every time my toddler observes how many cars the police station near us has i tell him it's why his daycare isn't free

A federal judge in Chicago says ICE violated a consent decree with warrantless arrests. blockclubchi.co/4nGUOQ8

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

NOTE: Brendan Reilly is running for Cook County Board President, meaning that he wants a lot of authority over the budget for the sheriff and the jail and the state's attorney and the public defender

But he won't even sign a statement in support of due process when his own colleague was attacked.

I’m bad at Chicago politics, how often do 37 alders agree?

So fascinated by the fourth slide and the apparent third (!?) of my age cohort who have… been asleep? For our entire lives??

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

This was very informative and interesting!!

I can't stop watching this. Help.

temp check from Chicago: just witnessed four wine moms in the wine bar in a Marianos grocery store on the Far North Side swapping recommendations on where to buy “Fuck ICE” t-shirts

Yaaaay!

anyway this is in two weeks! Book release and reading at @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social with the incredible Ola Faleti and Tori Rego. come on out - and please order it from a great local like Skunk Cabbage!

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Sofiane slept on our couch before route 66. I'm so horrified by this.

Wonder how many hundreds of thousands? millions? of asu students had them as student ID's? By the time we were there we collectively knew better but just 🤷‍♀️

You need this

Phoenix in the mid-aughts featured a bunch of art galleries that doubled as concert venues - I saw Matt & Kim and st Vincent, separately, for $5 at two different venues. I wouldn't even know where to start in Chicago in 2025!

I'm almost certain the organizers picked it for this week months ago and yet it is so ::gestures:: relevant: jesuitportal.bc.edu/research/doc...

My college's namesake, Pedro Arrupe, gave a speech about justice and forming "men for others" (the phrase has now become "persons for and with others") in 1973 and I'm reading it for a seminar this week.

Thats an *eared* grebe.

Picked a weird day to bird the Glendale recharge ponds! Got myself an earned grebe though!

I remember reading a Dave Barry piece to a similar effect in approximately 1995 - great minds!

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster