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It's been another morning of terror in Chicagoland. ICE is snatching people across burbs + city. More cars abandoned on the side of the road, & more day laborers disappeared. A van rolls into the Broadview "processing facility." After gates close, agents move 3 men in shackles into the building.

DAILY MEMO: Rapid Responders Foil ICE Raid Again at The Same Car Wash Targeted a Third Time This Week @eltragon.bsky.social

Xp Lee, a health equity analyst for the MN Dept. of Health and a former member of the Brooklyn Park City Council, won yesterday's special election to replace the late Melissa Hortman, joining the DFL caucus and bringing the House back to an even 67-67 tie. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/xp-le...

"Family members said that the man was released from the hospital after he said he was tased in the face while being taken into federal custody."

Months after Microsoft layoffs, Zenimax unions never stopped fighting for impacted workers aftermath.site/zenimax-unio...

“Honestly, most of the brutality came from our local law enforcement.” -Hasan Piker Featuring @shoton35mm.bsky.social 🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social

NEW: The ACT Legislative Assembly has today moved to enshrine access to adequate housing as a human right, in an Australian-first decision that passed with bipartisan support WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP4-...

Please support @thetriibe.com today. They are doing critical reporting right now threading together updates on ICE in the area:

Former CDC chief says she was fired for resisting RFK Jr. orders on vaccines minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/17/r...

Hidden deep in a must-pass State Department funding bill is a provision that would allow for unlimited transfers of U.S. weapons to a special Israel-based stockpile in the next fiscal year, strengthening a pathway for giving American weapons to Israel with reduced public scrutiny.

"They’re doing an awful, evil thing based on a self-evidently foolish strategy, one that has repeatedly failed for them. And they’re doing it without even the pretense of values. One day they believed in trans rights, the next day they didn’t." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

FBI Director Kash Patel appeared to not know of infamous mass shooter Dylann Roof, who murdered nine people at a historic Black church in 2015 in one of the deadliest white supremacist massacres in modern U.S. history. “Can you give me a reminder? I’ve got a lot in front of me,” he said.

Wednesday's morning light. Today at Chicago Harbor Lighthouse.

"Assault rifles turn survivable injuries into fatal ones. They turn small tragedies into mass tragedies." – Dr. Tim Kummer, first physician on the scene at the mass shooting at Church of the Annunciation. You can read his powerful testimony below, in full. minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/17/l...

My review of Silksong is up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVHX...

Independent journalists are stepping up where traditional outlets are pulling back. They’re covering communities, beats, and stories that would otherwise go untold. That’s why Project C launched their #BackIndieMediaDrive with 34 indie journalists to support this month: projectc.biz/backindiemedia

Thanks for supporting independent media.

“We must leave no stone unturned,” U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, said in a statement. “Mississippi’s history of racial violence against African Americans cannot be ignored, and our community deserves both truth and accountability.”

Defending the Earth is deadly work. A new report illuminates how much. Nearly 150 land and environment defenders were killed or disappeared last year, most for standing up to mining and logging. grist.org/global-indig... #Climate #Indigenous #Tribes #Environment #GreenSky

A top PR firm with close ties to the Biden administration has reportedly prematurely cut a contract to run a pro-Israel propaganda program on social media after a report on the agreement caused backlash this week.

“‘A bathroom bill would never be passed in the UK’ Labour MP Ruth Cadbury confidently declared in 2016 in response to North Carolina doing so. Prohibitions on toilet access, like what the Tar Heel state had just passed were ‘malicious, misinformed and directly threaten transgender people.’”

We ranked the very best Mexican Restaurants in the Los Angeles Area by their food. We ended up with 43, and Borreguitas, a vegan restaurant in Pomona, made the end cap. Check it out: lataco.com/best-mexican...

JKR is demonizing trans people yet again while literally quoting Hitler. This is why I block people with a Hogwarts house in their bio on sight.

“They hate us and want us dead and gone. But where do we go? This is our home, our history. This is our land.”

