Happening now at Delaney Hall. Protesters are outside the facility demanding the release of Martin Soto, the leader that started a hunger and labor strike to protest inhumane conditions. iCE has rolled in a tank and is pointing their weapons on peaceful protesters that are forming a human chain.

Similarly: Public pleasures are IMPORTANT. I actually think that, for example, being able to eat indoors in public is good, and we should value it. It is precisely for this reason that I think effectively excluding entire classes of people from being able to do so safely is a fucking shande.

The death penalty isn’t reserved for the worst of the worst. It’s only reserved for the poorest of the poor. It’s time to end the federal death penalty once and for all. I just introduced a bill to BAN it.

With Covid, the WHO ending the PHEIC was saying it had failed to contain the virus globally. It was never meant to say the emergency had ended. That Covid was “over”. The Covid pandemic continues, and the US CDC took advantage of this to end governmental assistance in May 2023.

Good reminder/teaching moment to explain PHEIC & its relation to Ebola now, & to Covid then. Public health emergency of international concern. It means there is a serious outbreak we want to control so it doesn’t spread everywhere. When it ends, either the emergency is over or containment failed

Biden did what no Republican could he killed any widespread seriousness about combing the pandemic, he got liberals to adopt the Republican’s position that returning to normal was the priority, that the pandemic was over when it wasn’t.

Chicagoland has seen a steady pace of ICE sighting + abduction alerts all week. After one person was taken in Waukegan yesterday, this morning feds are dispersed broadly across the burbs again. Seen in Round Lake Beach and Joliet so far. A worker was snatched at a Bolingbrook Burger King at 5:30am.

Don't know how to help people understand that this is still an emergency, or how to explain why disappearing even "small" numbers of human beings daily adds up over time. The sharks/sea analogy holds true. They can hide in plain sight and go on like this indefinitely.

Chief Judge Charles Beach of the Circuit Court of Cook County reminded the public last week of their right to appear virtually for some kinds of civil and criminal proceedings. The full language explaining those options can be found here:

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

This is sick! phys.org/news/2026-05...

“The pandemic continues to pose a risk to workers. Indoor air quality, ventilation, and infection prevention are fundamental workplace safety issues.”

You're literally pushing HB5511 to restrict private and anonymous internet usage, which is a cornerstone of free speech. Talk is just talk. You can't pretend you support democracy while actively expanding authoritarian surveillance. That's just partisan hipocrisy.

Chat is it good when the cosseted idiot ruler sequesters himself in the royal palace with his most conniving courtiers

If he says “covid is over” and YOU are saying and acting like covid is over, then you agree with RFK. You can’t color it any other way. So ask yourself, what does it mean that you live in accordance with the lies of this man, despite your liberalism, your commitment to Social Justice?

it gives me no pleasure to say this—i don’t find masking as much as i must to be particularly thrilling—but our reality is stark. you cannot Act As If covid is gone and then be shocked when a nefarious actor makes the same claim. why wouldn’t they? your complacency has allowed it.

if you find yourself appalled that RFK Jr is able to make this claim but you don’t wear a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces, you are acting in precisely the way that allows him to say that covid is gone.

For anyone that is reading this and thinking it’s ridiculous… It’s the same justification most people are using to not wear masks/respies. Just sayin’.

if you decry RFK Jrs logic here but find yrself agreeing with, if not saying yourself something to the effect of: “i’m not sick, i don’t need to mask” i need you to reflect on the ways your actions echo eugenicists—even if you find their reasoning vile. then let that fuel a change in your behavior.

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car. Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month. No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

Congratulations Tom Steyer for receiving the most highly coveted endorsement a California Democrat could hope for.

Study links long COVID in kids to worse grades, attention, and social life www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

I wish someone would take this seriously.

Minnesota prosecutors have charged an ICE agent with assault for pointing his gun at the occupants of a car on a Minneapolis highway.

