Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day everyone!

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night. Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical. We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.” - released Palestinian prisoner

Here is Jamal from Gaza whose family lost everything and he is trying with all his might to rebuild their lives and help them with the crazy costs in Gaza and travel outside Gaza when the crossings open. I hope you support us. Your little support, even if it is $5 chuffed.org/project/1389...

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

“If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world.“ - @sarahlazare.bsky.social & Lindsay Koshgarian, @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

Bari Weiss was named the editor-in-chief of CBS News, cementing the rightward shift of one of media's most storied newsrooms

The significance of a billionaire rewriting truth for an AI platform that countless people use to make sense of the news while on a social media channel he also owns cannot be understated.

This narrative that ICE has "backed off" Chicago persists despite a flood of bystander video and reports showing an unprecedented and growing wave of masked terrorists violently kidnapping Illinoisians off the streets in Chicago. I can only assume our media ecosystem is to blame for this.

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

People are homeless because they can’t afford rent. Because capitalism wrings out every piece of productivity from people while just barely maintaining their survival so they can continue to work. Because suffering on the streets is a threat to make you go clock in. It’s not a personal failure.

Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

I want to once again reiterate what I said earlier. The reason the vast majority of Democratic and so-called centrist elites have acquiesced over and over again is that they are COMPLICIT. Because they actually know that direct confrontation is how you defeat fascists and choose not to do it.

Trump says he is ordering all U.S. flags lowered to half-mast in honor of Charlie Kirk

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

i’d really like to disabuse people of the notion that local/state police are somehow going to stop the feds’ terror campaign. lots of local cops already work with these same feds on task forces and in fusion centers. they are quite literally part of the same system. they are not allies.

President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” agenda has a surprising stakeholder: Bill Gates. The multibillionaire tech mogul and philanthropist owns a large portion of a key service provider for immigration flights. w/ @gnobes.huffpost.com www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g...

It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering

Time to cough up, jokers. We killed NFTs and we’ll do it again.

COVID cases are up throughout the country. I talked to doctors about where cases are highest right now and what folks should do to stay healthy: www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...

NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.

A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.

Guess it’s time for your periodic reminder that mentally ill people are actually statistically less likely to commit violent crimes; more likely to be victims; and more at risk of hurting themselves than others. If you want to curb gun crimes curb guns. Threading some studies here!

Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

We gotta drop "What do you do for fun?" question from the small talk list. It's too hard. I always panic and say something like I like to eat lunch

Trump administration moves to bar states and even private (!) nonprofits, such as Red Cross, from helping undocumented immigrants after disasters. Evil. s2.washingtonpost.com/4467742/68af...

Breaking: According to Minneapolis police, two children — ages 8 and 10 — have been killed in the church shooting. 14 children and three adults injured. Minneapolis mayor Frey: "Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying."

children in minneapolis shot while praying, children in DC passing armed military when they take the metro to school, this country is so sick

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Initially there was a lot of public conversation around how the DOGE team's actions could expose them to individual legal liability. That kind of faded (for reasons I don't fully understand) but I do wonder whether at some point it will resurface

A lot of this is familiar w/ what we saw in L.A. over the last 3 months (although NG mostly stuck to standing around buildings), but the key thing here is that DC is WAY smaller than Los Angeles County. LA County is more than 60 times bigger than DC. People are seeing this shit at greater frequency

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.

Yesterday, while doing ICEwatch along the U St. corridor, I took photos of all the beautiful restaurants. It was around 5pm on a Sunday. The weather was beautiful. Do you see what’s missing? Some of these restaurants had customers, but it was…sparse.

Never. Keep that shit out of my home. I do not want to talk to my devices. No surveillance tech.

I've been reading things over the past few weeks that make it clear that we live in many different countries within the U.S.

It was honestly funny seeing people's reactions to learning who made the Staten Island ferry free but also really helped show how even his free bus overall concept is nothing new and was implemented on the ferry

These two guardsmen at NoMa station just appeared to spit on a black woman and told her to have a nice night as she was going down the stairs from the platform they were making fun of her when I turned my camera on and started waving

I take that back. Rifles have now been spotted in Southwest D.C. (photo not mine).

Avelo's phone number is 346-616-9500 if anyone feels compelled to ask why the fuck they're letting people put children in shackles on their planes

It is VIOLENCE. It is gleefully destructive. It is backpacks with inhalers, it is documents you need to apply for jobs, and most importantly it is the homes your most marginalized neighbors have pulled together from almost nothing. It is often the entirety of their possessions.