Neurobiology echoing @prisonculture.bsky.social’s wise words: “Hope is a discipline.”

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

I try to avoid "real organizers vs. fake/keyboard organizers" framings for the most part but one thing you learn quickly from organizing is how difficult it is to get people to do anything at all, how much you're competing against sociologically. people are overworked and tired

Marjorie Taylor Green is literally the Jewish space lasers lady She’s an anti-semite! That’s why she opposes Israel, not because she supports human rights Do not fucking circulate her saying “oh she’s being reasonable” jfc

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

Not all heroes wear capes. Please support local, independent, and student journalists. “𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧 𝘰𝘧 13, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 @loyolachicago.bsky.social 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘹 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘱…” www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...

"Anger over a housing crisis and the cost of living, campaign blunders by Fine Gael and its ruling partner Fianna Fáil, rare unity among leftwing parties and deft use of social media combined to make Connolly a symbol of change." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Private prison executives casually discussed the "3,000 arrests per day" quota in earnings calls—despite the Department of Justice previously denying any quota exists. This is fueling immigration raids nationwide while companies rake in record profits.

Trump’s victims are now washing up in Trinidad: “The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.“

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

ICE agents in Chicago are adopting family separation methods developed within the U.S. family policing system, reflecting broader state violence tactics linked to government enforcement.

I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime. While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...

"There is just one hope of repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every niche on the whole earth. That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom of the wilderness." -Bob Marshall, making the case for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 1930

Updating my LEGO White House

I have some bad news for all you cis women voting and working to ban HRT. You are going to NEED that shit when you hit peri/menopause. All of our struggles for bodily autonomy against a fascist cisheteropatriarchy are connected.

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

‘Gaza is covered with an estimated 61 million tons of rubble, much of which contains asbestos, unexploded munitions, and unburied human remains. “The environmental situation in Gaza before October 7 was a disaster,” said Tareq Abuhamed, who leads the Arava Institute and is Palestinian.‘

Federal agents shot two people during a violent and chaotic immigration abduction. That’s the actual headline here

Gaza officials say Israel has allowed in only 14 percent of the aid required by the ceasefire agreement, averaging 89 trucks a day instead of the 600 that were promised to help alleviate the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

As most are aware by now, ICE is slamming the north side today. They've been seen in Andersonville, Rogers Park, West Ridge, Edgewater + Evanston. Several people abducted, agents still active. Shared with permission—rapid response whistle team at Bryn Mawr & Broadway this morning.

In the 10 days since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was announced to take effect, the Israeli military has already repeatedly violated it. Al Jazeera reports that it has continued its genocide, killing nearly 100 Palestinians and wounding over 300 people.

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Israel has already killed least 51 people in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, now it’s resuming airstrikes.

At our slow but steady pace, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, @commonnotions.bsky.social and I have been working on Project 2052. We have first round of story commissions out; a few stories in second drafts; and enough donations to pay everyone small honorariums. www.commonnotions.org/project2052

WTF do you mean "test"?

Protesters are reporting today that state troopers at Broadview were exceptionally violent last night, lots of baton strikes including at heads and faces. Everyone arrested has been released.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

A FIGHTER JET RAINING SHIT

"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

quit your job 👋

I could go google all of these, but I think you get the point here: Indiana showed out. Hard. Harder than I think anyone expected and definitely harder than I realized. Today I am proud to call myself a Hoosier. Really hope people keep the momentum up and keep taking action outside protests 💕

I need y'all to know that map was not all of them, thank you @indystar.bsky.social for making sure to document this because I don't think I've ever in my life seen Indiana, as a whole, turn out for literally ANYTHING like this.

“Jerry Robinette, who has 34 years of experience as a police officer & a special agent in charge for HSI, an agency within DHS, said the situation is ‘stressful’ for ‘both sides.’” ICE/CBP killed a man, shot a woman 5 times & gassed multiple neighborhoods, all to rip people from their families.

“JUSTICE FOR SILVERIO VILLEGAS GONZÁLEZ MURDERED BY ICE SEPT 12, Franklin Park”

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla. His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest. www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...

I was skeptical of the viral post but here’s a story about it www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Seriously. Do not interact with the govt accounts. Just don’t.

Assata Shakur

The DHS Twitter has been tagging and calling out a local journalist writing on immigration in Chicago. Local journalists covering what’s happening need continual support especially as they write these important stories.