My brother is running for State Assembly in NY and has been endorsed by the NYC DSA! Take it from me, David will be an amazing legislator. He is someone who has always been guided by his belief in the need for justice for the most vulnerable. I am so proud and inspired to have him as a brother.

At the grocery store today my 3 y.o jewish son, seeing all the holiday stuff, said, sadly, "I think this store celebrates christmas." This is the first year where he's expressed any fomo or confusion re Hanukah vs xmas, and honestly, it's been more difficult than I anticipated explaining it all /1

While hiking in the Italian Alps, a nature photographer came upon a surface speckled with more than 2,000 dinosaur footprints that scientists are calling “remarkable.” nyti.ms/44zfQc8

please enjoy my once annual re-sharing of this goofy Hanukah song I put out a few years ago. open.spotify.com/track/6sqAGd...

please enjoy my once annual re-sharing of this goofy Hanukah song I put out a few years ago. open.spotify.com/track/6sqAGd...

Happy chi-annuka

City looking positivity Tolkienesque this evening

I was a little skeptical of letting my nearly four year old watch Spidey and His Amazing Friends, but this episode with The Thing celebrating Hanukah after the team recover's his aunt's stolen latkes really did it for me.

this is the church that hosted El Arbol, the free store we built to support migrants staying at the 14th district police station a couple years ago. So great to see this project finally breaking ground!

Judson and Moore in Avondale hosts this excellent monthly bluegrass jam. It's a great hang and lots of very friendly and talented pickers. Next one is this sunday.

happy thanks from our friendly focaccia turkey

Im playing in a Last Waltz tribute show this weekend and was rewatching the film, so much of it is The Band being like ”the road is a young man’s game, we’re all too old and haggard for that now“ and you look it up they were all like 32. Anyway shows on Saturday in bucktown, come on out.

the news you can use framing of this is just so so bleak

“Early morning Thursday, November 13, Felix and his family’s life as they know it was turned upside down. Felix, a dedicated father and husband, was taken by ICE while he was with his young daughter on their way to school. For the past 15 years, Felix has lived in Chicago with his wife and child..”

We can definitely be optimistic about this news but can’t forget that they’ll still have some presence, and especially can’t abandon the movement we have started building in defiance of what they have done so far.

It's all a game to them. They terrorize communities, tear families apart, and inflict untold damage wherever they appear, and it's all a fucking game.

Dick Durbin‘s constituency includes communities currently, actively being invaded and terrorized by the administration he’s about to embolden.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)

From what I've seen on the local parent facebook group, this was a teacher at a Spanish immersion daycare and she was pulled out of the building in front of children and parents. I cannot even wrap my head around this depravity.

Hell is not hot enough. If you’re not yet tapped into your local mutual aid or rapid response group, today is as good a day as any to plug in.

For those in the Windy City, check out this amazing Mutual Aid Map from Community Kitchen Chicago. www.communitykitchenchicago.org/mutual-aid-map

Good sharable resource from Logan sq mutual aid, if you are in the area.

I live close to the Logan Square block mentioned in this article, and it absolutely breaks my heart to think that some of the thousand+ kids we see at our door every year are having their halloween stolen from them this year.

I made this post on the local Logan Square facebook page about ways to help with food insecurity in the neighborhood with the loss of SNAP benefits next week. Sharing here for the benefit of anyone in the area that happens to follow me here:

My friend Vivi works for CPS as an advocate for students experiencing housing insecurity. If you're looking for an extremely direct way to support vulnerable families in Chicago, consider her gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fa...

I will tell you that the folks working the ICIRR Hotline are the real deal and saved these kids. PUT THIS NUMBER IN YOUR PHONE AND CALL IF YOU SEE ICE IN ILLINOIS: (855) 435-7693

People who think this way demonstrate that their political reality is confined to flame wars and memes. every serious chicago organizer I know marched. most had their critiques but didn’t let that stand in the way in the fundamental organizing principle of meeting folks where they are.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

#nokings #artinstituteofchicago

#nokings chicago

So we need to talk about this a bit, because the story is more complicated. First, YES, these are the same immigrants who were dehumanized by Abbott and who are now being dehumanized by Trump. Second, YES, there was incredible community organizing that came together to care for these folks.

There is something really beautiful about the way these rapid response and school watch networks are connecting people. Earlier today, my neighbor a few houses down and I realized we had been in the same group chat for weeks without even knowing it.

I saw a rapid response alert of an ICE vehicle in my neighborhood and went to the intersection about 20 minutes after it was first posted. By the time I got there, they were gone and in their place were at least three different locals in their cars, on stand by for when they came back.

pro tip: Rico Fresh has a very solid taco stand inside.

This is a good sound bite and all but also worth noting that while this interview was happening real people were being detained and kidnapped a few miles away where citizens were actually forcing feds to 'come through' them. Maybe start spending time there, gov?

Looking to speak with families with young children in Chicago for a story on how the ICE raids are impacting them. Reach out to [email protected], if you're interested.

Here are 5 impactful things I've seen people in my part of Chicago do in the last week: 🧵 1. Organize groups to attend school pickups and drop-offs to help vulnerable families feel more secure. I've seen neighbors with no prior organizing experience line up to take part in these efforts.

Can confirm. Just saw a truck going down wrightwood towards the Square basically surrounded by local drivers working to slow them down.

if I find any room for optimism given what's happening in Logan Square and surrounding neighborhoods today, it's the endless posts on all the various area parenting and other facebook groups looking for ways to help and get involved.

A friend of mine was present at this. He described it as a bunch of passersbys noticing the ice vehicle and spontaneously attempting to impede its progress. Not an organized protest or coordinated rapid response or anything, just neighbors resisting.

Video of ICE just casually tossing tear gas canisters into a grocery store parking lot www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

a friend of mine just joined a spontaneous group of people in an attempt to block an ice vehicle on armitage and central park, and they lobbed a tear gas canister at them

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Shana Tova. I add some honey to the eggwash on these, we'll see how that works out!

ICE has been operating actively on the Northwest Side in the last week, and our Rapid Response Team has been working incredibly hard to verify reports, as well as support neighbors. But we need help.

this benefits large cap tech companies at the expense of startups.

This is via a friend of mine from volunteer circles who's job it is to help vulnerable students at a CPS school. Is a loteria event getting canceled the biggest deal right now? No, but the disruptions, fears, and traumas being inflicting in so many corners of our communities cannot be overstated.

This is the gofundme page for the family of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, a father to two young boys, who was murdered by an ICE agent in Franklin Park, IL this week. www.gofundme.com/f/silverio-v...

“Battle of the Bands” is one the best weirdo pop records of that era. rip