This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

People in Gaza should not have to wait a single minute longer for life-saving aid.

The Swiss journalist @emilianobos.bsky.social ( @rts.ch ) managed to enter the Gaza Strip with a cameraman on Friday - first foreign journalists that enter Gaza. The below video was taken in Rafah.

It’s heartbreaking that the richest country in the world needs food banks to feed its people but it’s unbelievable that our billionaire politicians have forced our military to feed themselves and their families from food banks. #Pinks #ProudBlue #Military www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

it is so amazing to see a candidate for office speak so clearly and unabashedly about trans people's rights and their intrinsic value to the community. thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Fuck every part of this. If you're in Illinois, please phone @govpritzker.illinois.gov 's office and tell him to stop this right fucking now.

get in losers we're repenting

The McGill Assoc. of Univ. Teachers (MAUT) yesterday *overwhelmingly* endorsed the academic and cultural boycott of Israel, & calls upon McGill to end its partnerships with Israeli universities & other institutions. ("Overwhelmingly" means 104 yea to 8 nay!)

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker But I am losing faith, rapidly. Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

So what excuse does Israel now have for not letting foreign journalists into Gaza?

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create. So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

We have reached the point where "multiplying protest frogs" is a headline I instantly understand, and I was not prepared for this. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Much love and solidarity to everyone in RP on such a horrible day. Saw so many people out and about this afternoon, doing whatever they can to keep everyone safe around here.

Context for the whistles (though the above is about Rogers Park/Edgewater, not Little Village): blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/17/i...

Signs of the times in Chicago today: My daughter's school went on soft lockdown because of reports of ICE. Volunteers showed up at the nearby H.S. to escort people who didn't feel safe. Walking around, I saw lots of orange whistles around people's necks.

the hell fire before the cease fire, as always.

No

ça contredit complètement la santé publique/politique du québec

It is true you can't trust Israel or the US but you should probably be aware the ceasefire doesn't begin until Saturday or Sunday and Israel has a long history of intensifying bombardment until the official starting point of a ceasefire.

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square. Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files. Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

hey this is no good.

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed www.404media.co/apple-banned...

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher" ed.

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers. Invading our state with military troops. Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night. Arresting elected officials asking questions.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Grieving for all the lives taken. I dont know what we look like as a society when this is over

My Very Dear Ones, I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.

yo they hired Mamdani video guys. someone's doing some thinking somewhere

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an order making city property off-limits to ICE. As federal troops deploy to Chicago, this is a bold stand for accountability and human rights. No city should ever be turned into a battleground for political power.

You guys remember when it was revealed that the current head of Trump’s nationwide immigration crackdown was literally filmed taking a $50,000 cash bribe in a bag like a mob movie extra and then nothing happened and he’s still basically running the national secret police?

@madarausi.bsky.social you are spoiling the fun, come now

Cops lie, part eleventy million

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

i just don't think that Texas should invade Illinois, she said to herself, on a dry day in October 2025

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition. It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

I don’t want to talk about this because I don’t want to be a target But on just a human decency level the person tirelessly deleting Gazans just permabanned the guy who uses his thousands strong platform to boost the fundraisers of literally anyone who needs money or mutual aid every single Friday

Here's a spy report on a 1937 meeting of the Portland fascist group called the "American Defenders." At the end we see them mention that their friend, Captain Odale of the Portland Police's Red Squad, might have to cut ties due to public pressure, but he'll just start a group with a different name.