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.

🚨 This woman tries to call the family of the man being disappeared and ICE will not allow her to get a phone number. One of the “undercover” mobsters nearly backed into her.

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?

Your moment of joy today.

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.

"Russell and Kaitlynn have been working tirelessly to find legal help, but it has been challenging due in part to the complexity of Donna’s case, with some of her documents seeming to have been lost over decades of changing hands in the immigration offices."

What can you do to help people at risk of being disappeared by ICE? Donate to these relief funds, to help them stay home and safe: www.ktownforall.org/donate www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

"I asked them what costume I was supposed to wear, as there are rules around how much fabric can be on your body," Coombes told the Reading Chronicle. "They confirmed that I need to wear a female swimming costume despite having to compete with the men." www.advocate.com/news/trans-w...

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

The video of John Spitzberg's arrest has been shared widely across social platforms, becoming a crystalizing moment for those protesting the Trump administration.

¿Sabías que el primer pasaporte para personas refugiadas fue creado por un noruego? Se instauró en 1922 por iniciativa de Fridtjof Nansen. En este #DíaMundialDeLasPersonasRefugiadas te contamos su historia🧵

@alexhinton.bsky.social on the 'lone wolf' right-wing shooter myth in the #USA, & how these men are all part of 'packs' that espouse white nationalism, anti-LGBTIQ agendas, etc. A broader culture of hate that promotes violence & exclusion of 'the other'. theconversation.com/violent-extr...

“It’s time to wake up,” Padilla said, urging Americans to continue to peacefully protest the administration. “If this administration is this afraid of just one senator with a question … imagine what the voices of tens of billions of Americans peacefully protesting can do.”

"Sí, se puede" (Spanish for "Yes, you can"), is the motto of the United Farm Workers of America, and has since been taken up by other activist groups. UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta created the phrase in 1972 during César Chávez's 25-day fast in Phoenix, Arizona. Sí, se puede!!

YUP. SERIOUS THREAT THERE!!

@tommalinowski.bsky.social gave what might have been the best (of many) speeches today at the #NoKingsDay event in Morristown. How I wish he was still my representative in NJ-07. He had the crowd reciting the same oath to the constitution he took when he became a citizen.

Our military deserves better than this empty charade. Yikes. The tank squeaking over silence is incredible.

No Kings in Chicago! Wow!😮 #nokings #chicago

Chardon, Ohio, population 5242 in 2020 census, had approximately 400 people show up in the rain. #nokings

Chicago showed the fuck up!

via Benedicto.Uribe on TikTok