ICE, ICE, Baby: Sexy Halloween costume trends for 2025

Sexy law enforcement costumes look to be popular for Halloween this year, given the politicized focus on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency right now.
Halloween costume vendors Yandy, Spencer’s and Spirit Halloween are offering a riot of sexy cop outfits this year.
If female ICE agents and supporting law enforcement officers looked as good as these ladies, I’d have no problem being manhandled by them.
Also popular this year are Wizard of Oz-themed costumes because of the upcoming movie “Wicked: For Good.”
Topical costumes last year included take-offs on the movie “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and a sexy Ozempic weight-loss shot.
What follows are photos of some sexy cop costumes for Halloween. They include Lt. Ivana Misbehave, Sgt. Bustya and Officer Pat U Down.

Chicago is Hot Dog City

No city loves its hot dogs as much as Chicago, “hog butcher for the world” as Carl Sandburg wrote in his poem “Chicago.” Though the go-to frank there is the Vienna Beef wiener.
On a recent trip back to Chicago, I visited two famous hot dog joints in the northern neighborhoods of Chicago: Superdawg Chicago in Norwood Park East and Wolfy’s in West Ridge.
In August, I stopped by another famous Chicagoland hot dog restaurant, Gene & June’s in River Grove, Ill.
The experience for each was unique but all of them offered delicious meals with their own twist on the Chicago-style hot dog.
The traditional Chicago-style hot dog features an all-beef frankfurter on a poppy seed bun, topped with yellow mustard, chopped white onions, bright green sweet pickle relish, a dill pickle spear, tomato slices or wedges, pickled sport peppers and a dash of celery salt.
One of the quintessential downtown Chicago hot dog joints is The Weiners Circle in Lincoln Park. It’s known more for its sass and satirical promotions than its food. The late night crowd can get pretty rowdy, according to locals.
Chicago is known for other meaty fast-food delicacies as well including the Italian beef sandwich, Maxwell Street Polish sausage and the gyro sandwich.

Lunch today at the famous Gene & Jude’s hot dog stand in River Grove, Illinois. Delicious Vienna Beef franks and fresh-made fries. I got the double dog with fries and a Coke. pic.twitter.com/TRKUStn4l2

— Patrick Seitz (@PatrickSeitz) August 22, 2025

Yummy lunch today at @Superdawg in Chicago. pic.twitter.com/Wz5xl9KhaT

— Patrick Seitz (@PatrickSeitz) October 3, 2025

Made a stop at popular Chicago-style hotdog restaurant Wolfy’s on the North Side. I wolfed down two Vienna Beef franks with all the fixings plus fries. pic.twitter.com/2sZwkwbQP4

— Patrick Seitz (@PatrickSeitz) October 5, 2025

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Ode to Chicago-style hot dogs (Aug. 31, 2025)

Note to Netflix: Keep the binge-watching option

One of the key innovations that Netflix introduced was “binge watching,” the ability to stream multiple episodes of a new TV show in one sitting. It replaced the legacy broadcast and cable TV model of releasing one new episode every week.
While some people might tolerate or even approve of the old model, I do not. Proponents of the traditional model say it allows a show to build buzz and anticipation for upcoming episodes. But with so many programming options out there, it’s easy to lose track of shows on a weekly release. I need a recap video to watch even new seasons of many shows.
Binge watching gives viewers the option of watching one or more episodes to satisfy their demand. It puts them in control. Weekly episode releases give all the control to the programmer and it seems stingy by today’s standards.
When services such as Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+ and HBO Max release a new series that I’m interested in, I’ll mark my calendar for when the full season will be available.
My suggestion to those services is to switch to the user-friendly binge-watching model and drop the old-school weekly release model.
According to a survey by Hub Entertainment Research, 64% of viewers prefer all episodes of a series to be released at once as opposed to one episode per week (36%).

Photo: Season five of the Apple TV+ series “Slow Horses” premiered on Sept. 24, 2025. But all six episodes won’t be available until Oct. 29. (Apple TV+)

Streaming video services killed traditional TV seasons

I used to look forward to the TV Guide Fall Preview issue. It would get me excited for new TV series that would be premiering in the fall. Now you can hardly find that magazine issue on newsstands.
TV Guide was dominant before the internet when broadcast and cable TV were popular. Back then, new television shows premiered mostly in the fall when people spent more time inside because of the colder weather. Networks used that as an excuse to create an advertising sales event.
Now with streaming video services, new shows are premiering year-round. And many of those services are commercial-free. So they’re producing a steady stream of content to keep subscribers engaged.
The fall TV season still exists though it’s not as big a deal as it used to be.
Here are new and returning shows I’m most interested seeing in this autumn: “Alice in Borderland” (Netflix), “Alien: Earth” (Hulu), Pluribus (Apple TV+), “Slow Horses” (Apple TV+), “Stranger Things” (Netflix), “The Beast in Me” (Netflix), “The Diplomat” (Netflix) and “The Last Frontier” (Apple TV+).

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The Complete Guide to Fall TV 2025: Everything to Know About What to Watch This Season (TV Guide; Sept. 29, 2025)

Fall TV Preview: 56 of the Most-Anticipated New and Returning Shows of 2025 (Variety; Sept. 4, 2025)

Salacious ads are proliferating online. Here are the backstories on some of those teaser photos.

