Rachel Monk ✶✶✶✶
@rachelmonkfish.bsky.social
socialist journalist and organizer in the greatest city in the world. editing at @theprogressivemag.bsky.social, organizing with @chicagodsa.bsky.social. la libertá é terapeutica ✨
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I didn’t recognize my own agency to help keep my neighbors safe and protected from ICE. Operation Midway Blitz changed that.
Read the full story by our associate editor @rachelmonkfish.bsky.social on The Progressive.
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#ICE #ICEraids #immigration #Chicago #protest
Read the full story by our associate editor @rachelmonkfish.bsky.social on The Progressive.
progressive.org/magazine/the...
#ICE #ICEraids #immigration #Chicago #protest
The Year of the Whistle
I didn’t recognize my own agency to help keep my neighbors safe and protected from ICE. Operation Midway Blitz changed that.
progressive.org
This piece that I wrote about Chicago ICE watch in October, before Greg Bovino and his goons flew south for the winter, is now available to read online!
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January 30, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Byron is the real deal.
January 29, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Byron is the real deal.
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I'm joining the war on Byron Sigcho Lopez on the side of Byron Sigcho Lopez.
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January 28, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I'm joining the war on Byron Sigcho Lopez on the side of Byron Sigcho Lopez.
You should too: secure.actblue.com/donate/1.28tx
You should too: secure.actblue.com/donate/1.28tx
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Skilled journalists in Minnesota have made deep contacts, studied what's happening, seen for themselves what we see without raising a single iota of ruckus
Content Streamers have been consistently disruptive, aggressive, demanding, deliberately trying to raise the temperature everywhere they go
Content Streamers have been consistently disruptive, aggressive, demanding, deliberately trying to raise the temperature everywhere they go
January 27, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Skilled journalists in Minnesota have made deep contacts, studied what's happening, seen for themselves what we see without raising a single iota of ruckus
Content Streamers have been consistently disruptive, aggressive, demanding, deliberately trying to raise the temperature everywhere they go
Content Streamers have been consistently disruptive, aggressive, demanding, deliberately trying to raise the temperature everywhere they go
Totally agree, I just wish there were some kind of angle to talk about both at once, you know?? like if they’d taken away people’s health insurance and social services and completely fucked the labor economy in order to fund this
People are waving around 50/50 polling on abolish ICE and in the same poll Trump’s is like 30 points under water on affordability. It’s not at all crazy for professional politicians to think there’s a bigger advantage in talking about the latter!
January 22, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Totally agree, I just wish there were some kind of angle to talk about both at once, you know?? like if they’d taken away people’s health insurance and social services and completely fucked the labor economy in order to fund this
This is the most baffling book-to-film adaptation I've ever seen. Credits rolled and my friend and I looked at each other and went "...huh!"
GDT's Frankenstein is coming back to theaters beginning tomorrow for one week.
Paris Theater in NYC and the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. Also, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Orlando, and Springfield, VT.
Paris Theater in NYC and the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. Also, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Orlando, and Springfield, VT.
January 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
This is the most baffling book-to-film adaptation I've ever seen. Credits rolled and my friend and I looked at each other and went "...huh!"
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It's horrific but also this is pretty much a regular arrest. That's how violent arrests are. I am glad people can see it and be horrified -- that's what police are out there doing every day, legally. Every 3 seconds basically.
New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
January 14, 2026 at 10:09 PM
It's horrific but also this is pretty much a regular arrest. That's how violent arrests are. I am glad people can see it and be horrified -- that's what police are out there doing every day, legally. Every 3 seconds basically.
Can't believe this is from just two months ago. This shit has spread so far so fast
Something I realized while I was in New York this past week is that despite all of the great reporting being done, the scale of ICE’s war on Chicago hasn’t fully permeated the national consciousness. People know about it in the most general terms, but when you actually describe it, their jaws drop
January 12, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Can't believe this is from just two months ago. This shit has spread so far so fast
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y'all Kristi Noem absolutely deserves to be impeached but please, please be wary of Dems who try to use an impeachment vote on Noem (fine, but not gonna end in removal) as a substitute for action on ICE funding (real, hits them where it hurts)
January 10, 2026 at 7:06 PM
y'all Kristi Noem absolutely deserves to be impeached but please, please be wary of Dems who try to use an impeachment vote on Noem (fine, but not gonna end in removal) as a substitute for action on ICE funding (real, hits them where it hurts)
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Okay, you all are overstimulated. Here’s your prescription. youtu.be/oqrtoFWglMY?...
Serengeti "Dennehy"
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January 11, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Okay, you all are overstimulated. Here’s your prescription. youtu.be/oqrtoFWglMY?...
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According to this poll, we need more people to know about NITA.
2026 is the year of transit in Illinois!
drive.google.com/file/d/16AKO...
2026 is the year of transit in Illinois!
drive.google.com/file/d/16AKO...
January 8, 2026 at 8:01 PM
According to this poll, we need more people to know about NITA.
2026 is the year of transit in Illinois!
drive.google.com/file/d/16AKO...
2026 is the year of transit in Illinois!
drive.google.com/file/d/16AKO...
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January 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Folks often ask what they can do, what’s the plan? Friends, we are the plan. Find your organizing home. Indivisible, DSA, tutoring adult literacy, serving on the board of your public library. Do the thing! Think about the ways you’re willing to be courageous, do more than feels comfortable.
January 7, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Folks often ask what they can do, what’s the plan? Friends, we are the plan. Find your organizing home. Indivisible, DSA, tutoring adult literacy, serving on the board of your public library. Do the thing! Think about the ways you’re willing to be courageous, do more than feels comfortable.
Need the Germans to whip up a long compound word for that feeling you get when everyone in the train car is clearly headed to the same protest
January 3, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Need the Germans to whip up a long compound word for that feeling you get when everyone in the train car is clearly headed to the same protest
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NO WAR ON VENEZUELA! Stop the bombings! Early this morning, Caracas was bombed following weeks of threats from Trump that a land invasion of Venezuela would begin soon. This could be the start of yet another war, based completely on lies. Our public funds should be used for people’s needs!
January 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
NO WAR ON VENEZUELA! Stop the bombings! Early this morning, Caracas was bombed following weeks of threats from Trump that a land invasion of Venezuela would begin soon. This could be the start of yet another war, based completely on lies. Our public funds should be used for people’s needs!
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I wanted a way to visualize all the CTA stations I've caught or exited trains at but couldn't find an existing way to do this, so I built something basic so I could see this and some stats. Give it a whirl cailinpitt.github.io/cta-stats/
December 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!
Lowkey obsessed with New Orleans, perfect place to spend Christmas
December 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Lowkey obsessed with New Orleans, perfect place to spend Christmas
Samwise "we can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old" Gamgee
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Samwise "we can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old" Gamgee
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Every frigid day like this, I think about this 2022 piece by @katieprout.bsky.social. No one should have to be outside today in Chicago, much less staying outside unsheltered overnight. That that might be preferable to the available shelter is incredibly damning.
chicagoreader.com/news/lukewar...
chicagoreader.com/news/lukewar...
Lukewarm welcome - Chicago Reader
The warming areas don’t just exist to warm you up—housed within DFSS community service centers, they’re also access points from which Chicagoans can be connected to other services that have the potent...
chicagoreader.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Every frigid day like this, I think about this 2022 piece by @katieprout.bsky.social. No one should have to be outside today in Chicago, much less staying outside unsheltered overnight. That that might be preferable to the available shelter is incredibly damning.
chicagoreader.com/news/lukewar...
chicagoreader.com/news/lukewar...
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Right now, Chicago City Council is weighing drastic cuts to the very safety programs that have driven this unprecedented drop in severe injuries and fatalities on our streets — cuts that would mean more dangerous speeding, more violent crashes, and more families grieving loved ones taken too soon.
Tell Chicago lawmakers: Don't cut funding for safe streets | Active Transportation Alliance
According to the Chicago Department of Transportation, fatal crashes have fallen 30 percent since their peak in 2021 — more […]
activetrans.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Right now, Chicago City Council is weighing drastic cuts to the very safety programs that have driven this unprecedented drop in severe injuries and fatalities on our streets — cuts that would mean more dangerous speeding, more violent crashes, and more families grieving loved ones taken too soon.
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This piece that I wrote about Chicago ICE watch in October, before Greg Bovino and his goons flew south for the winter, is now available to read online!
I didn’t recognize my own agency to help keep my neighbors safe and protected from ICE. Operation Midway Blitz changed that.
Read the full story by our associate editor @rachelmonkfish.bsky.social on The Progressive.
progressive.org/magazine/the...
#ICE #ICEraids #immigration #Chicago #protest
Read the full story by our associate editor @rachelmonkfish.bsky.social on The Progressive.
progressive.org/magazine/the...
#ICE #ICEraids #immigration #Chicago #protest
The Year of the Whistle
I didn’t recognize my own agency to help keep my neighbors safe and protected from ICE. Operation Midway Blitz changed that.
progressive.org
December 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This piece that I wrote about Chicago ICE watch in October, before Greg Bovino and his goons flew south for the winter, is now available to read online!
This piece that I wrote about Chicago ICE watch in October, before Greg Bovino and his goons flew south for the winter, is now available to read online!
I didn’t recognize my own agency to help keep my neighbors safe and protected from ICE. Operation Midway Blitz changed that.
Read the full story by our associate editor @rachelmonkfish.bsky.social on The Progressive.
progressive.org/magazine/the...
#ICE #ICEraids #immigration #Chicago #protest
Read the full story by our associate editor @rachelmonkfish.bsky.social on The Progressive.
progressive.org/magazine/the...
#ICE #ICEraids #immigration #Chicago #protest
The Year of the Whistle
I didn’t recognize my own agency to help keep my neighbors safe and protected from ICE. Operation Midway Blitz changed that.
progressive.org
December 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This piece that I wrote about Chicago ICE watch in October, before Greg Bovino and his goons flew south for the winter, is now available to read online!
NO SUPPORTIVE HOUSING REFERRALS IN MORE THAN A YEAR
NEW: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Thursday he will not continue sweeps of homeless encampments — which city data shows have not yielded any permanent or supportive-housing referrals in more than a year.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/04/m...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/04/m...
Mamdani Vows to Sweep Out Crackdowns on Homeless Camps
City numbers show that sweeps started under Mayor Eric Adams have not delivered on referrals for housing in more than a year.
www.thecity.nyc
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
NO SUPPORTIVE HOUSING REFERRALS IN MORE THAN A YEAR
Spotify Wrapped season never fails to remind me of just how many Mountain Goats fans I've created in the past 15 years, one of my bigger life accomplishments so far tbh
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Spotify Wrapped season never fails to remind me of just how many Mountain Goats fans I've created in the past 15 years, one of my bigger life accomplishments so far tbh