No ballistic evidence. No one hit. No injuries. No damage from gunfire. Local cops can’t find a “crime scene.” DHS claims shots were fired. I don’t believe them. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“I think the most important lesson from Chicago right now is that anyone can do this and everyone should do this.” -Gabe Gonzalez, quoted in this terrific piece by Kelly Hayes

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.” Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

If you don't live in a city that's currently going through this, now is the time to connect with community organizers, so you know where to turn for info when they come for your town.

Seconded!

The most heartening thing about right now is the propensity of my neighbors to run towards trouble

BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

An impressive list, girls, but I know we can do better

Ellis "The public ... has an interest in its citizens' bodily integrity, the right to peaceful protest, the right to assemble, the right of peaceful free exercise of religion."

Ellis: "It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up. I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

DHS wants to argue that anyone who returns to document or protest must not "really" be in fear for their life/person at the hands of the feds. One might ask the same questions of them and their agents who claim to be afraid of Chicagoans daily, yet continue to show up for work.

Incredible federal court hearing in Chicago this morning over ICE assaults on the press & protestors. The DOJ lawyers are tying themselves in knots as the video evidence clearly shows ICE intentionally assaulting everyone. Follow @jonseidel.bsky.social for on going updates:

Today, Idaho is the reddest state in the union. The current GOP governor, Brad Little, is considered way too liberal for the right wing of the party despite being pro-life, pro-business, pro-Trump. The Dems haven't won a statewide office in years. You cannot appease your way to victory.

Appreciate him articulating this explicitly although people will continue to rationalize bsky.app/profile/atru...

Gimme the transcript to that victory speech asap

Farewell sweet Prince

So much for the tolerant Left (laudatory)

The framing of this is hilarious: Democrats deeply worried about the repercussions of a victory www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.

I know things are bad because hearing Dick Cheney died barely even made me smile.

One kind of funnier aspect of watching authoritarianism rise amid my own petty grievances is the satisfaction of watching pundit bros struggle not to admit that the hysterical resistance wine moms were right.

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

We’re in a strange limbo where secret police are routinely beating, disappearing, and shooting everyday people in public, but they’ve not yet consolidated enough power to stop us from talking about it on social media. That imbalance prob can’t last. Either we roll them back or this gets rolled up .

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

One year ago

We are underway. Ellis calls Bovino to the stand. He is wearing his uniform. He is sworn in. He has no visible head injury, even though federal officials said he was struck Friday in the head by protestors before he deployed tear gas in Little Village.

I published a story 15 years ago about a real-life attempt by American spiritualists to build a mechanical messiah in New England in the 1850s or so. History repeats. So do techbros.

Man fuck a Gavin Newsom.

I know we're not supposed to doomsay, but if you're more focused on strategizing for hypothetical free and fair elections than you are on fighting an administration that's abducting people off the street RIGHT NOW, you are... not helping to secure a future with free and fair elections. For starters.

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

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The reason that people are poor is that they do not have money. That's it, that's the skeet.

yes

today’s the anniversary of Bush signing the USA PATRIOT Act, did not remember at the time seeing this meta-surveillance moment with Senator Leahy apnews.com/today-in-his...

I would like to mention again that menstrual products are covered by FSA funds. fsastore.com - so if you find yourself with money left on the table by the end of the year, consider using those funds and donate the products [pantries, homeless shelters etc...]

Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain

tell you what, it's a fucking terrible time to have even one molecule of human empathy. I have moments where I think that. And then I read something like this, by the great @mskellymhayes.bsky.social (GET HER EXCELLENT NEW BOOK) and I know I need to move organizingmythoughts.org/we-have-to-m...

ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…

A call for solidarity among marginalized communities of NW Indiana. "This is not isolated at all. They're just snatching people off the streets. To some level, this is what certain parts of our population have always experienced. And now, a lot more people are seeing [...] it could be you next."

Anyway, part of what fascism does is smash paradigms. Lib democracy. Left critiques that can see continuities but not new symptoms, which is fundamental. Insisting on explanatory force of broken paradigms is a sophisticated way of saying “it can’t happen here.” Time for empiricism: it has, it is.

congress sounds so cool i wish it was real