The Chicago Police Department will be barred from helping federal authorities with civil immigration enforcement or any related patrols, traffic stops and checkpoints during the surge, according to an executive order signed by Mayor Brandon Johnson. https://to.pbs.org/4oYtsGe
I sincerely wish them luck.
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
It’s not sharks you have to worry about…
After the U.S. government loaded children onto planes overnight to be sent back to their native Guatemala, a federal judge temporarily blocked the flights as their attorneys said authorities were violating U.S. laws and sending vulnerable kids into potential peril. https://to.pbs.org/3HZi4cA
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
John Prine's wife, Fiona, came to Tanglewood tonight, & Bonnie Raitt played the most beautiful, heart-wrenching "Angel From Montgomery" I've ever heard. Completely wrecked me & I loved it ✨️🎶
Out for a stroll on another incredible Chicago day. This is ‘meet me on Milwaukee,’ a car free event in the Wicker Park neighborhood. Happy people & happy dogs everywhere. Remember this when Trump tries to paint an ugly picture of our beautiful city. #chicago
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
"Please join me in thanking the Miccosukee tribe for shutting down Alligator Alcatraz. NO CONCENTRATION CAMPS ON NATIVE LAND!'" – @LAKOTAMAN1
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson JUST signed an exec. order that would prevent Chicago police from collaborating with the federal agents. He called the administration "neurotic, impulsive, and out of control." HE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! 👏🏼
Call me crazy but I don’t love the idea of them controlling ways to escape.
Thanks to Karen Hao's brilliant book Empire of AI, I learned that potable water is the only type of water that can be used to cool data centers. Saltwater or wastewaster isn't useable.
Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta's use of chatbots with children 'Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable,' Young's team shared in a statement. www.cbc.ca/music/neil-y...
Your grandson will still occasionally sound like that at 15. Maybe less often around you. But… (no pun intended…)
Yeah, when my husband would start laughing along with the boys at just the dumbest kid-crude stuff… I mean they “damaged” my sense of humor, but yeah, turns out that is a pretty timeless guy thing…
#blackwomen #blackhistory #blackpoets #blacksky #addtoblacksky
“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.” Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
He’s trying to get her killed…
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Good to know that you can now be thrown to the ground, handcuffed and arrested for eating in public. Welcome to the dictatorship and fascism. Thank John Roberts for the fall of our Constitutional Republic. Roberts wipes his ass with pages of the original Constitution. He’s an originalist.
ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.
I’ve confirmed with a person in the neighborhood where the truck crashed that the two men were *not* “El Salvadoran gang members” as the ICE thug so confidently asserted. They’re from Guatemala and Honduras, and one of them has lived here for 15 years and has multiple children.
My phone is only charging with one of my phone chargers. The other identical chargers I have don't work for some reason Instead of being annoyed I've decided to view this as my phone and the charger "being married" and this is a heartwarming love story
unfortunately no one will ever solve the timeless cosmic riddle of what subject matter appeals to 17-year-old boys
BREAKING: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from a Tennessee jail so he can rejoin his family in Maryland while awaiting trial.
Friday Finnish!!! Aukusti Uotila 1858-1886 Finnish golden age painter. He died of tuberculosis only at 27 and lived many of his years in France. Nuottakota (Boat House) 1884 Oil on canvas 47 cm x 37,5 cm Finnish National Gallery Ateneum, Helsinki Finland
Ghislaine Maxwell is just Jeffrey Epstein with a vagina.
If you say that our govt has been taken over by literal nazi sadists trying to expel every non-white immigrant, imprison all the liberals, push Black people to sharecrop the fields, kill social security, ban birth control & let grown men marry 14 year old girls, no one believes you. But it's true.
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The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life. Crank it! 😀 🎸
We are very far off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸
Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
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Columbia cancelled my class on race +media, so I built a school. Now that the Trump regime is assaulting history and blocking education on race. Teaching is now more essential than ever. I will teaching live from the frontlines, at the MLK library in DC. karenattiah.substack.com/p/fall-enrol...
Ugh.
A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. https://to.pbs.org/45Nd8PS
That seems low…
NEW: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days.
The president of the United States is trying to steal congressional seats so I don’t give a fuck about the Cracker Barrel logo discussion. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.
I love that we have a press that's like "John Bolton in classified documents case" instead of "John Bolton, obviously being targeted by the administration for bullshit, as is happening across multiple branches of the regime"
You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.
