Anyway I'm still doing free Know Your Rights trainings for anyone who wants them. If you're part of a protest group in Chicago or anywhere in Illinois and want a free know your rights training (or free legal support for your action), let me know! [email protected].

A Meditation and an Offering on Chicago: A Thread I wanted to take a moment to describe a different scene from Chicago today, than the ones I've been sharing and posting about these last few weeks. Because there is grief, so much grief, about what is happening here.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

The leading candidate in the Irish presidential election, Catherine Connolly. Here she talks about why the establishment fears women.

'Books have souls,’ repeated the cat softly. ‘A cherished book will always have a soul. It will come to its reader’s aid in times of crisis.' Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books #BookWormSat 💙📚 🎨 Eva Fialka

We have know your rights and Migra Watch literature in English and Spanish at the store 7 days a week. We’re open M-F 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-5pm and have water, a public restroom, and climate control.

Chicago, stay strong and take care of one another. For help for your family or to report ICE activities, call 1-855-435-7693 (HELP-MY-FAMILY) Para ayuda para su familia ó para reportar actividades de ICE, llame al: 1-855-435-7693 National Lawyers Guild Chicago Legal Support Hotline: 872-465-4244

Hundreds of people were at a community defense workshop at a North Side high school this morning, with the line to get in out the door. Chicagoans from all walks of life are coming together to resist ICE.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway. Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs! We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her. Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

white male grievance is perpetually and petulantly demanding gratitude from Black women and calling it ”advice” No one asked you and yet here you are…again.

Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal." All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW: (Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 (Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831 Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336 I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

today's therapy session: therapist: is grief in the driver's seat? are you in the driver's seat and is grief someone you can talk to? how are you handling all this grief? me: err...grief is in the trunk, it's dismembered ghost haunting the entire vehicle. therapist: ...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov rhetoric is cheap and easy. any ideas on following them up with substance? action? response? enough.

ICE is absolutely out of control in Chicago.

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza. Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military. They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

I cannot express enough how this is what has been happening for some time in Broadview. Federal agents assault, shoot chemical munitions at, and arrest protesters completely unprovoked. And state police are now helping border patrol to combat and arrest protesters. Great work everyone.

My accounts were attacked last night after sharing what’s going on in Chicago. I have disabled kids to protect and ICE is literally in our neighborhood harassing and disappearing people, including U.S. citizens. My updates on this are minimal but don’t look away from what’s happening in Chicago.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.

Chicago people - make your voice heard.

No accountability for the MOVE bombing in Philly was one of the stepping stones for what’s happening in DC, Chicago, LA, Memphis right now.

Repeating: The psychological harm we are inflicting on these children is immense. Even witnessing a parent's arrest can harm children's mental health, but being arrested as a child/teen decreases chances of graduating high school & increases chances of anxiety, depression & unemployment as an adult.

I wrote this piece about 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's murder. On the costs of speaking the truth in today's world. And how Jamal's memory still stalks Saudi Arabia--- and the Washington Post. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

🧵Spotted on a recent Beach Walk in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (2?) is toddling along the tideline, dragging a string bag behind him. Whenever he sees a promising shell he picks it up, inspects it and then carefully places it in his bag with the seriousness such an undertaking deserves. (1)

Very few people observe just how weird it is to demand repeatedly that a Muslim American affirm the constitutional character of an entirely different country.

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

RIP Jane Goodall, zoologist, primatologist, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees & the inspiration for millions of young women who wanted to become scientists, including me. She also believed in Bigfoot. Go well into the great forest you wonderful human 💔

At the age of 13, Jennifer Wood remembers being in a car driving up to the Portage La Prairie Indian Residential School with her suitcase and not comprehending what was going on until her father said he would see her at Christmas. She shares her story on the season premiere of Face to Face.

Introducing “Faculty on the Frontlines,” a new series from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom that documents the stories of AAUP members! Over the next 2 weeks, we will spotlight the stories of 10 AAUP members fighting to defend academic freedom. Check out our teaser 🔥

@haymarketbooks.org is having a great sale of books ft abolitionist scholars on topics related to abolishing ICE, borders, and the police. A main target of authoritarianism is attaching books and those that write them. check out the titles here! www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-ab...

2 Questions: 1) how many of these violent clowns have a history of domestic abuse and sexual assault? 2) was this a unmentioned job requirement?

@thejosevilson.com ☠️ god I miss NYC sometimes

I know no one will see this but letting children get infected over and over again because we 1) never invested in ventilation and 2) demonized masks is unforgivable.

CHICAGO / SUBURBS If you want to know what it's looked like at the ICE facility in Broadview (Chicago), this brilliant photo essay from @almacampos.bsky.social & @pgoyette.bsky.social at @southsideweekly.bsky.social is a very good place to start.

just remember: if you need a nice escapist fantasy that is accidentally kinda a relevant tech dystopia, but it's mostly about badass ladies with superpowers stabbing the rich shitheads who won't leave them alone so they can build a library, check out our Mercenary Librarians series from Tor!

today is a good day to help people eat bit.ly/distributefoodchicago

I have generally been heartened by Pritzker's rhetoric, but we need more right now than him telling us to keep filming ICE. People have been detained for doing that. People across Chicagoland have been brave, and we need brave leadership. We need more of a plan than urging individual action.

At DePaul University, a Catholic school in Chicago, students have created a covert contraceptive delivery network called "the womb service."