Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was escorted from the House chamber just minutes into the State of the Union after standing with a sign that read, “Black People Aren’t Apes!” It’s the second year in a row Green has been removed during a president’s address to Congress. capitalbnews.org/texas-rep-al...

BREAKING: Family Demands Answers in Death of Georgia State University Student Kyle Bassinga

DaQuain Johnson! Everyone should know who he is and MSM should be covering how he was murdered! 💙😔✊🏾

The Grand Rapids Police Department in Michigan killed a Black man named DaQuan Johnson while he was face down. “He was 31 years old, he was a father, and he was somebody,” says his cousin. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThqJk37o/

Chicago is replacing a statue of Christopher Columbus with Mother Cabrini. Columbus raped, enslaved, & murdered people. Mother Cabrini helped people. As the grandson of an Italian immigrant & history teacher I am so glad Columbus is not being celebrated. #byecolumbus

Lessons for us all

The Chicago Teachers Union is running a new series called “Lessons for Resistance”. It is teacher written about people or movements and shows how they can guide us today. Check out this edition from me about the Chicago Black Lives Matter Movement from 2012-2020 www.ctulocal1.org/posts/lesson...

“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected, and the despised. They are restless and seek relief. They’ve voted in record numbers…The Democratic Party must send them a signal that we care,” thetriibe.com/2026/02/rev-...

Rev. Jesse Jackson once backed a rent strike against a corporate landlord accused of letting toxic mold run rampant. In 2024, @thomasbirm.bsky.social reported on the tenants whose kids landed in the ER—and a city system that kept failing to enforce repairs. inthesetimes.com/article/mold...

Rev. Jesse Jackson included support for Palestinian rights in his 1988 presidential run. #FreePalestine inthesetimes.com/article/neta...

NEW — Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died peacefully Tuesday morning at 84 years old, was one of the most influential Black political figures since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His historic presidential runs in the 1980s inspired a new generation of leaders. thetriibe.com/2026/02/rev-...

“Jesse Jackson Gave Peace a Chance!” One of the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s great legacies is his record, as a man of faith and a presidential candidate, of embracing anti-war movements, advocating for diplomacy over militarism, and working for deep cuts in Pentagon spending in order to fund human needs.

CTU and IFT President Stacy Davis Gates on the Passing of Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and fixture in Democratic politics, has passed away at age 84. Revisit our 2024 story about his legacy and political influence. thetriibe.com/2024/08/jess...

“As educators, we know that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. That’s why CTU’s launching “Lessons for Resistance,” a series that taps into the wealth of knowledge that CTU educators carry…” www.ctulocal1.org/posts/black-...

“The Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness says the city’s official “point-in-time” count misses people living in abandoned buildings and cars, and those staying at a relative’s or friend’s home. The city’s next count is set for Thursday.” chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2026...

I’m not reposting Trump’s latest obscene racism, because it’s widely posted. If you don’t know what it is, look. It’s not news in terms of telling us who he is—if you didn’t know this by now, you’re not going to—but the blunt openness of it is a rhetorically violent escalation, & that is news.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Journalist Don Lemon is arrested after protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.

Arresting a journalist for covering a story is fascism. And it’s not a coincidence the administration has targeted a Black man, Don Lemon.

Spoiler-Italy is racist too “News that a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be present during the upcoming Winter Games” ICE unit to fill security role at Winter Olympics in Milan www.espn.com/olympics/sto...

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”

America is where it is today because of anti-Blackness. ICE operates the way it does because of years of white America watching police harm/kill Black people. Policing budgets increased then just as ICE budgets increase now. Racism, Eugenics, & specifically anti-Blackness=America

On so-called allies calling the DEFUND movement unsuccessful… “We have to move around those people. The protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd were the largest on record… People were calling for the defunding of policing… for abolition as well.” thetriibe.com/reshape/the-...

UPDATE — Minneapolis officials say federal agent fatally shot a 37-year-old man, who was a Minneapolis resident. “How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?” Mayor Jacob Frey said. thetriibe.com/2026/01/live...

Snow is lightly falling over Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, where people have gathered for an emergency demonstration in response to federal agents killing Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this morning. "We're gonna take this death as fertilizer to our soul," a speaker tells the crowd.

