Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
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Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
Pritzker is doing two things here that are smart. One, he's describing this forcefully and unapologetically and in his own terms, not adopting the Admin/media frame. Two, he's making clear that he will blame the Admin for any violence or disorder sparked by their invasion of his state.
Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Like it's not a great statement, but it's an imperative to the Trump administration to legislate, rather than an invitation to meet in the middle
I love getting mad at Jeffries as much as the next guy, but if you just pull the common ground part out of the sentence where he's demanding that the Trump administration knock it off with the fake emergency shit, I don't think you're being particularly intellectually honest about it.
Anyone who participates in what appears in context to be a proposed military occupation of Chicago “because crime” will be doing something that is illegal and is obligated not to do that. That’s all I’ll say.
Live look of the apolitical military professional:
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
A bold move given recent protests and the size/weight of a Portillo's Italian Beef
I love it when a politician sounds like a human being who likes living in reality
The Trump Administration is using tactics straight out of the fossil fuel industry playbook to undermine climate science—but we won't let them get away with it. Today, we're voicing our strong opposition to the deeply flawed, anti-science report commissioned by the DOE. ↘️
Today, I alongside colleagues of @ucs.org have submitted our public comments to the DOE report that completely undermines climate science and misinforms the American Public about climate change and its impacts to our well-being and our environment.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Surely, the decision to hold a military spectacle at that time is just coincidence.
Coward
Real evil shit.
“Film things you see happening…Be loud for America” is quite the rallying cry.
nate silver standing outside, looking through my window at my weekly poker game. "no new participants this week either, eh? can't say i'm surprised..." he presses his forehead against the wet glass and closes his eyes
Here's some real talk: Dem strategists urging Dems to avoid the "trap" of talking about Trump occupying cities are saying this precisely in order to get quoted in NYT and elsewhere, and everyone involved in this charade knows it. @jamisonfoser.bsky.social and me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
NEW: Two internal emails obtained by AP indicate a policy shift that now allows ICE to show up, interview, and arrest some parents trying to reunite with their children. Advocates say it’s using kids as bait; the government says it’s necessary vetting. apnews.com/article/immi...
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
if people yell at you for advocating "moderation" on trans rights on Bluesky but not on Twitter the reason for that might be because Elon Musk, the guy who runs and owns Twitter, explicitly censored trans people's accounts and posts.
these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes
1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see
Part of the reason im convinced so many US news publications are primarily ideological, rather than "motivated by ratings/clicks" is so few have pushed back in any way whatsoever against X and Meta throttling outgoing links.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
The right is pushing this narrative because it’s the only place they can blame liberals — their actual goal — and gain purchase among elites. The *actual* mistakes during the pandemic all originate on the right: lax lockdowns, weak mitigations and low vaccine uptake
You should fire Megan McArdle for being a fucking rube.
They can't cover things that are antagonistic to the interests of their owners... & also they support what Trump is doing.
yeah “giving a shit about real problems that are actually occurring” being made into a political liability is just an extraordinarily grim development. you’re incentivized to avoid trying to actually address real things because there’s no upside at all politically.
The people who control our information environment want to help Trump so have waged a years long propaganda campaign to turn his most deadly disaster into something else.
👇🎯 Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
Shame on the courts for going along with the pernicious fiction that American national security required stripping employees of union protections
what drives me insane about this is that none of these guys ever question the epistemic effect of using a site that has basically gone full far-right to the point of calling for remigration the real threat is uh, actually, random liberals and leftists on a breakaway social media platform
It's clear that printing and distribution of my publication TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO is going to disrupt my life at a time when I have no time, so here are files you can print from. It's a double-sided 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. Please do not edit the text. Have fun!
fuck the nationalist troglodytes, embrace rootless cosmopolitan supremacy
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
Yeah, but not a good one:
That's a big part of it for me is like, I can tell from the video that the thing being described is happening, but to the best I could determine what it was being ejected it was something that shares a shape with a wizard hat but probably isn't one I'm like 35% sure
So there’s a thing I’ve noticed repeatedly from people who are still on X, The Everything App - they’re constantly making weird accusations about Bluesky that don’t make any sense if you’re on here, and I think it’s a sign they’re deeply insecure about posting to X, The Everything App.
