Lot of people treated a genocide of a people, sponsored by their own country, as an annoying pet issue that needed to be shelved after the killing as complete or pushed aside for other political problems. And pretended that it was just too complicated to engage with.

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

Border Patrol is terrorizing Gage Park this morning (video from Facebook, 55th & California reportedly 9:40am). SWRR reports agents are highly active and were also seen at the Pulaski orange line again: instagram.com/p/DPtwEY7DhTy

I've struggled to understand how the labor movement metamorphized in the 70s to get us to where we are today and this episode walks you through the actual shift in economic policy and how it played out culturally. It's great, need to make time to read @melindacooper.bsky.social 's book.

This is so helpful, thank you.

"Even if it does bring about a welcome respite from the suffering in Gaza in the short term, I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."

Not in my America

BUT all 1200 are political consultants

Sounds good to me

"The gap between these two measures [crop prices and input costs] is the greatest it has been in at least 25 years, “underscoring the rarity and severity of the economic conditions faced by agricultural producers in 2025,” the authors wrote."

www.agriculture.com/partners-uad...

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Fellas is it good when the pope is a more persistently ethical voice than any of the world's major heads of state?

I don't understand Sora what's the business model? How much would users have to pay to make all that compute profitable, isn't video generation one of the more energy intensive uses of LLMs?

What a weird thing to post after ICE raids entire neighborhoods with the help of state police

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Say what you want about Curtis Sliwa but he's the only candidate who John Gotti tried to kill.

ICE is doing a hell of a lot of harm in the Chicago area *right now.* I don’t mean to trivialize the national guard stuff, it absolutely is an irresponsible escalation, but the guard-centric convo around this really does understate what’s going on without any guardsmen.

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Relatable

ICE in Chicagoland today:

CBP agents were seemingly everywhere, with arrests across several neighborhoods and the suburbs. Exact numbers are unknown.

Neighbors in Garfield Park witnessed feds choking a Black man in the street, and Border Patrol snatched people at retail strips and traffic stops.

I fall on the side of articles but we must band together against people who refuse either in favor of LLM summaries

The division is that Klein is playing a game that only works if he maintains his proximity to power and Coates actually believes in things.

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Oh yeah your post about linux mint gave me the push i needed. I then discovered my computers hardware is just crashing one by one so i havent been on it much but loving what i see so far. No bloat! Amazing how refreshing it is to be off windows.