"We need to be the consequence." — @aoc.bsky.social

"At one point, agents shot tear gas into the crowd when young children were clearly visible and present." @sarahlazare.bsky.social reporting from Chicago with In These Times and @workdaymagazine.bsky.social

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

ICE *is Gestapo.

Yesterday, we asked Illinois residents to contact their elected officials to ask them to stand up to ICE and join us for a press conference at Broadview this Friday morning. Guess what? It’s working. An alderperson just called me to let me know a constituent emailed her and she will be attending.

This is fucking horrifying.

Happening now: at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and other CBP/ICE agents emerge to patrol Beach Street and escort a vehicle out. They ordered people out of the street, walked to the end of it and then back to the fence.

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o... Edsal documents the ways in which the regime is using the Kirk murder to expand authoritarian reach/revenge.

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

In this episode of Lifting the Curtain, Leo Ferguson from @jfrejnyc.bsky.social and PRA’s @vetanthropology.bsky.social explore the intertwined histories of antisemitism and racism, and how politics around Israel's genocide in Palestine are challenging these movements. Tune in now: ow.ly/jK7a50WVW3s.

BREAKING: John Roberts issues another "administrative stay," this time blocking Judge Ali's preliminary injunction in the foreign aid funding case while the Supreme Court considers DOJ's request (which was denied by the DC Circuit).

While this person thinks the mayor of Boston is illegitimate & un-American, she also looked upon a couple hundred liberals protesting in her rural Oregon town and thought "these are all paid protesters." Those protesters were residents of the town of which she was the mayor! bsky.app/profile/seth...

Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u... This not just illegal and immoral, it exposes the military personnel who followed this illegal order to prosecution. It sets a precedent so bad it can’t be exaggerated!

We wouldn’t have Labor Day without the Chicago labor movement. And as the military is deployed in our cities, it’s more important than ever to remember our predecessors’ courage in our own fight against fascism. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/9EYC75wtwCM

A number of people who have read "Let This Radicalize You" are unaware that we made numerous resources and tools to accompany the book. You can find all of them here including a workbook, discussion guide, zines and more. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

BREAKING: The Cop City domestic terrorism charge against Jamie Marsicano has been dropped. DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams issued an order Thursday, stating that the 29-month delay in moving the charge forward violated Mariscano's speedy trial and due process rights.

Good review of how FreeDC is responding to the current surge of federal law enforcement, national guard, and MPD takeover. Please read and share! wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/free...

Rep. Adam Smith: "Look, it's pretty clear the president wants his own domestic police force and step by step he's trying to create it. We should be deeply alarmed by that regardless of how you feel about crime in DC or any other city ... it's a huge step toward an autocratic government."

The system isn't broken; everything's going according to plan. Time for the General Strike US. @generalstrikeus.bsky.social Generalstrikeus.com

The matter of whether women should have the right to vote has always been in the ideological mix of the Christian Right, emanating from the theocratic precincts of Christian Reconstructionism. I wrote a bit about it in 2009. bit.ly/GimmeThatOld...

If NYC prevails as a sanctuary city, its neighborhoods may not shrink from deportations but swell with new immigrants — and others — fleeing federal crackdowns and abuse in less safe environs. The densest city might prove to be the safest haven in a dangerous land. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Profoundly shameful column in the NYT yesterday by Bret Stephens denying Israeli genocide in Gaza. The gist of his argument is that if this was a real effort to kill every Gazan, then more would be dead. Really? So, "slow moving genocide"? Genocidal war? No surprise, just nausea.

The self-identified fascist making the rounds in today's viral @mehdirhasan.bsky.social video is an online personality in Nick Fuentes' groyper movement known as Pinesap. Here he is speaking at a Fuentes rally in June 2024 & pictured with other figures in the movement

So, top of the NYT's online page this morning is an article explaining how Trump has "won back" MAGA by calling the WSJ's article on a letter and "lewd drawing" Trump once sent to Epstein "Fake." The Times makes no effort and offers no opinion about the letter/drawing. Execrable reporting NYT!

Will the Conspiracists Cultivated by Trump Turn on Him Over Epstein? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...

DHS posted a wildly over the line promo video to Fb. Prob a ramp up to a recruitment drive. This is the abrogation of the Establishment clause and announcing a de facto crusade against parking tickets, eh, I mean undock entry. Fascism Aesthetics. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lords...

According to a new report, nearly 27% of homes sold in Q1 of 2025 were bought by real estate investors — the highest share in at least five years. If we want to make housing affordable for working people, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?si=vGkgsj8jyHBFtUyW

This is so incredibly disturbing.

Masked men leaping out of unmarked vehicles. Latino men taken from their places of work or while waiting for the bus. Street vendors tackled to the ground and forcefully held down. We collected videos of just over 100 incidents. W/ @evidentmedia.org , @bellingcat.com youtu.be/6BuxaVdv7po?...

The 'we don't give a damn, we don't give a f––' MAGA majority at SCOTUS remains pluperfectly shameless.

In case you missed my short piece on "remigration" on Religion Dispatches, check it out on the Political Research Associates site. politicalresearch.org/2025/07/08/r...

Check out this thread from @melbuer.bsky.social this morning on the ground in Los Angeles. Seems DHS did a sweep of a public park with lots of troops and heavy gear.

The regime must be prevented from getting away with this

Yes, exactly! FWIW, Medicaid in Kentucky is called Passport.

Let's stop with the Thom Tillis is a "centrist" hype. When he was NC Speaker of the House, Tillis actively courted Tea Party racists to support a voter ID bill. The Tea Party racists he courted became the backbone of MAGA and Bigoted Bloated Bill. irehr.org/2014/10/08/b...

We’re All Rats Now open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

The MAGA bureaucrats largely have abandoned even the fleeting idea that they offer a "populist" vision. Their entire program now has been reduced to benefit cuts, AI automation, a police-state, and more war. Their gamble is thinking they can fill the void with more open racism + naked repression.

“The Camden [Delaware] Police Chief says the department has withdrawn from a partnership agreement with ICE after community push back.” www.wboc.com/news/update-...

Yes, it's true. Bove is four years *younger* than me.

The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...