NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

these quotes are from the 1880s!

This year, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Percival Everett is receiving the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, Calumet City poet José Olivarez is the recipient of the 21st Century Award and Mary Dempsey, former commissioner of the Chicago Public Library, is taking the Civic Award.

If you can donate to these 49 villages struck by the left over typhoon- on the west coast of alaska (only accessible by plane r boat!)- please do.
Thank you. I just did, it was quick.

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

A wake for the Voting Rights Act was held today at the Supreme Court, where the justices instrumental in killing it didn't have the intellectual honesty to acknowledge that it is dead, let alone that they are the culprits. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

The Trump administration won't spend $7.1 billion to prevent millions of people from dying from AIDS but is happy to drop $40 billion to bail out a political ally and the right-wing investors who bet on his flawed economic policies.

The Trump admin is considering targeting orgs including the Open Society Foundations, ActBlue, Indivisible, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace.

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I just want to be very clear here. This is the Vice President of the United States saying it’s a regular practice among white people to enthusiastically endorse slavery, Hitler, and rape.

I don't think it counts as "covert" after you blab about it to the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Didn't you shake down Columbia and NYU and for kids protesting and revoke their visas and deport them

The responsible party: A 20-something white male, son of a minister who was also a cop, from a conservative Christian Utah family who had steeped himself in online channer & gamergate nihilism & may be groyper adjacent. But sure, waste the FINCEN people's time.

Listening to rap helps inure you to this by equipping you with a framework that acknowledges the role your haters play in your growth.

Bold of you to suggest she’s striving for growth, personally or professionally.

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Anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton is trying to take a senate seat from a good fellow Democrat.

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A Chicago man has been indicted on charges he solicited the murder of U.S. Border Patrol field boss Gregory Bovino, but the bare-bones document makes no mention of previous allegations that he is a high-ranking gang member.

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

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We are currently engaged in a very long fight to try to get the hospital to lower or forgive this, but I'm honestly not optimistic. Any help would be appreciated.

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Remind me, do taxpayers pay the president’s salary or does the president pay ours? Do we work for the president or does he work for us?