BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

This has been Trump's plan all along – it's a page out of the authoritarian playbook. But in Illinois, we won’t bow to bullies and we won't be intimidated by a coward masquerading as a king.

Republicans have majorities in both houses and the White House. If there’s no budget tomorrow, Dems aren’t to blame

When people show you who they are, believe them

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

If anyone's wondering about the "how do we win then??" piece of this, my answer for years has been the same: Convince the 50% of Americans that don't vote that you care, that they should show up. A lot of vulnerable folks don't vote because they don't think politicians DGAF. Change that.

I finally read the entirety of Ezra Klein's interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates and wow is the difference privilege makes so. incredibly. clear. Klein fundamentally thinks this is all about a political party winning or losing. Coates recognizes it's about who gets to be treated as fully human.

I think if you’re running for Congress in Chicago and not talking right now about what’s happening here, what you plan to do about it, and mobilizing your base to fight fascism….that’s extremely disqualifying. Literally, why are you running? We don’t need or want more figureheads. We need leaders.

Let’s be real, the real reason Alderman Reilly is mad about this and the ICE boat on the Chicago River is because he wasn’t invited to cosplay as one of them.

Yeah, I don’t think Ezra Klein does any advocacy that is specific or well-defined enough to call him an activist. He’s a liberal ideologue caught in a lifelong Sisyphean effort to patch over the contradictions of his beliefs. And to the extent that you can be “good” at such a thing, he is

Sometimes I see posts where people advocate for creative folks or journalists to divest from the larger systems of employment and "start your own!" and I understand the sentiment! But then there's never any discussion of the logistics (which are a *substantial* challenge even for existing entities)

We really need to start our own “studios” but without profit as a goal. The only way we save our art forms is to just make stuff, share stuff, love stuff. As long as profit and capital are tied to billionaires, we can’t offer them anything to suck the soul out of. Artists must divest.

I don’t need AI, I need to stop having socks fall behind the drawer requiring me to fish them out with a clothes hanger.

Reminder that I really need to leave Shopify.

democrats can now reach young men by telling them that trump wants to take away their naruto and their one piece

I’ve gotten pretty okay at making a decent chicken stir fry noodle dish in my wok on the fly.

Chicago finally looks like everyone's parents imagine it: gangs of violent young men with guns roaming the streets, literally looking for trouble.

Don’t post AI generated images. Don’t repost AI generated images.

A pigeon has decided that our front porch is its new favorite hangout. I just spent 20 minutes cleaning up pigeon poop with a hose and had it fly onto the railings to watch me three times. The first time I sprayed near it to scare it. Second time I sprayed it directly. Third it narrowly dodged.

Good news: They sell Tim-Tams at Costco now. Bad news: They’ve been Americanized with cheaper shitty ingredients instead of real chocolate and taste noticeably less rich.

You have the right to film police activity, the right to remain silent, the right to speak to an attorney, and the right to refuse to sign anything. For a digital download of our KYR card visit: bit.ly/ICIRRCards

Please keep up the same energy for everyone else that you did for Steve!

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Several of us went to Broadview tonight to scope out the situation for ourselves. What we witnessed was a completely peaceful—even uneventful—protest/gathering, until the exact moment ICE unleashed a totally unprovoked and unwarranted tear-gas attack.

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Hey look they want to fund military invasions of our cities even if there's a shutdown. Thanks @ebpadvocate.bsky.social for the alert. 12 Dem cosponsors so far. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Seven people were just released, greeted with cheers and hugs. @peoplesfabric.com is free.

It seems to me like leadership wanted to manufacture a story about violent ‘ANTIFA’ rioters in Broadview tonight, but by detaining @peoplesfabric.com they forfeit their chance to control the narrative. @govpritzker.illinois.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov y’all better speak up tomorrow

❗️ WE DEMAND THE RELEASE OF JOURNALIST STEVE HELD. Federal agents detained Chicago journalist Steve Held of the independent press platform Unraveled @unraveledpress.com on Saturday, Sept. 27, while he was reporting on the ongoing protests outside the ICE Processing Facility at Broadview, IL. (1/3)

ICE arrested press tonight. They threw a tear gas canister into the press last week. This was not an accident. Release Steve Held.

This is how you do it. #MakeICEIllegal #ArrestICE

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening. A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

This reporter helped expose the falsity of ICE's narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez. His work is a perfect example of why we don't have secret police. Journalists have a constitutional right to cover protests and their aftermath. Release @peoplesfabric.com immediately.

Agents fired pepper balls into a crowd of about 75 protesters Saturday evening and several arrests were made. Steve Held, a Chicago man who describes himself as an independent journalist, was one of those arrested. trib.al/T4ysdlD

When we have a civilized government I’d like to nominate @themountaingoats.bsky.social for poet laureate.

Holy smokes. Hoping @peoplesfabric.com is okay.

When the ones who run the firehouse are the ones who start the fire And the lawyers make the laws And every preacher is a liar And the ones that damn the innocent While they own the nightly news And front page

this morning while pushing a swing at Winnimac Park i overheard a dad say “we were in the burbs for 8 years, moved here so the kids could have a better life” overheard in the wild is a much different vibe that seen on social media… as he uses SM to share 🙃

My theory is, they thought they could ride the Kirk stuff all the way home, they started all this final game fascist stuff rolling, and. They're too excited to stop it, even realizing the political capital went poof with Kimmel. Their blood got pumping and by God they're gonna try it

As someone who has been peacefully protesting at Broadview every Friday for weeks, I cannot in good conscience fail to name these additional risks publicly or advise others to go. ICE is escalating and confrontational protest right now will likely make conditions worse for everyone except ICE. 4/6

There’s a direct connection between @jeffsmithsbone.bsky.social’s Bone appearing in Disney Adventures and my mom advocating for comics in her school. I always wondered how Disney decided to inject an indie juggernaut into its massive readership. @davidharper.bsky.social tracked down this history:

what are the indie and alt-weekly outlets in Portland? who are y’all reading?

Least surprising findings.

In her graphic novel debut, Sleeping While Standing @takisoma.bsky.social‬ shares the key moments that shaped her—with honesty, humor, and heart. Told in 4-page stories. Published by @AveryHillPubl #comics #graphicNovel

I want @govpritzker.illinois.gov to wake up and push for better privacy regulations in Illinois. At a time where dangerous violent actors are stalking our streets, limiting the data they can access makes us all safer.

Hakeem finally cares now that he realizes that no matter how much he misses their asses, they’re going to come for him too. I bet he forgets this in a week. I’m sure he’ll find a way to blame this on Zohran.

Anyone doing a bike bus down from the north side? #BikeChi

If you want to understand why I found the idea of continuing to work in the marketing technology industry to be fundamentally incompatible with my values, here is why. I saw this coming a decade ago and was told by many that I was being silly.

For the last year I’ve been working on a two-player CCG-style card game based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel. It’s a ground up-rewrite of my favorite CCG of the 90s in a very different setting. I’m very far along and looking for a principal artist/illustrator to partner with for character designs.

So this two-person shop has become a load-bearing element of Chicago's coverage of what's happening with the ICE raids. The least you can do is support em: unraveledpress.com/support-unra...