At some point in the last 2.5 years I went to bed thinking of Israel as a flawed but recoverable democracy that could work out its issues eventually post-Netanyahu and woke up holding it in the same disdain as Milošević’s Yugoslavia and the Confederate States

Israel is now saying the ceasefire will take effect "within 24 hours" as opposed to 10am today as initially planned. So yeah, just announced a delay for no reason and started shooting people trying to go home who thought there was a ceasefire in effect. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded

BREAKING: Israeli tanks fired directly at civilians on Al-Rashid Street while the latter were trying to return to northern Gaza, shortly after the ceasefire agreement had supposedly taken effect.

Little Pink Accents for You and Me. Thursday's sunrise over the Chicago skyline.

For those who think this could never happen, I implore you to look up the MOVE bombing in Philly.

DO EEEEEETTTT

Good news today, but @diplomatofnight.com puts it into context with concise clarity.

Humboldt Park, Chicago

#Chicago - take a second. take a deep breath. forget about all the awful shit. just for a minute. And look at our pretty city.

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

A certain legacy-media editorial board recommended capitulation in the face of Trump’s invasion, but on the South Side, we believe Chicagoans should keep standing up for one another.

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

If this is truly their reason for flying a helicopter 500 feet above people's houses all day, it is excessive and unnecessary. It’s disrupting our community at a time of heightened tensions and military occupation of Chicago.

UPDATE: I absolutely did trigger my fire marshals to go through the code and grumble about it continually playing catch up. That part of the point of building the datacenters where they are isn't just cheap land and resource they can exploit, but older code with poor enforcement.

How does… but.. make it make sense.

Well this'll be interesting.

oh ffs

I'm over people saying people in Chicago or LA or Portland or New York aren't doing enough. What they're saying is: 'Why aren't you out there shooting back so I don't have to?' 'Why aren't you being killed fast enough for my taste?' 'Why aren't you risking your life so I don't have to?'

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage." I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

Things I need to do this week...

Stolen camera lens needs replacing. (Stolen while reporting on activity at Broadview [i think]) Toss some $ at this if you can.

ISP & locals from at least 12 Cook, Dupage, & Lake Cty towns came to Broadview to make it possible for ICE to do their jobs. The NG will do much of the same. They are not mere puppets, they are ppl with making clear choices to “follow orders” for a variety of reasons that are their own.

CPD showed up on Saturday solely to protect ICE from Brighton Park community members. ICE tear gassed them in their reckless escape from the neighborhood, and CPD still got mad at protesters, medics, & LOs for having to be there in the first place.

What do you know Gavin Newsom is doing the fascists work for them yet again and his online boosters are lying about it yet again. Gavin Newsom is a fascist in blue and can never hold power again. He must be run out of politics forever if we want to truly confront the fascism swamping the country.

The govt, at time of writing, yet maintains its felony assault complaints against two other men arrested at the 9/27 ICE facility protest - Dana Briggs, who is 70 years old, and Paul Ivery, who has an intellectual disability and was asked while in federal custody to waive his Miranda rights.

"Anarchists run Portland" seems to suggest a lack of understanding of what anarchy actually means.

@anildash.com wrote this in 2011: dashes.com/2011/07/20/i... Each website - each social media system - has to have a view of what sort of content they want and what they don't want. Or, to put this in terms techbros understand: There is no such thing as viewpoint-neutral moderation.

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

ok but you could also mobilize the national guard defensively and tell your state police to stop attacking protesters

These are every day citizens who came here to help brutalize the people of Chicago. wtf is wrong with everyone? Do you not think ICE are also every day people who had other jobs before this? I will not be kind to the people here to kidnap my neighbors, regardless of who sent them or why.

Absolutely gorgeous morning in Chicago.

I was Pritzker’s biggest fanboy, so I realize it’s hard to accept his betrayal. It was hard for me, but I saw it with my own eyes. Please stop gaslighting me about Pritzker. You weren’t there. I was. These are Pritzker’s brown shirts, working fist-in-glove with ICE/CBP.

If Democrats want to stop fascism, they have to stop their cops from beating & arresting anti-fascism protesters in their own cities Why is that a thing I have to say out loud

"While some fretted over the behavior of protesters, these men, who performed brutality for their own cameras, were always going to riot."

"I cannot begin to tell you how difficult and unnerving it is to have been in Chicago these past few weeks; to exist indefinitely in the contradictory space between knowing and living."

‘I thought I was the hopelessly broken one. But I was a fire alarm among people who couldn't smell smoke.’

NEW — Some TRiiBE readers, among many others on the internet, have been suggesting that the Chicago police arrest ICE agents for their misconduct. TRiiBE publisher @morganelisej.thetriibe.com put out this explainer video, breaking down the legality for y’all. youtube.com/shorts/WDHFe...

hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

All of this.

Do me a favor and go look up what our state motto is. If you need a cheat sheet, it’s on the flag

Rudy Explains! So excited for the future of this.

This. This is why Newsom is scarier to me than Trump. He has all the same positions. But he says things while wearing a suit and saying he's a Democrat so everyone is OK with it. Which means he'll face far less pushback. Just like Biden. Only with a hyper-militarized federal police force.

I hope they hate every last minute of it.

This is from a video on X, showing inside the Broadview ICE facility when Noem was in town on Fri. For context, she's in the central room with 15 workstations setup to process detained individuals, whether they were arrested by immigration enforcement or at protests. See the orange triangles?

Oh yay, the fascist thugs are here.

"A critical part of our moderation infrastructure is a third-party black box that we don't provide input to" is, uh, kind of concerning.

What, I'm going to say very very clearly, THE EVER LOVING FUCK IS THIS SHIT?! Does anyone who works for bluesky do any actual work? Or do they just offload all of it to AI?