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Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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faithfalkner.com
We're going to make it after all.
audiosand.bsky.social Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 1d
On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading “FUCK ICE.”
January 23, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.
Mnemonic   Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. Unless a leap year is its fate, February hath twenty-eight. All the rest hath three days more, excepting January, which hath six thousand, one hundred and eighty-four. Brian Bilston
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 AM
sbrann.bsky.social
FYI Illinois voters: WBEZ 91.5FM is hosting a forum for Senate candidates Mon, 1/26/26, 6PM CT.
January 24, 2026 at 12:39 AM
sbrann.bsky.social
You sure you want to keep using TikTok?
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d
TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list.

They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.
Screenshot of TikTok terms of service For Legal Reasons We may share Information We Collect → to comply with the law, including to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, law enforcement requests, legal claims, or government inquiries. We may also disclose Information We Collect → to enforce any terms applicable to the Services, and to protect and defend our rights, interests, safety, and security, and those of our affiliates, users, or the public. Information You Provide may include sensitive personal information, as defined under applicable state privacy laws, such as information from users under the relevant age threshold, information you disclose in survey responses or in your user content about your racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status, or financial information. For example, we may process your
January 23, 2026 at 11:51 PM
sbrann.bsky.social
This!
#LiamRamos
January 23, 2026 at 11:29 PM
sbrann.bsky.social
Bravo, Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA)
ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 2d
💯 Every. Fucking. Word.
January 23, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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pbump.com
This is who federal agents are ripping out of their communities and shipping across the country. This is the danger we're being protected from.
January 22, 2026 at 3:40 AM
sbrann.bsky.social
The worst of the worst?
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d
Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader
Photographer @mostafabassim1 photographed this boy walking home alone with a snack being "randomly" approached by DHS. "After he was unable to produce documentation proving his citizenship, agents informed him that he was under arrest." He said, "Can I just go home?" Answer: No.
January 21, 2026 at 9:33 PM
sbrann.bsky.social
Denmark 'lost more soldiers per capita than the United States did in Afghanistan.'
January 17, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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mikemadden.bsky.social
“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” said TJ Sabula, the UAW worker who heckled President Trump and who Trump flipped off and cursed at. “And today I think I did that.”

Gift link: wapo.st/4sG38CD
Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler
A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward a line worker shouting at him inside the Ford factory.
wapo.st
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
One classy (and quick) thing Biden did: When a guy said "let's go Brandon" on a WH Christmas special, he said "Let's go Brandon, I agree" and kept talking to him.

We don't have a king. You're allowed to talk shit to him!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETml...
January 14, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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sfchronicle.com
Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.

📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
January 10, 2026 at 8:48 PM
sbrann.bsky.social
Protest the regime safely. Protect your digital security.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · 16d
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · 16d
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
January 10, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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andycraig.bsky.social
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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atrupar.com
Trump: "You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don't win the midterms, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached."
January 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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cmgiulini.bsky.social
Private equity is a criminal enterprise. Walgreens was long one of Chicago's Crown Jewels. After the Boots fiasco, it wound up in the hands of vulture Sycamore, whose purchase was 70% debt. Now it's closing its Chicago office, slashing holiday pay and jobs.
chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
The future of Walgreens, an iconic Chicago drugstore, looks grim
The pharmacy and retail store now counts itself as one of thousands of portfolio companies owned by private equity, an industry renowned for its profits-first, people-last approach to business.
chicago.suntimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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gregpak.net
for real
Sign in the crowd of protestors reading "THE YEAR JUST FUCKING STARTED MAN"
January 4, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
“We felt less than human.” How government treats folks in custody is not a lot better than how they treat them when they’re released. A moment from the story of a server helping a man: “May God bless that woman, because she gave me a taco and a Coke.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Merry Christmas everyone, and I wish you peace and rest and maybe festivity whoever and wherever you are. May you find the gifts that life has given you (despite all that other stuff you didn't ask for).
December 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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dimcheff.wtf
hello milwaukee and chicago
nighttime photo of milwaukee, chicago, and lake michigan from the air just now
December 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
#BREAKING The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the State of Illinois on National Guard deployment.

