They will never break us. Free them all.

Free @peoplesfabric.com, free them all.

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

We have one spare ticket for the Godspeed! show tonight if any one of my followers wants to buy it off me. #chicago

NLG Chicago Denounces Continued Violence by Federal Law Enforcement Against Demonstrators, Legal Observers, and Press Again this Friday, September 26, 2025, federal agents continued escalating their violent attacks on speech at the Broadview detention center.

ICE is once again attacking activists and reporters in #Chicago.

Evanston canceled its contract with Flock so Flock decided to put their cameras back up against the city’s wishes. Via @alexhairysun.bsky.social evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/24/f...

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

I’ll be honest: I don’t know the difference between Tylenol and aspirin and at this point in my life I refuse to learn.

I like to use Shaun King social media discourses as a convenient reminder to replace my HVAC filter and test the batteries in my smoke detectors.

200 dollars a month to sort emails and schedule even more meetings. NEXT.

A report in HuffPo says ICE is evacuating a DHS facility it was using outside of Chicago for its operations. Protests and direct action once again drive Trump out of #Chicago. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

Support @thetriibe.com and @unraveledpress.com as they track Feds in Chicago harassing and attempting to take our neighbors away.

CONFIRMED: ICE activity in Maplewood and North in Chicago’s Wicker Park / Humboldt neighborhood. Just saw a neighbor kidnapped.

When Fanon talks about the violence of colonialism and the way it changes people’s brains, it’s hard to imagine what decolonization would look like in some folks except a severe psychological break that would render them catatonic. Anyways, Ezra Klein…

A popular tactic of colonialism is to attempt to block, censor, outlaw, criminalize or otherwise harass people flying a flag of their people. We saw this in Mexico, the Philippines, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Ireland and the list continues...

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

I wish people would also remember Kirk was insanely *unpopular* except with boomers on Facebook and had to have an entire massive dark money operation (funded by right wing billionaires) to appear relevant. His base was primarily Zuckerberg’s FYP algo for retired suburbanites.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Moments like today make you question your own sanity until you remember the reason some people get to write like this for “prestigious” institutions and large audiences is precisely because they are incredibly, incredibly dim.

🤠 NEW ORGANIZING TOOL 🧗 LPL has developed Postal Pulse, a new webapp that makes it easy to find and contact your elected officials about Chicago ordinances. Right now, you can use it to oppose the City's mandatory camera expansion network. aldercontact.lucyparsonslabs.com

I know people want to joke about this but the Quran is quite explicit, An Nisa (4:18) "However, repentance is not accepted from those who knowingly persist in sin until they start dying, and then cry, “Now I repent!” nor those who die as disbelievers. For them We have prepared a painful punishment."

"In 2009, Thiel wrote, 'I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.' In 2025, his coterie seems to be making a full-court effort to follow through on the implications of that observation." truthout.org/articles/far...

This personally enrages me as a person who both loves design and style (one of the few creative outlets most people engage in!) and who hates clankers.

Stay tuned for a new website and project by @lucyparsonslabs.com

Judge Farmer: At this time I do not find the Attorney General had the authority to bring this RICO case

ATLANTA (AP) — Judge says he'll toss the racketeering case against 61 people tied to protests over a training center called “Cop City.”

DHS has dramatically expanded its collection of DNA from kids, their families, people who live in their houses etc. It’s only a matter of time before every ICE agent is doing DNA swabs on everyone.

The Supreme Court is illegitimate so the details don’t matter as much to me but they put this stuff on the shadow docket meaning they think it’s an *emergency* to give the administration this power without, you know, hearing arguments or anything.

Flock: we will eliminate all crime. Public: you mean like LE illegally accessing your cameras. Flock: no, no, not like that.

i’d really like to disabuse people of the notion that local/state police are somehow going to stop the feds’ terror campaign. lots of local cops already work with these same feds on task forces and in fusion centers. they are quite literally part of the same system. they are not allies.

Nothing could be more naïve than to imagine that Donald Trump's effort to put the military on the streets of US cities has anything to do with "fighting crime." He himself is very clear: this is an act of war against the part of the population that does not support his autocracy. Resist or perish.🏴

Invest your money into shitty tech companies so they can spend it all paying out settlements with your money www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

When we were investigating Clearview AI, we found a lot of police sharing searches in an obscure retail theft mailing list. These lists hide the data-sharing relationship between police departments. Case in point from Divest SPD: www.divestspd.com/p/feds-wa-po...

We can blame people like Barack Obama who wanted to “look forward, not backwards” on the Bush administration and then pushed an even more aggressive assassination program which even murdered US citizens without charges or a trial.

Local man embraces fascism.

One time I tried to FOIA for all the CPD officers who had dedicated mental health training and they told me 100% because all CPD officers attend police academy training. 🥴 bsky.app/profile/sams...

NEW: Politicians of both parties are pushing to expand forced hospitalization. In many cases, cops w/ minimal training fill out forms attesting that people are a danger to themselves or others. In Chicago, police forcibly hospitalize 6 people a day. It's how over 20% of CPD mental health calls end.

Israel murders journalists. Keep their voices alive. #JournalismIsNotACrime

The Chicago Police Department was assisting ICE *less than three months ago* and senior CPD officers knew and covered it up.

The entire *value* of the ALPR network derives from mass collection and mass data sharing (i.e. the network effect) between Flock's clients. The *economics* dictate that they will share data with the Feds again and again and again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network...

As always DDoS keeps supplying tons of leaks of massive public interest. Click the donate button to help them keep publishing.

This is a minor point but uhh... the iconic design mentioned on the America by Design webpage is the NASA "worm" logo which was never officially adopted by the agency! The government changed the Nixon strategy and killed the logo & redesign. Not the best example to include in your copy!

Full story here. From Mayor Daniel Biss: "This vendor has failed to follow state and local data protection laws. With constant attacks from the federal government and other far-right actors, we will not sit idly by while our people’s data is shared inappropriately."

This is why we always say we are against tech fatalism. Surveillance isn’t inevitable and we need to abolish it as part of our broader struggles for justice.

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

So while Flock has been saying they do not allow Feds to directly access their system, blaming recent controversies squarely on local cops who gave Feds access, all along they were secretly running a pilot with Feds to access the whole system.

It is worth keeping in mind this morning that the feds are already here, embedded with your local police on task forces, doing illegal things to get information they want on the people of Illinois:

A young Edgar Hoover was part of overseeing the early anti-socialist and anti -anarchist raids (& largely anti-immigrant / anti war protests) that followed laws passed in 1916 & 1917.

If your city uses Flock license plate reader cameras, please share this with your favorite elected official derekeder.com/blog/why-i-v...