TOMORROW!!!

We’re in the Naked Gun universe now.

Even when we have an actual right wing autocrat with Neo-Nazi staff, American liberals will find a way to blame communists.

While Western institutions noxiously defend an unfolding genocide, workers from around the world are fighting back! apnews.com/article/ital...

One thing has been historically on point for nearly 100 years. The wealthy liberal establishment prefers fascists to anything that even has a whiff of socialism and/or helping the working class. The Democratic Party is largely the Vichy regime now.

I’m at a community meeting about resisting ICE in Chicago. There are about 400 people in this high school auditorium. Chicago is showing up.

"What happens in Iran" is because of the United States. Eventually, the empire always comes home. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ir...

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

“We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education, and this time around the stakes feel even higher. In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself.”

this is the way. labor actions are crucial under fascism. talent is very well positioned to fight this. good for Lindelof.

Daily reminder that capitulating to fascists is also doing fascism.

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

seems like the whole point of having a union would be to strike *in this exact situation*

Man, I'd love it if book reviewers were more stoner joyful like this guy's great review of One Battle After Another. @ign.com, I'm your man! www.ign.com/articles/one...

My grandfather, who fought Nazis, once told me that the “Don’t Tread on Me” folks really just cared about the “me” part.

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

Every capitulation is a win for fascists. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

Aspirational.

Enjoy some sci-fi, fantasy, and horror book recs from Mexican authors!!

Over the moon to be teaching this one! Come write with me!

When we stand together, the fascists back down again and again.

Latinx Heritage month is coming up and this is a reminder that I've put together a very robust Latinx Spec Fic Author starter pack! Go follow and support these authors! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

So much is possible! And for a fraction of what billionaires steal from us.

If you're in Chicago this Thursday, Sept. 11, join @michaelzapata.bsky.social & @zakmucha.bsky.social at After-Words Books, 23 E. Illinois St., 6:30 PM for a discussion on trauma and fascism. Eventbrite link ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-and...

At this point, the Democratic establishment are the Vichy regime.

The goal is permanent apartheid.

📢 JOB ALERT: Block Club is hiring a full-time reporter to cover Beverly, Morgan Park + Mount Greenwood on Chicago's South Side! Deadline to apply is 9/15: blockclubchi.co/417MIqG

Most excellent thread on making ICE melt.

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

The other thing is that it's patently ridiculous to act like you're doing Apocalypse Now by sending ~800 one-weekend-a-month warehouse managers and insurance adjusters to stand around kicking rocks for 29 days

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

There is no military in the world prepared or powerful enough for the Dan Ryan during rush hour.

A good deal of writers with her acclaim and fame, which is to say those with a seat at the table, spend their time fawning over the Clintons and Obamas. At worst, they become spokespersons for empire. A very few, like Rooney, stand by their work and humanity. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

At best AI will make us all aggressively stupid, at worst it will steal our very ability to be human. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This guy knows what he is doing.

“A billion dollars… are not necessary for [a] lavish lifestyle. The only thing that that amount of wealth is necessary for is the domination of others. [At] a certain point, wealth shifts from being smthg that enables freedom to smthg that can only be used to take freedom away from the public.”

Fun! capitalism | noun | when a society is made worse for inhabitants, in order to increase profits

12,000+ union baristas. Nearly 650 union elections won. We're strong, we're united, and we're ready for our union contracts. Happy Labor Day, Starbucks... it's your move.

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

This is South American King Lear.

We are entering a A.I wasteland.

If not for Chicago, we might not have Labor Day. Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.

Chicago keeping art alive:

"What is left of our identity, our humanity, when we can no longer even have ownership over our memories?" @michaelzapata.bsky.social's interview with Yiming Ma on his new book "These Memories Do Not Belong to Us" (Mariner Books) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/29/m...