Just constantly humming "Because I got high" in the background of my life bc it's in the ether

Shutting down the Strait of Hormuz should make us here in the U.S. think very carefully about the choke-points & vulnerabilities of fascist systems. Neither the systems nor the fascists themselves are invulnerable & their efforts to maximize repression & exploitation present an enormous weakness.

Congrats to Raja Krishnamoorthi on his new position as guest contributor to the Chicago Tribune editorial board

Israeli forces shot all four members of the Bani Odeh family in the head, including their 5yo and 7yo. The 7yo, Othman, was blind and had special needs. This comes a day after Israeli settlers shot 28yo Amir Moatasem Odeh and stabbed his father.

The last home has been destroyed.

Father of six, grabbed in front of his crying children as he was about to take them to school.

"you do have big parrot-that-dances energy"

I agree with this and it's something for which community groups should already be developing concrete plans. I think reparations are already due.

We call this the Footloose method

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

U.S. companies are aiming to make huge profits from the Gaza reconstruction plan, with several billionaires on Trump's Board of Peace openly discussing the opportunity to make billions. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/meet...

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

for the @chicagoreader.com's 2025 best of chicago issue, i wrote about cops! for the best conglomeration of local police to protect a murderous army of federal agents, look no further than the unified command of broadview, illinois.

Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/) www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

I'm army, boys. I love crashing planes, getting divorced, crashing helicopters, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, dying in the river, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—killing someone else's kids

NEW: As Black History Month comes to a close, CBP appears to have scrubbed stories about Black people and marginalized groups' contributions to the history of the agency from an official page. Archived versions show the changes happened the first week of February:

A new edition of the 1 Million Experiments zine is here! It’s terrific as usual and includes a new zine which is a treasure. To jump-start neighborly relations, try one of the 50 (mostly untried) ways to meet your neighbors. Get into some Porchside Abolition. open.substack.com/pub/millione...

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

Children and volleyball players. You don't choose to attack cites when people are out starting their day unless you want results like this.

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

hard to read this because it makes me sick to my stomach. these children deserve the world.

This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.

icymi: a small chicago real estate firm with two properties in evanston also owns a private prison in colorado—and it’s renting that prison to ice. my look at highlands reit and flood of cash flowing to money-hungry capitalists that’s fueling the rise of fascism:

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

🧵 THREAD: 🚨The Prairieland Case is a five-alarm fire for the right to protest in America🚨 If you care about your neighbors being terrorized by ICE — and about your own freedom to dissent — you need to understand what's happening in Texas right now. /1

The U.S. killed 11 more civilians in boat strikes yesterday -- 8 in the Pacific Ocean and 3 in the Caribbean. We're tracking the increasing toll of these extrajudicial killings in a tracker @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Although apologists for the state claim that strong, centralized government is necessary to prevent “chaos” and ethnic violence, in Syria, we see the opposite occurring: those who aim to centralize state power in their hands are using ethnic violence as a means to do so. crimethinc.com/Rojavaperil

"This version of campus “neutrality” resulted in a two-tiered system for free speech. Free inquiry and academic freedom for most topics; censorship and chilled speech when donors and politicians complained."

NEW: For the second time in 2026, Kentucky state police have charged a woman with homicide after a pregnancy loss. Both were criminalized after seeking medical care—one for a miscarriage and one for self-managed abortion—and face charges of abuse of a corpse and concealing a birth @autonomynews.co

"Jurors will be faced with questions about protest in the Trump era. Are guns a precaution or a provocation? Can the government succeed in using 1A-protected literature such as anarchist zines to win convictions? And how far can activists go when they believe their country is sliding into fascism?"

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

Pay attention to the Prairieland case. By saddling the defendants with indiscriminate charges, holding them without bail, and isolating them from lawyers and the public, prosecutors are attempting to terrorize them into signing guilty pleas in order to set a precedent criminalizing dissent itself.

“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. “I was right there, and they — all of them — made the decision to deny me access to give him the best possible chance of survival.”

Once again, these people all fold like chairs with the lightest bit of pushback, they just happen to live in a political environment where they almost never receive any

“Ald. Bill Conway (34th), a former Cook County prosecutor, called Flores Gomez’s death a ‘tragic situation’ and said he ‘hates the officer’s history’ of having been involved in ‘at least four, if not five’ prior police pursuits that caused accidents.” Conway then voted against the settlement.

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

The relationship this agent and his colleagues and their entire organization have with the communities they parachute into is violent animosity at best.

Bovino sent this email at 3:11 p.m. on Oct. 4. This is what the scene looked like at 2:48 p.m. when the first group of feds made their exit. They gassed people again at 3:27 p.m. So during this attack, Bovino congratulated his guy who kicked everything off by shooting a woman five times.

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

Attention Chicagoans: this thread details local politicians who have received funds from the landlords who approved that horrific early morning ICE raid on a South Shore apartment complex