I’ve been thinking about how US media (on all sides of the political spectrum) have been on a tear for decades now radicalizing the public (there is no other word for it but radicalizing) against the very idea of universities. The NYT, the Atlantic, WSJ, it’s been a concerted decades-long effort.

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby. "I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother. “I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

BREAKING: Federal judge in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case finds that "there is a 'realistic likelihood of vindictiveness' that entitles Abrego to discovery" in response to his motion to dismiss the case for vindictive or selective prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov Your complicity is turning into outright collaboration. You are the chief executive of Illinois; the executive branch is under your authority. ISP's collaboration with the Feds' war on Illinois is YOUR collaboration with the Feds' war on Illinois.

My friend shared some photos and videos of what she saw in front of Rico Fresh in Logan Square a short while ago.

State Representative Lilian Jimenez on the tear gassing of protesters near Rico Fresh on Armitage and Central Park.

tony dokupil, where have i heard that name before??

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

The Trump admin says this project should be paused because the CTA followed *federal rules* requiring them to meet goals to give contracts to qualified Black-, Latino- & female-owned firms The federal government now say those rules - imposed by the feds - are discriminatory

43% of Democrats (52% of 18-29 voters) say foreign policy and Israel will play a role in their vote in the 2026 primaries. (81% say the economy and healthcare, of course.) 80% want to reduce support for Israel 74% want an arms embargo 72% say it's a genocide 65% want sanctions

To learn more about the history of ideological deportation in the United States and about some of the cases Judge Young mentions in his decision, including Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972), check out "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

With zero time for crowd to clear, Bovino orders people back. Tells them it's their one is warning. Within seconds, feds attack protesters. ISP troopers assist ICE and BP with crowd control. BP tackles and arrests.

Intimate account of journalist @plasticjesusart.bsky.social being shot by LA Sheriff's Dept. His leg had "a lump of muscle" hanging out. Surgeons tried to remove his clothes, but encountered so much pepper spray on him that medical staff had to evacuate room. "Less lethal" munitions? Barely.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

It was only two weeks ago when we first saw an ICE agent unholster his sidearm at Broadview. Since then, there have been many reports of agents directly pointing their guns at protesters. The escalation is escalating.

Mamdani’s controversial stance is the he believes an arrest warrant by the ICC needs to be respected regardless of the accused. Those who disagree believe that international law must never be applied to the people they like. It really is that simple.

Legalized Racial Profiling: bit.ly/46Rabyv Flagging an important new op-ed by Daniel Harawa & Kate Weisburd on Noem vs. Vasquez Perdomo

“I am in utter shock and disbelief the government has punished my father for simply doing his life’s work of journalism,” said Oscar Guevara...“My father should have never had to face over 100 days in detention. He is the center of our family. He is the reason our home feels like home.”

NEWS: Major unions @nationalnurses.bsky.social and @ueunion.org are publicly demanding that the U.S. immediately halt military aid to Israel, recognize Palestinian sovereignty, and intervene “to put an end to the violence, starvation, and injustices being inflicted on the Palestinian people.”

And, to beat what I think is an important drum, one reason we reached this extreme of aggressive policing, and built up the militarized infrastructure that makes it possible, is that all our cost-benefit analyses of policing ignore … most of the costs In short: we ignore the SOCIAL costs.

South Shore residents returned to their ransacked apartments after an ICE raid. "It looks like hell." blockclubchi.co/4gV8ODq

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Harvard Medical School administrators removed from consideration a potential speaker for the school’s 2024 Class Day out of concern that pro-Palestine messages she had posted on social media would be “polarizing" www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

❗ ABJECT CRUELTY & DEPRAVITY. In Chicago's South Shore, federal agents went after Black Americans--US citizens--& Venezuelan families. They dragged a 67 y/o American man outside, leaving him ziptied for hours. They dragged out Venezuelan families, some unclothed, separating parents & kids. @wbez.org

Source and explanation: > Context: this piece of filth barged into Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality) at UW throwing up nazi salutes, yelling Heil Hitler, and calling everyone “[r-slur] degenerates”. > > Class didn’t appreciate it. www.reddit.com/r/udub/comme...

I talked to staff members who work near where federal agents were seen on video choking a Black man on the West Side. thetriibe.com/2025/10/vide...

NEW Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego García’s request to reopen case The judge, who works for DOJ, found “insufficient evidence” that the Trump administration would send Abrego to Uganda. DHS had said “He will be processed for removal to Uganda.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization by @esmat.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/partin...

I struggle to think of an editorial board that's been more overtly racist and genocidal that the NY Times one. This is on the level of Putinist bullshit about denazifying Ukraine.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you want to see how much a single local official can change things, look no further than Chicago, where the new prosecutor this year has ground exonerations to a halt by hindering the work of the commission that reviews wrongful convictions boltsmag.org/chicago-cook...

a year into this administration Kamala's chant of "we're not going back" feels haunting, like certainly there is certainly no going back to whatever that version of America was

Today is a good day to buy my book Renters Unite. Why, you ask? Because it's always a good day to buy it uk.bookshop.org/p/books/rent...

At some point, tactical advice from people like @adamjentleson.bsky.social has to be seen as an expression of their policy preferences. The willingness to go wobbly on repro rights, LGBTQ rights, immigration is where they want to go. They can protest, but they are happy to leave you behind.

"An attorney for a building trades union told me that a witness in a wage theft case in another state was recently targeted and deported by ICE. The union believes the employer encouraged ICE to target the worker, in a bid to undercut the wage theft case. " prospect.org/labor/2025-1...

Another win for the people: Gavin Newsom signed AB288! The law states that if the NLRB fails to respond to petitions to vindicate the rights of workers, then the CA Public Employment Relations Board can take up the matter - this is particularly important for ULPs! legiscan.com/CA/text/AB28...

Our first ad of the general election starts airing tomorrow: “Things Can Change.”

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Castro also says she believes children were taken. A nearby resident who witnessed the raid, but wished not to be named, corroborated he saw children brought out. "They were bringing babies out naked... that's kidnapping," the neighbor said.

State Sen. Robert Peters accuses Trump of engaging in a "propaganda campaign of terror."

Veronica Castro of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights says the raid was part of an effort by the Trump admin and right-wing figures to "manufacture a crisis" in Chicago.

Update: horrifying details about last night's raid are emerging. Organizers + electeds are reporting potentially dozens of people (at least 40 per initial estimate) were detained. Not much more confirmed at this time. More will be shared at press conference at 5 at corner of 75th & South Shore.