For folks curious re the news re gender affirming care for trans youth I wrote a quick summary in the BDNH newsletter It’s NOT a national ban. it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care mailchi.mp/interrupting...

nightly reminder that Bovino has left Chicago, but ICE has not, and many people still need your help blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/b...

I am never ever fucking EVER getting over these fuckers just driving around snatching our neighbors off the street.

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

If you’d like to help more families safely evacuate Gaza City this group has basically spent every penny they’ve made getting trucks to get people out and they have more lined up as soon as they have funds to pay them

After many requests, here are the files to print three different anonymous Chicago contractor-style flyers about ICE, as well my new zine of Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago. Print and resist, friends! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

The people who got everyone here simply aren't going to be the ones to get us out.

Aseel loves her cat Lisa so much

Fidaa recently lost a *lot* of donations as well as her account here when a person who was supposed to be helping her closed it. She has this new account and a new fundraiser and she really needs help. She is very worried about losing her children and the place she is staying.

That’s me and my gear! I’m incredibly stoked to perform/premiere (w/ Sam Wagster) a new original live score for this amazing film, in Chicago’s finest movie house

Mahmoud is such a wonderful person and has suffered some heartbreaking losses since we started talking last year. Please support his fundraiser if you can.

Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.

Surprised that this remarkable investigation into how Netanyahu prolonged the war in Gaza — killing tens of 1000s of civilians — for his own benefit has not gotten more attention. So: gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...

The @jvp.bsky.social hunger strikers and other Jewish activists are at Senator Tammy Duckworth’s Chicago office demanding a meeting they were promised to talk about the genocide in Gaza. Staff refuses to speak to them. They aren’t leaving. #letgazalive #freepalestine

No one made Cuomo subpoena an alleged sexual harassment victim's gynecological records or lie about COVID deaths in nursing homes. He did that all by himself.

Teen Vogue continues to be a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

All of the talk about "peaceful protest" makes me think of all the times I have been part of a protest where the police cracked someone over the head and then charged that person with assault. They will call you violent. You can't control that or other people.

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first. You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

On this day 80 years ago, Adolf Hitler did the one good thing he did in his entire life and killed himself. Happy Hitler Death Day to all who celebrate.

When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

“Being an American Jew is a mindfuck. And now we’re in more peril than ever because the destruction of this country’s university life and the lives of university students is being done in our name.”

*this is not sarcasm but a sincere plea* One way to emphasize it is to link to the actual story a) So people can read it beyond the headline and become better informed b) Pageviews are important as a measurable indication <to newsroom bosses> of reader interest in this kind of reporting!

On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican. Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries. We are not going anywhere. Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.

Just renewed my drivers license for RealID. I advise every transgender person, just as I did with passports, to not wait to renew your ID. Get that done now - many states let you do it online, schedule appointments, etc. Don't get caught flat footed if/when Trump turns RealID against us.

Really cannot urge you enough to call your members of Congress right now. I just talked to my very red state, Trump-supporting senator's office. Much to my surprise, they were very receptive to my feedback and seemed extremely concerned. This feels like a rare opportunity to be heard.

Call script:

Chicago folks, be ready

LYNCH: [Laughs] [Does not answer]

If you’d like to do me a solid today, I’m a bit stressed about how underfunded my political ed work with Doing Justice Collaborative is at present. You know all those workshops I organize and facilitate? Donations make those events possible, and people aren’t donating to stuff like they used to.

I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week: www.latimes.com/california/s...

I want you to know that I still care what happens to our information ecosystems. Maybe it wasn’t the fact-checkers that biased Facebook, but instead it was all the political operatives waiting for a moment like this. Meta wants friction-free oligarchy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...