If you're in Illinois and facing criminal charges from protesting ICE, or if you were attacked by ICE or law enforcement supporting them, I might be able to represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

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Since you've voluntarily invited a boycott, you get one. A thread 🧵 about investors in Bluesky, who would love to hear your feedback by phone, snail mail, or email.

WHY DID @govpritzker.illinois.gov SEND STATE POLICE TO PROTECT ICE?

Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.

five of the 11 people arrested during last night’s protest outside the ice detention center in broadview, illinois, are still in federal custody, per a statement from the national lawyers guild of chicago. nlg details indiscriminate violence directed at legal observers, protesters, and press.

it’s difficult to express how dangerous an organization the college board is in the total absence of any kind of social justice mission

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Out of fucking control and if I were an elected Dem or running for office I’d be in front of every camera I could find telling America your prescriptions just got twice as expensive, your health insurance premiums are about to skyrocket from ACA subsidy cancellation, and oh the gov shuts down Wed.

This story has been updated to reflect that these rumors are not true. So let’s make them real. See y’all Friday morning at 1930 Beach Street!

hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov @mayorofchicago.bsky.social that press conference a few weeks ago was great but what's up now

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"Hundreds of activists, immigrants and their supporters gathered outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office to protest President Donald Trump’s intensifying immigration enforcement in sanctuary cities like #Boston." apnews.com/video/hundre...

Once again reminding everyone that I was SWATed during Occupy for doing community work, including tutoring and MA. They showed up, busted in doors, killed a whole farm, and carted us off, with completely fabricated charges. None of this is new. NONE OF THIS IS NEW NONE OF THIS IS NEW

If this gets through, we're all on that list. And then there's no fleeing anything.

Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.

Looks like the ICE presence in Chicagoland—and I emphasize the “land” part—is purposefully operating in a way as to avoid media coverage. By grabbing people here and there on city edges, outskirts & random suburbs, they don’t attract activity that generates coverage, let alone protest.

This is no time minimize or look away from what's happening in Chicago.

ICE killed a father of three in Franklin Park a few days ago. They are snatching people at gas stations, at bus stops, and from their homes and cars, leaving screaming, panicked children in their wake. It is a nightmare, and when ICE has amassed 10,000 new agents, it could be the new normal.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

ICE has fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters outside their Broadview facility. They are terrorizing immigrants across Chicagoland. The time to resist is now. It will only get harder as authoritarianism tightens its grip. Please pay attention to this struggle.

Look I think valuing human life is a phenomenal, wonderful, fantastic idea and also that’s why everyone opposes the genocide in Palestine and the colonial violence in Haiti and Sudan and Congo right? Oh oh you didn’t mean those lives I see

Chicago moots, please be careful. There's a group of proud boys holding a vigil for Charlie Kirk on an overpass above the Kennedy Expressway near Harlem Avenue. We passed them on our way to the Birdy vet.

Baraa is 17 and desperately needs to escape Gaza so he can get the life-saving surgery he needs. Please help if you can.

Chicago forever

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Hey y’all, if you have a hard time reading about caregiver abuse, addiction, or “wellness” grifting, you may want to avoid posts about Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir. It’s not a “harmless” level of unhinged, this was disturbing to read.

Part of what’s driving Trump’s attack on the federal government is that his administration is full of neo-nazis who think federal employees are basically all unqualified black women in make-work jobs (eg HUD, Education) or ((communists)) (eg DOJ, State). They actively want to harm such employees

we are so back

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

With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

If not for Chicago, we might not have Labor Day. Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.

NEW — Black organizers and elected leaders gathered today to denounce Trump’s threats to send military forces to Chicago. They are developing a 30-day emergency response plan, which includes establishing mutual aid hubs and Know Your Rights training sessions. thetriibe.com/2025/08/blac...

Fox is already using the shooting as an opportunity to talk up RFK Jr.'s SSRI ban proposal, so maybe reconsider that line of questioning. Especially when there is a far more common element linking mass shootings.

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I know I talk about this a lot, but I swear, if you want to know how this industry broke my heart and how so many of the people responsible are still happily chugging along in it, this thread is a *perfect* summary.

I just want to remind all my fellow Americans out there to please keep calling your Senators about KOSA and IODA and the SCREEN Act. All the resisting you do will be meaningless if, for example, your literature gets defined as obscene and carrying it becomes a federal crime.

I'm seeing fewer posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation, and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them and losing them money. Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of. ⬇️

Alma Bowman, a 58 year old disabled woman, was a whistle blower about sexual abuse & sterilization in detention centres. She spent 30 months in ICE custody. When released she helped the government expose these atrocities, and now ICE has her again. She’s been locked up since March.

And there I am, because of fucking course I am. Adding myself to the class action lawsuit now. Namesearch yourself, authors.

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It's like a virus. If they put out a statement at 2 weeks and we stop, then the next time they censor even more, we'll have to call 4 weeks to get them to even make a statement. The fight won't be easier to win a year from now. We just have to be relentless, we can't give them a recovery period.

Bumping this again. Still plenty of time to submit essays or art and please hit me up if you have any questions about what to submit