they just had an interview with a scientist on NPR who was inspired by X-Files as a child and said how cool it was to see "a special agent and a physician team up to solve mysteries" so i nearly crashed my car yelling "SCULLY WAS ALSO A SPECIAL AGENT"

If there's a brewery more in-tune with its market than Off Color, I'm unfamiliar with it

Off Color Brewing@offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bears made an announcement today. Indiana sort of but not really yet. Well we have our own real announcement. Just in time for the Chicagoish Bears pre-season opener at Soldier Field this Saturday, Beer for Dealing with Relocation is our new Northern Indiana-style wheat beer.

Finally, a reasonable solution!

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 4w ago

Fair question! I use the periods to avoid slandering the Alberts, Albertos, and Alfredos of the world. I use a lower case "i" to devalue the industry's claim of "intelligence," because "A.i." is not sentient. And I add the quotes because the whole thing is an inaccurate, bogus marketing term.

July is International Zine Month, so let's celebrate some zines by beer writers! Lots of fun ones here by @katiematherkm.bsky.social/@pelliclemag.com, @lucyburningham.bsky.social, @dinfontay.com, @melindag.bsky.social, & others.

It’s almost Shut The Fuck Up Friday again! This whole thread is a great reminder (even for a Thursday)

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2mo ago

Just to be 100% clear, when I say that you should not be talking to the police, I mean specifically that you should say, “I’m invoking my fifth amendment right to remain silent.”

My therapist asked if the ICE abductions were still happening and I was dismayed to see how much this ongoing terror has fallen out of the public eye

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 2mo ago

Northwest Side rapid response reports two people were abducted early this morning at Chicago Ave & Pulaski.

“I think all that happened in Germany…[without] resources that we have today for rapid response organizing… Social media, for good or ill, still continues to be a prevailing force in fighting fascism so long as it remains independent and out of the clutches of fascist enablers.”

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:

Break them

Purchase with Purpose@purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Millions of copyrighted songs were fed to AI music generators - now there's proof Suno and rivals are being sued for $150k per song. A sum that would bankrupt these companies and set an important precedent.

By this point, I’m very used to the first half of that sentence. But the second half is something else.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2mo ago

LATEST: Police tear-gassed protesters who gathered outside the Senatobia Walmart where a police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley on Sunday. Read more: buff.ly/oMSukfJ

DINOSAURS ARE COOL TRANSPHOBIA IS NOT

A ghost told me telepathically that the ballroom is bullshit.

onion person@junlper.beer · 4mo ago

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

Found a pic of me!

Bilbo Yaga@bilboyaga.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“If you don’t embrace it, you’re going to be left behind by AI.” Don’t threaten me with a good time. Pictured below, me and my friends after being left behind by AI:

Nonstop rapid response alerts to ICE sightings in Chicagoland so far this morning.

When Midway Blitz ramped down late last year, federal officials asserted that they weren't done with the Trump admin's mass deportation campaign in Chicagoland. Activity has yet to reach the heights of last fall, but true to their word, ICE never left. My latest, for @southsideweekly.bsky.social:

Months After Midway Blitz, ICE Activity Has Quietly Persisted

As spring begins, immigration enforcement agents are changing how they operate in the Chicago area.

southsideweekly.com

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

ACLU@aclu.org · 6mo ago

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Yall still need to cancel that service. If they did it once, they will do it again! Give them the Target treatment. Keep going.

The Verge@theverge.com · 7mo ago

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Kid Rock led a half time show for parents who have no-contact kids

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...

"They are forcing the public, and Supreme Court Justices, to have to rely solely on the Government’s inaccurate version of events. This Court has the power to shed light on the truth of what happened on October 4."

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NEW: Marimar Martinez, the woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago only to be criminally charged (and cleared), seeks to modify a court order so she can "disclose case materials … to the public." Her atty, Chris Parente, points to events in Minneapolis as well as writings by Justice Samuel Alito:

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴@miawong.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It's really distressing the extent to which in all of this Silverio Villegas González, the first man to be murdered by ICE in the streets, has been almost completely forgotten Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

Donate to Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE, organized by Jac Kovarik

I have been involved in rapid response in the Twin Cities area since the b… Jac Kovarik needs your support for Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE

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Yeah this is EXACTLY what they did after killing Silverio Villegas González here. The ICE agents who killed him walked around the scene, picked up dropped gear and a magazine, holstered their weapons, and then one drove their car away. Cops helped them out and never even asked their names.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I don't know. You kill a man and then you just leave? You're law enforcement and you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not going to clean up our mess'?"

It’s this shit, Fam. People always tell on themselves. You just gotta pay attention.

Aren Aizura@incommensurati.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Every day some story breaks me some. Today it’s the guy who approached parents at a school patrol, told them he was with Indivisible, and asked about how the patrol system works. The parents gave vague answers, followed him back to his car — and of course it was ICE.

We still do not know the names of the ICE agents who killed Silverio Villegas González on September 12, 2025 outside of Chicago. If you have any information, please reach out on Signal at @tpf.99.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 8mo ago

Traffic is flowing again, large number of people have dispersed. A small crowd is lingering at the site of the shooting. Media doing interviews. A sign for Silverio Villegas González, shot and killed by ICE behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September, sits in the snow and flowers.

Happening now: hundreds have gathered in downtown Chicago to rally against both ICE/Border Patrol violence and US intervention in Venezuela. This is one of only multiple anti-ICE demonstrations planned in Chicago this weekend.

I hope a lot of white women are realizing it's better to be alone than to be living with someone who thinks Good deserved to be murdered.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I hope a lot of white women are seeing all those MAGA men out there claiming that Renee Good deserved to be publicly executed simply because of the way she looked and sounded - and are thinking “wait a minute, she looked and sounded just like me.”