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And, it's a great place to find opportunities to help out with supporting immigrant communities or organizing against the dictatorship! Finding a way to be a little node in the network of real, practical resistance makes it 100 times easier to handle despair. Go to No Kings and sign up for stuff!!

one thing a whole lot of us struggle with at times is feeling isolated and depressed and like not enough people care about what’s going on and I really cannot emphasize enough that going to a no kings protest helps this feeling a lot there are so! many! people! who hate all of this shit

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This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

I genuinely do not care all *that* much anymore what elected officials say. What I pay attention to is what they do to help or hinder. What are IL electeds doing for communities under siege? O'Neill Burke & Pritzker & some others can talk a good game all they want, but I personally call b.s.

Unlike officials in Minneapolis, Chicago & other IL officials have done *nothing* to investigate ICE brutality in Chicago, especially the killing of Silverio Villegas González. I appreciate @blockclubchi.bsky.social for many things, esp for staying on this story blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/23/i...

Stories about life inside ICE's family detention center in Dilley, Texas, are hard to come by. But @julialurie.bsky.social reviewed hundreds of pages of sworn oral declarations given by detained children and their parents about conditions at the facility. This is Dilley, in their own words:

ICE killed Silverio Villegas González 4 months before Good & Pretti. No officials in Illinois are doing things like this.

Putting a lot more effort into explaining why she can't do her job than into doing her job. Silverio was murdered, and every day his killers go unexposed and uncharged is a staggering injustice.

A core function of immigration law, like slavery law before it, is to maintain a vulnerable underclass of workers without rights or protections. That's why many of the worst anti-immigrant racists employ and abuse undocumented people, and why labor rights cannot coexist with immigrant exclusion.

Probably doesn't help that all these corps' executives spend every weekend at the White House glazing the dictator and bragging about their trillion dollar military contracts.

You probably know about ICE’s killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Do you know about Ruben Ray Martinez? He was a U.S. Citizen ICE shot and killed, then lied about for a year until video came to light. Today, @robertgarcia.house.gov and I are demanding an independent investigation.

Just a Chicago mayor hopeful, a Democrat, advocating for sending someone to a torture camp for being *charged* with a crime. Also, if I am ever murdered, and my murderer is charged and convicted, please don't send them to a torture camp.

Hey Illinois - Why are we not doing this for Silverio? Why is his murder not being investigated??

It took less than 24 hours before ICE agents at airports violently brutalized a woman in front of her daughter. Republicans need to fund TSA and other essential functions and get ICE out of our communities. We must abolish ICE and dismantle DHS.

Chicago's prosecutor has not been investigating an ICE agent's shooting and killing a man last year, Blockclub reports: blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/23/i...

Seeing ICE detaining people at airports is so sickening and so are the details about the LGA plane crash. Just a fraction of the money they’re using to brutalize families could be spent on rehiring air traffic controllers, who they fired so they could brutalize more people

"At least three agents in ICE gear were seen at Terminal 3 around 10 a.m. Monday morning."

🚨 ICE at O'HARE 🚨 In Terminal 1, agents stood in pairs at each passenger exit. They appeared to be unoccupied, standing and chatting as passengers walked by them. Most wore masks. All wore bulletproof tactical vests. “It’s pointless. It’s just to cause fear and threat to people.”

A major setback for Italy's governing far-right: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been pushing for a big reform of the judiciary, which critics warned would erode its independence at a time where Meloni's coalition is making big changes. Voters in a referendum today rejected the change.

A CRJ 900 jet, operating as an Air Canada Express passenger flight, collided with a fire truck on the runway at LGA, killing the pilot and co-pilot and badly injuring two Port Authority police officers. www.nbcnewyork.com/new-york-c...

12 years without a fatal commercial plane crash and then we have two in 15 months. That's tough to stomach.

Thousands of Lebanese Americans — about 15,000 in Illinois — are watching their home country come under fire as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continues to ignite the region. “They do not deserve this,” said Saliba, who moved to Oak Lawn from Lebanon eight months ago.

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If you believe you see ICE at any Chicago area airports this week (🚬), please message us anonymously on Signal at unraveled.66

turns out @vimiller.bsky.social wrote about this today

Last fall, ICE continually abducted rideshare drivers from O'Hare Airport in Chicago, in direct violation of local law. Airports are a vulnerable location for workers as well as travelers, and ICE being present at them is disastrous on many different levels. chicagoreader.com/news/border-...

