The Drake Motel
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I have no opinion about this, and I have no opinion about that
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The @chicagoreader.com is and has been consistently excellent. I really hope that they get the resources they need to continue for 50 more years. Why are rich progressives not funding local independent media?
This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.
This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.
The Cook County jail’s new $7 million visitation center
Cook County wants to create an oasis inside the infamous jail. But the renovation will do little to address the harm of incarceration itself
chicagoreader.com
July 29, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The @chicagoreader.com is and has been consistently excellent. I really hope that they get the resources they need to continue for 50 more years. Why are rich progressives not funding local independent media?
This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.
This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.
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watching the Knicks win through the window of a Brooklyn townhouse
June 11, 2026 at 3:41 AM
watching the Knicks win through the window of a Brooklyn townhouse
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I interviewed @josephoneill.bsky.social again to ask what he would do if he were Chuck Schumer (short answer: resign)
If I Were Chuck Schumer | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake
With about four months still to go until the midterm elections, the Trump administration remains largely unchecked by Congress in its exercises and abuses
www.nybooks.com
June 5, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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I interviewed @josephoneill.bsky.social again to ask what he would do if he were Chuck Schumer (short answer: resign)
If I Were Chuck Schumer | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake
With about four months still to go until the midterm elections, the Trump administration remains largely unchecked by Congress in its exercises and abuses
www.nybooks.com
June 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I interviewed @josephoneill.bsky.social again to ask what he would do if he were Chuck Schumer (short answer: resign)
And meanwhile, the brilliant @bijan.bsky.social went long on the beautiful music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland
May 4, 2026 at 7:29 PM
And meanwhile, the brilliant @bijan.bsky.social went long on the beautiful music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Returning from a social media break to share this interview with the man of mystery Daniel Lefferts
Mystery Brain | Daniel Lefferts, Daniel Drake
Last year the right-wing Passage Publishing, whose mission—“to push forward new ideas and ways of thinking that can break us out of our cultural and
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May 4, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Returning from a social media break to share this interview with the man of mystery Daniel Lefferts
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Jake Nevins on the the illusion of international comity at the Olympics https://go.nybooks.com/4vAaitT
War Games | Jake Nevins
At the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics, held simultaneously at venues in Milan, Cortina, Livigno, and Predazzo, the notion of the games as an occasion
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April 19, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Jake Nevins on the the illusion of international comity at the Olympics https://go.nybooks.com/4vAaitT
"The Olympic Truce, said the committee just days after the initial airstrikes and right before the start of the Paralympic Games, is an 'aspirational and non-binding resolution,' an expression of principles that is ultimately unenforceable if not entirely symbolic." Jake Nevins on a haunted Olympics
War Games | Jake Nevins
At the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics, held simultaneously at venues in Milan, Cortina, Livigno, and Predazzo, the notion of the games as an occasion
www.nybooks.com
April 19, 2026 at 1:30 PM
"The Olympic Truce, said the committee just days after the initial airstrikes and right before the start of the Paralympic Games, is an 'aspirational and non-binding resolution,' an expression of principles that is ultimately unenforceable if not entirely symbolic." Jake Nevins on a haunted Olympics
"What were the novels I’d gobbled up as a child doing on the same shelf as Raw Egg Nationalist?" Daniel Lefferts gets to the bottom of why a right-wing press is reissuing the Hardy Boys novels
The Hardy Men | Daniel Lefferts
In 2022 Jonathan Keeperman, then a lecturer in the English department at the University of California, Irvine, who for years had moonlighted as a
www.nybooks.com
April 16, 2026 at 4:58 PM
"What were the novels I’d gobbled up as a child doing on the same shelf as Raw Egg Nationalist?" Daniel Lefferts gets to the bottom of why a right-wing press is reissuing the Hardy Boys novels
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Minnesota is still under attack.
Federal thugs swarmed Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. Witnesses report tear gas used on students and staff. At least two school employees were handcuffed. Video evidence is circulating. DHS is denying it happened 🤬
Schools should be safe havens!
