This book opened my eyes to so much covered up history and systematic repression, and is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the deep deeeep racism and carceral violence in this country. Things make more sense having read it. RIP Assata.

This is good news and proves the power of worker organizing and reporting. At the same time, I don’t trust a word Microsoft says or that they didn’t know exactly what unit 8200 would do with their software. Might do a write up tonight. Either way, worth reading this full article.

I’m sorry but what the fuck did you think was going to happen

The Italian government says it has sent a naval ship to assist the Global Sumud Flotilla after it was attacked by several drones. Organizers of the flotilla said that the boats carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza were attacked by a swarm of 15 drones early Wednesday morning.

Ongoing resistance against ICE throughout Chicago

Idk why media outlets treat anything Kash Patel says with the slightest modicum of credibility

It’s still a breaking/developing situation, but the story has been updated to say two people in ICE’s custody were killed.

A lot of people are posting a really stupid and wrong diagram, so I've taken the liberty of annotating it.

Larry Ellison is definitely a sleeper for worst tech bro of 2025!

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

🇮🇹BREAKING: Italy Sees Massive General Strike in Solidarity With Gaza Italy is seeing a powerful 24-hr general strike today, Sept. 22, as millions of workers across transport, education, logistics, and other sectors are expected to join protests for Gaza. The strike has... @ryangrim.bsky.social

"This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence ... It also shows that these ties cannot survive transparency and public awareness. Student action is not meaningless; despite increased repression, it is more important than ever to resist genocide."

"One March 2020 training document detailed how Palantir software allowed ICE agents to search across data from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, which at the time contained 4.9 million records 'of non-immigrant students, exchange visitors and their dependents' dating back to 2016.

Their love of white supremacy and doxxing their enemies brought them back together. 🥺

a beautifully illustrated and deeply troubling piece that is well worth your time to read

"We aren’t saying destroy the clocks before they become killer drones, but we are saying the killer drones are already here and we should figure out how to destroy them." - @edwardongwesojr.com

Israel has literally already blown up two boats and mainstream outlets don’t give a shit

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.

this is what we saw on the ground in Broadview today. thetriibe.com/2025/09/and-...

the department of homeland security released a statement claiming “over a hundred violent rioters surrounded” the broadview ice detention center this morning. what actually happened was ice/cbp tactical teams aggressively threw, dragged, & tear-gassed protesters. one agent literally drew his gun.

Can’t wait for my superintelligent pornographic metaverse experience

It really feels like national attention on Chicago has waned after Trump said he wasn't sending the National Guard (at least for now). But reading local reporters and media outlets, it's clear that things are heating up here.

The security state and its broad sweeping apparatus depends on people complying, assisting, and enacting the state’s demands. This need for our consent is why the legacy of GI resistance, in all its manifestations, is important to study and build on right now.

In light of the increasing prevalence of pepper balls and tear gas at the Broadview site, I just want to reshare this toolkit from Vision Change Win, which includes best practices for treating tear gas and pepper spray exposure. You can also find this info in the appendix of Let This Radicalize You.

Bro used ChatGPT for the lawsuit

Good segment/report but it should include Google, Amazon, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, etc. Big tech’s enabling of and participation in genocide is unforgivable.

AI is a tool of white supremacy & fascism. Not only this fact that they amplify sexist/racist biases, but they are quite literally leveraged by the worst ghouls in the US to hyper-exploit poor countries, expand the carceral system, surveil and detain migrants, commit genocide & ecocide, etc.

tear gas and more pepper balls deployed outside the broadview ice facility. agents detained two more people. protesters were blocking the driveway so agents, including border patrol’s bortac team, violently pushed protesters and allowed one vehicle to leave and another to enter.

Fascists will never compromise, but they will see our willingness to meet them halfway as a weakness, and exploit that weakness to push us further down the path towards authoritarian dystopia. windblowncuriosities.substack.com/p/on-the-dan...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

My latest on the Charlie Kirk of it all windblowncuriosities.substack.com/p/on-the-dan...

In a just world Peter Thiel would be a laughing stock. Instead, we have to actually pay attention to what he says because he’s one of the most powerful people in the world. I hate it

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

A much more academic look at something I'm working on for an upcoming SubStack

Brian Kilmeade stated homeless individuals who are resisting mental health treatment should be given "involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ’em." This weekend, there was a mass shooting of a homeless encampment. It barely made a blip on the news. www.startribune.com/shooting-sou...

Updated second link: blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-...

jfc youtube AI slop is about to get so much worse y'all

FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments

Healthcare workers starving alongside their patients, sharing one pair of shoes among 5 people, constantly under attack in the places they try to provide care under desperate impossible inhuman conditions on the brink of mental, physical and spiritual exhaustion. www.democracynow.org/2025/9/15/mo...

As Trump holds Northwestern University hostage with $800 million in frozen funds, Northwestern leadership cracks down on students' right to free speech. These policies put more than 22,000 students at risk of punishment for peacefully protesting for any cause in any way.

This is my alderman's office. The Proud Boys and other fascists also rallied in Chicago over the I-90 expressway on Saturday. Between this shit and the ICE raids, things are scary. Do not forget: ICE killed a father of three last week in Franklin Park. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

A Venezuelan man from The Bronx told THE CITY that he has begun a hunger strike to protest that immigration authorities have jailed him for more than seven months, despite multiple court rulings ordering his release.

Cue 500 centrist op-eds about how Kilmeade did political debate right because he only advocated for killing the homeless and did not actually kill them

On holding multiple truths: Miller says the administration will use Kirk's death to dismantle leftist orgs, and people are being targeted professionally. The people who said this would be used against folks were right. AND there were also already plans to dismantle leftist orgs (see Project Esther).

These media outlets are more than ready to carry water for the far-right dream of trans genocide.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Update from outside Broadview ICE facility in Chicagoland— Even after feds killed a man a few towns away today, a small group remain to finish their 7am-7pm protest. SRT takes the dwindling numbers as an opportunity to unleash less lethals on a protester with a mobility aid sitting on the ground.