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

The Trump regime wanted to give King Charles one of President Eisenhower’s swords. The head of the Eisenhower Library objected and suggested a replica, since the swords are owned by the American people now. The Trump regime got pissed and the head of the Eisenhower Library has now resigned.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

#handsoffchicago -- fyi

Fuck them.

"We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but that’s just how things go when you only control all three branches of government."

It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

When this is all over and if we still have a country, everyone in the GOP is going to say "I didn't see it" in the same way that people in post-war Germany denied knowing about deportations, concentration camps, and the Holocaust.

Pope Leo, "Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhumane treatment of immigrants, they're not pro life"

"During the Biden administration, there were 26 deaths in 48 months—roughly one death every two months. During Trump’s term, that rate has nearly quadrupled." Immigrants are dying in detention in unprecedented numbers. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...

The country’s two biggest private prison companies are poised for a major profit windfall, with this summer’s budget bill providing an infusion of funding for immigration detention. Once the increased detention and deportation capacity ramps up, it will be difficult to unwind.

Our president is an international punchline, and so are we.

“The level of vitriol is at a spot that I’ve never observed in my entire career. It’s having devastating impacts on community and police departments and law enforcement agencies throughout the country.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Italy's largest union is calling for a general strike on Friday in protest of the treatment of the flotilla

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Right wingers in 2017: Dumb libs think words are violence Right wingers in 2025: Words are violence and we're going to throw you in jail for saying the wrong ones, which is terrorism bsky.app/profile/atru...

UNC CH Chapter & NC AAUP statement re Prof. Dwayne Dixon: @aaup.org AAUP NC and UNC-Chapel Hill AAUP condemn the egregious violation of Professor Dwayne Dixon's First Amendment rights to free speech and free association, his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, and his academic freedom. 1/