Lately I’ve noticed an increase in suggestive sexual advertising on this website (Tech-media-tainment) and others such as tech news site 9to5Mac.
The ads feature provocative photos of attractive women with teaser descriptions in classic clickbait fashion. Using my online detective skills (namely reverse image search tools), I’ve uncovered the backstories on some of those pictures.

Actress in super short skirt

One ad is titled “Make Sure You Are Alone Before You See These (sic) Actress Without Any Pants.”
The photo with the ad appears to be an altered image of actress and singer-songwriter Aly Michalka on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on April 25, 2011.
The image in the ad shows her with a shorter skirt than in photos from the show. (Getty Images from the show: here and here.)

Video gamer Danielle Mackey

Another ad shows video game vlogger Danielle Mackey and is wrongly titled “Teachers in bikini leaves nothing to imagination.” The poor grammar is a sign of foreign involvement in the ad.

Hot teachers are hot subject

These ads seem to have a fixation on sexy teachers wearing inappropriate outfits.
For instance, one titled “Teacher flaunts shocking curves in transparent outfit photos.” That ad used photos of different women with the same headline. The pictures showed sexy models and apparently porn actresses.
I could find one image for sale on eBay as “Sexy Girl Big Busty Female Teacher,” but the model is not identified.

Sexy country girls another fetish

Based on the advertisements, sexy country girls are another fetish. One ad titled “Country girls leave nothing to imagination” used a photo of English broadcaster and journalist Kate Garraway.

Nip slips always an attention grabber

Another ad titled “These marriage photos are a feast for your eyeballs” used a photo of a woman wearing a wedding gown with her breast exposed.

MILFs as clickbait

A popular subject for these clickbait advertisements is mature women with large breasts, aka MILFs. Several ads use photos of model named Deauxma, pronounced “Doe-may.”

Song of Summer 2025: ‘Ordinary’ by Alex Warren

Music experts say there was no clear “song of summer” for 2025. There was no one tune that dominated the airwaves and captured the mood of the summer season this year.
Songs on my soundtrack that I enjoyed this summer included “APT.” by Rosé and Bruno Mars, “Pink Pony Club” and “The Subway” by Chappell Roan, “Manchild” by Sabrina Carpenter, “What I Want” by Morgan Wallen featuring Tate McRae, and “Sorry I’m Here For Someone Else” by Benson Boone.
Billboard’s Song of Summer chart lists “Ordinary” by Alex Warren as its leader. It was a No. 1 single on the Hot 100 for 10 weeks.
Chart analysts say that 2025 has produced the fewest new hit songs in U.S. history, the Guardian reported. Of the top 10 most-listened-to songs as of July 18 this year in the U.S., only one was released in 2025: “Ordinary” by Alex Warren.
“‘Ordinary’ is the Song of the Summer based on raw chart numbers, but it’s hardly a windows-down beach banger like, say, ‘Espresso.’ It follows the letter, but not the spirit, of the song-of-the-summer law,” Stephen Thompson, writer/editor for NPR Music wrote Aug. 5.
Spotify chose five songs of summer for 2025, all of which got a boost from TikTok: “Ordinary” by Alex Warren, “Shake It To The Max (FLY) – Remix” by MOLIY, Silent Addy, Skillibeng & Shenseea, “Love Me Not” by Ravyn Lenae, “Manchild” by Sabrina Carpenter, and “back to friends” by sombr.
If I had to pick a music artist for summer 2025, I’d choose Morgan Wallen, who currently tops the Billboard Artist 100.

Related articles:

Spotify’s Top 5 Songs of Summer 2025 Revealed: A Softer, More Personal Soundtrack (Spotify; Aug. 27, 2025)

The songs of the summer are here – at least according to Spotify (USA Today; Aug. 27, 2025)

What was the song of the summer? You’ll never, ever guess the correct answer. (The Washington Post; Aug. 28, 2025)

20 Contenders for the 2025 Song of the Summer (Pitchfork; Aug. 6, 2025)

The song of the summer is a bummer (CNN; Aug. 4, 2025)

The Best Summer Songs in 2025: Songs of Summer To Tune Into (Brand Vision Insights; July 24, 2025)

Song of Summer 2024: ‘I Had Some Help’; Breakout artist: Chappell Roan (Tech-media-tainment; Sept. 2, 2024)

Ode to Chicago-style hot dogs

Thanks to the expansion of the Portillo’s restaurant chain outside of Chicago, people across the country can now enjoy Chicago-style hot dogs without having to venture to the Windy City. I love those “dragged through the garden” franks.
When I was living in Wilmette, Ill., my go-to hot dog joint was Irving’s For Red Hot Lovers. It’s got the traditional Chicago-style beef hot dog topped with yellow mustard, bright green sweet pickle relish, chopped white onion, tomato slices, a dill pickle spear, pickled sport peppers, and a dash of celery salt on a steamed poppy seed bun.
On my regular visits to Chicagoland, I like to stop for a dog and fries at Superdawg in Wheeling, Ill.
On my most recent visit this month, I decided to go to one of the most storied hot dog stands in all of Chicago – Gene & June’s in River Grove, Ill. I was not disappointed.
I ordered the double-dog with fries. Gene & June’s tops its franks with mustard, relish, onion and sport peppers. It’s a good hot dog, but the fresh cut and made French fries are the true standout here.