Heavy ICE activity continued across Chicagoland over the July 4 weekend. Rapid responders reported at least 7 detainments (that we know of) yesterday alone. Outside the Will County courthouse in Joliet yesterday, onlookers also recorded an agent pushing one young observer to the ground, hard.

Palestinian pediatrician, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, has spent 18 months in Israeli prisons without trial or charge. His lawyer reports his life is in immediate danger, following torture and poor treatment in prison.   He must be released immediately.

This is horrific.

talking about gay and black people's history as "degeneracy" is right out of the white supremacist playbook and the mainstream media REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS because theyre too busy typing up their gossipy "scoops" from the admin

The next generation of scientists will be a smaller cohort because of the policies of this administration: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

My name is Jamal, and I am from Gaza. I am currently seeking employment that can provide a stable and dignified life. I am a fast learner and capable of adapting to new skills and tasks. I have reliable internet access & laptop, which enable me to work remotely and continue developing professionally

Washington voters have one of the hardest and most important ballots due to this.

Folks, if you're in the DC area, I'm giving a free public talk tomorrow/Tuesday July 7th at the Wheaton library. I'll have copies of my book Why Sharks Matter for sale (and signing) afterwards! mcpl.libnet.info/event/16557143 @hopkinspress.bsky.social 🦑🌍🧪🦈 #SciComm @themocoshow.bsky.social

so incredibly heartbreaking www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

there's (rightfully) been a lot of attention paid to la, chicago, minneapolis, and dc, but the the joint federal-local task force in memphis is uniquely horrifying in ways not seen in other cities. this is at least the fourth person shot during the task force's monthslong occupation.

In 2014, Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin photographed a Syrian teen on a smuggler's route through Europe. Today he's a Swedish citizen and a new doctor. Tomorrow, 10am ET, my live talk with him on following migration one life at a time. austinkocher.substack.com/p/global-mig...

DOGE’s goal was not to increase efficiency or cut spending. It was to destroy the federal government and operational efficiency driven by experts, scientists and professionals. So DOGE was a complete success. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees lost their jobs. Millions around the world died.

It's not too late to weigh in on the proposed OMB rule, which would put ALL federal grant making in the hands of political commissars. www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/cri...

My interview: “I came to this country as an infant and became a U.S. citizen,” Roswell Encina said. “So sitting there, on the Fourth of July, I couldn’t help but think about the promise of America and the work still required to protect it.” www.advocate.com/news/people/...

'This is the last time you’ll see me,' Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya told his lawyer. 'They brought me here to kill me.' The prominent Palestinian doctor from Gaza is reportedly on the brink of death in Israeli prison. @premthakker.bsky.social Read the latest report: zeteo.com/p/kidnapped-...

It was a decade ago my newsroom got word of a police shooting in a nearby suburb. The victim's name was Philando Castile. His death would trigger a surge of protest for police accountability, the first criminal charges against an officer and would change the state. (1) share.google/B3Ogmudw35eb...

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

🏴529! Next up, 7/17: Good Trouble Lives On!

Mariachi band star detained by ICE performs ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ for the Fourth of July. Mariachi artists are demanding release of 20-year-old Hebert Kaleth Ibarra Castro from Texas detention center. A worker taunted him with a request: “If you sing me a song, I'll let you go.”🤬

“Within a week, Israel bombed two art galleries, seven museums, two main archives in Gaza, and hundreds of archaeological sites,” says Amer Shomali, director of the Palestinian Museum. “This battle of trying to erase the Palestinian culture and Palestinian memory—it’s not something theoretical.”

(SIGH) I see I have chosen the path of pain. What’s the next match?

Trump's National Guard arrested a student organizer last night in DC for "disorderly conduct". His hearing will be Monday morning at 9:15 am at DC Superior Court, 500 Indiana Ave NW. Be there to show support #freedc #forkoff www.instagram.com/p/DabdKp2lgz6/

You all are watching with such intensity, I’m breaking down and watching the World Cup. Viva Mexico!! 🇲🇽

Firework cleanup at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool this afternoon.

Series of several Russian ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv, explosions throughout the Ukrianian capital right now.

crikey www.fox5dc.com/news/dc-july...

The National Guard shot and killed someone in Memphis

Truly a beautiful variety of benches! Thank you so much to the dozen+ folks who came out to decorate a bench on this beautiful morning! Grateful that our neighbors will have more places to sit while waiting for the bus!

Might not be a bad idea to wear a mask if you’re outside in DC today.

🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel & his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears & neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially...

I thought it was an actual thunderstorm, it is INSANE down here I'm like 15 miles from the Mall

The entire DC metro area — a place where people actually live — is being blasted with the roar of this B-1B right now. It is MIDNIGHT!

the sky is glowing red in DC from the volume of fireworks, this is certainly not a foreboding sign of things to come

National Guard from numerous states have been here for almost a year. Dem Governors sent troops here to supposedly assist with America 250 events, bringing the total occupying force to 5,000. It doesn’t matter why they were sent here, they’re an occupying military & need to be sent home.

There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.

they are really struggling to get emergency crews inside and somehow “ave Maria” is playing in the background

A fight breaks out!! Behind me in line, two men get physical. The line screams for the police. "They're grabbing women, they're peeing in public!" someone shouts National Guard wades in to grab him (them?) as the crowd chants "fuck him up!!"

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

PM2.5 data for DC for 10:15pm on July 4

these people are just never getting back in

this is the line to get back in the rally

Best parade of the day?

I’m in the DC ‘burbs. The rain has passed through and cooled things down. It’s sticky humid, but tolerable. Several neighbors are putting on their own fireworks displays while an occasional strike of lightning arcs in the distance. The town’s main fireworks show, heard not seen, resembles thunder.

If the left even thought about blocking traffic to this extent the entire town would smell like tear gas and the NYT would already have written two op-eds about this Not Being The Right Way Instead, ambulances are creeping through at like 2mph, sirens blaring, as everyone gets soaked

A federal agent fired a pepper ball launcher from the vehicle he was driving, striking a protester in the stomach. This was outside the ICE detention facility in Broadview this afternoon. 📸 Evan Stone www.instagram.com/evan_stone_p...

If I could upload video you would now be watching a video of police motorcycles driving through this crowd as an LRAD yells something incomprehensible You would see the people that LRAD is yelling at cheering the police You would hear the guy behind me going "why are we cheering?"

You've seen pictures of the empty fairground, which was real. But this is July 4th, and the fairgrounds were packed Raindrops are starting. The security people are trying to clear the roads. The National Guardsmen are badly outnumbered by disgruntled revelers We are set up for the funniest thing

Meanwhile, in the present, I am getting protest flashbacks as the police clear the fairgrounds by force