Stephen Miller said a Chicago apartment building raided by immigration agents was “filled with terrorists.” So why is it that not a single person arrested that night was charged with a crime? 🎧 This is the real story behind the midnight raid. Listen on “Paper Trail”:

The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building

Trump officials claimed they successfully arrested members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a dramatic midnight raid. We uncovered a very different story.

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Joe Lonsdale co-founded Palantir, runs the venture capital firm 8VC, and helped lead a pro-Trump super PAC. His Cicero Institute has also pushed laws criminalizing homelessness across the country. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social reports on the billionaire behind the crackdown.

Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless

How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.

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RIP Jesse Jackson, whose anti-imperialist Rainbow Coalition attempted to cut across the path of automatic neoliberal succession, yet was blocked by Harrington and Howes' DSA, which didn't subscribe to the multiracial, working–class coalition's demand for structural change.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available. Download from @ddosecrets.org: data.ddosecrets.org/Inside%20CEC... Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi... The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best

Writers from the Luasan Collective examine how long-standing bid-rigging between Hong Kong’s local state and building contractors created the conditions for the deadly Wang Fuk Court fires in Tai Po.

Tai Po in flames - Lausan

How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.

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Land Value Politics, Kim Phillips-Fein interviews @dlondonwortel.bsky.social —"rather than seeing 'neoliberalism' as a turn towards economic logic, we should see it as a continuation of an older, very narrow fiscal imaginary." www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...

Land Value Politics | Kim Phillips-Fein

An interview with Daniel Wortel-London

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My new piece in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail, and primitive accumulation—analysing how kompromat became the structural engine of his wealth-building scheme, predetermining outcomes and entrenching power relations. spectrejournal.com/jeffrey-epst...

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The first translation of Siegfried Kracauer's "harrowing and hilarious" WWI novel, Ginster, comes out tomorrow. No battles for Ginster, stages his own minor acts of resistance far from the front.

A Lost World War I Classic Returns, as Relevant as Ever

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Got a tip recently about how Trump's tariffs are preventing libraries from sharing books, and causing their loaned books to get stuck or lost in other countries: www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

404media.co

curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy

www.gofundme.com/f/help-heury...

I asked U.S. Northern Command about this (as the federalized California troops are under their authority); they directed me to the Pentagon which directed me to the White House. a WH spokesperson said Trump "exercised his lawful authority" after alleged "violent riots and attacks on law enforcement"

Alex Baumhardt@alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Gov. Tina Kotek said Sunday that she’s aware that 101 California troops arrived in Oregon via plane overnight and that more were on their way. She received no official notice or correspondence from the federal government via @jmshumway.bsky.social oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/05/t...

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

competentposter@competentposter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

wizard frog is insane

"Goodstein had reportedly been receiving death threats in the past few weeks.... 'She's had multiple death threats over the years,' "Just last month, she was involved in a controversial case in determining if voter's personal information in South Carolina could be handed over to the government. "

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Judge's $1.5M beachfront home is burned to the ground as her senator husband is rushed to hospital www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon. There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified. This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

Shooting involving federal agents in Brighton Park under investigation

According to the Department of Homeland Security, a woman allegedly "boxed in" federal authorities, who opened fire.

chicago.suntimes.com

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson@tedhesson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

This is how ICE drove by protesters yesterday. A row of state police separated protesters and ICE vehicles.

Palestinian scholar and feminist Eman Abdelhadi arrested today in Chicago. Here she is calling shame on the cops and demanding they question their life choices.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12mo ago

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

These fascists have taken my friend, Palestinian scholar and feminist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social into custody.

"When she complained, she received a letter [...] The offences you are held on remand for are linked to Palestine Action and impact roles that are considered appropriate for you. The library orderly role is not considered appropriate." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prisoners held over alleged Palestine Action offences face crackdown since group ban

People charged before protest group was proscribed describe restrictions on wearing keffiyehs and holding certain prison jobs

theguardian.com

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

NEW: Recently we reported on L.A. honor student and track star Nory Sontay Ramos and her mom Estela, deported after a routine immigration check-in. Weeks after we met them in Guatemala, where they were in hiding, Estela died suddenly. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

The death of Estela Ramos Baten

Nory Sontay Ramos and her mother Estela were deported after a routine check-in. Two months later, Estela was buried with Guatemalan and U.S. flags draped over her coffin.

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Political violence.

CNN@cnn.com · 12mo ago

The US military killed three people in another deadly strike on a vessel in international waters around South America allegedly "transporting illegal narcotics" from Venezuela, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post. https://cnn.it/4na60EM

"FREE DC! FREE PALESTINE! TRUMP IS THE HITLER OF OUR TIME!"