This is LA. While CBP’s large, highly-visible terror campaign moves from city-to-city, ICE’s more clandestine operations continue daily all across America. The scope of what is happening nationally, on a daily basis, is difficult to truly comprehend.

Three years today. The cops are already killing protesters—it's not a line we haven't crossed, it's a thing already happening—but lots of people never heard about or paid attention to this one. So it goes

The national response to Minneapolis has me revisiting the killing of Silverio González Villegas by ICE in Franklin Park, IL. I reported on it last fall. Worth remembering. southsideweekly.com/a-tragic-hom...

NYT is reporting at least 80 Venezuelan’s dead after this American attack. No breakdown on how many were civilians. That’s in addition to the 115 people the US military has recently killed in boats.

Everything is infuriating and the people in charge are irrevocably evil.

Do *you* want to own *the cutest tea towels* in the world? Check out Rogers Park Free Store’s Silent Auction!

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

Direct link: nlgchicago.org/donate/

@nlgchicago.bsky.social is trying to raise $10k to fund ongoing legal support for protesters. They've had to cover long shifts at Broadview, and their volunteers have been repeatedly assaulted by police in the process. More info with ways to donate here: instagram.com/p/DP36ITJja-W/

If you'd like to see beestung keep buzzing, please consider dropping a few bucks our way 🖤💛🖤💛

I don't want 100 troops sent to Chicago. It's a major escalation that must be opposed. I also want folks to understand that the agents that have been attacking us at Broadview are more heavily armed and elaborately, tactically outfitted than National Guard troops would be. We're already in some shit

The Street Vendors Association of Chicago is raising emergency funds to support vendors who can't safely work right now. They have a significant goal of $300k for impacted workers + families. GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st... Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

Sodexo continues to deny T Hoxha written confirmation of her library job, 25 days into her hunger strike. Pressure their large shareholders (incl. Artisan Partners and BlackRock), which are listed here. Use our toolkit for email templates: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA

‼️T Hohxa, a Pal Action prisoner is on DAY 16 of their hunger strike. Their statement Aug 26, 2025: "A nurse asked me why I was going on hunger strike, giving myself long term damage for something so insignificant...but when the state has taken your house, your job, nearly two years of your life..."

Very grateful to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for taking this one. 😊 Read the rest of the Summer Riot series while you're over there, it's a hoot!

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Now is a great time to donate to Palestinian orgs and gofundme’s! Dollars are going a little bit farther, for now.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

📌 (just reposting so I remember to share this thread with my students next semester)

On Monday, details emerged that not only was Smalls detained, but he was physically beaten by the IDF. He was the only Black member of the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala, writes @mikeelk.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/chri...

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

Mutual aid organizations like The Sameer Project, a rapid-response initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, need your help to support their work in Gaza.

This week the Worldcon membership will get a chance to add a #poetryhugo to the ballot permanently. Poetry has been here from the beginning and it deserves recognition. If you love speculative poetry, please share this awesome article by Lynne Sargent.

Restore Alaa's account! She's a real person. This suspension undermines her ability to seek support, which undermines the survival of her family. These people are dying. Let her fucking talk and connect with people who care.

Our most beloved comrades at Open Books have been running an urgent fundraiser for Sameer. They are getting close to their $10k goal thanks to a few new matching campaigns. Please contritibe and share, offer a match (named or anon- dm us) open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

Incredibly I have six sonnets in the new issue of The Missouri Review. I've included two of them here. Thanks as always to the editors for including my work! These ones are full of space and Florida and vanishing, so a good summation of my obsessions.

it's the end of non-binary awareness week today, and beestung is stalled at $385/$1840 for our campaign to keep paying and publishing writers under the non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit umbrellas. and amount helps, and would be greatly appreciated! www.gofundme.com/f/beestung-y...

"For decades, policy makers and profiteers have swapped human care for high-stakes testing, scripted curriculum, and surveillance. AI isn’t the disease — it’s a symptom of a colonizer’s model of schooling that is extractive and dehumanizing, rather than liberating."

Dear friends, I’m trying to support The Sameer Project at a time when this support is desperately needed. Any amount you contribute will help. 🙏 open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

the fact that Palestinians need to pay hundreds of dollars for the most basic food after they've lost everything is proof enough that capitalism is a horrifically unjust system that's actively harmful to humanity

"Maersk will cut ties with companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank, the Danish shipping giant has said. The decision follows months-long pressure by activists on Maersk on issues related to Palestine." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Folks, the political pressure is working….It’s important to reject surveillance fatalism and instead turn the screws on the city council.

Chicago Ald. Mitts proposed an ordinance requiring surveillance cameras at EVERY business open to the public. Despite the absurdity of this request, it was initially co-sponsored by 28 other aldermen, who seemingly didn’t read the fine print or didn’t care to confirm the details.

Asking for financial support again. I only have 60 dollars to last me until July 1st and I need gas to get to work and back. If anyone could help that would be great. My life is pretty hard right now. #mutualaid🙏🏾💜 Venmo Nikki-Wallschlaeger

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

🧵: Activists in #Chicago have gotten the immigration court to close early twice this week through protesting! Here’s what an immigration lawyer with knowledge of the legal system had to say about the real effects of these actions:

Critical request from the Sameer Project ⬇️⬇️⬇️ (if you've seen the now extensive coverage of what is being called the "humanitarian aid massacres" you know how crucial their work of distribution is) "$17,000 spent on 30 pots of food in the South alone, support us today: chuffed.org/project/1132...

When Viggo Mortensen kicked that Orc helmet and screamed out in anguish at the deaths of Merry and Pippin, ICE didn't exist yet. Literally no ICE agents knew he actually broke his toe, because there was no such thing as ICE. We can go back, not to save his toe, but to that life

Your tax-deductible donation could give writers and artists an opportunity to produce work at the SAFTA residency! Support a group of writers, a genre of writers, or more! Details at: sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2017/10/05/s...

OCAD has authored a petition for the release of Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda, a grandmother and community organizer in Chicago who has been in the U.S. for years. She was participating in ISAP while working through her asylum claim, and was detained without warning by immigration enforcement today.

One of the most beautiful and powerful poems of queer defiance out there. Rita Mae Brown wrote "Sappho's Reply" in the aftermath of Stonewall, amid a wave of organizing and confrontation. It's the origin of the rallying cry "An army of lovers shall not fail/cannot lose." Needed now more than ever

Please donate if you can! We distribute free cleaning, baby, first aid, & personal care items to anyone who needs them (no questions asked). We're taking on increased costs due to tariffs and inflation and could use your support. 💙

I would like to make $50 in #mutualaid. That's all I need. Anything helps. Thank you ✨

The @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social has recently sent over $60k to several mutual aid groups in and around Tawila and El Fashir to support those fleeing and surviving the RSF’s genocidal violence in Darfur. To help us continue our support please go to sudansolidarity.com

This is especially ruinous for people who depend on rural libraries to get their books.

Free Mahmoud Khalil!

I believe there is a most intimate relationship between the quality of a person's life, its abundance or sterility, his integrity, and the quality of his poetry. The people who write banal poetry usually seem to be the same academics who talk a liberal line concerning education… Denise Levertov