A legal gun owning white man was killed by ICE The second amendment “what if we need to stop the government” crowd is silent The NRA is silent The “school shootings are fake. We need our guns” crowd is silent The don’t tread on me crowd is getting tread on

As a teacher, parent, white person, human with a soul— I say Abolish ICE

As always, I recommend revisiting the Letter from a Birmingham Jail. He’s an audio recording of MLK reading the text m.youtube.com/watch?v=7qF0...

When Botham Jean's brother hugged the cop that killed him, a WW on Twitter said that "restored her faith in humanity." The (white) in that sentence was silent. Black people don't become "human" until they suffer w/o limit to redeem the myth of whiteness's inherent goodness.

The black and white pictures are meant to deceive you. It was not long ago. #MLKinColor

"Negroes are not now merely a subject of change but an active organ of change. This is the new political equation in contemporary society." Dr. MLK Jr. Forgotten Call for Economic Justice in 1966 published by @thenation.com remains evergreen. #MLK #blacksky

White people, if you haven’t posted about abolishing ICE-you shouldn’t be posting about MLK #MLKDay2026

What part of the poem is this? Dark-money groups want a look at the Chicago Teachers Union’s finances. The Trump administration could help them get it. #handsoffmyteachersunion theintercept.com/2026/01/16/c...

Trump said civil rights led to white people being treated badly-as a white person and a history teacher this is absolutely ridiculous and disgusting. His racist idea is rooted in the great replacement theory which is rooted in eugenics.

This fall people tried to get me fired from teaching after I said true statements about Charlie Kirk, now these same people are either silent or cheering while ICE terrorizes, harms, and kills people. #AmericanHypocrisy

You don’t say… “A steep drop in homicides in…neighborhoods that had ShotSpotter sensors lasted a full year after Mayor Brandon Johnson scrapped the city’s controversial gunshot detection system, an updated analysis of Chicago crime data shows.” news.wttw.com/2025/12/29/s...

“Highly concentrated corporate wealth and economic inequality is a scourge on our city and society. Corporations should pay their fair share to support the public good. We’ve seen why this is necessary throughout history — over and over again.” @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/bran...

It’s the holiday season and our Chicago Alders want to give us the “gift” of privatized debt collection. Have they not learned from the failures of Chicago’s privatization past? Privatized debt collection is proven harmful and destructive. #ChicagoBudget

Dear Chicago Alders-privatizing debt collection is guaranteed to harm Chicagoans “One in three adults in this country has a debt that has been turned over to a private collection agency. Thousands of debtors are arrested and jailed each year because they owe money.”

Privatizing debt collection harms the working class. Can these Alders just repeat after me and say—tax the rich—already?

The fact that Alders want to privatize debt collection is absolutely ridiculous. Have they not learned from privatized parking meters and the Skyway? This will lead to more punishment to the working class.

Rekia Boyd was murdered by off duty CPD officer Dante Servin in 2013 Article: A Long Walk Home is close to deciding the look of the Rekia Boyd Monument www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/12/r...

“It helps to keep their names alive. It helps to educate the public about police torture that took place in the city of Chicago,” Mark Clements, a Chicago Torture Justice Center (CTJC) Chicago Torture Justice Memorial to be built in Washington Park thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...

We are so used to austerity budgets in Chicago and the defunding and closing of public institutions (schools, housing, clinics) that when our Mayor actually prioritizes the working class, some politicians actively work to not let that happen. This is the Chicago budget battle #chicago #taxtherich

Instead of taxing the wealthy the corporate Chicago Alders have decided to: -tax alcohol -tax security alarms -tax ride shares -tax grocery bags -making our city less beautiful with ads everywhere -outsourcing debt collection In short tax workers instead of taxing the rich

I am so proud of the small group of people that has been grinding on this project for 10 years. Looks like there will finally be a ground-breaking in 2026 - thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...

I’ll take “shared sacrifice” by the ultra wealthy instead of raising taxes and fees on the working class in Chicago. A budget is a political document it shows what is valued. Our city should value workers NOT the rich. cc Chicago Alders

I’ll take “shared sacrifice” by the ultra wealthy NOT by the working class. cc Chicago Alders

The TRiiBE reporting shows the plan stacks regressive fees while refusing a modest surcharge on major corporations. The TriiBE also reports that several alders fighting the head tax have received thousands from billionaire Michael Sacks, now funding a campaign to protect corporate profits.