Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #BoycottSpotify

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.

On one day's notice, thousands of New Yorkers marched in NYC today for immigrants and against ICE. More photos soon!

There is the banality of evil, and right alongside it is the cowardice of institutions.

It's only a matter of time until that last remnant of fact-checking is replaced with "Grok checks".

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡 #BeThere

I hope as we move past the first wave of AI criticism ("it doesn't work, all hype") we get a new wave of AI criticism rooted in the acknowledgement that, yes, these systems are very powerful & quite useful and focusing a deep exploration of when AI uses are uplifting and when they are detrimental.

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many super-rich men trying so hard to blatantly buy a mayoral election in a city before.

🔔 Join us for a conversation about making public records-based reporting free, featuring @josephcox.bsky.social, @katie-drummond.bsky.social, and FPF's @caitlinvogus.bsky.social and @laurenleharper.bsky.social. 🗓️ Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT RSVP: freedom.press/unpaywalled

SATURDAY Stand Up. Fight Back. #NoKings Find an event near you. www.nokings.org#map

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

From Harvard & UConn researchers on the June 14th No Kings Day protests. (report came out in August) THIS is why MAGA is so spooked by the upcoming (Oct 18th) peaceful protests. New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Verification gains in importance every single day as the cost of manufacturing unrealities trends towards zero. I highly recommend following @pressfreedomtracker.us for _verified_ information about escalating press freedom violations in the United States.

"Democrat programs".

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous. This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

The foreseeable future of American health is death and AI-generated medbed videos.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

I credit the centrist SPD which is the minority partner in the governing coalition. Kudos to them for holding the line. I'm sure the issue will be back on the menu again soon, though.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Michigan Avenue right now.

The Macedonian Teenagers, all grown up! 10 yrs later it turns out that tapping the right wing rage machine remains extraordinarily lucrative! Who could’ve guessed? (I wrote a book about it lol and researched some of this guy’s prior art) Meanwhile, the capacity for investigations has diminished.

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

I spoke to another pastor after publication, Rev. David Swanson. He's only been to the facility once (last Friday), and wasn't shot w/pepper balls. Instead, he says senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino just walked up to him — in full clerical garb — and began shoving. He put it this way:

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo? I talked to him yesterday. He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

If you're looking for a Mastodon server, I can recommend the one I'm on - social.coop. As the name suggests it's run as a co-operative, and we do each pay a bit into the shared pot to defray costs. Governance decisions are made democratically.

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social: Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain. Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

If you're in Illinois and facing criminal charges from protesting ICE, or if you were attacked by ICE or law enforcement supporting them, I might be able to represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants. KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Chuck Schumer, in an hour from now: The president plans to flood the streets with military personnel to oppress innocent people, but what he should be flooding the streets with is tax credits for the middle class!

Whatever is or isn’t “beneath ICE,” assault is a criminal act. That’s why @repdangoldman.bsky.social and I referred this ICE officer for felony prosecution. We aren’t holding our breath for Pam Bondi to uphold the law. But we won’t stop demanding accountability. drive.google.com/file/d/1FujS...

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Journalist and co-founder of Unraveled Press Raven Geary was one of several members of the press shot with crowd-control munitions while reporting outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...