A jury in Washington, D.C. has acquitted Sean Dunn, the man who was accused of assaulting a Customs and Border Patrol officer by throwing a “sub-style sandwich” at him.

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/23/c... #boycott

If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military. The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history. Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. — Audre Lorde 4️⃣ days from today, join us in the streets of Chicago for a peaceful protest to say: Hands Off Chicago & NO KINGS! ❌👑 📅 Sat. Oct. 18 ⏰12 PM 📍Grant Park, Chicago 🔗 Info: bit.ly/HandsOffChiO... (rsvp not required)

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us. But we keep moving.” organizingmythoughts.org/the-emergenc... @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

Plugging this great book for the second time in as many years. Among other things, a healthy reminder that creating "new and different forms of social reality" is both possible and more important now than ever. #booksky @davidwengrow.bsky.social @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the... “The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability. When we give in, we join the sales force.” Worth reading… twice.

Every man like Ezra Klein who say we need pro-life Democrats should be forced to push a watermelon out of his urethra

With the mainstream media distracted by the made-for-TV drama of James Comey’s indictment, Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as indicators of radical left violence.

I put the word “thereabouts” through an anagram generator, used the results to write a few poems. The first nine here @rangermagazine.bsky.social with much thanks (!) to @davidabishop.bsky.social

Colbert and Kimmel "canned by groveling corporations seeking merger-favors from the administration, but there will never really be enough silence and obedience and flattery for the insatiable ego of the misery-in-chief." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-the-party... @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

With gratitude to the editors at Water~Stone Review. Always a joy to think and write about what it means to write something. #nonfiction #essay waterstonereview.com/in-the-field...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Another awesome episode of We’re Still Here with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social @juliefrancella.com & @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social So sad 😞 about losing a special soul, Graham Greene.

No comment, beyond the fact that in 2022 an avg. of 7 children a DAY died from gun violence in the USA. No comment, except that gun violence disproportionately impacts children of color. No comment, but gun deaths are the leading cause of death in children, ahead of car crashes and cancer.

Such a great summary of the current moment in higher education and what needs to be done to defend it and create a better future for it too!

The Soft Secession: How States Are Joining Together to Escape Trump’s Grip open.substack.com/pub/lincolns... #Bluecrew #50501 #indivisible #trending #nokings #bettertogether#votebluemeidasmighty #voteblue#bettertogether

Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...

Don't forget the Labor Day action hosted by the CFL with a ton of collaborating organizations. We're looking forward to putting workers over billionaires at the Haymarket Memorial in downtown Chicago. See you there!

"Table your disputes and connect with people who are providing direct support to targeted groups in your communities ... How can you help? There’s no need to start from scratch. Find already-organized people and figure out how to contribute to or expand upon their efforts."

10/ For opponents, the fight in D.C. is not just about one city — it’s about resisting a broader authoritarian model being tested nationwide.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... I got to give it to South Park. While many are scared of the Trump Administration in the news industry, South Park has come right at them! With a counter punch.

"I would need help to enter, hesitatingly, into my mother’s sick body, to bite into her cancer, twist it every which way..." From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman. Art by Patty Paine. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/01/f...

This just in, our summer book sale works on preorders! Treat yourself to books by @carolinehagood.bsky.social, Lisa K. Friedman, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, @laurencjohnson.bsky.social, and @wendyjfox.bsky.social, and get 30% off your total purchase when you shop directly from SFWP! buff.ly/S3Jxn7N

Release the Epstein files. #FreeDC

Same here. These kinds of grounded policy successes often get overlooked but are so important.

My chapbook, punctuated avalanche, is now available from @stonecorpse.com! Download the FREE PDF or purchase a copy. This book skids, belching syntactical hocus-pocus, reducing words, symbols, and punctuation to a trash heap. stonecorpse.com/joshua-martin/

More #project2025 union busting, as noted in the article.

(my) PRO-BLVKC DLEARYUM #wakinguponsomeshit

when I spoke of bathing a dazed state commenced all round about us, with a splash a big, heavy morning was beginning to break. -a visual poem from my book, Classic Crimes

What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken Congress? Our corrupt Supreme Court? Our ridiculous buffoon President?

My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

Debt by David Graeber is so underrated. a debt jubilee would transform society and should be a goal of every leftist

No Kings protests and more are TOMORROW, #Illinois!! If you haven’t found one near you yet, see below! #NoKings #Protest @indivisibleil.bsky.social @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social @indevanston.bsky.social @indivisibledupage.bsky.social 👇

In the USA we don’t put up with would-be kings. Join Indivisible Chicago and our partner organizations on June 14th for a rally and march in downtown Chicago. Let’s come together to say: NO KINGS! #ChicagoNoKings #June14 #FlagDay tinyurl.com/NoKingsChicago

The whole issue is now online. Check it out! mcblogs.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacrevie...

Resistance Calendar, updated 5/31/25. Harvard Courses: pll.harvard.edu/subject/government. “No Kings" Training Calls: nokings.org/trainings. Boycotts: ThePeoplesUnionUSA.com. No Kings Day: NoKings.org. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121.

SIGHTING by Vernon Frazer out now from C22 Open Editions! A mesmerizing blend of image and text. Exploring the realm of icon and image through an explosion of vibrant textual art. Read for free or buy in print! c22press.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/s...

While #Trump flies private and surrounds himself with #ICE, they lay hands like he’s holy. We’re not subjects. We don’t kneel. There are #NoKings in #America Because if Trump wants a throne, he can find one in exile. June 14th, we show up. @50501movement.bsky.social

Trump has sparked widespread outrage by abruptly firing Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to lead the national library, after a right-wing group claimed she was “woke” and “anti-Trump.”

Congratulations to the new American pope, the new Chicago pope and the new SOUTH SUBURBAN pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost. Read our @illinoisanswers.bsky.social story about the town he grew up in — Dolton — and the rise and fall of this American suburb projects.bettergov.org/2018/dolton/

From Union Park to Grant Park #MayDay #Chicago

#Illinois Action Digest for #Mayday and Beyond ✊ Listen to your Governor and get out there to build the resistance! (1/2)

A close read of TZone episode #1 and a few other things. Link to PDF in comments if anyone is interested. I really love this cover. #essay #cnf