Zypher's designer, @araukana.bsky.social, learned illustration by painting the RPG's fantastical world one page spread at a time. They talk about colors, breathing life into a breathing world, and the power of comics.

This week's episode of Fully Ramblomatic is now available with @yahtzeecroshaw.bsky.social reviewing Hollow Knight: Silksong!

The federal government cut funds for the National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials earlier this year. But despite that, the Cree community of Chisasibi is searching at two former residential schools in Quebec.

Via @jennifershutt.bsky.social: Former CDC Director Susan Monarez testified that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told her she needed to commit to approving upcoming recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without reviewing any data or research.

IKEA Winnipeg has been working with Four Star Woman, or Lesley Beardy, in their reconciliation journey. It’s working with Indigenous communities, learning Indigenous history and teachings, and now has a permanent exhibition and Indigenous family room.

Hot Pig Jump! is one of the best platformers of 2025. You're a pig. You're going to fight God. Your animal friends have summoned their souls as literal platforms to guide your quest.

U.S. immigration officials have repeatedly held detainees longer than 12 hours in their South Portland facility, city officials said Wednesday, a violation of its conditional land use approval that could put the facility on track to be evicted. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Back in July, @kaytsukel.bsky.social reported for us on the impact that the GOP/trump budget bill would have on labor and delivery and now we’re seeing the effects

“Dalia, have you and your family evacuated? They’re about to bomb the tower beside you — and the one across from you. Hurry!” I immediately started hearing neighbors screaming and people running through the streets in panic.

'I never thought I would be up here and sharing my story, my experience, my story to you all and to my people.'

The council wasn’t hiring a municipal walker, but she took the job anyway. Once a month since September 2022, artist Lian Bell has done a full circuit of the North and South Circular Roads, observing these 14km through the seasons.

Our bodies are ridiculous meatsacks that break in all kinds of unexpected and often unpleasant ways. But sometimes they just keep working as usual, even when they very clearly shouldn't

I write to etch my voice into an eternity in the face of oblivion. #eiGazaDispatches

"Even by traditional conservative visions of patriotism, the project of the current administration and its advocates constitute a betrayal." www.liberalcurrents.com/pluralism-pa...

Gas stove makers quietly delete air pollution warnings as they fight mandatory health labels. Manufacturers sued to stop a Colorado law requiring air quality warnings, arguing gas stoves are safe. Some of their websites once said the opposite. grist.org/accountabili... #Stove #Health #Gas #Policy

New EU envoy to Tel Aviv is already complicit in genocide electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

Draughts workers at both London locations will be striking every Saturday of October to further pressure ownership to accept their demands.

“We must leave no stone unturned,” U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, said in a statement. “Mississippi’s history of racial violence against African Americans cannot be ignored, and our community deserves both truth and accountability.”

Not all Chicanos appropriate Mexican culture, but as some are generations removed from their Indigenous roots, or simply don’t have strong connections to Mexico, it can lead to an easy slip. By Fabiola Santiago The full story: lataco.com/chicano-cult...

When you support Maximum Fun podcasts (and other independent media), this is what you're supporting. This is what it's all about.

"I can understand how these “Twitter Files”-heads feel. After all, some low-level feds suggested that Twitter remove some conspiracy posts during a global public health emergency. Compared to that rampant tyranny, a sitting president openly threatening his critics is hardly worth tweeting about."

The 37th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival is shining a light on Indigi-queer storytelling.

On the Night of the Pencils—September 16, 1976—Argentine police kidnapped high school students in one of the most heinous acts of the military dictatorship. Students today are still marching in their honor. Latest episode of #StoriesOfResistance from @undertheshadow.bsky.social

Since 2012, at least 2,253 environmental defenders have been murdered or disappeared. Far more have been abducted, threatened, harassed and assaulted.

