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DOC NYC, the festival for documentaries, is coming back to New York for its in-person edition November 12 - 20, and online November 12 - 30. www.docnyc.net I can't wait to watch the Toni Cade Bambara film virtually - www.docnyc.net/film/tcb-the...

We sold out 2 tamale vendors, bought out 2 more vendors, and absolutely swarmed a family owned bakery. It was a good day with some the very best of #BikeChi 🥰 for the 4th installment of the Street Vendor Bike Tour. We persist. ✊🏽

Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago: 🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶

Interesting way to hold a weapon. Obviously years of training involved here. 🥴

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Is The NY Times relevant anymore? Critics remain unconvinced.

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

“The special prosecutor tapped to oppose an upcoming certificate of innocence petition for Kevin Jackson, a wrongfully convicted Englewood man, is the same 1990s-era assistant state’s attorney named in one of Chicago’s best known and most expensive wrongful conviction settlements.”

Tonight was the inaugural ride of our new home buyout program. We connect with vendors too scared to be out, and we purchase from them at home. Tonight we bought 250 tamales, divided into 3 teams to deliver all over the city to folks on the street, Love Fridges, and a youth shelter.

i.e. they don’t want to keep evidence of their crimes

HUGE NEWS! Because of Democratic pressure, Oregon SNAP recipients are reporting their cards have the FULL November benefits!   Everyone who called out Trump for using hungry children and seniors as a bargaining chip has WON with tremendous results!!

Just one story of thousands

Let's go! The City of Cleveland - home to a public power utility - is one of the first in the nation i've heard of so far banning shutoffs during this federal shutdown crisis. Public power can lead the nation in showing what democratic institutions can do to make our lives better.

They know they’re violating the law, the constitutional order, and, for the sworn in, their oaths.

NEW EPISODE! bit.ly/4nP2xuR Episode #140: Teaching in Dark Times with Kathryn Zamarron We’re joined by Kathryn (Kat) Zamarron, a Chicago Public School teacher, in a wide-ranging conversation focused on the complex reality of supporting children and youth and their families in dark times.

Incredible read by Meredith Colias-Pete and Kate Perez Thank you for sharing @peternickeas.bsky.social 👇

NEW: Two experts on Sudan explain how the killing in El Fasher is worse than anyone knows. Sudan's Death Toll Has Exceeded Gaza’s, Here’s Everything You Need To Know zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz." the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness. via @katieprout.bsky.social

More important to me than my identity, I am also the Vice President of the NewsGuild of New York, and targeting me with a blatantly retaliatory termination like this feels like an egregious shot against our union and against media workers as a whole.

BRIDGEPORT, be on the lookout for 🧊

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Federal Immigration Agents Arrest U.S. Citizen and Drive Off with His Daughter in Los Angeles

FUCKING POETRY. This whole thread had me on the floor. Thank you Dan.

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

IIRC, it wouldn’t even be higher taxes for most people. It would just be our stupid rich paying their fair share.

Ellis is done. The preliminary injunction has been entered. Ellis grants plaintiff's request to certify the lawsuit as a class action, which means it applies to more than just the named plaintiffs and includes all nonviolent protestors as well as those engaged in news gathering & religious practice

Ellis is concluding, with John Adams words to his wife in 1775 about the need to fight for the nascent American democracy. "Liberty once lost is lost forever."

Ellis: The use of force during the Trump administration's Operation Midway Blitz "shocks the conscience."

I have lost count of the number of times that Ellis has said the Trump administration's arguments "lack credibility."

Ellis: Chicagoans have been tear gassed, stared down the barrel of a gun and been "slammed to the ground with their head bashed into the street." "All of that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental constitutional rights."

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

Evanston mayor @danielbiss.bsky.social is launching investigations into reports of immigration agents brutalizing community members. “They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason.”

People in Chicago acknowledged this fact when they shut down a Trump rally at UIC in 2016. They were scolded by white liberals like Jonathan Chait.

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

At a Wednesday evening rally, 47th Ward Ald Matt Martin said parents from the school arranged legal rep for Ms. Diana, though they were unsure where she had been taken. “There cannot be a reformist mindset for this agency... We need to call for the abolition of ICE," said State Sen. Mike Simmons.

“While my abuela declined, and it was painfully clear we’d all be attending a funeral soon, I’d scan social media for possible sightings of ICE as family went out to go to Kohl’s or Macy’s and get a suit or dress.”

Just 1 day left on this sale!

“Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” — Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas. Leia’s age: 2. Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

we deported a 13 year old www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

I never imagined that I would help others adjust to prison. But over the decade since I landed here, I became part of my prison system’s welcoming crew. I pull people from their cells for fresh coffee and orientation, where I introduce myself and share ways they can spend their time in prison.

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

The Nazi’s brain cooking machine appears to be designed to cook brains

Who knew Trump’s strategy of mass layoffs would lead to even more job losses.

She's endorsed a successor, a 64-year-old up and comer known for thinking outside the box, making a fortune while at General Dynamics, owning a prison, and fighting to guarantee health care is purchasable by all.

“I’m sick for a 2nd time. I have a lifer friend…he checked up on my w/soup & homemade cheesecake. 2 other guys dropped by with juice packets. We’re hoping the packets have vitamin c…I live in a ‘resource-scarce’ environment, esp since Stillwater closed.” -man incarcerated in MN

As far as we know, she was legally able to work. Not undocumented. Armed agents went throughout the daycare & hunted for teachers while kids & parents were there.

The police are defunding Chicago.

What fresh dystopian hell is this?