Also in here: DHS responded to the faith-led protest yesterday, calling participants “violent rioters” and “imbecilic morons” who need to “get a job.” Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

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The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

Check out this jazzy @puzzmo.com crossword made by me and the great @e-a-rly.bsky.social. It's like a mini dance party for your fingers. www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Just witnessed Chicagoans following this undercover ICE vehicle (Black pick-up truck) heading south on Ashland honking their horns incessantly and alerting everyone that ICE was coming.

this is a GOOD speech

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

For the next 30 days, we're running a series of free mini crosswords created by our puzzle editor @xws.bsky.social to help you become a better crossword solver. Solve the first puzzle here, and check the replies every day for the next one! 👯 Puzzmo Mini Crossword #1: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

Napheesa Collier's full statement at the beginning of her exit interview. She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky

At DePaul University, a Catholic school in Chicago, students have created a covert contraceptive delivery network called "the womb service."

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

87-year-old Cecil Williams walked down the runway to "Neva Scared" during Actively Black and Spill's #NYFW show this weekend www.whatimreading.net/p/civil-righ...

🍉 fundraising stream tomorrow! 🍉 we'll be on from 10am to 10pm central saturday, 8/23 in an effort to fundraise for @gazasoupkitchen.bsky.social. we'd love to see you there whether you're in a position to donate or not. we'll be doing puzzles of all kinds! please share! www.twitch.tv/crossweirdtv

my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

I find that when you're focused on one or two ACTIONS, you find yourself consuming less ambient news. Instead you are focused on news about the one or two actions you are taking. It's a good way to manage news overwhelm.

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ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.

@rexparker.bsky.social thank you for recommending Dying for Sex on the blog a while back, i just finished it and holy shit that's one of the best things i've ever seen

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Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today. Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!" It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.

Today is the last day to play @e-a-rly.bsky.social's incredible Big Crossword for free! Don't miss this one! www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

Our shows start tomorrow! Don’t forget to get your free livestream passes if you want to join us virtually! Full info at squeakyfest.com

“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”

You can actually help kneecap Trump’s "mass deportation" arrests. Here’s how: - Participate in on-the-ground direct action - Get everyone legal representation - Oppose local cooperation with the feds - Fight Trump's massive DHS budget increase Read more: www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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‘A trans person made your puzzle’: Crossword pack supports trans charities Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

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J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” 🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk

Some of us puzzle people are asking the New York Times Games editors to knock it off with the Harry Potter clues. You can co-sign here: forms.gle/Df33KTqr7MbA... These clues hurt because Rowling unrelentingly uses her massive platform to demonize trans people and to bankroll their erasure

Want to hear a cool story about reproductive justice, mutual aid, and crossword puzzles? Let me tell you about These Puzzles Fund Abortion (www.abortionpuzzles.com / @tpfa.bsky.social), a crossword puzzle fundraiser that has raised over $350,000 in five years for abortion funds. 1/9

I think its time for an escort system. If you are a student who is active on Palestine and who is not a citizen, or if your friend is, you need to walk with them so that if this happens someone is there to advocate and witness at least. This is vicious.

A Tufts international student getting her PHD, Rumeysa Ozturk, was pulled off the streets of Somerville, Mass by masked ICE agents for a ***student newspaper*** oped last year. Her lawyer has no idea now where she is. Another thought crime arrest. Another obscenity. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

New crossword is out. This week's puzzle features Yoshi, Nina Simone, and that one guy from The Matrix. Happy solving ✏ www.zerofiftyone.net/pet-theory/

something from howard zinn's "you can't be neutral on a moving train." make the first move. make the second.

extremely good stuff from Ben here (and at www.zerofiftyone.net/category/cro...)

Black Crossword is expanding! 🧩 🧠 ✏️ @blackcrossword.bsky.social We’re looking for news and media partners who’d like to syndicate our puzzles on a daily, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis. (1/3)

We are happy to announce that our crossword pack is now available! Thank you to those who donated during our presale; you will receive the puzzles today. We are currently at 15% of our fundraising goal! Check us out at fund.nnaf.org/tpfa if you haven’t donated yet!

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Happy Valentine’s Day! We are so excited to announce that TPFA5 is available for presale! fund.nnaf.org/campaign/the... ⬆️Donate here, and be first in line to get your puzzles when the pack drops in March!

Probably good to remember that Section 504 was only enforced after disabled individuals took over a federal building for a almost a month.

i’m not a math guy but it seems like they could’ve paid the rent for 100 apartments for close to a decade for the same price and with none of the atrocities, civil rights violations, etc.

I went to a training on homeless outreach from a trusted org yesterday, and this is a great option for Americans who want to do something irl but can't risk detainment, so let me share what I learned! 🧵

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