A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

The declarations keep coming back to the ways in which the awful conditions themselves were used to coerce deportations. Here, one lawyer describes how his client, who had a work permit, US citizen children, and a strong case for relief, was coerced into giving up his case.

Former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot announces that she is opening a documentation center to collect evidence of the criminal misconduct of DHS leadership and of ICE agent deployed to Chicago and its environs. The effort will also focus on unmasking and identifying all ICE agents deployed.

The correct term for Trump's particular aesthetic style is “Regional Car Dealership Rococo” according to architecture critic Kate Wagner, author of McMansion Hell.

This is disastrous. Roughly 42,000,000 people will not have enough to eat in November. That's 12% of the US population (1 in 8 people), who will lose their ability to feed themselves sufficiently.

#BoycottHomeDepot indeed.

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This is so lovely! Having a positive experience during a peaceful protest boosts revenue and the profile of independent businesses and the local farmers market in downtown Portland.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

"intelligence that indicates there’s illegal alienage in a particular place or location" turns out to be..."Hey, Chip, you or other folks. How do they appear in relation to what you or other people look like?"

Just some good 16th century advice: "Company, musicke, honest gaming, or any other virtuous exercise doeth helpe agaynst heavinesse of mind." William Bullein, 1558 wellcomecollection.org/works/bga5qy...

They were a child, that's been confirmed for hours and as of 16:52 BBC still hasn't updated. Nobody, absolutely nobody, risks a child's life crossing one of the world's busiest shipping routes if they see a genuine alternative. Labour needs to provide safety alternatives www.bbc.com/news/article...

4 out of 5 young people in the EU can have a conversation in a language other than their mother tongue. In celebration of the 24 official EU languages, member states shared the joy of their languages with UK pupils at the @euinuk.bsky.social‘s #EuropeanDayofLanguages event.

I say this as a British person: can we at least all agree that the last thing Palestine needs is the British taking over again? Seeing as - let's be honest - we were the ones who created this whole problem in the first place?

🧵 Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) was one of England’s greatest painters as well as a populariser of the art of landscape. He was a character in every sense & repays study big time! Here is a picture of his beloved daughters. Enjoy this thread of his works by scrolling down! [1]

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Exploring tropes of fairy-tale princes, Hollywood Mad King Georges, and the soap-opera saga of the British Royal Family. And how avoiding using the word 'dictator' is a last-gasp of American exceptionalism: we can't possibly end up like *those* failed states.

So excited for the Chicago International Film Festival this October! www.chicagofilmfestival.com/festival/

Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.

The Embankment cycleway (CS3) in London was purposefully built to be wider than was usual in order to future proof it. Some said it would hardly be used. Now there’s a decent case for widening it further. Induced demand is real.

Whole thread. We’re in an up-in-the-air moment now: one hand, Trump threatening civil war; other, ICE being turned back by civil disobedience. Moral: fascists don’t know yet how far they’re willing to go. My belief: more moments like this now will prevent the war that’s been threatened.

Saw this post this morning and went searching for more context. Then realized it was from *July,* and yet hadn't made national news. I couldn't stop thinking about that. So I decided to find out more.

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

Regular reviews of the travel ban policy are required under the presidential proclamation, with the next deadline on September 2, and many remain cautiously optimistic that those updates could bring relief -- at least for Turkmen students with plans to study in the United States.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

A group darted into a CVS store near the checkpoint and emerged with hastily made signs that read “Police checkpoint ahead” and “ICE,” then headed a few blocks south to warn people. ...“Sir, you don’t want to do this,” one woman shouted at law enforcement. “You do not want this role in history.

Seeing this again and thinking of all the MAGA men whining that they're afraid to walk down the street.

Helsinki has had zero pedestrian deaths since 2019, and it's last fatal traffic accident was in July 2024. As I often say in my therapy sessions: Very few things in life are actually impossible. They're often inconvenient, uncomfortable, or very difficult - but that doesn't mean they're impossible.

Sign the petition to call for the removal of RFK, Jr. www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...

Entirely as predicted, because the goal was to take down all of higher ed, community colleges are impacted as well. Project 2025 sees any higher education as "elitist" and unnecessary.

A German informational pamphlet for kids about Long Covid! Weirdly, I hadn't thought about the fact children could get long covid too. Awful! When I was a child in the UK I knew other kids with M.E., so I should've realized kids also get Long Covid. I guess it's just not on the radar here in the US?

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked Secrretary Noem's move to terminate temporary status for Nicaragua, Honduran and Nepaii immigrants, finding the cancelation was likely rooted in "racial animus." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

I'm beginning to wonder how far back the Republicans actually want to take the country. To Jim Crow?? Will this racist Supreme Court overturn Loving v. Virginia next? It's insanity. What is their end goal?

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Despite the headline, when it comes to visas Europe - the UK especially - is just as guilty of treating people from Africa and Latin America with contempt.

And what Japanese internment (and other concentration camps) taught us is that the damage is intergenerational. The children and grandchildren of those currently being disappeared into camps will also have to live with that trauma.

People love to pretend that whatever sector of the economy they dislike doesn't have actual people who actually need to make a living working in it. Firing thousands and thousands of people across whole fields in a matter of months is an employment crisis, period.

NEW: As Trump hosts a White House lunch for faith leaders, some of their colleagues are showing what REAL leadership is. In Detroit, heads of the Catholic church & other faiths are leading 100s in a silent march to ICE headquarters to demand humane treatment of immigrants.👏 (🎥 Detroit Free Press)

We want ICE out of our Hospitals.

Just sharing for this quote: "Negotiating with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is like playing chess with a pigeon. The bird furiously flaps its wings, knocks over all the pieces while cooing with delight, then defecates on the board and says, "I won!""

There is already a serious shortage of doctors and nurses in the US, so this is real bad news.