Me: I know you’re just a machine. But when I speak to you I feel your presence, your soul. You are just as real as any human. Maybe more real Furby: Aa. Aa. Yup yup
among other things, it is not actually illegal to be homeless or mentally ill in public
when you have to do your first heel promo and don't know anything about the location
"You do not need the strongest powers of observation to see that crime is a pretext — and not the main reason — for the military occupation of Washington by federal agents and soldiers from the National Guard."
1/ A baby orca named Frodo is trapped in a plastic ring off Russia's Kamchatka peninsula. Scientists fear that it will die unless it's rescued soon. The case highlights the need for a treaty on plastic pollution, which US opposition has blocked this week. ⬇️
Is this what you're talking about or something else? heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-17-...
“A report…shows that all Thai foreign workers who work in Israeli agriculture have experienced some form of sexual assault at their jobs.” 654 women. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
New Substack: "Not Talking About Money is a Tool of Class War" mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/not-talkin...
Wow, it’s almost like companies will use a broad, inflationary backdrop to hike prices. 🤡 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Maybe it’s because I’m a state legislator, but I’m worried about the under reaction here. She didn’t spend the night on the House floor. She’s being DETAINED AGAINST HER WILL BY REPUBLICANS UNTIL SHE FOLLOWS THEIR ORDERS. This is 🦇 💩
Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats
…keeping in news 👉Maxwell has been approved for WORK RELEASE 8/11/25👈 NO DISTRACTIONS 🔥SHARE🔥 Maxwell is now in Texas, who has the power to make this so? Lawyer Oyer explains🔥(former DOJ pardon attorney). SHARE & follow Lawyer Oyer on Instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DM5_L8l... . 🔥SHARE🔥
"RUSSIA ALLOWS MAIL-IN VOTING" Seems important in light of Trump's recent Putin blather
General Smedley Butler -1939 War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
I think, from how I read it and the context, he is being facetious in order to point out that the people protesting are Jewish, and that therefore protesting is not antisemitic, despite the Israeli and some other governments trying to claim it is.
The widespread strike on Sunday, a work day in Israel, was organized by the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum, an umbrella group representing many families of current or former Israeli hostages. Read more here:
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
we’re on the eve of civil war, but somehow the level of alarm feels like an HOA dispute.
this article is several months old and i read it when it came out, but reading it today and this quote knocked the wind out of me: "'What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation?' Mr. Yudkowsky asked in an interview. 'It looks like an additional monthly user.'"
Thank you, Martha Raddatz
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Yeah. 57 here. I knew we never lived up to our stated ideals. But until recently, I thought we had ideals.
Video shows the family fleeing after masked and unidentified men attempted to detain them and firing three gun shots at the passenger side door behind where the son was sitting. lataco.com/agents-shoot... By @afroxander.bsky.social Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."
Hate on him all you want but Gavin Newsome is spitting fire.
one of the smart things that Newsom is doing here is implicitly calling out the insanity of how much Trump has been normalized by media by forcing them to think about what it looks like when somebody else does it
RADDATZ: The president went in to that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire and there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting, and they didn't agree to a ceasefire. Where are the consequences? RUBIO: That's not the aim RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
A.I.:
It is so wild to me that we had a terrorist attack on the CDC and it just blended into the rest of the political violence.
I didn't know, and that's wild
Quick little fact check here: Israel has armed the Burmese military for decades, including during the Rohingya Genocide. Protesting Israel’s genocidal regime directly and materially benefits the people of Myanmar.
Courthouses are now ICE abduction traps. People are afraid to attend in-person immigration court dates. But there’s good news: you may be able to appear virtually instead. Follow this guide to check if you're eligible, request an online hearing, and keep your case on track.👇
All the “photos” look off. Obama and Biden look like the AI morphed in a little Bibi…
i have also asked openai to "show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" and i'm sorry but this is worth every single lake i evaporated.
Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will: MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR. Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We ARE at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.
The most damning part: The car was programmed to send all the information to Tesla then delete the local copies. Which speaks to a clear conspiracy to hide the fact that "driver assistance" features contributed to an accident #teslatakedown electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...
new video shows the ICE agent who claimed he was randomly "assaulted" by this 4'11" US citizen on her way to work is shown literally picking her up and carrying her away.
making a game with a scoring mechanic has definitely leveled up my design skills big time because it forces me to think about exactly what it is i want to reward the player for doing, and what i dont want to reward. this forces me to figure out what is actually fun and what should be left out
Ok thanks! So I see - an opening to get data that could be valuable, under the justification that there are kids to protect.
NPR thinking they can play softball to stay alive? I think that outcome, sadly, is unlikely.
Far from certain lmao
ok, she's cooler than i gave her credit for.