The photos in this story were made by local freelance photographer @mkaplanphoto.bsky.social, who risked his own health and safety in the face of chemical weapons to document that day:

Come on, Chicago, get the de-Flock bug, too!

This week has seen anti-trans legislation and policies advance or pass in Portugal, India, Ghana, Senegal, the US and the Olympics. It’s an an-all global assault on transgender people. It was begun by rich white ppl in England and the US. Being trans is good. We will never abandon trans people.

The final words of Alice’s memorial came from Alice herself

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All this shit is a menace.

Hossam Shabqt was assassinated one year ago today. I felt an affinity for him because he was supposed to be finishing journalism school when the war began, was the same age as my students, and we corresponded. He was unbearably sweet and kind.

I know breaking news is hard but I've several articles about the crash at LGA yesterday/today and none mentioned the persistent understaffing of air traffic control, and the absolute chaos the trump administration added to the system in the past year.

Hi hello there's a lot happening, but want to draw attention to an urgent need in the community— 78 yr old Raymond & his 95 yr old mother are facing eviction *immediately* if they don't pay back rent to the tune of $3200. Fundraiser is sitting at 27%. More info here: instagram.com/p/DWO2QUoldVX/

ICE locks tens of thousands of detainees nationwide in a network of 170 "hold rooms" spread across 49 states, which are forbidden from containing beds. Today, we are publishing location and detainee information about all 170 facilities. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/03/excl...

If you believe you see ICE at any Chicago area airports this week (🚬), please message us anonymously on Signal at unraveled.66

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

coincidentally, i spent the week traveling southeastern wisconsin on a reporting trip about data centers. more to say on that soon, but the tl;dr is that millions of people are going to feel the impact of this decision for generations

It's a clear and sunny day in Chicago. ICE is out and about, with vehicles sighted across the city and suburbs. Berwyn Cicero Rapid Response just confirmed feds took two people from Cicero shortly after 8am.

We have a verdict and we are heartbroken at the results. This is only the beginning. We will continue to fight the remaining charges until every defendant is home.

I see the "e-bikers are lazy and ruining cycling" discourse has arrived with the warm weather, and so let me just share this thing I wrote about how getting an e-bike after I got #LongCOVID gave me back one of the most joyful parts of my life that I thought was lost to me forever. bit.ly/48ohIH5

Let me tell you what may be another sign that these warehouses turned ICE detention centers are extremely unpopular. A source reached out and said they heard about a location. I looked it up and reached out to the owner of that location. Within 20 minutes, they responded that they received my email

Chicago.

Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙 Please preorder it! 🧵

Update: Sarah Afzul, the woman's sister, told me that Naqvi has been released from a detention facility in Wisconsin, where she was transferred overnight and they've been reunited with her

Weaving our Worlds has compiled resources and diverse left perspectives from and on Iran. Rather than reduce Iran to various intra-left ideological debates, these provide analysis based in the context, specificity and history. www.weavingourworlds.ca/iran-resourc...

Border Patrol is detaining another US citizen and lying about it. She’s part of a group of citizens and green card holders who have been disappeared after their travel plans were disrupted.

Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day. Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.

Chicago Public Library card-havers: go put Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s new book ON HOLD now! CPL has 7 books on pre-order, and 3 holds placed. If you can’t buy the book, getting in line with a placed hold is a great way to tell the library they should buy more copies!

Periodic reminder that ICE does not just track and watch immigrants. They are collecting and storing information on us all.

We are at this stage of the Holocaust — in Ohio, which hasn’t gotten much attention recently. “In Springfield, Ohio, some Americans have converted their basements and spare bedrooms into shelters for immigrant families who could be targeted in raids.” #GiftLink courtesy of my library:

Enjoying a nice late afternoon thunderstorm down here in SE Chicago, delicious to watch after doing a little school watch stroll, and a mini garden walk around the yard to see what’s peaking its little life forces back air side.

Happening now in Chicago's federal plaza: A rally is underway in solidarity with trans people in Kansas whose drivers' licenses were suddenly invalidated last week, due to the enactment of a new state law that requires a person's gender on their license to match their assigned sex at birth.

This sucks!

My only thoughts and solidarity are for the 90 million Iranians, who I have more common cause with than I could ever have with either one of the regimes that oppress us all

What would it look like if people in workplaces that use OpenAI products organized to launch some kind of campaign of divestment from it?

There's nothing in US history and culture that suggests that the leadership of the country will ever fire the thousand of ICE agents currently working and that will be hired in the future. In fact, what's more likely is that a future administration will increase their number.

With much love and respect to the sign maker,

Things possums eat when they come to our yards: cockroaches, ticks, snails, snakes, carrion. I welcome them! (Reading The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl, the essay “Living the Unloved Animals,” and thinking fondly about our friend who comes to our garden each summer.)

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz). They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

Remember when people used to insist it wasn't airborne? www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

Organizing against borders can seem utopic, but there are many concrete fights: 1 Mutual aid networks 2 Rapid Response actions 3 Stopping PIC construction & budget fights 4 Ending agreements w/ local enforcement 5 Non cooperation of public institutions (hospitals etc) w/ immigration 6 Status 4 All

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished. I have neighbors everywhere.

We are excited to return to @chihacknight.org to talk about all of the many projects going on monitoring the explosive growth of license plate readers. The live stream will be up on Tuesday but you can find details here chihacknight.org/events/2026/...

Pregnant immigrants in Minnesota have been postponing their abortions, skipping aftercare, and delaying birth control visits and urgent cancer screening follow-ups to avoid coming in contact with federal immigration agents.

If you are grandfathered in to Ring you can turn off all the settings for Police and “pet” surveillance permissions, which are of course default on. Control Center —> public safety and Control Center —> Search Party (this is the one from the Super Bowl ad)

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Why is Paul Giamotti’s voice so fantastically cartoon villainish

Attention Chicagoans: this thread details local politicians who have received funds from the landlords who approved that horrific early morning ICE raid on a South Shore apartment complex

“What is destructive is the insidious belief that the world outside your front door is to be treated with suspicion; that every passerby is a potential threat; that every neighbor is a potential enemy; that every human interaction must be stored and cataloged as evidence of possible crime.”

Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

The Cook County States Attorney continues to tell us what she cannot (or will not) do, while the state’s attorney in Hennepin County (where Minneapolis sits) takes steps to do whatever she can.

Just donated again. Support Unraveled if you can. They are doing such heroic work with so little.