Last week, Prism published a monthslong investigation by @laubast.bsky.social in partnership with Visualizing Palestine, that reveals how the Palestine exception functions within mainstream U.S. newsrooms.🧵

A first of its kind conference in Edmonton has drawn Elders, treaty experts and others to talk about the importance of treaties. www.aptnnews.ca?p=276744

Protesters rally against $12B cut to education in Trump plan, US House bill | via Shauneen Miranda #ksleg

Former CDC chief says she was fired for resisting RFK Jr. orders on vaccines | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ksleg

The 2025/2026 Indigenous Theatre Series got underway this month at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. It opened with a showing that contrasts the peaceful Indigenous ecosystem of an Amazonian rainforest, with the devastating effects of mining development.

A Senate working group on gun violence prevention met Wednesday morning and quickly revealed that Republicans still oppose new gun control laws. minnesotareformer.com/2025/09/17/t...

Kimberly Espy is out as president of Wayne State University, but the turmoil she left behind at the School of Medicine is far from over.

Via @andreadotweb.bsky.social: It was not clear Wednesday afternoon how many employees were terminated by Auburn, or what the nature of the posts were that led to their terminations.

​As criticism of Canada’s oligopolies mount, the establishment media is taking another tack—advising elites invest big in them. Harrison Samphir an @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social analyze how the media is celebrating the benefits of a cost-of-living crisis for everyone else.

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The city of Yellowknife was treated to a visit by the Supreme Court of Canada as part of their 150th anniversary tour this year. APTN’s Bruce De La Cruz shows us why every Canadian should know how the Supreme Court works, including Indigenous people.

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Kansas Republicans yearn to touch the hot stove of redistricting. We’ll see if they get burned. #ksleg

Via @chatlanis.bsky.social and @stateline.org: At least 17 states have taken steps to ensure broader access to the COVID-19 vaccine since last month, when the federal government significantly restricted eligibility for the shot.

This new machine churns out carbon-storing biochar on the cheap. A worker-owned cooperative is deploying PyroTowers to produce biochar, which helps farmers in the developing world improve their yields. grist.org/climate/this... #Climate #Cassava #Corn #Wheat #Rice #Farms #Farming #Food #Science

Kansas activists arrested in Washington say they want political concerns heard | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg

Farmworkers already face harsh conditions. Now they may have to deal with a pay cut. Hard-line immigration policy, climate change, and labor shortages are colliding to create a real problem for U.S. farms. grist.org/labor/farmwo... #Food #Farms #Immigrants #Immigration #Labor #Agriculture

New research tracks the alarming number of European heat deaths linked with human-caused global warming.

Award-winning journalist Brandi Morin just spoke with land defenders on the south of Vancouver Island. A B.C. Supreme Court has just ordered them to stop blocking the road leading into an old-growth forest in the Walbran Valley. We spoke with her today.

"Since January, 43 federal bills and executive orders were introduced that negatively affect Black people... "Another 987 anti-trans bills have been introduced... since January; 122 have passed so far. "One-third of Trump’s 36 executive orders negatively affect trans people."

James Marston Fitch argued that the reuse of existing buildings should be prioritized over construction of new ones. His simple yet radical thesis is more relevant than ever. For our “Future Archive” series, Places Editor Nancy Levinson writes an introduction to a paper delivered by Fitch in 1978.

Graffiti on synagogues and the intergenerational trauma of war Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social

Chinese miners are illegally plundering gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, causing vast environmental destruction and endangering human health, a new report says.

The Meadow Lake Tribal Council in Saskatchewan says they’re dealing with an ongoing public safety crisis in many Indigenous communities. They’re calling on the RCMP and both the province and the feds for action to address ‘critical gaps in policing services and resources.’

👋 Hey friends — it’s Day 2 of the #Grist50 launch! We’re spotlighting this year’s class of innovators, builders & dreamers shaping a better future. 🌱⚡ Check them out : grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Leadership #Climate #GreenSky #Policy #Art #Farming #Tech #Solar #Renewables #Justice

The day after he announced he’s running for a third term as Minnesota governor, Tim Walz got a taste of what a Republican campaign could look like against him, as his administration faced withering questions about a now defunct state housing program that was riddled with fraud.

