Another example of 'get in where you can get in' and everyone can do something of use... blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/a...

UPDATE — Multiple witness videos today show an older white federal agent straddling a young Black man on the ground outside of a Walgreens on Chicago’s Southeast Side. This is a developing story. thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still. It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police. Please talk about us too.

“Abolish ICE” doesn’t mean rebranding or shifting its powers elsewhere—it means ending the deportation, detention & incarceration machine targeting immigrant communities. Read @sarahlazare.bsky.social's 2018 piece on the demand’s roots & meaning: inthesetimes.com/article/abol...

Chicago.

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

A protester holds out a sign as a shield as tear gas canisters are launched and pepper balls are fired.

At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk. He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board wrote a hit piece about me. While they didn’t name me they quoted me, made a whole lot of false offensive assumptions about me, my classroom & called me an “extremist”. Response coming after full days of teaching & parenting. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/p...

NEW — Video footage posted to Facebook shows an arrest outside of the Cook County criminal courthouse in Chicago at 2650 S. California Ave. The video shows federal agents stuffing a person in a vehicle as their feet kick in distress. thetriibe.com/2025/09/prot...

NEW — In this op/ed submission, one Chicago organizer writes: “This week, the City Council will have the opportunity to move Chicago in the direction of a city that supports its residents and doesn’t turn a blind eye to market forces that terrorize them.” thetriibe.com/2025/09/opin...

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

I was interviewed for this piece in South Side Weekly about the tear gas and pepper ball attacks ICE waged against protesters on Friday.

As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

NEW — “We are alarmed to hear that, weeks into Trump threatening Black and brown communities in Chicago with military invasion and weeks into calls from community leaders across the city opposing these threats, ICE agents have shot and killed a man in the suburbs.” thetriibe.com/2025/09/stat...

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Update from outside Broadview ICE facility in Chicagoland— Even after feds killed a man a few towns away today, a small group remain to finish their 7am-7pm protest. SRT takes the dwindling numbers as an opportunity to unleash less lethals on a protester with a mobility aid sitting on the ground.

All authoritarian power grabs must be resisted. It's never about "crime," and it's never about how people respond to Trump's aggression. Those are just story points, and the administration makes up story points every day when reality doesn't fit. Remember this. Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Get ahead of the narrative and get it straight. No one on the ground in Chicago is responsible for the waves of federal agents that are about to descend on our communities to snatch and kidnap people, or for the troops Trump plans to send here. This is an authoritarian power grab— a fascist plot.

Talk about how this is all being staged to set Chicago up for a military occupation. Talk about how they are planning to attack cultural gatherings, picnics, and parades, knowing that people will cling to their neighbors and family members—and that Trump will use those acts of decency as an excuse.

The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.

This week, I talk to @dreanyc123.bsky.social about the role of criminalization in authoritarianism and fascism—and why we need more outlaws, and less confusion about what the law protects and who it targets.

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"What began as a modest effort by a few members of a small congregation to reach out to migrants would evolve into a deep experiment in solidarity — one that would challenge the community to confront its stereotypes of immigrants and change the makeup and the mission of the church for good."

Solidarity -- not only possible, but happening.

This is an outstanding piece. Everyone should check it out.

"What began as a modest effort by a few members of a small congregation to reach out to migrants would evolve into a deep experiment in solidarity..." our new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out! today I want to highlight this article by Benji Hart hammerandhope.org/article/chic...

Love this story about community divides that are healed by asking: What do you need?

This was a beautiful article. Recommended to everyone trying to fight off despair.

Talking to @prisonculture.bsky.social about her idea that hope is a discipline. How do we practice that discipline? From Ep 5 of my new podcast, which you can listen to here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Please subscribe and review--it helps others find us.

🚨The Seventh Issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues. The damage here is connected to damage elsewhere. But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

First new article of the year is in @hammerandhope.bsky.social, examining the solidarity work happening between Venezuelan migrants and long term Black residents at Concord Missionary Baptist Church in Woodlawn, Chicago. Hope is so hard to come by, and I wanted to share where I'm finding mine.

I wrote this piece in support of uprisings in Baltimore 10 years ago. Unfortunately, it continues to be a relevant reminder that materially threatening systems of oppression is the only way to survive their bloodlust, and resistance to state violence is ALWAYS Black people's business. #AbolishICE

"[A] revised curfew ordinance [..] would give the Chicago police superintendent [..] the power to declare a curfew in response to a teen trend, or gathering of 20 or more." "I feel like there should be a space where teens can meet up and not be watched by 100 policemen." #Illinois #USA #Policing

NEW — Today, a Chicago City Council committee is considering whether to implement a new snap curfew ordinance. In this opinion piece, members of GoodKids MadCity write about the need for opportunities for teens, not more policing. thetriibe.com/2025/05/opin...

FULL STORY: 17 members of the Chicago City Council joined together in an unprecedented show of force Wednesday to block a vote on a plan to allow CPD officials to preemptively impose a curfew begin enforcing it with 30 minutes notice to stop large teen gatherings. @wttw.bsky.social

I teamed up with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social to write about why criminalization and the politics of "law and order" will not save us.

This week's episode of Movement Memos is for activists and organizers who need to think about safety and security planning during these times (and that's all of us). I am grateful to Che Johnson-Long for this thoughtful, caring, and practical conversation. Audio + transcript:

Two years ago today, middle-school-teacher-turned-union-organizer Brandon Johnson was sworn in as mayor. @asha-rrs.bsky.social writes about what Chicago's left movement has won and what’s still to be done to deliver a more equitable city. ⤵️

NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it. By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com

I listened to the #NoCopAcademy episode of the Craft of Campaigns podcast today. It made me think a lot about how much Chicago organizers influenced me in Minneapolis, and I think how much a campaign like this one has influenced campaigns here. www.trainingforchange.org/craft-of-cam...

Before #StopCopCity, there was #NoCopAcademy. For years, youth organizers in Chicago’s West Side fought relentlessly to stop the building of this police academy. It didn’t take long for history to repeat itself. Thankfully, we have their wisdom to learn from. ➡️ pushblack.news/a7c256

Excited for "No Cop City, No Cop World" anthology from @haymarketbooks.org to drop on May 20th. It features a short essay I wrote on the shared struggles and strategy of #NoCopAcademy in Chicago and #StopCopCity in ATL. Preorder now! bookshop.org/p/books/no-c...

Happy to learn that @benjihart.bsky.social is on here. They were a favorite of mine on abolitionist twitter.

Today I saw a high level of anger at the massive number of cops that are protecting a Tesla dealership in Chicago. Lots of chants demanding to know why they are protecting Nazis. No one is letting CPD off the hook. This is what cops do - enable and participate in fascism. #Teslatakedown.

Ping-pong paddle signage won’t beat back the techno-fascist revolution. To fight Musk’s vision, we need something deeper—solidarity, mutual aid, and a refusal to abandon each other. My latest: