Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com

When they propose spending increases on violence work, you can treat that as a big pot of money that should be given to life affirming things instead.

I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS

This! I also don't care if they came here legally. EVERYTHING ICE IS DOING TO ANYONE IS UNLAWFUL AND ABHORRENT.

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin's statement on why he voted to confirm Marco Rubio for Secretary of State:

ah yes. let's wait until dems sweep house and senate in midterms so we can have two more years of crippling constitutional crises before trump cedes power peacefully

A major theme of their strategy with ramping up ICE's violence has been turning the US Code upside down to find (or invent) legal landmines to use against people. And they don't even have to stretch to do that here: it's provided for right there in the law.

You know, fuck climate and fuck carbon. The fact that wars and lots of blood for oil are somehow an acceptable price to pay for energy has never ever been ok. This alone is more than enough reason to phase out fossil fuels asap.

Trump promises to destroy your life unless you take a bribe to destroy the lives of other working people. This isn't justice, it's extortion. The only way out of this is to recognize your enemy is not the immigrant, Muslim, Black person, or trans person—it's billionaires ripping us apart. 2/2

Trump is recruiting for ICE with a $100K starting salary, $50K signing bonus, and $60K in student loan forgiveness—all while garnishing wages for working people who can't pay their student loans. His message to working people is clear... 1/2

Evil shit.

With much of the attention on the Bovino/Biss confrontation, Berwyn Cicero RR is now reporting feds took *twelve* people from their area today: instagram.com/p/DSYSxvakp4T

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

One reason CBP hits this lot so often, besides essentially shooting fish in a barrel, is that it’s right next to their office. Didn’t meet quota for the day? Just go grab some Uber/Lyft drivers at the end of the day.

An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”

Folks need to examine philosophically why it is that—in the span of just a couple of years—the leaders of the American Democratic, Canadian Liberal & British Labour Parties have all gone all in on assisred suicide (while making healthcsre harder to attain) www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/...

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This both works and REALLY pisses off the fascist right. It's a win-win.

There were Democrats voting for this shit, please stop complaining when we complain about Democrats and want them held accountable. This is getting ridiculous, the fucking collaborators.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Join us for our annual open house tonight! Presses are running, prints and cards are for sale, and we’ve got snacks. The metal type shown here (reversed) is Pastel, designed and cast in Chicago and made popular by silent film intertitles. #letterpress

ever day I be like

So, to all the "RFK's got some good ideas" folks (Rachael Bedard, Leana Wen) and Jay Bhattacharya is "an excellent choice for NIH" (Steven Macedo, Frances Lee) and Vinay Prasad "will bring a breath of fresh air to FDA" (Adam Cifu, John Mandrola) groupies--you own this now too.

Despite overwhelming evidence that just saying “no” to the creeps pushing this works, the organizations that are supposed to be set up to protect/fight for us keep failing.

The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

A useful read to anyone of targeted immigration status who wants to fly domestically. It would be good to have a plan for what to do when the red X comes up. For you and your friends.

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

oh fuck this

Our 2025 letterpress holiday cards printed by the talented @starshapedpress.bsky.social featuring an excerpt from Assata Shakur's "Affirmation" are here! We're handing them out free with every in-store and online purchase until they're gone. It's our favorite tradition of the holiday season.

Boycotts work. Keep going.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

I see some folks responding to my piece with "fuck Brandon Johnson" type comments, and I fully understand, but also, he still has time to make this right. We need to demand that he become a champion of our public libraries. We need to demand that of every member of the city council. Now is the time!

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

It appears there is a group of Santas doing civil disobedience in downtown Chicago while demanding "a city budget for the money not the few." The Santas want billionaires to get taxed. So say we all. Source: www.facebook.com/reel/1415480...

"Miles said her son and uncle were both detained by ICE agents who initially did not accept their tribal IDs before they were eventually let go."

While reporting this, we came across this ProPublica story from 2019 about a Border Patrol Facebook group. Hardly any differences between this and other cop pages we've reported on. It's all the same dehumanization and racism, just different targets (w/ Chicago cops—usually it's Black people).

Virtual Book Launch Event: I will be in conversation with Ash Williams, a fellow contributor to "Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis," on Wednesday, November 19, at 6:00 p.m. CT. Thanks to @firestorm.coop for hosting. You can sign up here:

"Citing a Homeland Security official, the Sun-Times previously reported 1,000 federal agents could return to Chicago in March. About 200 Border Patrol agents had been conducting operations in the Chicago area recently, a top federal immigration enforcement official previously said."

It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.

i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...

Weekend cooking adventures - a few months ago I bought this container of Bap Rang from a local Chinese grocery store. Delicious. Fast forward to trying to think of creative ways to use the Rancho Gordo posole, I remembered a recipe I saw in some cookbook for fried giant corn.

Beech tree in November, back yard in shadows, Chicago, noon.

"The camp consists of temporary tent structures meant to house up to 5,000 detainees and relieve overcrowding at other Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities."

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

“When we enlisted in the military, we were proud to serve our country. We never imagined that, after our service, we would have to fight for our own healthcare.” @tennesseelookout.com