Confusion followed Ottawa’s crackdown on Jordan’s Principle as costs topped $2B www.aptnnews.ca?p=276721

If you're wondering why I'm no longer on academia dot edu, this is why:

"My life is so short and corrupted by the fact that I was born in the wrong body, and there’s a great, churning, grinding machine of chaos that exists on either side of my life, and I’m being hurled toward the end of my life at all moments. I must make Bon Iver-inspired twee folk music."

New bridge for cyclists and pedestrians “critical” to route linking Blanchardstown and Phoenix Park, council official says. The council has set the wheels in motion on building it, in Castleknock, next to the Granard Bridge.

This has become the only way to get a Racket hoodie. (We sold out, but the prizes remain.)

I think this means the FCC just wiped out whatever protection we might've had from spam calls/texts. 😕 (Can someone who's a lawyer PLEASE tell me I've got this wrong? I'd really like to be wrong.) www.insidearm.com/news/0009418...

Against law, the Courts Service website published names of some people seeking asylum by “error”. A spokesperson says it has revised its processes to make sure it won’t happen again. But on Tuesday, some applicants’ names remained on its website.

I may be a bit biased because I think everything @monospace.com does is wonderful, but how freaking amazing are these tiny landscape paintings? He’ll be selling them at the Hoboken Fall Arts & Music Festival on 9/28 (and soon on his Etsy shop, www.etsy.com/shop/monospace) #art

Climbing advocates are urging the public to oppose the proposed rollback of the Roadless Rule, which could open up prized Wyoming climbing zones such as the Wind River Range and Tensleep Canyon to activities like roadbuilding and timber harvesting.

"In my relatively short time in Dublin, one of the things that has impressed me most is the ability of the Irish to stand up for their rights," writes Fahd Hussein, of inspiration for the image he made for our latest print edition.

Parents, school administrators and disability rights advocates are rallying the public to protect federal programs.

Committee hears about plan to extend Halifax Urban Greenway, build active transportation to Point Pleasant Park By @suzannerent.bsky.social

Via @andreadotweb.bsky.social: Alabama State Schools Superintendent Eric Mackey said the letter stemmed from what he described as three “inexcusable” social media posts by three Alabama educators about the shooting of right-wing political commentator and talk radio show host Charlie Kirk.

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Global eel conservation proposal draws opposition from N.S. fishers By Yuan Wang

Some prepaid commuters on Dublin’s public transport are finding they have to pay again. Their Leap Cards charged up through the TaxSaver scheme aren’t working.

Livingston’s Max Johansen gave up his new post as the party’s vice chair after acknowledging ‘disruptive’ comments.

TODAY: Carrie Frye’s friend deals with a simply delightful situation. “There’s one duckling in the basement that’s so small it’s no bigger than a thumb. It has the tiniest, wee-est bill sticking out from its down.” flaminghydra.com/make-way-for...

"To read James Marston Fitch's books today is to be impressed by their ambition, erudition, and not least, up-front democratic politics. What’s especially striking is the continuing insistence that buildings are not just artifacts to be designed, but environments to be inhabited and experienced."

New Kansas Supreme Court justice takes the bench | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg

The four people from St. Theresa Point who died in a recent plane crash in northern Manitoba last weekend have been identified.

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: A federal court heard arguments Tuesday in Alabama’s appeal of a 2024 ruling that blocked a portion of a state law criminalizing some forms of absentee ballot assistance.

Kansas Court of Appeals digs into strange law and armed Crawford County protest | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg

The four people from St. Theresa Point who died in a recent plane crash in northern Manitoba last weekend have been identified.

NEW: Thousands of New Yorkers have new health insurance from the company Leading Edge Administrators. One Massachusetts retiree’s battle with the company highlights the risks they face.

NEW: Thousands of New Yorkers have new health insurance from the company Leading Edge Administrators. One Massachusetts retiree’s battle with the company highlights the risks they face.

$8.6 billion nursing home expansion plan needs more oversight, auditor general says By @dartjenhen.bsky.social