STOP THE GENOCIDE

We didn’t have enough medics to keep today resourced (though we ended up staying an extra hour!) so many of us have dispersed. We’ll be back next Friday. Same time.

If you aren't keeping an eye on Broadview, you should be

They're not going to deescalate on their own, they've made that abundantly clear. No end goal in sight, but a continual expansion of funding and violence being done, openly and on camera.

ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

It’s not possible to find one lens to explain the moment we’re living in. But the idea that hyper financialization has turned society into an asset class to be raided in order to get stock prices up is pretty close.

Heading in the direction of Nazi Germany after Hitler took power 30 January 1933 and put his political,opponents in concentration camps. But instead of having historians reconstruct events in retrospective, it‘s on live television.

ICE in Rogers Park. If you see them elsewhere, ping us. Additionally, the campaign office (Clark + Lunt), as always, welcomes everybody except ICE.

It is very interesting that the Army is spending millions in the IVAS program to make headsets/goggles that function like augmented reality/video game HUDs and ICE is just...using commercial shit

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

When this ruling came down it was clear, if Trump won, they were handing a deeply vindictive, corrupt criminal the most powerful prosecutorial weapon in the world.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan is caught on tape accepting a bag containing $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents-and the Trump administration quashes the investigation… …so he can summarily detain immigrants who have lived in the US peacefully for decades-without committing crimes

I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

This stuff is incredibly dangerous. We just don’t live in a free country anymore.

“The century of the power of man became that of his despair. Since then, everyone feels in his body and his soul that we are living in a more atrocious age than any other, an age of the most horrible savagery.” - Francis Ponge in 1950

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

The thing with designating a group that doesn't actually exist as a terrorist organization is that they can then say anyone they want is a part of that group.

AAAAAAAHHHHH

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

the day the authoritarians killed comedy. we’ve entered dark times, people —

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

My fucking god

"The carbon pollution from ExxonMobil’s fossil fuels, for example, made 51 heatwaves at least 10,000 times more likely than in an unheated world, the researchers found, as did the emissions from Saudi Aramco."

what this sounds like to me is the administration is cutting money for efforts to support integration and sending some of the cash over to HCBUs, under the view that this is where black students ought to go www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

if only there was a term for waging war against your own country.

In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago. "If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary." h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social

I am honestly quite worried about Chicago, and begging the national press to report it as what it is: an invasion of a US city by the national guard of another state at the behest of a fascist president for purposes of terrorizing the people into submission. There is no legitimate debate about it.

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social

It is taught that rich people get rich by saving up their income. Michael Hudson explains how this myth is garbage!

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

This has to be stopped by any means necessary.

ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.

Key point: chattel slavery made possible much of the economic "success" of the United States; slavery is deeply imbricated w/ the rise of US (& global) capitalism. The richest northern (New York) & southern (Mississippi) states on the US Civil War's eve became so largely thanks to chattel slavery.

I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.

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Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

prosocial art! theater nerds, history buffs, craft enthusiasts of chicago! join us in Bucktown September 4th for a NEW project reconstituting the Hull House chamber theater with performances across the neighborhoods! www.hullhousemuseum.org/neighborhood...

Unspeakable crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

And finally, join us on Fri, July 25th at 7 pm at Cermak & Halsted for a re-enactment of the Battle of the Halsted Viaduct, a key moment in Chicago history during the 1877 national labor uprising. Organized with our friends at @underthetreepod.bsky.social!

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters