Before USAID was illegally dismantled by the regime, its budget for 2025 was $34 billion.

For your Wednesday, friends, have a deep-field image from #JWST taken late 2023 and early 2024.

The six-sided features are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else you see?

A galaxy.

new:

for the @chicagoreader.com’s night issue, @djbyrnes1.bsky.social wrote about the trend of people getting released from the cook county jail increasingly late at night.

between may 2020 and july 2025, more than twice as many people were released between 8 pm-5 am than between 5 am-8 pm.

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
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BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

"Copyright growing pains" is a hell of a euphemism.

And nobody wants to see this. It's stupid garbage. The only people who want to boil the oceans for stupid garbage are the malevolent assholes who think it'll make them rich.

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

The world lost a genial man, a genius communicator and a supreme artist. I lost a friend - beloved Drew.

It appears ICE/CBP chased a vehicle, conducted a dangerous maneuver to intentionally cause a crash, then later tear-gassed bystanders.

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

thirty-four people have been arrested outside the broadview ice detention center since illinois state police + the cook county sheriff's office set up "unified command" on oct. 3.

charges range from misdemeanors, like resisting/obstruction, to felonies, like criminal damage to government property.

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

Just as important: Even IF the only reason "these people" were to offer for welcoming immigration was "more variety of food," how does Mr. Raw Egg think dismissing that reason will work as a POSITIVE justification for white supremacy?

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

ICIRR reporting ICE activity throughout the north side of Chicago today, including outside of Ravenswood Elementary School.

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.

they are really just rolling up on random landscapers and street vendors and kidnapping them

New: U.S. attorneys moved today to dismiss felony assault charges against Paul Ivery, an intellectually disabled man who was arrested at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility on Sept. 27.

Ivery agreed to waive his Miranda rights while in federal custody.

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after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
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"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Amalgam Fest begins tomorrow at Elastic Arts! The day one lineup consists of bass clarinetist and Pleiades Series founder Emily Rach Beisel, electronics duo Paradise Complete, and an experimental pairing of vocalist Carol Genetti and violinist-guitarist Peter Maunu. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

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very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court