It's been a brutal two weeks in Chicagoland with ICE pointing guns and tasers, multiple car crashes, violent arrests and a significant uptick in detainments overall. Feds continue to stalk courthouses across multiple counties. Today, agents were also seen at the rideshare lots at O'Hare.

The arc of the moral universe only bends towards justice if we bend it. There's no karmic comeuppance for fascists. There's just us. Community and hard work and a willingness to to take risks and fail.

'Chaos' and 'dysfunction': Durbin, Duckworth want controversial top federal prosecutor out

Thousands of Mississippians gathered in Jackson to protest against redistricting schemes to weaken Black voting power. buff.ly/TnxvyEF

1) Someone really needs to push back on this idea of 1st Amendment zones. I haven't taught polisci 101 in 20 years, but last time I checked the entire US was a 1st Amendment zone. 2) What's the point of having 1st Amendment zones if you're just going to have police rampage through them?

Proud Boys have now arrived at Delaney Hall in New Jersey. Follow our livestream:

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These 1 min. snippets of our nation’s history are so interesting and yes, truly delightful, especially considering the concerted effort to rewrite it. Thank you, @hcrichardson.bsky.social and everyone involved in making them!

Jimmy Kimmel infiltrates Trump’s cabinet meeting to help heap praise on him and his work with extraterrestrials, or however that word's pronounced.

Heather: 3.8 million followers on FB, 3 million Substack subscribers, 1 million Youtube followers. I love this evidence that some of us want thoughtful, contextualized, honest about principles, coverage of what's going on, while a lot of legacy media thinks we want shiny dumb entertainment.

I implore you to witness this. Look at what the Trump administration is doing to everyone at Delaney Hall. Take a moment to look at every single one. No matter how the press frames this, this is fascism. www.reuters.com/pictures/pro...

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Talarico already coming for Paxton bsky.app/profile/team...

Iran War Status Updater — A cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

This case here in Chicago just gets worse at every turn:

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

The conditions in Delaney Hall are absolutely unacceptable. Shut it down NOW.

I like this site and I think people who have a really hard time here are kind of babies. Sometimes I get yelled at on here and some of those times people don’t have a point, but who cares? If anything, I should evangelize for this site more as the last place on the internet I still learn stuff.

Dozens of protesters blocked entrances to a massive ICE detention facility in Newark after word spread that guards were trying to move a detainee involved in an ongoing work and hunger strike.

my pilot’s license is 95% done. the remaining 5% is focused on learning to fly a plane.

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

The MAGA victory lap on getting Massie out when they had to spend 35 million and won by 10 in a Trump 35 district seems misguided.  Trump has a 34% approval rating. He’s -18 with Independents and Democrats are up 11 for the midterms.

Tomorrow, the House will vote to stop Trump’s #Iran War for the 4th time. Republicans need to step up and support this resolution. This war is adding almost a billion dollars a day to the national debt and costing Americans countless dollars on gas and groceries. It needs to end now.

Duling Hall placed posters in Jackson on May 14 advertising that Grammy Award-winning music artist Phoebe Bridgers would be playing a surprise pop-up concert at the venue later that day. The performer has purposefully used this analog approach during her surprise tour.

MISSISSIPPI — “We will not go back to Jim Crow” Rallying in Jackson today, 5000+ showed up from across Mississippi and across the South. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sure sounds like Trump is trying to make the White House into a fortress for when he refuses to leave office.

The insurrectionist pedophile in question is Andrew Paul Johnson and it is public record that he tried to silence his victim(s) with promises of Trump millions for J6.

Respect For Friend Drops After Reading Book They Recommended

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No you shouldn't be at all worried that a crazy authoritarian president is desperate to build a tall building full of sniper nests in the middle of the capital city.

Not a lie. He’s also not the only J6 pardon recipient who was charged with sexual crimes against children. Story below was in NPR.

From @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social : “I think they may have made the biggest political miscalculation Tennessee has seen in years. They did not redraw these maps because Memphis is weak. They redrew these maps because Memphis is strong.” www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinio...

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In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

Good to see: Nearly 100 House Dems just filed papers calling on the judge to throw out the lawsuit that's the basis for Trump's "settlement" creating his new slush fund, arguing that DOJ is colluding with Trump to illegally circumvent Congress:

it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever

Trump personally bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in technology companies and government contractors early this year, according to government records. In total, he made at least $220 million in financial transactions. The Trump admin directly regulates some of these companies.

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Wait until Mike Johnson doesn’t hear about this!

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

America's chief Middle East negotiator - Jared Kushner - is almost completely dependent on Middle East government investment in his chief business. It's probably the biggest conflict of interest in American diplomatic history and we should be talking about this way more.

David Roberts is right. We should leave BlueSky, march back to Twitter and fight to save the discourse from the fascists...oh wait...

What happened to all those private donors, Donald? Americans are on the hook not only for his tariffs but also for the billion he needs for his gilded ballroom. In the meantime, he's cut your healthcare coverage and SNAP benefits all to "save" money.

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