ice was in elgin today. on tuesday, ice kidnapped people from chicago’s hermosa neighborhood as well as the suburbs of bolingbrook (west) and waukegan (far north). last week, feds in six vehicles abducted an adult and three kids from near their home in woodlawn. they never left. they never stopped.

Concerned this will be something like Pritzker bringing the state police to Broadview. The official narrative was that they were there to protect us, but what they really did was insulate ICE from protest. There are protesters who are still facing charges from their violent arrests by state cops.

The Trump administration does not "want" violent OR nonviolent tactics from protestors. They want to remove all the brown people. There is not much more thought than this.

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

Nazism has once again taken the technologies of violence practiced on indigenous people and Black people in the US, and re-applied it for the purpose of mass killings. Cops have done starlight tours since they got cars. The right time to stop this has been every time. It is right to stop it now.

ICE abducted a man in minneapolis on january 6. by january 14, he was dead in a concentration camp in texas. victor manuel diaz was 36 years old. they say he did it to himself. ICE murdered him.

we got a fucking flat tire so i'm posting this up here again and also vomiting and crying like a wee little baby

UPDATE: We met ChongLy Thao, who goes by Scott, today along w his son, Chris. Scott told us about being taken, driven around til the agents figured out he was a U.S. citizen & not their alleged target, then dropped back off at home w no apology.Came back later and ICE was back, idling in the street.

Here's a tracker of all the people (40) ICE has shot, including someone celebrating New Years by shooting his gun who was killed by an off-duty ICE goon. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

BlueSky is a place to get updates on the kidnapping and murder operations of ICE stormtroopers, and it is a place to make somewhat empty demands for justice. It does not seem, for perhaps good reason, to be a place to strategize. Think about what you can do.

No time is a good time to expand police powers but now feels particularly bad.

UPDATE — Solidarity protests and vigils will take place in Chicago tonight. “We will not stop fighting until ICE is out of all our cities,” the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression wrote on its Instagram page. thetriibe.com/2026/01/live...

That woman sobbing they killed my wife 8 don't know what to do is one of the most upsetting things I have ever heard it's fucking heartwrenching Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

bro what

"The latest records are also limited to enforcement activity by ICE — and not Border Patrol, which initiated some of the most aggressive and violent federal actions in Chicago."

discourse tends to assume supportive parents for political reasons but most parents are not that kind of supportive & a more consistent ideology under which the nuclear family has unlimited and exclusive power over children is not really a liberatory move

yeah most teenagers don't or can't medically transition bc parental consent is required for that kind of medical treatment under WPATH and this horseshit was preceded by, and includes, a bunch of language conscripting mandatory reporters to misgender and rat out kids using different names/pronouns

This is nightmarish on so many levels. Please donate if you can!!

broke as all fuck still. help

As federal agents descend on Chicago for more immigration raids, our analysis shows what happened to ~1,600 people arrested there this fall. We report how federal agencies moved them through an expanded network of detention facilities — many rife with complaints of inhumane conditions.

my big issue with "enshittification" as a term is that it represents what it critiques: a general decline in facility with metaphor, overall literary cleverness, public intellectual culture itself. Compare with a term like Twain's "The Gilded Age"

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

NEW — Chicago residents of 7500 S. South Shore Dr., which was the target of a militarized ICE raid in September, have formed a tenants union. They speak about unlivable conditions in the building before and after the raid. More story details TK on thetriibe.com youtube.com/shorts/evoRQ...

the state can abide by gutting part of the prison system after all, so long as it helps the state abduct and imprison even more people

it is a really perfidious case of figurative language when the word "biology"—which is the discipline of gathering/interpreting data and theoretizing about living systems, carried out by human beings and embedded in human culture—is used as a metonym for the activities of living systems themselves

A friend of mine, a disabled trans woman, was detained by ICE in Charlotte yesterday. If you have anything to spare, please do. chuffed.org/project/1462...

When you saw only one set of boot prints in the snow, thats when I carried you, Comrade.

The government claims two weeks of surveillance footage from Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and won’t be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there: www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...

throughout this decade-long war of attrition against sesta, fosta, osa, etc. moral panic over sex work has been manufactured as cover for risk-management, more or less, for investment firms. the issue is ideological, but not in the obvious way; an open internet can't be totally financialized

big recession indicator is how many jokes there are about recession indicators

Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure

Oh look this is relevant again

classical radio playing vivaldi's "spring" when it is 39 degrees fahrenheit outside and we just experienced "thundersnow"

🔗 www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-rain-...

Yeah so one of the things you notice about looking through Wehrmacht unit histories is that they'll be immaculate apart from having missing entries on dates that coincide with massacres in their AOR

POV: you are positivism-friendly theologian at the 1937 logical positivism congress in Paris and have just quoted from Stendhal’s De l'Amour in broken French, misattributing it to Balzac

in chicago’s austin neighborhood around 8 am: this horrific video posted to social media shows at least four feds open a person’s car door, then handcuff and abduct them from laramie avenue.

Before the ACA, I couldn't get insurance as a freelancer at all, bc I'm a type 1 diabetic, so "pre-existing conditions." It was absolute shit on my health, scavenging for insulin & test strips, constantly in life or death debates about being able to go to the doctor. I had no primary care.

I hope to god they have in fact learned this!

fucking vile blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

Please help Sahar and Odai

bovino, border patrol, and other feds also used the fbi’s chicago field office to regroup after a busy morning of abductions and being chased through the streets by caravans of angry residents.

blocking the SNAP court order is crazyyyyy