I’m at a community meeting about resisting ICE in Chicago. There are about 400 people in this high school auditorium. Chicago is showing up.

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ice has snatched at least four people already this morning in back of the yards, mckinley park and west englewood, per the southwest side rapid response team. they report "agents are active on the southwest side."

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

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Seriously.

Is this real?

Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.

I thought I talked good but this past year and a half I've tried to talk gooder. Basically going from "Wot's all this, then?" to "Thank you for sharing that with me; I had no idea." *

we're so close to having "intelligent" doors that lock you out if you haven't paid your monthly doorknob subscription, PKD must be so proud

So little, so late. But I can still be glad.

On his podcast today, the Vice President of the US threatened to revoke the non-profit tax exemption from the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundation because they “funded” an article in the Nation. Ford last donated to the nation in 2019. OSF never did. (Gift link) wapo.st/4mXenU2

"The safeguard of its form"

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Happy results from today's thrift store visit - 20 CDs for 5 bucks. First batch are some very decent blues titles, Bessie Smith Comp. Recordings Vol. 4 Disc One, Living Chicago Blues Vol. Two, Atlantic Blues: Chicago and The Beauty of the Blues: Roots N'Blues Sampler. #BluesSky, #NowPlaying

I'll be the elderly white hippie in sensible wear for this time of year, lol.

We’re peacefully protesting for our neighbors. What does ICE do? Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.

I am appalled that so many people are questioning the ability of this man to efficiently and wisely lead the FBI.

I wrote about how Chicago's resistance led Trump to back down on sending the national guard. This is a victory for the state and the city, and shows that fighting fascism can work. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/pritzker-s...

Gave myself a birthday present; Volume 3 joins its siblings.

Bruce Loose of Flipper has passed on. Wonderful band that drove punk into a caterwauling, drug-fueled chaotic mess in the early ‘80s. Many tried to copy them; all failed. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Nancy manifesting as wrathful protector

As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.

Abuse like Epstein's proceeds w/ the premise that the victims are voiceless or can be shamed, intimidated, threatened, or discredited so iif they do try to speak up. Today they spoke up and were heard on national media. May their power continue, may accountability come for all the perpetrators.

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This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. This Labor Day remember the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights we enjoy today. h/t John Koehlor

Some view it as hyperbole; others don't even know what the words mean. But it's all textbook. Textbook history, textbook political science, textbook psychology, textbook social psychology. Elementary stuff, not obscure. And it's happening in real time, right before our eyes.

Getty Invests $2.6M in Unearthing Black Art History The Getty Foundation will expand its Black Visual Arts Archives initiative, amplifying lesser‑told stories through grants to 12 institutions nationwide

Hundreds of unaccompanied children

This is now literally a race against time as the hearing has been moved up since this was first posted

Gathering

Welcome to Illinois! We hate the Gestapo.

"What do we want?" "Situational Awareness!" "When do we want it?" "During the demonstration!" Could have legs...

My community is starting to get it. Multiple groups showing up at the regular protest, getting signatures on petitions, building mailing lists/contact info, etc. Our local 50501 has a book club now AND a film club! Lots of issues, lots of solutions. The grassroots are TAKING root! Labor Day next.

Not the literary bandwagon I thought I'd be jumping on in 2025, that's for sure! And yes, prescient is too mild to describe the fascist America Sinclair Lewis described in 1935. #BookSky

"American Fork Song" (watching The Villainess on Tubi as many times as possible before it leaves leads to tiny trivia nuggets)

I Googled Pilsen Superman mural to make sure this WASN'T AI-generated slop

Caregiving is part of the fabric of antifascist struggle. Please join Bill Ayers, Anya Tanyavutti, Keisa Reynolds, and me at the Printers Row Lit Fest at 11am on September 6, for a conversation about parenting toward liberation, focused on “We Grow the World Together” (@haymarketbooks.org)! ❤❤❤

(My impersonation of a senior citizen grappling with real world AI consequences) Why is the Google telling me the latest episode of Clutch Cargo is Basil Pesto Chicken? (True story)

Here's 1962's legal bootleg on MGM-distributed Charlie Parker Records in Mono-Pact! #BOTD #LesterYoung #VinylSky #JazzSky

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

Alice Coltrane (August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007) bsky.app/profile/obso...

I hope like hell Iowans can continue to pull their heads out of their asses. There's no physiological reason they can't succeed!

This is a free online event

Screw the "who become big names" bullshit, this program allowed a handful of writers to survive while they wrote. In a functioning 21st century nation, this program would be helping hundreds every year.

Tonight in Chicago, Millennium Park, free. Yo-Yo Ma and Angelique Kidjo. Nice interview. Yo-Yo Ma says music can help unite. - WBEZ Chicago www.wbez.org/culture-the-...

This is the show I caught last month at @reverberationvinyl.bsky.social! Big sounds in a little space!#FreeImpovisation #JazzSky youtu.be/9jfkEDZo55Q?...

Anybody else play the Authors card game as a kid?

Spoiler alert: different ESG...