Broadview Fire Department said the village was reaching out to the DHS “to demand the fence be removed immediately” because it was installed “illegally” without a permit. “In case of fire or other emergencies… Broadview fire apparatus would be unable to use the road to accesss these businesses.”

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.

The stars have aligned

Grateful today for mail of all sorts - sending and receiving it.💌

Vivian is still with us, but has been having health challenges lately. There is a gofundme to help her out: www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...

few things better than chicago in september

Look what's up... Are you ready for this year's #AScareADay challenge? Read a scary story or poem a day for the whole of October. Curated by me! Come see what we've got on the list this year! romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/t...

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

These are the real ones out in the tear gas making sure protesters aren't disappeared. Please support today:

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

Chicago's local Nexstar station is: WGN Television 2501 West Bradley Place Chicago, Illinois 60618 773-528-2311 Steps 2-4 are up to you.

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Trying to connect with your unhoused neighbors? Here’s supplies we’ve found are always welcome & needed: - socks - bug spray in summer - hand warmers in winter - batteries (AA & AAA always, D or C for fans & radios) - water Pack em in a ziploc, bring a $5 & go meet your neighbors that live outside

hello everyone! we are NOW TAKING PRE-ORDERS for the first issue of COLOUR INTO FOCUS, our international anthology series of collage work from queer and trans artists // pre-orders are available in our shop on a sliding scale from $6-$22 // shop.nonmachinable.com/product/preo...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

First hot chocolate of the season! Now I know it's nearing fall. (Not cold at all today, just gloomy.) The whisk is from my grandmother's kitchen, one of the few things I have of hers. I pretty much only use it for this.🍫☕🤎

The Northwest Side Rapid Response Team posted this community alert a short while ago. It describes how a resident in Albany Park was lured by a phone call that indicated they had won a prize. Another was lured to an address to pick up scrap metal. Both were detained by ICE upon arrival.

As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

adding fictional characters to art: thread

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

The crowd is taking a knee in the street outside of the Broadview Detention Center with their fists up to honor Silverio Villegas-Gonzáles, the man ICE killed last week, victims of police violence, and the people being killed in Palestine.

white cis men blocking people of color and other members of vulnerable communities because their risk factor is a lot different than ours is peak white nonsense. It's also how I know they don't give a shit about us.

it’s nosferatu but with muppets: thread

Burger 🍔 #art

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago. Earlier today, federal agents unleashed chemical weapons on protesters, elected officials, a local congressional candidate, and a local mayor. Defiant anti deportation activists remain. Another protest is planned for 7pm.

A day late, but here's my #ThursdayBookChat contribution. My current non-fiction (titles in next posts + alt-text). Of them all the Kendzior is the most depressing, bar none. Thankfully it's very readable otherwise I would have given up - why hurt my brain & my heart at the same time?

The art is pouring in to our DMs! Huge thanks to @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social for bringing Angela Smyth’s amazing whale to our attention! We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.

We hear a lot about boys getting radicalized online, and not enough about how to stop it. This is good video with 5 specific things parents/adults can do:

Highland cows are a breed of rustic cattle raised in Scotland. They have a double coat: a long, coarse outer coat & soft, wooly inner coat, making them well-suited to rainy, windy and cold mountain slopes. Genetic variations in their MC1R gene can produce ginger cows, just like in humans.

We have been taking full advantage of this - thank you, Half Price Books! Been building out some series as we prepared to get rid of the Mouse. And we're always looking to expand our horror collection - no fun to get your hopes up for a particular film only to find it's not available after all.

another case of people reading a headline and either not reading or misreading an article. the actual reporting does not say anything like "all trans people are being classified as terrorists" i understand why people are scared. i also feel like reading comprehension is at an all time low

Dutch late night TV has its take

Psst… $1 of every Abolish Ice, Protect Migrants, and Warning: ICE Rats sticker sold goes to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. #chicago

Naperville rise up

Disney is now gone from our house after months of back and forth with The Dude (apparently Kimmel really was his last straw). But I found this two-parter to be my "can do no more" - a sobering, heart-breaking look at Hollywood from our friends at MAKC and Black Liberation Media.

Nearly 300 residents and advocates showed up *in the rain* to protest plans for a massive data center in their community Leaders listened and there's a pause on development, for now

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IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Tiliqua rugosa is a species of blue-tongued skink native to Australia that has many names: Shingleback Bobtail 'Sleepy Lizard' & my favorite: Pinecone Lizard. Let's talk about the time a zookeeper's burnt lunch led to a discovery about how the sleepy lizard survives Australian wildfires.

Turns out it's a lot easier to turn it all into state media when there are like 5 media companies instead 5,000.

This is my nerd rabbit hole of the day: if you spend any time with historical documents to see what people were calling Jefferson to his face for owning human beings, or what very people said about G. Washington right after he died, you see immediately critique and demand are the real american way.

For anyone interested, PBS will be airing it November 14th at 9pm (I remember Sandra Oh talking about it on Colbert) playbill.com/article/pbs-...

Please sign this petition letter to Tarek’s judge to mitigate his sentence to time served. Tarek is a 20 year old Palestinian political prisoner from our movement. His sentencing is in 15 days 🚨🚨🚨 www.change.org/p/free-tarek...

1/ South Korea's government has announced that it is launching an investigation into human rights abuses said to have been carried out by the United States' ICE agency against South Korean workers deported from Georgia, following further damaging testimony from the deportees. ⬇️

Amid these ICE raids, something folks should understand about the Chicago suburbs is that a lot of stereotypes about the era of white flight from the city do not apply. A lot of these folks were priced out of Chicago and many commute to work here. They are part of the same social fabric.

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Grateful today for so many bees, several kinds, in the sedum, so many the whole plant hums. Not that I could capture them on film! But I tried. (It seemed every time I took another photo they all moved under or between or to another cluster altogether.)

LMAO YALL. So that witch hunt website for anybody who spoke ill of ole boy? Some white man basically said “you got a fucking HOUR to get my name off this shit before my lawyer take everything at your house & load it in a UHaul to mine.” EVERY NAME off that website & the submission form is down.

a map of ice arrests/sightings just today. reports span from way north in waukegan to the western suburbs of elgin, west chicago, and aurora, to joliet and dixmoor in the south. in chicago, agents seen in east garfield park, little village, brighton park, university village and nearby cicero.