I know how to use words and was using 'being defenestration' as a fun joke between us fellow word use knowers, I didn't mess up that's not what happened don't write down that I messed up verb/subject agreements
If there were people rather than like, wizard hats, being defenestration, I would have a much clearer understanding of the situation
Boston is the safest city in the United States. All this is gonna do is makes Bostonians less safe and less free. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
It's increasingly hard to deny "what you see on X" is nowhere close to "what normal people think" and whoa boy is that a problem for mediocrities who constantly churn out reactionary anti-woke twaddle, hence the whining from Silver, the Harper's Letter guy, and that new Worst-of-The-Atlantic blog.
incidence of actual crime has gone down but people hearing about or seeing crime has only gone up, first with television and then with social media, amplified in recent years as the algorithms have been taken over by reactionary oligarchs
a very high proportion of centrist punditry now just boils down to "progressives yell at me on the internet and i don't like it." you would think that getting paid millions of dollars per year would give you thicker skin
Not gonna lie, I don't even know how to process the throwing stuff out of the window aspect of whatever the hell is happening right now in Washington, it's weird but also I don't even know what an explanation for it could be, either in a WH press secretary sense or an actual real world sense
Guess I gotta do everything myself around here:
Every Labor Day I remember that the holiday was moved from May 1 to September not only for the Haymarket attacks but to break up the possibility between the US and the international labor movement (which celebrates in May). And it worked!
I’m dying. Michelle Obama tried to do something nice and cute for the kids helping them stay healthy and she’s being put into comparison with a guy who believes people can target diseases by race and wants to ban life saving medicines!
you also see with this type of guy a sort of desperate latching onto the small handful of issues where if you squint the less scientific position is sort of lib-coded. nuclear power is one for example. housing sort of was for a bit. but even those are changing! edpol rules all in the end.
If a lifted truck where the driver can’t see my 5’7” head walking in front of it is street legal, I don’t care about any two-wheeled device any kids are riding. They can steal F35 engines from Miramar and strap them to the back for all I care.
That was one of my grandpa's favorite thing about being a scientific team leader is the extent to which he got to boost the work of people he respected and valued and that he could give a presentation knowing it was on solid ground because of that team.
School closures only seem to matter when Dems can be blamed for them.
This story just got even worse: Firefighters question leaders’ role in Washington immigration raid Wildfire veterans believe top officials on the fire sent their crews into an ambush
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
ironic that a senator from so far out in the pacific is primarily interested in representing The Atlantic
The debate is really over two visions of law enforcement: one is based on "race-neutral," technocratic policing that relies on "hot spots" and surveillance data. The other is brute force, street-smarts, never filling out paperwork. The problem is neither one works. www.vice.com/en/article/u...
We're returning to the Cedar Rapids office of Homeland Security Investigations tomorrow morning. I'm given to understand the Goon Squad is preparing a reception to intimidate us, and hoo boy do they have another think coming.
I was already pretty done with the news media but seeing clips yesterday from the Sunday shows where an anchor is like “but what if living in a Police State does reduce car jackings? Why would you be against that?” probably was the end
99% of all issues on here are solved by 1) follow at least 500-600 people 2) block annoying people Once you do it it’s a wonderful experience
bump
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
The media can't report this freak accurately because countering eugenics is not their job, supporting the eugenics power structure is. Which is why so many of the articles you see seem to not know how to actually write about his firm "killing sick kids is good and cool" position.
really weird how assiduously the NYT, wapo, etc are ignoring the whole "trump is dying/already dead" thing! I mean the US government never forces them to kill stories or anything so it MUST just be a funny coincidence
anyway while you’re cracking your jokes about how much it sucks having to work your fancy job in my hometown this is what’s happening to the people who don’t get a summer recess from dc ❤️ bsky.app/profile/dcmi...