Federal thugs swarmed Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. Witnesses report tear gas used on students and staff. At least two school employees were handcuffed. Video evidence is circulating. DHS is denying it happened 🤬
Schools should be safe havens!
February 12, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Minnesota is still under attack.
Federal thugs swarmed Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. Witnesses report tear gas used on students and staff. At least two school employees were handcuffed. Video evidence is circulating. DHS is denying it happened 🤬
Schools should be safe havens!
Federal thugs swarmed Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. Witnesses report tear gas used on students and staff. At least two school employees were handcuffed. Video evidence is circulating. DHS is denying it happened 🤬
Schools should be safe havens!
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Such an important story: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the U.S. and the fear of what comes next.
@micarosenberg.bsky.social
@micarosenberg.bsky.social
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Such an important story: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the U.S. and the fear of what comes next.
@micarosenberg.bsky.social
@micarosenberg.bsky.social
Drake is, properly, a last name
February 8, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Drake is, properly, a last name
On top of everything else, she's so chic!
January 31, 2026 at 8:52 PM
On top of everything else, she's so chic!
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He murders you and drags your corpse through the mud. Fintan O’Toole on the “crime” of witness. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
The Crime of Witness | Fintan O’Toole
Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:46 PM
He murders you and drags your corpse through the mud. Fintan O’Toole on the “crime” of witness. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
I know everybody over here already knows this, but it is still helpful to see concrete proof that protesting and documentation work, that they are a meaningful, necessary part of politics
blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/27/l...
blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/27/l...
!["At Broadview, if it weren’t for the people who continued to show up and demand [answers], these lawsuits wouldn’t have been available, wouldn’t have been possible,” Rep. Delia Ramirez told the crowd. She represents Illinois’s 3rd District and serves on the congressional committee overseeing the Department of Homeland Security.
“The reason the judge was able to force [Border Patrol chief Gregory] Bovino to come to court and wear a body camera is because of the work that you do every single day,” Ramirez said. “Give yourselves another round of applause. You are holding them accountable. You are the justice."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26vjjjgrwv25tcmxgvwodd45/bafkreihjpgifhh4u6vkattanoks6zxnkzjv3oduv37nu75zfokvpxkpjj4)
January 27, 2026 at 7:13 PM
I know everybody over here already knows this, but it is still helpful to see concrete proof that protesting and documentation work, that they are a meaningful, necessary part of politics
blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/27/l...
blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/27/l...
"Schumer and Jeffries...should be voted out of office." www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 AM
"Schumer and Jeffries...should be voted out of office." www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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Benito and friends at the gas station, their feet in the air
January 25, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Benito and friends at the gas station, their feet in the air
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Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
January 24, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
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Alex Pretti was an intensive care nurse in the Veterans Administration Health Care system.
“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express his care for others,” his dad said.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOutOfMinnesota
#ProtectNurses
#HoldHisKillersAccountable
“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express his care for others,” his dad said.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOutOfMinnesota
#ProtectNurses
#HoldHisKillersAccountable
January 24, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Alex Pretti was an intensive care nurse in the Veterans Administration Health Care system.
“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express his care for others,” his dad said.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOutOfMinnesota
#ProtectNurses
#HoldHisKillersAccountable
“He felt that doing the protesting was a way to express his care for others,” his dad said.
#AbolishICE
#ICEOutOfMinnesota
#ProtectNurses
#HoldHisKillersAccountable
Wrote to @josephoneill.bsky.social to talk about authoritarianism, the horrors in Minneapolis, and what to do about useless Democrats
The Politics of Raw Power | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake
On Wednesday a group of Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis pinned a man to the ground and, while he was immobilized, blasted pepper spray into his face
www.nybooks.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Wrote to @josephoneill.bsky.social to talk about authoritarianism, the horrors in Minneapolis, and what to do about useless Democrats
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every republican president destroys the economy
2025 is now, officially, the worst year for job creation outside of recession since 2003.
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 1:47 PM
every republican president destroys the economy