In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

food stamps are gone come november 1, if the shutdown doesn't end. if you see people stealing food, no tf you didn't.

here is my favorite sign from today

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Booooooo. Block this shit.

"We" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Pritzker keeps posting this, but the damage is being live-streamed in Chicago neighborhoods, so, I don't know what the point of this is, or who is doing the defending besides unarmed residents. I'd like to see him out in the streets in Rogers Park.

"UM's endowment climbed $2 billion to a market value of $21.2 billion during the past fiscal year." And yet, staff are still being laid off due to federal cuts. Many of us haven't seen measurable pay increases to match the cost of living in years When will this university invest in its employees?

At least we know who he’s speaking to.

It's important to track how many citizens are kidnapped by ICE. But I'll keep hammering the point that it simply does not matter if someone is native-born or undocumented — NO ONE deserves to be brutalized by glorified rent-a-cops in a fascist state. There are no "innocent" victims. Just victims.

Just encouraging folks to follow and sign up for @ryan.blacksky.app newsletter. It is a balm, and a source of imagining a better future for all (plus birds!).

Eisenhower oversaw Operation Wetback which is a model for what ICE is doing right now.

Too many people still believe if they didn’t see the racism, there wasn’t racism.

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

Absolutely not.

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

The consensus is kids dont have garages anymore outside the purview of HOAs and that killed the garage band.

Since 2003, ICE has operated violently under two Dem presidents; deportations, SA, terrorized communities, family separation. If we have a Dem majority, will liberals be willing to dismantle ICE & defund the police then? Or do they just want to return to Obama's ICE? What lessons are folks learning?

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan: Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

This is brilliant!

Rogers Park is such a vibrant neighborhood. This is so dark.

This really highlights how negotiations between Israel and Palestine are negotiations between an occupier and an occupied people.

Every KC game I'm like, "Really? Y'all still haven't changed your team name, yet? Fans are still doing the racist tom*hawk chop?" Embarrassing.

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

The cloud storage grift is grifting. I didn't ask to put my stuff in your thing, OneDrive, and I won't be buying more of it. You too, Google. I've got a TB external drive and I'm going old school. I'm burning my CDs, downloading/printing my photos, and deleting all the things. Eat me.

There is nothing in your child's IEP that any private school must respect. This all but ensures your kid will not get the services they are entitled to by special education law. Everything that it is possible to do to intentionally sabotage public education from the inside is being done.

What they say while assaulting people is specifically designed to give them immunity (despite already having qualified immunity!) from their actions. The ISP is basically yelling "stop punching yourself" while attacking peaceful protesters.

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

There are so many Black women who have been standing with Palestine the whole time, including Black trans women, and there’s no reason to help Candace Owens build her profile as if she genuinely gives a fuck about justice for Palestine

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Partner’s cousin is in town for a clay pigeon shooting contest, so that’s what we’re driving to this morning. Coming off of a 2am bedtime from that Tiger’s game. Things I didn’t envision for the weekend. 😴

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

At 15 innings, this Tigers/Mariners game is the cause of and solution to all of our problems.

Thesis, antithesis, synthesis Go get em, Tigers

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

“Students [who thought they’d be graduating] from a highly ranked 100 year old institution, and are now told that they’re going to be getting a degree from a department in an ill-conceived ‘School of AI’ are feeling, rightfully, betrayed… to get this now-tarnished and politically co-opted degree.”

The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas includes halting military actions, an Israeli withdrawal, increased humanitarian aid, and a prisoner swap. But it doesn't guarantee an end to the war or that Israel won't resume the genocide later. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/what... #Palestine #Israel

Good union job here for an archivist! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

This is a great way to ensure that people don’t actually get the entire vaccine. 3 visits per person in a household? Potentially 3 copays?

Hey Michiganders! This incredibly important county shelter is at risk of closing. They need to raise several thousand dollars to keep their doors open for those in need. Please consider donating on their site. sharethewarmthoflenawee.org

I just have a graveyard of highly organized favorites folders that I will mostly never look at again. Especially the recipes. So many recipes.

This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world. Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

This is awful news for their over 500 employees (cancelled severance and insurance). More info here: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth” I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans? www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Just saw a women's sports creator refer to "the MNBA" for the first time and I am howling

Democrats: Hey, what didn't work the last time? We should do that again. JFC.

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...

David Montgomery throwing touchdowns the Lions are so fucking back Moreover, ICE must be destroyed