Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was handcuffed and briefly detained by federal agents inside a hospital on Friday while asking about a patient's ICE arrest warrant.

Fuentes said “We have constitutional rights,” as the agent repeatedly states “No.”

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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

And the Supreme Court said it’s fine for them to target people based on how they look. Truly a despicable, deplorable, devastating, dictatorial time in US history.

I personally didn't enter librarianship because I wanted to direct people to use surveillance tech owned by private equity firms but sometimes I wonder about my peers

It’s been almost two months since museum senior officials walked into the Abakanowicz Research Center, the hub of the city’s archival holdings, and announced that every staff member would be reduced to part-time hours, leaving them without health insurance and a significant portion of their incomes.

A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.

When they’re sending the military in to your city, banning vaccines, and so much more, but your out of office is on and you’re recharging for action a thousand miles away with the most beautiful train ride thanks to @amtrak.com.

Chicago has not asked for federal troops. We do not need federal troops. We need the funds we’ve paid in federal taxes to be distributed back to the state as congressionally budgeted. No one, mayor, governor or citizen has asked for this deployment and the people of Chicago will be harmed by it.

She heard me tell the dog sitter she’s older now and needs slower walks and puppy potty pads for accidents. Apparently that was shit we were supposed to keep within the family.

Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"We believe you don't solve crime by sending in the military."

"We are being targeted because of who we are as a city."

Pritzker exhorts the news media to "tell it like it is:"

"Donald Trump wants to use the U.S. Military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents and score political points."

"Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here."

Surprising no one, the list of “unAmerican” content is that which highlights/discusses white privilege, Latino culture, Black culture, and COVID history and LGBTQ+ history. Absolute bullshit.

White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/a...

A cream soda will do in a pinch.

The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”

She’s either a Japanese spitz or an American Eskimo. She’s big for a spitz but small for an American Eskimo so anyone’s guess.

My 35lb freeloader threw a temper tantrum when I wouldn’t give her more French fries (yes I’m weak so she got some), so I painted her portrait to show how her adorably silly she is.

Me: on our first vacation in years worried how the dogs doing without us.

The dog: absolutely throwing her charms at the dog sitter, her people completely forgotten

one day, everyone will have been against this

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“The rapid, chaotic, and cruel approach to arresting and locking people up is literally deadly and causing a human rights crisis that will plague this state and the entire country for years to come.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

And yes...that includes me.
No one is safe until everyone is safe.

Apparently I didn’t capture her good side. Everybody’s a critic.

In honor of today's Supreme Court decision

I taught college classes of my own for seven years. There wasn't a single class I taught that was majority history majors, and most of them had NO history majors. But they were always full and they were always valuable to those students.