Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

Great work from @stevecarll.bsky.social

Happy and grateful to have this piece from my vispo/comic "Operation Bird Heads" in the latest issue of @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social, edited by Shloka Shankar of Yavanika Press. Check out the complete lineup: sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...

Message to ICE: "Your time is running out. Save your soul and quit your job."

"In its new quest for hemispheric dominance, the Trump administration has reached back to the Monroe Doctrine in its most belligerent version—a warrant for the complete repudiation of international law, in a world with no allies or equals, only vassals & foes." @alfatau.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com

"But moral principles don’t exist only to guide immediate action. They structure how we understand legitimacy, accountability, and the limits of state power."

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

The sooner we accept this, the better

now - especially now - a reminder that we are going to win. and this is why

OMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was executed by a U.S. federal agent while trying to protect a woman. That’s the headline.

If this sounds naively optimistic, don't worry, it's going to be hard, and it's going to take all of us.

Today welcome Seth Copeland to PROCESS series @icefloepress.bsky.social coax out of the earth, burning it against its will a complex hybrid docupoetics work on geography/geology/ American history #art #hybrid #poetics #documentary #imperialism #erasure icefloepress.net/2026/01/23/f...

"They assume we're all selfish and cowardly and can be cowed into silence or submission or surrender, which is to say they seem to base their version of human nature partly on themselves and partly on their scorn for the rest of us. They're wrong." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/one-long-yea...

Next Monday, Jan. 19th, MLK Day, Chicago RESISTS. 50+ local organizations are coming together at 1pm at Water Tower Park to demand abolish ICE, end the genocides, stop the wars, and tax the rich! #jan19chicagoresists #chicago #protest #event #resist

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/weak-violenc... “The beautiful force behind the resistance is solidarity, which is by definition not self-defense but defense of something beyond the self, a reaching across difference to find common ground.” Another gem from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Super happy to have the opening sequence from "Signatures" in petrichor #29, edited by Seth Copeland and team @petrichorlit.bsky.social. hey neat is right!

And so: petrichor #29 is here for you. hey neat. petrichormag.com/petrichor-29/

"Faith leaders, union representatives and community members are calling for a Day of Truth and Freedom on Friday, Jan. 23 — urging all Minnesotans not to go to work, school or go shopping"

Minnesota and Illinois have filed lawsuits seeking to block Homeland Security’s latest operations, arguing that Trump’s immigration crackdowns and ICE/Border Patrol surges trample their constitutional rights to self‑governance and control over local policing.

“Get your neighbors organized, get your friends organized… ‘cause we outnumber the fascists completely, and if we all stick together, we can really stop this from getting worse.”

👉 REMINDER: Listening session tonight (Thurs 1/8, 6:30 pm) at Thalia Hall in Pilsen, 1807 S. Allport 👉 TOPIC: Chicago Police Department interactions with ICE/immigration authorities

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

Part of the unbearable stupidity of the current administration is its feckless enthusiasm for doing things that seem like manly feats of strength to manosphere idiots and also make this country weaker...all the way down to Pete Hegseth and his belief that pushups are a top military strategy.

Performance without words pdf: nathanandersonwriting.home.blog/wp-content/u... You can purchase a print copy by emailing [email protected]

The director cries at the death of the singer by @njapoetry.bsky.social coming Jan 7th. Our first C22 Open Editions release of 2026. Get excited! Stay tuned!

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

For starters, yes. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Donald Trump has multiple indictments in the United States for crimes against the US government. And also pardoned top drug dealers.

Legal experts called for Trump’s impeachment as world leaders condemned the strikes as a violation of international law.

Some excellent reporting here: DHS has compared the experiences of immigration agents in Chicago to 'Sicario' -a movie in which the FBI takes down a brutal drug cartel. But those allegations "have not withstood the harsh light of the federal court system" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/30/c...

"It’s a pretty bleak state of affairs... if, even at the 'best' job available, you can’t get stable hours & your bosses can crush you when you dare ask for better." A bargaining delegate for @sbworkersunited.org, explains why almost 4K baristas are on strike.

some above/ground press author activity: Chris Banks, Vik Shirley, Melanie Dennis Unrau, Gregory Betts, Gary Barwin + J.R. Carpenter, / @garybarwin.bsky.social @whatisapoem.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/some...

Massie is one of the only elected Republicans who has been consistently willing to criticize the president. But Trump’s Truth Social post about Reiner was so deranged that others are speaking up.

"At first glance it sounds impossible—but a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think. We’ve laid the groundwork." by @alexhan.bsky.social for @labornotes.bsky.social labornotes.org/2025/12/mayb...

NEW — Today, Mayor Brandon Johnson joined GoodKids MadCity’s “Feed the Block” event ahead of Thanksgiving. GKMC members took Johnson on a tour and reiterated their desire to build a new community center on a vacant lot behind Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church. thetriibe.com/2025/11/mayo...

Kaos Karma by Rus Khomutoff out now from C22 Open Editions @c22press.bsky.social . KAOS KARMA is a product of a kind of anoetic consciousness charged with poetic adrenaline. Read for free or buy in print! c22press.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/k...

An indefinite strike over unfair labor practices, chronic understaffing and low wages is still on with @sbworkersunited.org. It has been 12 days since the strike began, with actions in more than 25 cities. The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social lays it all out.

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