Story from earlier this week: Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over 'warrantless arrests' www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/f...

Rumor has it just to the east in the hardscrabble area of Bridgeport there might be a prewar workers cottage that is older than Clarke -Ford House

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

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.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

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"Influencer embeds are now fixtures of the administration’s media strategy–a content mill for consensus, flooding social media feeds with state-sanctioned clips and patriotic spectacle."

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

At least with NW IL & SW WI, where it feels like despite the size of the Mississippi the vibes are identical although the Driftless throws a few wrenches in this

With so many examples of media cowardice on a national level, I'm gratified to report in this article that Chicago's local journalists are aggressively exposing the Trump regime's cruelty and lies.

Damn right.

Cultures exist outside of state boundaries. The very eastern edge of Kansas, Nebraska, & the Dakotas all feel Midwestern…but not anything west of Lincoln or Wichita

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

Speed safety cameras are astonishingly successful. We know the tools that reduce traffic violence. Legalize them.
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NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Those 34 years would have been 26 years if the Cook County Conviction Integrity Unit had cleared Francisco Benitez instead of denying him in 2015. He's one of at least 21 people the group rejected who were later exonerated. You can read about it in my @injusticewatch.org series Denying Innocence.

Endorsed 100%

When you’re sinning every single day & have never atoned for anything in your life, then you’re likely not getting a “next step” especially when your victims are children.

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

River North if the Erie Connector had been built as a BRT flyover instead of a car funnel.

“I think folks in Chicago want to feel free and safe to walk around and be able to visit and explore without fear of being attacked, assaulted or otherwise victimized,” says the man responsible for the people attacking, assaulting, and victimizing Chicagoans. 🥴

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

Still made my train, but i was scared i had gotten on the wrong one until they announced the next stop was River Grove.