“U.Va. admission offer rates for Black students disproportionately drop after affirmative action ban” www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...

It's hard to imagine any reason the Iranian govt would consider a truce when the US has made it clear that they will simply rearm and attack again in the future. Even a painstakingly negotiated diplomatic treaty will be thrown out by the US in an instant, as has already been demonstrated.

Countless Iranians have died. UK bases being targeted. Energy bills will skyrocket. The British people are against the UK involvement in this war. A vote in Parliament is needed now and it's what Starmer promised when running for leader and pretending he was progressive.

“Young women are languishing in mental torture for months in private detention centers, even when, coerced by the conditions of their imprisonment, they beg to be deported … People are dying in El Paso’s Camp East Montana immigrant detention center.”

So good luck, random Dem candidate for the House in Illinois: I hope you've got a good response for the Totenkopf question. And it really doesn't help that the apparent defense of Platner is effectively "He's stupid and makes bad choices and is unobservant and incurious. Please make him a senator."

The Graham Platner stuff is driving me nuts. 9mo of knowing about the Nazi tattoo *before* the primary. If he wins the primary, he will spend the general election answering for his Nazi tattoo. Every other Maine Dem will be answering about his Nazi tattoo. National Dems will answer abt Nazi tattoo.

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

And 20% of all residents of Lebanon have been forcibly displaced by Israel already. In less than a month.

This is why I think it's such a misreading to think of him as having no real beliefs, or being motivated only by selfishness and greed. The man's stubborn commitment to racism transformed US politics. He has chosen ideology over profit or praise countless times. Racism is the core of who he is.

Spotify pays Rogan at least a quarter of a billion a year to push some of the most vile conspiracy theories about minorities from the fringe into public consciousness. Seriously, today is a great day to cancel your subscription.

The cowardice and bigotry of university administrators will go down in history as one of the most shameful aspects of this whole disaster.

Great reporting from @davidkurtz.bsky.social: More than 100 asylum seekers were wrongfully deported. Really confirms how we don't know the full extent of Trump/Stephen Miller's horrors because the victims are so marginal and so much is layered in obfuscation: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

"If you jumped into a pit with a baboon, tried to convince it to have tea with you for 40 minutes, and sat nodding sagely at its baboon remarks the whole time... people wouldn’t say ‘Well done navigating that baboon situation’, they would say ‘Why do you do that every March 17th?’" New column:

Per the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the arrest in Oak Park took place by the intersection of North Ave. & Woodbine Ave., very close to IL Senate President Don Harmon's Oak Park office at 6941 W. North Ave. An Oak Park source also says a car was left behind at the scene.

"Is this the beginning of a surge?" is not really the central question right now. Small teams with their current tactics can keep going indefinitely. They already were, and are. "At what threshold rate of people disappeared do masses of folks feel activated and outraged?" might be more like it

There were more scattered kidnappings and sightings across the near suburbs today.

Context: Clergy access to DHS detainees has been the subject of major protests (remember the pastor photographed on the ground as he was arrested in Illinois? This was *part* of what he was protesting), and even garnered comment from Pope Leo. This is the first sweeping (temporary) win for clergy.

Chicagoland rapid response groups are reporting at least two more people taken by federal immigration agents today: one person was reportedly taken around 8:40 a.m. in the far Chicago suburb of Naperville, another around 11 a.m. in the collar suburb of Oak Park.

Have you found yourself looking at the current candidates for U.S. Senate in Maine and wondering if any of them show up for workers then they aren’t campaigning? I’m the only elected union officer in this race and I’ve been speaking up for workers for years. Check it out: www.andreaformaine.com/news

“More will suffer that fate without a preliminary injunction,” Attorney Jeffrey Dubner said. “These aren’t hardened criminals or safety risks. … these are just ordinary people caught up in a sweeping dragnet. They needed the meaningful assistance of counsel.”

"I want to remind you that the future is yours, and it is not known — not by you, not by Georgetown, not by Sam Altman or Elon Musk, not by the chatbot, not by me. And that is a beautiful thing."

Exactly this. People need to ask themselves: Do you have values, or do you only have loyalties? That's what differentiates a mature and sincere leftist from a fool who defends bigotry and authoritarianism and does the Nazis' work for them.