Under the law invoked by President Trump, he must be unable "with the regular military" to "execute the laws of the United States," it finds.

Full ruling here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/80/88/05a75e...
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES _________________ No. 25A443 _________________ DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. v. ILLINOIS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [December 23, 2025] Federal immigration-enforcement efforts have encoun- tered significant resistance, as well as some violence, in Chicago. According to the Government, federal officers have been obstructed, threatened, and assaulted as they at- tempt to perform their duties. The Government also alleges that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, has been the site of frequent and sometimes violent protests, damaging federal property and threatening the safety of federal officers. These at- tacks, the Government says, have greatly impeded its ef- forts to enforce the immigration laws. On October 4, 2025, the President called 300 members of the Illinois National Guard into active federal service to protect federal personnel and property in Illinois, particu- larly in and around Chicago. The following day, members of the Texas National Guard were also federalized and sent to Chicago. In calling forth the Guard, the President relied on 10 U. S. C. §12406(3), which empowers him to federalize members of the Guard if he is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.” The United States District Court for the Northern Dis- trict of Illinois entered a temporary restraining order bar- ring the federalization and deployment of the Guard in Illi- nois. The Seventh Circuit denied in relevant part the Government’s motion for a stay, permitting the Guard to remain federalized within Illinois but maintaining the bar on deployment. The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court’s order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties’ initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term “regular forces” in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Govern- ment argues that the term refers to civilian law enforce- ment officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service. Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili- tary. We conclude that the term “regular forces” in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili- tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be “unable” with the regular military “to execute the laws of the United States.” Because the statute requires an assess- ment of the military’s ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from “execut[ing] the laws” “except in cases and under circumstances ex- pressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress.” 18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the reg- ular military and must be “unable” with those forces to per- form that function. At this preliminary stage, the Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois. The President has not in- voked a statute that provides an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act. Instead, he relies on inherent constitu- tional authority that, according to the Government, allows him to use the military to protect federal personnel and property. But the Government also claims—consistent with the longstanding view of the Executive Branch—that performing such protective functions does not constitute “execut[ing] the laws” within the meaning of the Posse Comitatus Act. See Supp. Letter Reply Brief for Applicants 8; 1 Supp. Op. OLC 343, n. 1 (1971) (collecting sources). If that is correct, it is hard to see how performing those func- tions could constitute “execut[ing] the laws” under §12406(3). See Azar v. Allina Health Services, 587 U. S. 566, 574 (2019) (“This Court does not lightly assume that Congress silently attaches different meanings to the same term in the same or related statutes”). Thus, at least in this posture, the Government has not carried its burden to show that §12406(3) permits the President to federalize the Guard in the exercise of inherent authority to protect fed- eral personnel and property in Illinois. We need not and do not address the reviewability of findings made by the Pres- ident under §12406(3) or any other statute. The application for stay is denied.
December 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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cmgiulini.bsky.social
Not even Trump's own Supreme Court can stomach his mad king posturing. (His support was confined to the habitual scoundrels appointed long before him, and Neil Gorsuch.)
chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...
U.S. Supreme Court sides against Trump, won't lift block on National Guard deployment in Illinois
The decision, appearing on the high court’s “emergency” or “shadow” docket, is the first from the justices addressing President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy National Guard troops into American cit...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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civilwarmemory.bsky.social
Sculptor Steven Weitzman placed books under the floorboards of the Barbara Johns statue's self-base (dedicated last week in The Capitol Building) with titles from prominent African American scholars and authors to signify materials the students were missing in their classrooms. 🗃️
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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buckweaver.bsky.social
The ice shelf has finally melted in Rogers Park and the colors are magnificent. (Now if we can only say the same about the other forms of ice infecting our neighborhood.)
A patch of white snow melts on the edge of a sandy beach on the north side of Chicago as the waves from Lake Michigan softly crash in. The sky is resplendent on a late winter afternoon with a mix of blue and orange and yellow rows. The clouds ripple and reflect the colors over the skyline of downtown Chicago in the far distance.
December 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM