Nora Flanagan
@noraflanagan.bsky.social
Union organizer, English teacher, horror dork, derby enforcer, book glutton, rabid Chicagoan, coffee junkie, metaphorical nazi-puncher
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If you woke up in organizer mode: part of my role at my union is researching and organizing against right wing attacks on public education and labor spaces. If we should be collaborating, reach out. The work didn’t start today, but if we aren’t connected and should be, let’s fix that.
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they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
January 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
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this is exactly the story they told about Silverio Villegas Gonzalez -- which turned out to be entirely false
in case you were wondering, the popular story with the right about the shooting in minneapolis is that they shot a suspect who was fleeing ICE and trying to hit the ICE agent with their car
January 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
this is exactly the story they told about Silverio Villegas Gonzalez -- which turned out to be entirely false
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Remember that precident tells us that every ICE statement around this will be a face-saving lie. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Live updates: Officials confirm ICE-involved shooting in south Minneapolis
Witnesses reported a person was shot in south Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, amid a large presence of federal law enforcement officers. It was not immediately clear who may have been shot, or who m...
www.mprnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Remember that precident tells us that every ICE statement around this will be a face-saving lie. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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I'm truly sorry to hear about this ICE killing. I want to remind people about what they did to Marimar Martinez in Chicago. She fortunately survived being shot multiple times. news.wttw.com/2025/11/20/f.... -
Feds Dismiss Charges Against Woman Shot by Border Patrol Agent in Brighton Park
Texts from the Border Patrol agent who fired at Martinez revealed he apparently bragged about the shooting to others, stating in one message that he’d “fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in ...
news.wttw.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:52 PM
I'm truly sorry to hear about this ICE killing. I want to remind people about what they did to Marimar Martinez in Chicago. She fortunately survived being shot multiple times. news.wttw.com/2025/11/20/f.... -
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I’m not going to post the exact text here, but the one eyewitness account we have so far of an ICE agent shooting someone in Minneapolis today—which the witness was willing to put her name to—is very grim.
Live updates: Officials confirm ICE-involved shooting in south Minneapolis
Witnesses reported a person was shot in south Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, amid a large presence of federal law enforcement officers. It was not immediately clear who may have been shot, or who m...
www.mprnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I’m not going to post the exact text here, but the one eyewitness account we have so far of an ICE agent shooting someone in Minneapolis today—which the witness was willing to put her name to—is very grim.
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This is the boast of a Risk-addicted poli sci major, talking shit in the dorm common room over a bottle of liquor someone else bought, the night before he bombs the foreign service written exam
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
This is the boast of a Risk-addicted poli sci major, talking shit in the dorm common room over a bottle of liquor someone else bought, the night before he bombs the foreign service written exam
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30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
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A murderers' row of incredible Chicagoans!!
We're live! 20x2 Chicago: What Can You Do? 2/1/26 at @gmantavern.com. Tix available soon! Check out this lineup...
January 6, 2026 at 2:25 AM
A murderers' row of incredible Chicagoans!!
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Very surprising that the president who forced himself on women and girls without facing any consequences thinks he can force himself on countries without facing any consequences.
January 4, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Very surprising that the president who forced himself on women and girls without facing any consequences thinks he can force himself on countries without facing any consequences.
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Literally stripping the copper from the walls of the world
January 4, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Literally stripping the copper from the walls of the world
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The amount of money we're spending to terrorize neighborhoods and snatch tamale vendors should radicalize anyone.
The @chicagotribune.com did back of the envelope math and conservatively found that Operation Midway Blitz cost the taxpayer $59 million. Good reporting from @danvock.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...
Cost of Operation Midway Blitz: $59M and counting
A Tribune review of court filings, databases and other public records detailing the scope of the incursion and typical costs shows how much the federal government has spent since September.
www.chicagotribune.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:55 PM
The amount of money we're spending to terrorize neighborhoods and snatch tamale vendors should radicalize anyone.
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This Hell does not seem very fresh
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
This Hell does not seem very fresh
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Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
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Again, the man who’s next in line for the presidency after this walking corpse has said he’s deeply influenced by this outright Nazi, so maybe we could get a little more attention on that?
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
January 1, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Again, the man who’s next in line for the presidency after this walking corpse has said he’s deeply influenced by this outright Nazi, so maybe we could get a little more attention on that?
We took some time to rest and recover from everything the feds threw at our city in 2025. Chicago is ready for whatever is next.
January 2, 2026 at 4:28 AM
We took some time to rest and recover from everything the feds threw at our city in 2025. Chicago is ready for whatever is next.
Weird, because the National Guard was never actually IN Chicago. But okay.
Trump announces he’s pulling the National Guard from Portland, LA, and Chicago but threatens that “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!”
December 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Weird, because the National Guard was never actually IN Chicago. But okay.
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😓"NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts---Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
😓"NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts---Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
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Facing a new year, I found this @dansinker.com post from February — about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails — to be a welcome read.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Facing a new year, I found this @dansinker.com post from February — about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails — to be a welcome read.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
…and recycling the daycare-demonizing playbook fits nicely into the current wave of cuts, legislation, and propaganda designed to push moms out of the workforce.
And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before.
In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵
In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
…and recycling the daycare-demonizing playbook fits nicely into the current wave of cuts, legislation, and propaganda designed to push moms out of the workforce.
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good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
“Use nicer words when you talk about ICE or I will continue to do absolutely nothing to oppose a thing I say I oppose.” See also: “I’m not racist, BUT…”
Letter to the Editor: I found the lengthy Sunday article to have a surprisingly biased angle, even relative to the prior coverage of Operation Midway Blitz.
Letters: Sunday report about Operation Midway Blitz has a biased tone
This article makes a moderate such as me who voted against Trump wonder whether I can trust the Tribune newsroom.
trib.al
December 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Use nicer words when you talk about ICE or I will continue to do absolutely nothing to oppose a thing I say I oppose.” See also: “I’m not racist, BUT…”
Meanwhile, I met with a small group of teachers and parents yesterday to plan more school safety patrols. We’re gathering in kitchens and libraries, and they’re recruiting at gun shows, but we’re gonna win.
Exclusive: ICE officials plan to spend $100 million to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted ad campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy to hire thousands of officers, according to an internal document.
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Meanwhile, I met with a small group of teachers and parents yesterday to plan more school safety patrols. We’re gathering in kitchens and libraries, and they’re recruiting at gun shows, but we’re gonna win.
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It was never really about cutting overall spending - that was the grift. It was destroying disliked programs, securing lucrative contracts, stealing valuable data, and further decreasing trust in government - all of which were quite successful
December 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It was never really about cutting overall spending - that was the grift. It was destroying disliked programs, securing lucrative contracts, stealing valuable data, and further decreasing trust in government - all of which were quite successful