If you were at #NoKings #NoKingsChicago yesterday & are looking to get more connected to ongoing efforts, I’m gonna share a few things that I frequently recommend to people. The first is obvious & timely, given the state of our city. (I’ve learned I need to put 🧵 lol yay I’m learning the Internet)

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

An estimated 100,000 people turned out for Chicago’s No Kings rally. Photos via @chicagotribune.com

the camera just pulled up to give a full view down michigan ave and i gasped. that’s the art institute circled in red on the top left. people continue to pour out of grant park

A hundred (?) people marching through Uptown! I’m quite plugged into the neighborhood and didn’t know this one was happening

Who up protesting they fascist government? (Rhetorical: everyone is up.)

#nokings rally I went to in Extremely Normie Chicago suburb was easily triple the size of earlier one. TRIPLE. & that was much bigger than I thought it would be. Previous one, occasionally cars would beep, this time every single car was leaning on the horn the whole time. Encouraging cacophony. 👊🏻💚

The #NoKings rally in Grant Park is impossibly huge. Tens of thousands of people here. Hundreds of folks are still streaming in.

Never stop talking about how ICE shot and killed a single dad after he dropped his kid off at school.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

the whole point of mass protest is to demonstrate overwhelming opposition to the political direction, at a scale that can't be cracked down on dress comfortably and stay away from anyone inciting violence, but don't let clout chasers scare you into losing sight of how the basic concept works

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

exceptionally proud of my friend for taking the big leap to go independent. Sammy's work has always interrogated the transformations climate change will require of us socially and culturally, and I'm very excited to keep reading his work. sign up: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com

Southwest Rapid Response is now asking for people to come out between 6am-1pm tomorrow to support the family of a tamale vendor taken off the street today: instagram.com/p/DP5C2gljDk6

Judge Ellis also says she's modifying her order, to add that "all agents who are operating in Operation Midway Blitz are to wear body-worn cameras, and they are to be on."

We need a two-year moratorium on remakes, sequels and adaptations. Give us some original IP I am begging

You probably cannot afford a car, and you almost certainly can't afford not to have one. This is the definition of a policy failure.

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m. neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

I fear I may have finally cracked the case.

“Living car-free is the most impactful behavior by far in terms of reducing emissions.”

These guys are absolutely going to shoot more people. They’ve already killed one man, shot a woman, and we’ve seen a pattern of pulling firearms on unarmed people doing nothing violent or illegal over the past few weeks. Clearly they do not care at all about the temporary restraining orders.

this is why I encourage everyone to post on Instagram about what's going on. at least for me, insta is where regular people I know irl can be reached

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

Pope to journalists: “…it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that ‘the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.’”

It’s not illegal to film agents in the public way, no matter what they say

MAGA Catholics are so gross to me. first off, a LOT of these immigrants are Catholic, and the catechism is EXTREMELY CLEAR on the church being one united global body. those people are your family. your loyalty should be to them and not the president!

ICE is once again all over the Far North Side of Chicago today. Amidst all the horrifying news of multiple abductions, neighborhood migra watch was able to prevent someone from getting taken by being present, alert, and ready. I deeply appreciate my neighbors and their rapid response efforts.

Chicagoans: Attend this virtual Rapid Response training on Wed 10/14 at 4pm to learn how to help protect our neighbors during this occupation. zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Chicago friends! I'm thrilled to be joining Eve L. Ewing this Tuesday night (Oct 14) at the National Public Housing Museum to talk about There Is No Place for Us. Hosted by Build Coffee & Books + NPHM. Tickets here:

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Really wish people would take some care in what they amplify. Many local journalists are working really really hard to verify confusing reports and document precisely what's going on. That matters for accountability and helping the community be accurately informed. bsky.app/profile/clan...

save edgewater from ICE CHUDS now

Today is the last day to add your support for rezoning Broadway to allow abundant housing! Can you help us reach 900 signatures? 🥺 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

This is a GoFundMe supporting the tamale lady taken by ICE on 21st Place and Damen in Pilsen yesterday. “Now she’s being forced to start over in Mexico with nothing — no home, no job, and no access to the medical care she desperately needs.”

ICE continues its relentless assault on Chicago street vendors. Rapid response teams in Pilsen and Little Village confirmed a street vendor was taken on Cermak and Troy and also on Damen and Cermak. These are on two major Latine commercial corridors.

I wish lying wasn't just accepted and allowed because there's no way that happened. Sorry but no producer is ever doing that. Ever. Just not something that happens. And I'm referring to real producers like Ms. Brockman here and not a "producer" on Timcast

I confirmed that around 9:45 a.m. Friday a group of Ravenswood neighbors yelled for federal immigration agents near Ravenswood Elementary School, 4332 N. Paulina St., to leave. They did. This and more from @blockclubchi.bsky.social's team here: blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/10/w...

we can & should build better than this block long Burlington parking lot on Broadway next to the CTA red line. We want more of what makes city living great: more small biz entrepreneurs, more CTA riders, and more housing opportunities for all people no matter your race or class.

Places Protect RP would like altogether have people; Safe Haven - Near Damen and Jarvis (this is the org where cars have been reported in the past) Lunt/Ravenswood down to Pratt/Ravenswood. Morse Fruit Market Devon and Clark Greenview/Rogers/Howard Touhy/Ridge to Western/Ridge

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees: -the right of the people peaceably to assemble -to petition the Government for a redress of grievances -the free exercise of religion -freedom of speech If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

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

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

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Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

northeast ohioans just experienced a collective shutter

Veterans & supporters gathered at Portland City Hall, urging active-duty service members to disobey any orders to deploy to American cities. "You do not need to follow unlawful orders...you have an obligation to defect from a military that is no longer functioning in the interests of its people."

A thing I think it’s important for USians not in currently-occupied cities to grasp is that the normal and everyday goes on alongside the violent and unprecedented. In Chicago right now you can be forced off teargas-soaked streets in the morning and have a peaceful evening picnic on the lake.

CPD has 20+ injured on duty this afternoon, most/all from federal use of gas. Related: no arrests by CPD, no documented uses of force by CPD. (I wasn't everywhere / didn't see every skirmish. And possibly some late-entry TRR forms to come.) Saw two federal arrests, saw one on video didn't witness.

Climate risk hammering LA’s housing market: insurance is harder to get and more expensive, homes stuck on the market, price cuts happening. Insurers and the state’s FAIR Plan reel. Market repricing is underway. Investors and the Fed still looking the other way. open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...