The organizers were handcuffed by Chicago Police officers as they blocked off Michigan Avenue lanes headed north. 📸: Corli Jay for The TRiiBE

When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.

From the inbox: local activists have taken it upon themselves to print and distro this story to the community. Absolutely love to see it.

Just straight up unfiltered racism and xenophobia.

I feel like we don’t have nearly enough “V” references for the times we’re currently surviving.

Binge and/or subscribe to @ifbookspod.bsky.social if you haven’t yet. It’s such a reset button against every way bad actors try to weaponize evidence and arguments. Makes this rhetoric teacher/researcher’s heart grow three sizes.

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

We’ve been careening toward needing this essay for a decade.

“Education workers were the most frequently punished.” Every educator cited in the Reuters piece as suspended or fired lives in a “right-to-work” state.

ICE is STILL stuck inside the parking garage in lower Manhattan, and they seem pretty grumpy about it.

Tis the seasona and all that, so I put together a little gift guide of cool artists, makers, authors and other good stuff I like a lot. All rad, no bad. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Lots of shoving from NYPD to create an empty area for ICE to RETREAT after their planned raid got exposed LRAD now ordering dispersal outside parking garage to force dispersal.

A vintage shop purchase yesterday has me wanting to rabbit hole about various City of Chicago logos over the years — beyond the flag, the seal, and the municipal device. Can anyone advise on how/where to dig in?

“Never have so few done so much to so many.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Footage from nearly four dozen body cameras worn by immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz was released to the public on Wednesday, capturing in shaky, first-person style the abject chaos on the streets as residents and protesters were tear-gassed, hit with pepper balls and arrested.

The south suburban high school I attended is about to approve a Turning Point USA chapter, and the (white male) lefty teacher I reached out to about pushback options told me it’s best just to ignore them and maybe they’ll go away, and isn’t that kind of how we got here?

Trump is an instinctive bigot, but he doesn’t have the attention span to be an ideologically committed white nationalist. He also craves approval from everyone (e.g. his Mamdani meeting). That’s why Miller’s role as Trump’s white nationalist whisperer has been so important. bsky.app/profile/atru...

It’s always been about white nationalism. All of it. Islamophobia AND antisemitism, the trans panic AND trad wives, breaking public education AND attacking DEI, dismantling abortion rights AND deprofessionalizing women workers. The GOP wants a white ethnostate. Some admit it more openly than others.

Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."

Marjorie Taylor Greene quit Congress because all her racist fascist friends are racist and fascist for clout and she is, mistakenly, a true believer.

But no resolutions condemning fascism, huh?

The funniest most chilling thing about this is the question of why this has even come up. Who has a burning desire to… display these symbols ?

Thats going to be the catchall for anything the feds dont like from hereon out “anarchist violent extremist actors.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: Body-worn camera video captured an immigration agent in Chicago using ChatGPT to “compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images,” Judge Ellis reveals in a scathing written ruling. Story here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/20/i...

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Watch what happens in Chicago, folks. This 3 act play is coming to a city near you. 1) out of control border agents shooting (& killing) people. Also tear-gassing, kidnapping, pepper spraying, etc 2) lying about every single thing and then: 3) being held to account in court

Border Patrol agent who pointed a gun at bystanders has Twitter/X account where he cheers on hate crimes and asserts that America would be better if women couldn’t vote.

The Trump admin's case to the Supreme Court that the situation in Chicago justifies a National Guard deployment rests partly on the actions of two motorists. Now, prosecutors have moved to dropped charges against them. Julie Bosman reports... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

This is fucking horrifying. Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?

Sounds about reich

Holy. Shit.

Stephen Miller said the Chicago building was “filled with TdA terrorists.” DOJ prosecutors have not filed criminal charges or shown evidence that anyone arrested in the raid belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social

i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying

On his show last week Nick Fuentes told followers to graffiti ‘Nick Fuentes Was Right About Israel’ all around the country. So far exactly one instance has been reported. I think calling this guy Charlie Kirk’s successor, as Washington Post & other headlines have, is premature

Chicago City Council Voted with Ultra Wealthy Corporations and Against Chicago’s Families Today, Now They Have to Actually Present Their Own Ideas

Mayor Johnson is right. Journalists need to start asking individual alders exactly what they oppose about this budget and whether they have any financial ties with corporations who oppose the head tax.

Come for World Cup soccer, leave before we smash your car window, tear-gas you and zip-tie your children.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

New Yorkers responding to raids and bracing for more are taking a cue from activists there, passing out thousands of whistles in recent weeks as a low-tech way to alert people of ICE activity when they see it.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

Refresher: this is the “your body, my choice” guy. This is the “organized Jewry” guy. This is the Hitler was “very, very cool” guy. His audience is not organically growing, but his views are being mainstreamed anyway.

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

Signatories for the anti public education Phoenix Declaration include disgraced OK Supt Ryan Walters, failed WI guy Scott Walker & problematic grifter Corey DeAngelis. Institutional endorsers are [also] a short list of the most aggressive privatizers, book banners, and teacher haters in the nation.

“When you understand there’s torture in a concentration camp in your backyard, it would be wild if people from Chicagoland weren’t going to Broadview,” Woolf later said in an interview. “But [Mayor Thompson] doesn’t care about out-of-town cops coming to brutalize us.”

Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.

Turkey is one of the testing grounds for reimporting fascism to America. There goes my hypothetical bail fund.

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

It’s being reported that Greg Bovino and 250 of his goons will be leaving Chicago. But it’s also being reported that he’ll be back, in larger numbers. But Chicago is a boxer, tired but unbowed. I wrote about how we’ll be ready. dansinker.com/posts/202…