Knitting and crochet patterns, too.

ICE detained the partner of an acquaintance of mine from college during her green card interview. If this happens to people trying to follow the legal process, in what kind of country are we living?

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence... Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

I got approved to do my first test knit!

It's Don't Argue Inside Your Head With Other People Friday. Today, if you find yourself arguing inside your head w/someone who's not present, or whom it's not safe or not fair for you to argue with, gently move your mind away. Do this as many times as you need.

The disability community needs support & solidarity to fight these pharmaceutical tariffs. Most of us can barely afford our medications as is. We can’t suddenly stop taking them, we will die. We can’t stockpile them. A 100% tariff will cost lives.

The administration has gone straight into Posting Mode without really even taking a more than a few seconds here and there to express sadness and grief for the person in detention who was murdered today. Trump’s statement on it doesn’t even mention it!

To welcome people into the tent, to use the metaphor, should not involve displacing anyone already in the tent, particularly when those people are at risk from what’s outside the tent. Civil rights for all should be non-negotiable.

It’s funny how often grifter pseudoscience results in “answers” that blame, punish, and control women, isn’t it?

I think my inbox just warped reality.

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Technologically advance a band: The Rolling Bronzes

This is unconscionable @nytimes.com. An abdication of journalistic responsibility and judgment.

It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation. But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.

I was working out at the gym near a man and 2 women - all maybe in their early 60s, white, giving MAGA vibes - and they were ranting about how awful the Kimmel suspension is; the man said it was "like something Hitler would do." Make of that what you will.

Since Wednesday, I have been in my car every day beginning at 6 a.m., chasing down reports of ICE throughout the 20th Senate District—my home, where my constituents live—while my phone has literally been ringing off the hook with updates about ICE activity in our neighborhoods.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

They want to cancel Jimmy Kimmel and kill free speech? Time to hit them where it hurts—their pockets: - Cancel Disney+ - Cancel Hulu - Boycott ESPN - Boycott ABC Let them know why you’re canceling/boycotting. - ABC contact: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/art... - Nexstar contact: www.nexstar.tv/contact/

It's Settings -> Data privacy -> Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Cis het people - If you need an issue to throw yourself deeply behind, I am never kidding when I say this is one where the life you save may be your own. Because if you think mass institutionalization will stop with trans people, I have a wealth of reading for you to do about NS Germany.

People would be horrified and disgusted if they had any real awareness of what American immigration law is like even before Trump. A friend who works on immigration policy tells the story of being asked at a public event why undocumented didn't simply "go to the Post Office and get registered."

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

None of the most prominent people talking about universities have any real idea what does and doesn’t happen in classrooms.

The thing about being an artist is that sometimes you’ll have a really silly/cursed image enter your head and spend hours of your life drawing it. Hours you’ll never get back.

Yet again reminding everyone that the feds did not “back off” of Chicago

There is so much bad stuff going on, but you are still someone worth taking care of.

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

There’s likely an organized campaign going on to incite you to say stuff that’s gonna get you suspended or banned (or worse). The right has mentioned the Bluesky reaction to this incident repeatedly. They’re here to find targets. Don’t let them rile you up and goad you into something you’ll regret.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

If you see a big story happening that's paywalled and you can't find a gift link, head to sill.social/links/trending. For example, here's the gift link Sill has for the big WSJ story. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

The Epstein birthday book should be acknowledged as not just indicting a single individual (Donald Trump) but showing the depravity of an entire ruling class whose wealth makes them believe they are above morality.

General and current reminder: if you see unusual police or fed activity in the Chicago area, reach out via Signal at unraveled.66. Anonymity always protected

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.

Slightly diminish a book: The Moderately Uncomfortable Lightness of Being

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Chicagoans should expect a fed tactical team presence here that looks a *lot* like what we already experience from CPD: lots of investigatory stops, legal or not, probably some jump outs leading to car crashes (like half a dozen in DC so far?). It's not unfamiliar. But it will be amplified.

Not sure if you have seen my zines, they may be helpful! “How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe” Chicago edition: drive.google.com/file/d/1e7Ym...

Kind of unbelievable that randomly blowing up that venezuelan boat isn't the only story. I get that there's a lot going on but I mean we did a terrorist attack on Trump's direct order and the whole admin is celebrating it

Trump's hedging comments about whether the National Guard will be deployed in Chicago shouldn't calm anyone's concerns. We're expecting hundreds of federal agents on the ground, attacking our communities, whether the Guard accompanies them or not. In D.C., feds are the ones doing the real damage.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Chicago: Buckle up for the invasion. Save this graphic. We’re at your service. 🫡

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Decent reporting here that plainly describes the likely scenario: intense and dispersed ICE strikes across the burbs & city backed up with larger tactical teams. Guard comes in for the propaganda op *after* the feds attack communities: