All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW: (Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 (Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831 Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336 I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Broadview, Illinois today— A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.

Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?

🚨🚨 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 🚨🚨

ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.

What are you building? What are we willing to build together? What do we know must exist? New WILLING TO BUILD Prints for sale in my shop featuring this quote I love from @prisonculture.bsky.social ✨ 100% of profits will go to support the work of REBUILD. More info below👇🏼

The wonderful @ollycostello.bsky.social created a lovely print and is selling it to help raise funds for REBUILD. ollycostelloshop.com/products/wil... - It includes some words by me.

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

Woods Ervin of Critical Resistance notes the Legislative Analyst’s Office found California could close five more prisons—saving $1.5B a year. That money could fund Medi-Cal, food aid, housing, and other vital programs. Check out my latest @therealnews.com therealnews.com/prisons-clos...

"I think it’s really important for us to understand $150 billion were just inserted into this organization, into this terror organization, that would be as big as the fifth-largest army in the world." - Rep. Delia Ramirez

Please read this. “Less than one week into President Donald Trump’s surge of deportation arrests in Chicago, an immigration agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on a near suburban street Friday morning.”

Like I just said on CNN, it’s absolutely evil that people are sleeping on concrete floors at the ICE detention center near Chicago. Join us to protest this Friday at 7 am at the Broadview Detention Center.

There is no origin story of the police without the story of the reorganization of human society by the birth, expansion, and dominance of the system of capitalism.

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

Chicago! Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual) www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Two million people are being threatened with forced starvation in #Palestine, as the US government continues to support ongoing ethnic-cleansing. We've created a list of on-the-ground mutual aid groups in #Gaza that you can support, amplify, and follow. itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-o...

Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.

New poster design for @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, published by @akpress.org 🦋

Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill. It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.

This list of resources for trans people and their loved ones—groups that we should all support directly and donate to—includes groups that provide support through mutual aid and microgrants, legal support, crisis support and mental health resources, as well as local and regional support:

Art, care work, and movements for liberation are intertwined. Children’s books hold liberatory potential! Come join @ollycostello.bsky.social, Keisa Reynolds, and me TODAY to talk about this stuff and more. www.eventbrite.com/e/on-caregiv...

This is tomorrow! :)

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

Prisons Must Fall—the latest children's book from our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social, co-authored with Jane Ball and illustrated by @ollycostello.bsky.social—shows the harm that prisons cause and explores alternatives. You can learn more about it and download free related resources here:

14y later, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States is more relevant than ever, from criminalization of trans folk as inherently “fraudulent” to framing queer & trans people & supporters as predatory & deviant to the role of gender & sexuality in Right wing agendas.

🧵1/2: We demand the immediate release of Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda (A 208-276-014), a long-time Chicago resident, loving mother and grandmother, and a dedicated community leader, who was unjustly detained during a routine ISAP check-in on June 4, 2025. ocadchi.salsalabs.org/freegladis

There is no reforming or fixing something that is doing exactly what it was set up to do. As our co-founders @prisonculture.bsky.social and @dreanyc123.bsky.social have long said, the demand to defund the police was always just the basement floor. Everyone who pushed for it was right.

"Revolutionary change is not ordered like a meal or some product online. It is also not voted in by exporting decisions to a representative. It is fought long and hard and won through persistent struggle." prismreports.org/2025/06/03/i...

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Lubna. Lubna is an accountant and the mother of three sons, Mohammed, 11, Hassan, 8 and baby Yazan, 2 who has been sick. Her husband, Ahmed, a sports trainer, was injured and then captured while they were trying to flee Rafah last month.

ICYMI the conversation is up on @haymarketbooks.org channel lots of juicy nuggets of wisdom and lessons for this moment!

hi, cis folks! it’s pride. you with us? cool. have you called your senators about the budget bill that’s trying to strip trans healthcare from people of all ages on medicaid or ACA plans? that’s like 20% of us & this is the govt we’re up against. find reps here reps.fyi tap the thread for scripts

If you look at the state of the world and start feeling like hope is pointless, I want to share this passage from @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's book LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU, from the chapter "Hope and Grief Can Coexist." www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...

“To those of you in the US, the organizers, activists, community workers, & everyday ppl of the Global South are writing to you about hope… We mean the kind of hope fierce enough to confront the suffering caused by systemic oppression, & one that tactfully & persistently fights to put an end to it.”

“The exclusion of individuals labeled ‘criminals’ in the U.S. immigration system … ignores the complexity of human behavior and reinforces [a] harmful narrative of irredeemability.” Love this op-ed by Marina Manoukian about undoing the very idea of criminality.

Looking for ways to support Palestinians in Gaza? Here are two families!!

Looking forward to this!

“Native seeds are more than just a tool for restoration. They are a symbol of resilience, identity & our relationship w/the land. ‘native seed is one of our most valuable natural resources...’ By investing in native seed supply today, we plant the roots for a more sustainable & connected tomorrow.”

We should have a memorial day for COVID. It is horrific that we as a society have done virtually nothing to remember the millions who have died. Rushing to forget what happened also makes it much more likely that we will continue to repeat our deadly mistakes.

Pre-order @mskellymhayes.bsky.social new book!! Kelly’s writing & interviews w/ incredible movement organizers, activists, + journalist on the Movement Memos Podcast have been deeply grounding, informative, affirming & continue to shape my politics in deep ways…

“The type of jails and the prison system that the United States has contracted is one of a dictatorship — one that operates outside of the rule of law.”

1. Terrifying news for transgender people across the United States. In a late night development, the House Spending Bill was amended to ban transgender coverage for transgender ADULTS on medicaid! A manager's amendment removed the words "for minors." Subscribe to support my journalism.

“Despair, in its own strange way, is a form of false confidence. It’s a sense that the future has already been decided and there’s nothing we can do about it. In fact, the future is something we make in the present.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

We all deserve access to vaccines!!! Action steps listed in this thread.

Join us Saturday for this sweet event celebrating Prisons Must Fall with @haymarketbooks.org! 🌼⛓️‍💥💞

All 2.1 million people in the Gaza Strip at critical risk if Israeli blockade persists, says report.