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paul goyette @pgoyette.bsky.social · 12m

More than 200 students and community members are protesting outside of the Morton School District 201 offices on Cermak in Cicero this morning after Morton West HS staff chased away community members sharing know-your-rights flyers on 10/8.

About 100 students with anti-ICE posters and Mexican flags protest in front of the J Sterling Morton school district 201 building on Cermak in Cicero.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 1h

A confrontation is building between the Supreme Court and the lower courts.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 16h

It’s maybe not shocking that the institutions closest to fact—district judges, juries—have proven most robust against an onslaught of lies, but it’s to journalism’s eternal shame that it has behaved like the political institutions and not the honest ones.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16h

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16h

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 3h

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 5h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 20h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 19h

The frogs should have a code of conduct to prevent false frog operations.

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 1d

In recent years I recall being told property damage is one of the worst of all crimes.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 1d

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn’t agree more. A genius. A true original. Best rapper alive.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

For those of who have already entered the strange and wonderful zone of László Krasznahorkai’s fiction, the news that he won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature comes as no great surprise. “It seems something straightforwardly just,” James Wood writes.

László Krasznahorkai and Contemporary Europe’s Perilous Reality

The swirling sentences of the new Nobel laureate’s fiction overlay small-town politics with an uneasy sense of impending apocalypse.

www.newyorker.com

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe they can revisit Miles Davis next.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 1d

Every video I’ve seen has been streamers so this checks out! It’s weird to see it pushed so hard in my feed cuz I barely ever play video games.

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 1d

TikTok keeps feeding me videos of a game called Baby Steps, the object of which seems to be doing a boring climbing task for hours and hours and then, when you reach the crucial moment, falling helplessly back to the bottom. A bit on the nose.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: "I'm going to issue an oral ruling."

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 1d

Update: smart judge, not dumb judge

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 1d

JFC

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Joining the ranks of media capitulation and cowardice is the Illinois Press Association. Under CEO Don Craven, the group joined a lawsuit against ICE’s attacks on the local press and protesters in the Chicago area. But his board ordered him to withdraw from the suit, and he resigned. 1/2

Illinois Press Association CEO Resigns After Dispute Over ICE Lawsuit

The CEO of the Illinois Press Association, who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for actions toward journalists outside a Chicago-area ICE facility, resigned this week following a ...

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 1d

(Deleted previous tweet because it was a quote from a doj attorney, not the judge.)

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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta hope the judge on the Illinois Nat Guard case has a working brain.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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