The Illinois State House just passed HB 5511, a bill that will require EVERY WEBSITE and EVERY APP to implement an age verification check. @govpritzker.illinois.gov has pushed this hard and it’s Meta’s preferred solution to avoid liability. Votes here. CALL YOUR REPS! www.ilga.gov/Documents/le...

Springtime reminder, 36th & Chicago

Creating the Dumbass Peace Prize. Very few individuals get it. Only the brightest, DJ Trump deserve it. Many will be jealous of him.

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights is reporting an uptick in ICE activity across the Chicago area over the last week, incl. reported abductions at Cook County courthouses and immigration check ins. Chicago neighborhoods of reported activity include Rogers Park, Austin and Pilsen.

I just spent my last grand getting new brakes and tires like I expected, so I can live out of this thing next week. Any and all mutual aid so I can continue existing while I establish long-term income is greatly appreciated 🌻🐦‍⬛🌞❤️‍🩹💙💛❤️‍🔥 oiseauxwords.blog/ways-to-supp...

What I’d NEVER do as a brain injury rehab doctor: • Motorcycle • Tackle football (for my kids) • Ignore BP • Skip helmets • Normalize repeat COVID infections Because I take care of what happens next.

When Midway Blitz ramped down late last year, federal officials asserted that they weren't done with the Trump admin's mass deportation campaign in Chicagoland. Activity has yet to reach the heights of last fall, but true to their word, ICE never left. My latest, for @southsideweekly.bsky.social:

This reporting continues our investigations into the feds who occupied Chicago last year. The Southeast Side chase ended in BORTAC agents launching a barrage of chemical munitions at everyone in their path. We identified several, including Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, last month:

He should legit face a capital trial for the Caribbean boat murders alone.

"Is this the beginning of a surge?" is not really the central question right now. Small teams with their current tactics can keep going indefinitely. They already were, and are. "At what threshold rate of people disappeared do masses of folks feel activated and outraged?" might be more like it

From the patterns we saw last summer/fall and tonight’s flight path, it’s safe to expect potential immigration enforcement activity over the next day or two in these neighborhoods: 1. Lincoln Square / Edgewater / Rogers Park 2. Pullman / Roseland / Chatham (?)

Welp, CBP is back to its nighttime surveillance flights over us in Chicago.

The irony that the people who don’t mask in order to be accepted by society and their social circles—knowing they’ll be shunned for masking because they shun those who mask—will end up abandoned by society and their social circles when they inevitably get Long Covid because they don’t mask.

DUI-hire Hegseth wants to Make War Crimes Great Again. He shouldn’t just be impeached, convicted and removed from office. He should be handed over to the Hague, and his trial should be live-streamed.

We've seen another morning of increased ICE activity with DHS helicopter out and about in Chicagoland. Feds have taken people from Humboldt Park and Ravenswood. Vehicles also seen in Rogers Park. ICE watchers are asking north side neighbors to get outside and keep an eye on landscapers & laborers.

There are reports of ICE activity on the north side of Chicago happening now. Please share so people in the area can be aware and take precautions. If you’re in the area please come by our office at 7016 N Clark St for ICE whistles. We protect each other. Chinga la migra.

Bottom line from the last 6 years of COVID research : If you’ve got blood vessels, you’d be wise to avoid additional infections. Now is a great time to normalize wearing a respirator. Might feel awkward at first, but every person who does makes it easier for others to follow. Be a leader. 😷

Security researcher Micah Lee organized the leaked data on a dedicated website, making the information easily searchable The site shows the name of the contractors, the amount of money they were awarded, as well as contact information, such as full names, email addresses, and phone numbers.

Sophie @hurwitz.bsky.social on war tax resistors today in @us.theguardian.com! "It’s not a new form of dissent—one of the first protests in the United States was, after all, a protest of unfair taxation—but it’s gaining steam, as Americans reject how their tax dollars are being spent under Trump."

Anyway, here are the same ICE agents some may recognize from immigration court arrests (tall skinny unidentified guy plus his boss/team lead #7880, name still unknown) grabbing someone in the West Loop this morning.