Banning refugees – people whose asylum claims have been processed by a hostile system and found to be legitimate – from bringing family members has one predictable and awful effect: instead of travelling alone, men will bring their wives and children on small boats, and some will drown.
Schatz cooking his brain on Vichy Twitter. many such cases.
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
Law Enforcement being a culturally chud profession is actually a huge problem in the near (surviving this admin & reasserting rule of law after) & long term (the actual governance problem of enforcing liberal laws) & solutions that aren’t “we should simply not have cops” are in pretty short supply
Mark Cuban's hypothesis fails to account for Space Jam (1996), and is therefore invalidated.
At Nationals Park to enjoy a game, and there are so many national guardsmen around the ballpark. I knew Washington needed reinforcements, but I thought it should’ve been of the pitching variety
This is exactly right! The Right’s core claim is that they represent an authentic, “real" America that is constantly being victimized, made to suffer under the yoke of leftist/liberal overreach, and therefore rightfully aggrieved. And too many Democrats/liberals look at that and go: “I agree.”
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
There are actually 2 RW groups sending mailers. This one, from Right Path, is a Kevin McCarthy joint, with his longtime aide Jessica Millan Patterson (fmr CA GOP chair) running the show. There's a second group, Protect Voters First, funded by Republican megadonor Charles Munger Jr.
a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage balanced lying, especially by authorities
The words “holy shit we gotta get in front of this somehow” were definitely spoken in the Giuliani camp today
The partisan targeting of officials by Trump officials is underlined by who they are not pursuing. For example, don’t hold your breath waiting for the Department of Justice to investigate Ken Paxton, who has claimed three homes as his primary residence even as he rents out two of them.
Allison, 20, has been detained for six months at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. She had nearly given up her legal fight due to health issues and unsanitary conditions at the facility.
Schumer remains doing the absolute least in this moment of crisis. I think of all the spineless toadies on the Democratic side, he's the one I most loathe for how absolutely Chamberlinian he is in meeting the moment, history will remember him harshly for this, so help me god.
The police refused to defend us as the shooting occurred. The police refused to allow medical professionals inside, once the shooter was barricaded in the bathroom. And now, at long last, they finally act - to arrest us for memorializing our dead. Scum. Fascists. Nazis.
The federal govt's extortion of UCLA has numerous problems. One is that it is ostensibly based on some factual allegations that are so exaggerated that they are actually false. I wrote about this today in a long blog post reflecting on what I saw at UCLA and how lawyers later mischaracterized it:
they’re transparently gleeful about the performative occupation of American cities
Having lived through a decade of harrowing events as a child, I'll say it's *good* to imagine the day you'll move beyond the reach of a cruel person—even if that moment won't fix everything. They want to convince you of your powerlessness, but that's not how this story ends.
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
At least 50 National Guard with long guns around Audi field and Navy Yard metro station as I leave the Washington Spirit soccer game. Free DC.
This is infuriating and you should send it to every veteran you know, because while you can’t lose your civilian job while you’re activated, they don’t have to pay you, and you can’t get the mortgage pause until you’ve been activated a month. American Legion & VFW should be on fire.
This is what a regular traffic stop looks like in DC now.
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
Ok we sent our energies to the wrong spirits and hit Giuliani but it’s working guys keep going
10-12 absolute cowards attack one guy with a camera. Beyond disgraceful indeed.
Parsing budget bills for plausible rationales to ship scared kids to foreign countries should end the legal careers of the lawyers involved.
"I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago" Republicans are copying antebellum Southern rhetoric and should be treated as the Confederates they are
Protestors have been projecting the innocent victims illegally kidnapped and detained by ICE on the side of the Los Angeles Detention Facility!! Los Angeles has a spirit Trump can’t crush. Los Angeles will crush him instead!!
