@ollycostello.bsky.social
Queer Illustrator | PIC Abolitionist | Urban Agrarian | Imagining more possibilities for a Just and Lush World | www.ollycostello.com 🇵🇸❤️🔥
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Good news, but each of these folks will have to post a $1,500 bond. Please consider donating to our bond fund.
Judge orders release of hundreds arrested during Chicago immigration raids
Trump officials also cannot pressure detainees to agree to voluntary deportation while cases are pending, says judge
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Good news, but each of these folks will have to post a $1,500 bond. Please consider donating to our bond fund.
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Reaching out, connecting and coming together with others, and committing to collective care and action. There is no other way to navigate what we are experiencing.
Art by @ollycostello.bsky.social
Art by @ollycostello.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reaching out, connecting and coming together with others, and committing to collective care and action. There is no other way to navigate what we are experiencing.
Art by @ollycostello.bsky.social
Art by @ollycostello.bsky.social
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“When the raids hit, & I see my community out en masse, I feel myself transformed by the bravery, innovation & determination of my neighbors to keep each other safe & defend our shared belonging.” @ollycostello.bsky.social in @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s latest.
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“When the raids hit, & I see my community out en masse, I feel myself transformed by the bravery, innovation & determination of my neighbors to keep each other safe & defend our shared belonging.” @ollycostello.bsky.social in @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s latest.
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11/5, 7 pm: The in-person launch for READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and Atena O. Danner. Preorder the book before 11/4 and receive a special letter from Kelly!
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/47805
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/47805
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
11/5, 7 pm: The in-person launch for READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and Atena O. Danner. Preorder the book before 11/4 and receive a special letter from Kelly!
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/47805
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/47805
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The Resilience Arts Fest will showcase stories from prison and beyond this weekend: "Art humanizes people." blockclubchi.co/4qlUzfh
October 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Resilience Arts Fest will showcase stories from prison and beyond this weekend: "Art humanizes people." blockclubchi.co/4qlUzfh
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Next week! Join @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in conversation with Shane Burley, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena O. Danner to discuss 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩, a collection of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times.
Register: bit.ly/4ngNHwQ
Register: bit.ly/4ngNHwQ
October 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Next week! Join @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in conversation with Shane Burley, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena O. Danner to discuss 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩, a collection of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times.
Register: bit.ly/4ngNHwQ
Register: bit.ly/4ngNHwQ
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If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.
4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If the impending freeze of SNAP benefits is what has you particularly animated, these questions might help. You can really substitute any issue and ask the same questions of yourself.
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If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
October 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
THIS
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October 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I AM COMMITTED TO GROWING OUR NEXT WORLD🌻✨❤️🔥
My new 2026 Quarterly Moon Calendar is now available!
Find the link to my shop below👇🏼
My new 2026 Quarterly Moon Calendar is now available!
Find the link to my shop below👇🏼
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All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
October 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
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ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
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CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW:
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336
I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336
I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.
October 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW:
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336
I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336
I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.
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Broadview, Illinois today—
A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.
A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.
October 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Broadview, Illinois today—
A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.
A dizzying array of federal and local police quashed an anti-deportation protest outside the Chicago ICE "processing" facility. Border Patrol agents once again violently attacked protesters, with arrest and crowd control support from IL state troopers.
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Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?
October 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?
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🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
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ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
prospect.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.
What are you building? What are we willing to build together? What do we know must exist?
New WILLING TO BUILD Prints for sale in my shop featuring this quote I love from @prisonculture.bsky.social ✨
100% of profits will go to support the work of REBUILD. More info below👇🏼
New WILLING TO BUILD Prints for sale in my shop featuring this quote I love from @prisonculture.bsky.social ✨
100% of profits will go to support the work of REBUILD. More info below👇🏼
September 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
What are you building? What are we willing to build together? What do we know must exist?
New WILLING TO BUILD Prints for sale in my shop featuring this quote I love from @prisonculture.bsky.social ✨
100% of profits will go to support the work of REBUILD. More info below👇🏼
New WILLING TO BUILD Prints for sale in my shop featuring this quote I love from @prisonculture.bsky.social ✨
100% of profits will go to support the work of REBUILD. More info below👇🏼
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The wonderful @ollycostello.bsky.social created a lovely print and is selling it to help raise funds for REBUILD. ollycostelloshop.com/products/wil... - It includes some words by me.
Willing To Build Print Fundraiser
FUNDRAISER for REBUILD - a program of Darkness RISING that connects justice-involved and formerly incarcerated individuals of color with culturally competent therapists who understand this unique expe...
ollycostelloshop.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The wonderful @ollycostello.bsky.social created a lovely print and is selling it to help raise funds for REBUILD. ollycostelloshop.com/products/wil... - It includes some words by me.
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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'
September 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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'
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Woods Ervin of Critical Resistance notes the Legislative Analyst’s Office found California could close five more prisons—saving $1.5B a year. That money could fund Medi-Cal, food aid, housing, and other vital programs.
Check out my latest @therealnews.com
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Check out my latest @therealnews.com
therealnews.com/prisons-clos...
‘We've got four public prisons and one private prison closed’: CA abolitionist coalition takes on the prison-industrial complex
“We are pushing for the state to not only close prisons permanently and not reopen or sell them, but then to try and transform the conditions of the prison… detoxify the land, give it back to the loca...
therealnews.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Woods Ervin of Critical Resistance notes the Legislative Analyst’s Office found California could close five more prisons—saving $1.5B a year. That money could fund Medi-Cal, food aid, housing, and other vital programs.
Check out my latest @therealnews.com
therealnews.com/prisons-clos...
Check out my latest @therealnews.com
therealnews.com/prisons-clos...
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"I think it’s really important for us to understand $150 billion were just inserted into this organization, into this terror organization, that would be as big as the fifth-largest army in the world." - Rep. Delia Ramirez
ICE Kills Immigrant Dad After Traffic Stop, Detains Day Laborer Who Sued Chicago Cops
ICE’s “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago is entering its second week of ramped-up immigration enforcement. Community members are mourning the loss of Silverio Villegas Gonzales, a 38-year-old single ...
www.democracynow.org
September 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"I think it’s really important for us to understand $150 billion were just inserted into this organization, into this terror organization, that would be as big as the fifth-largest army in the world." - Rep. Delia Ramirez
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Please read this. “Less than one week into President Donald Trump’s surge of deportation arrests in Chicago, an immigration agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on a near suburban street Friday morning.”
What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.
unraveledpress.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Please read this. “Less than one week into President Donald Trump’s surge of deportation arrests in Chicago, an immigration agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on a near suburban street Friday morning.”
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Like I just said on CNN, it’s absolutely evil that people are sleeping on concrete floors at the ICE detention center near Chicago.
Join us to protest this Friday at 7 am at the Broadview Detention Center.
Join us to protest this Friday at 7 am at the Broadview Detention Center.
September 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Like I just said on CNN, it’s absolutely evil that people are sleeping on concrete floors at the ICE detention center near Chicago.
Join us to protest this Friday at 7 am at the Broadview Detention Center.
Join us to protest this Friday at 7 am at the Broadview Detention Center.