As weather warms more condensation is captured which creates more amounts of rainfall and these superfloods.

They are arriving because of the mass mobilizations and they have figured out that Twitter isn't going to be the main space to monitor activity.

I have been watching the devastating videos from friends and colleagues. Some folks are still missing in cold waters. The few news and info sources for locals are also the same ones being cut by federal funding. People should know this is happening

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

Pro tip to reporters and protesters: always have swim goggles in your pockets or bags. They’re small, $10 and if tear gas is used, slip them on & no matter how much you cough, you’ll still be able to SEE without burning eyes.

This Is Fascism

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

New Q & A answers are up! Readers sent in thoughtful questions on city raids, digital surveillance, the disappearing internet, and much more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

The Saturday Night Fever episode of @bookversusmovie.bsky.social is so bittersweet knowing Margo D is no longer with us. She literally wrote the book! If you love history and pop culture, there is a decade of episodes to choose from and thankfully more to come from @shesnachomama.bsky.social

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Father David has something to say. He's right. #USDemocracy

Post this everywhere‼️ -and- RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

A nation planning for the Super Bowl and debating the details of the halftime show doesn’t fully understand our rapidly worsening situation/predicament and isn’t really serious about fighting back.

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

I’m. So. Tired. I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

“The absence of Black journalists doesn’t just harm us, it impoverishes the entire profession,” NABJ President Errin Haines declared. “When our voices are missing, stories go untold, perspectives go unchallenged, and the truth remains incomplete.” blackpressusa.com/pew-finds-ju...

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition. A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

Trump & the GOP are not just saying they don’t want undocumented immigrants to have health care — they’re saying they don’t want millions of Americans to have health care if it means any undocumented immigrant gets cared for in an ER. Not “pro-life”. #TrumpShutdown

The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this.

Ice is kidnapping black citizens in Chicago in the middle of the night.

Rodney Taylor still needs our help! He’s still locked in an ICE camp. He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs. He’s still facing deportation to Liberia. He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored. Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!

Wanna know whose shutdown this is? Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

I am a native born US citizen. I don't hate immigrants. I wish that they could come here legally and have protection under our laws. I don't wish them any ill will. I think that dehumanizing them is disgusting.

The crazy thing is that we want affordable healthcare for them, too.

The #TrumpShutdown in 36 seconds 👏🏼

Medicaid cuts have started. Medicaid wants a third of my disability to cover costs of meds and services; i get 1550 for schiz and they want 426 from it. All so the wealthy get tax cuts. I have military and college experience but can't get a part time job. Please repost so people know.

Tim Walz: "We're in a massive misinformation campaign. The president himself tweeting out AI videos of fake news reports on healthcare. This is really dangerous. I cannot express to you the concern and absolutely bafflement and fear of our European allies asking me, 'Is this stuff really going on?'"

This is happening to you and your neighbors right now. Your class, your education, your skin color, your gender will not protect you, your loved ones or your neighbors. This is happening to all of us. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

🗣️THIS is the message!! Brava, Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social!!

SPREAD THE WORD: Republicans are really shutting down the government because they want you to pay more than TWICE as much for health care next year. Congress must address the GOP health care crisis. We can't let families lose health care because of this.

Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting The names of the dead and wounded Jose Andres Bordones-Molina Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Rosie Perez! “If you feel in your heart that there is a necessity for change for what is right and what is good, I ask you, try to dig deep and push through that fear and take that first step, even if it's a tiny one … And know that when you do, you will not be marching up that hill alone.”

Read my statement on President Trump’s decision to send U.S. troops to Portland.

Hours after Charlie Kirk was shot, I emailed my editors at a major American newspaper a potential column focused on the role of Christian Nationalism + radicalization of young white Christian men. They killed it. This is what they published instead. The last line: The Show Must Go On.

you guys aren’t gunna like what, historically, people like you need to do to make the stuff you hate stop. i get the sense you’re gunna throw lots and lots of money at people promising that you don’t need to do those things. people who use that money to stay safe while you’re left out to dry.

Democrats want a government funding bill that won't raise your health care costs by 75%. Trump won't even meet with them. He’s shutting the government down and making health care even more expensive for families. What a bad deal for America.

"If you can recognize what it takes to disrupt a functioning system, you can see that these systems, regimes, and their political leaders are vulnerable to collapse." Today @katelovesmath.bsky.social uses physics and science to help explain our political moment with a dash of optimism.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.