“Can I say one thing before we end? This theme of what happens when hatred turns into violence is such an important theme in our film. I will not be able to sleep tonight if I do not say, because we mentioned Harry Potter, that trans rights are human rights. I just wanted to say that.”

A whole lot of people who think it's unfair to second-guess the split-second decisions of heavily armed, professional law enforcement agents are nonetheless perfectly willing to dissect whether the civilians killed by those agents followed some mystical proper procedure to avoid death

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

Video of Alex Pretti reading final honors for a veteran he cared for at the VA. Rest in Power 🇺🇸

Minnesota is the best of us.

This is a WILD thread—that is still ongoing bsky.app/profile/musi...

I saw this take on TikTok a few days ago and wanted to share it here. I had to truncate it because it's a bit longer than 3 minutes. Her central argument is the US govt has a problem in that decades of stochastic terrorism from gun culture has made us less scared of guns.

Schumer continues honing his skill of being a useless waste of space.

Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.

Per the Status Coup x @meidastouch.com livestream in Minneapolis tonight, it sure looks like ICE agents left a lot of paperwork and artifacts tonight when they abandoned their cars. Very insightful artifacts.

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

I don't think you can truly grapple with where we are, and how we come back from it, without recognizing this is not a constitutionally legitimate government and he is not the lawful president of the United States.

Today as it did five years ago, the Constitution disqualifies Donald Trump from holding office.

One way you know AI is a scam is that it's sold as a solution for everything. Nothing is a solution for everything.

Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefings aren’t just spin – they reflect what George Orwell warned about: lies divorced from reality, and the use of “doublethink” to have a word (like “transparency”) mean just the opposite. A historian who studies Orwell explains: Thread ⬇️ buff.ly/tb8q3ES

Stay vigilant, my friends.

Light reading just dropped.

Oh my. James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists. Get this man in the Senate.

I have never wanted hell to be real before

You come for our democracy, and our democracy punches back.

We find ourselves in the 16th inning. Provisions and time are running low. Please send assistance.

I am totally fucking up my upcoming morning staying with this World Series game tonight, but…hard agree.

People really don’t know what is going on in chicago

You're not allowed to have imposter syndrome ever again. Because some of the most fuckwitted incompetent people are running the country and they think they're *better than you* May this thought defeat your inner imposter syndrome.

Yeah, that’s quite the opposite from what I’m seeing around here, and I’ve been all over the city and the suburbs as of late. I mean, that’s a “Captain Obvious” observation, but it should still be said. Gotta wonder how much of this guy’s “reality” is AI-gen or simply the dementia at this point.

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m. The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom. While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop. The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

Grew up on Country thanks to my parents and larger family, and I largely stopped listening to it after I moved out on my own. There’s one notable exception: Outlaw Country, and in particular these four.

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law. A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections. We need to stand up together and speak up.

Someone send this to Johnson.

THEY BREAK UPON US

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

If you're in Illinois and facing criminal charges from protesting ICE, or if you were attacked by ICE or law enforcement supporting them, I might be able to represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

This whole article is really good and worth a read. Let's fight. "Freedom. Equality. Democracy. I don't really care how well these poll. They're the truth. That truth is worth fighting for." www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Fantastic read. We in Chicago won’t go, much less quietly.

Almost invariably true. Rarely do they drill beneath the surface to hit actual substance.

With ICEBlock banned from iOS, I want to stress again, as someone from the early days of the Web, that app developers aligned with resistance efforts should be building with agnostic Progressive Web Application (PWA) standards aligned with the Open Web first. Neuter the effect of the middlemen.

“They know that they can’t arrest us just simply for protesting. So instead, they drag us away onto their property and give us felonies for trespassing. That’s how they’re silencing us,” one veteran said Thursday. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/v... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Congressional Republicans shut down the federal government - their third time under Donald Trump’s control. Here’s what that means for you.

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Why are “prove it” and variations thereof the least-used phrases when the media interviews politicians? We just have extra cars on the street this morning from all the garage sales on our block.

For no reason: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/f...

Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787