Steve Held, @peoplesfabric.com, has just been released from the Broadview, IL ICE facility alongside six other detainees.

Once again, the moderate position is for ICE to be abolished and Border Patrol to be gutted, and massive civil rights prosecutions leading to prison time. Anybody running on anything less is kicking the can down the road.

"It's currently unclear why this person was arrested." (Not just arrested but brutalized). Keep using this language and do NOT take any jackbooted roid-raging thug's word for it no matter who is paying them. Keep asking WHY.

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...

Clarifying: @peoplesfabric.com has been detained

This! I think the opposite of fascism isn’t “normal,” it’s taking joy in weirdness

Today's highlight, I think: the Reichenbach Falls...

"I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port.” ― Assata Shakur

Generals gathered in their masses/ to listen to this fucking jackass

Touch grass. Touch bark. Touch fir needles. Touch the fallen feather. Touch the heart-shaped leaves on the unflowering lilac. Keep going.

Timeline of ICE activity in Chicagoland today. Kidnappings across the city and burbs, a protester/content creator arrested outside Broadview late last night, and landscapers taken from their work vehicle in Downers Grove:

If like me you've been worried that Trump's anti-immigrant actions might've killed the World Music Festival, I have good news and bad news! It's happening, and the lineup is great—but the number of artists from outside the country has declined significantly. chicagoreader.com/music/music-...

Three indie media outlets in Chicago have teamed up to boost the reach of their reporting on the ICE presence there. They're all on bluesky. The Triibe @thetriibe.com , Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com , and Unravelled @unraveledpress.com L.A. TACO interviews them here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

Paging scholars of Appalachian history. I have a student interested in the origins of Appalachian folklore and the influences on modern perceptions of the region. Especially looking for primary sources (any format but must be available digitally) dating back to the 18th century. Help!

i like to say that, as the reader, you have the ultimate safe word: you can put the book down

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

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This comment blew up a little, so here are some good recommendations for what to do about Bluesky's censorship plans. I'll be mostly quoting people with good ideas for visibility. 1. Don't comply in advance. #bskycensorship #blueskyblackout2025

Hope Chicago Inc. executives make 6 figure incomes, putting them in the top 10% of the US. But the can't pay a fucking artist, instead they use stolen labor. Don't donate to them. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

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To be more specific: Ezra Klein not only said nice things about Charlie Kirk but *made up nice things* to praise him for. Kirk was an open white supremacist who spread “great replacement” conspiracies and claimed that the end of Jim Crow via the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a mistake. Klein is out.

"They're trying to show domination." "They're trying to terrify people out of standing up and they're trying to, kind of, show this model of government where they attack and dominate us and we submit — and we're just not going to do that." "We can't." #Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

This is a BAD idea from a tactical pov all this means is an issue that bsky mods do NOT want controversy around will have NO posting about it for a full week a large number of people who come back from the "blackout" will likely not start up the complaints again it hamstrings the cause

Tell me about a time a celebrity was kind of mean to you, and in hindsight, you were like, "You know what? Fair. In their place I might have done the same."

A constant leftist fuck up on social media is not getting mad about art bans on websites when the art getting banned grosses us the fuck out and we don't want people to think we're bad. I'm guilty of this too. We fucked up for bsky artists back in 2023 or whenever

Anyway here are some consenting adults 🦆

"I may have remarked before that Holmes had, when he liked, a peculiarly ingratiating way with women, and that he very readily established terms of confidence with them." from the Golden Pince-Nez, the Return of Sherlock Holmes

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.

Agreed and proud to be a member of the WGA.

When the feds are investigating a "crime" that occurred at a protest and they gather up all the names people so helpfully gave a nonprofit and start asking questions, what do you think happens then, Ike. Wouldn't you rather not have your name on that list? Wouldn't you rather just go to the protest?

SHE IS RIGHT. Don't RSVP. It's nuts to think you have to or that you should. How is it in any way wrong to say, don't put your name on a list that can be hacked? (And will be, in the current climate). Just show up!

#DV1 #ProudBlue #Pinks 🧵Just days after Fox News host Brian Kilmead said that homeless people should get "involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill 'em.," there were TWO mass shootings yesterday at homeless encampments in 1/4 abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...

All I know is that more of you need to listen to Old Gods of Appalachia. Queer positive horror anthology podcast. oldgodsofappalachia.com

Read @moryan.bsky.social, spitting straight fire as usual, about how the offhand dismissal of cultural critics is connected to *gestures* all of this

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

You want to help Chicago[land]? REPOST REPOST REPOST REPOST REPOST They're doing quick hits, in the burbs, bc they figured out that the big raids in LA drew a lot of attention. BE A MEGAPHONE start with: @unraveledpress.com @djbyrnes1.bsky.social @mulchy.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

Almost all of the initial reporting on ICE murdering Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in cold blood was wrong because it was based on government propaganda, what seems to have actually happened is that he tried to flee the border Gestapo and they shot him Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

NEW: I spoke to trans author Gretchen Felker-Martin, who was fired by DC Comics and suspended on Bluesky for calling Charlie Kirk a "Nazi bitch" after his death. She's not the only artist who's been censored in light of mounting pressure campaigns by Kirk's supporters: www.wired.com/story/charli...

after reichenbach

“The illegal alien was pronounced dead,” is just a fucking monstrous thing to write. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez.

There is an irresponsible post circulating that (FALSELY) suggests that live rounds may have been fired at protesters at a Chicago-area ICE processing center. I am in communication with people who were on-site. The shots were pepper balls. Still terrible, but not live rounds. Pls don't spread panic.

Today in the Chicago area ICE shot & killed someone and threw Kat Abughazaleh candidate for Congress, on the ground.

Editorial cartoon: What? I didn't say anything.

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This is a stressful time and the spirits are telling me there's someone who needs to see a picture of young Ozzy on a horse. Is it you?