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I'll be donating to help free Operation Midway Blitz detainees, and I hope some of you can join me. We tried like hell to prevent as many detentions as we could in Chicago. This is another opportunity to help our neighbors remain in our communities where they belong.
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I'll be donating to help free Operation Midway Blitz detainees, and I hope some of you can join me. We tried like hell to prevent as many detentions as we could in Chicago. This is another opportunity to help our neighbors remain in our communities where they belong.
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615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
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“We need to give thanks for the solidarity and communal bonds that allowed us to show up for each other and for our neighbors. We need to take care of ourselves and get some rest.
Then, we need to prepare, because Bovino and his goons will be back.”
Then, we need to prepare, because Bovino and his goons will be back.”
The federal blitz moved to Charlotte, but the trauma and damage in Chicago are still with us—and DHS says 1,000 agents will hit our streets in March. I wrote about what this moment demands of us: care, clarity, and preparation.
What Now, Chicago? Regrouping After Midway Blitz
Let’s make this a winter of fortification, of learning, and bonding together like the winter snow that federal agents are so afraid of.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“We need to give thanks for the solidarity and communal bonds that allowed us to show up for each other and for our neighbors. We need to take care of ourselves and get some rest.
Then, we need to prepare, because Bovino and his goons will be back.”
Then, we need to prepare, because Bovino and his goons will be back.”
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
Wow. Between the story, music, character development, set design, lights, dramaturgy, powerful actor performances, and visionary direction, REVOLUTION(S) is a must-see, and I never say that lightly.
Thank you @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for taking me! I’m figuring out how to see it again asap!
Thank you @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for taking me! I’m figuring out how to see it again asap!
REVOLUTION(S), the all-new radical musical event, begins performances this Saturday at @goodmantheatre in CHICAGO!! YOU are not going to want to miss it. Get tickets at GoodmanTheatre.org/Revolutions or at the link in bio.
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Wow. Between the story, music, character development, set design, lights, dramaturgy, powerful actor performances, and visionary direction, REVOLUTION(S) is a must-see, and I never say that lightly.
Thank you @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for taking me! I’m figuring out how to see it again asap!
Thank you @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for taking me! I’m figuring out how to see it again asap!
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Aaron Goggans and I talk about what happens when movements start running on empty—how trauma, burnout, and dysregulation can shape our organizing, and what it takes to sustain ourselves and each other in a moment of crisis and emergency. I found this conversation so helpful, and I hope you will too.
Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us
“Care really should be at the center of our strategy, of our analysis, and of our practice,” says Aaron Goggans.
truthout.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Aaron Goggans and I talk about what happens when movements start running on empty—how trauma, burnout, and dysregulation can shape our organizing, and what it takes to sustain ourselves and each other in a moment of crisis and emergency. I found this conversation so helpful, and I hope you will too.
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Charlotte is not even within the 100-mile “border zone” that CBP claims to have jurisdiction over.
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Charlotte is not even within the 100-mile “border zone” that CBP claims to have jurisdiction over.
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“Internal memos reviewed by WIRED reveal that the dataset was first requested by a field officer in the DHS’s Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) in the summer of 2021. By then, Chicago’s gang data was already notorious for being riddled with contradictions and error.”
NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying.
The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules
The Department of Homeland Security collected data on Chicago residents accused of gang ties to test if police files could feed an FBI watchlist. Months passed before anyone noticed it wasn’t deleted.
www.wired.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“Internal memos reviewed by WIRED reveal that the dataset was first requested by a field officer in the DHS’s Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) in the summer of 2021. By then, Chicago’s gang data was already notorious for being riddled with contradictions and error.”
I’m so grateful for tonight’s conversation with these beloveds, and I’m so grateful for this beautiful and timely collection of letters to activists in crisis.
I hope folks will check the book out and share it/discuss it with their comrades and homies! 🫶🏾💕✨
bookshop.org/p/books/read...
I hope folks will check the book out and share it/discuss it with their comrades and homies! 🫶🏾💕✨
bookshop.org/p/books/read...
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’m so grateful for tonight’s conversation with these beloveds, and I’m so grateful for this beautiful and timely collection of letters to activists in crisis.
I hope folks will check the book out and share it/discuss it with their comrades and homies! 🫶🏾💕✨
bookshop.org/p/books/read...
I hope folks will check the book out and share it/discuss it with their comrades and homies! 🫶🏾💕✨
bookshop.org/p/books/read...
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Tonight, I will be in conversation with @tanuja.bsky.social and @mayaschenwar.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis at Women & Children's First Bookstore. The event is sold out, but the bookstore will be livestreaming the event on their YouTube channel.
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Tonight, I will be in conversation with @tanuja.bsky.social and @mayaschenwar.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis at Women & Children's First Bookstore. The event is sold out, but the bookstore will be livestreaming the event on their YouTube channel.
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Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
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Whoop-whoop! I love that our book is getting this visibility because it is full of such useful and necessary wisdom. I want everyone to know ‘Read This’ is here for them. Speaking as a fan as well as contributing author.
Read This When Things Fall Apart made Bookshop's Bestsellers of the Week list!
Bookshop.org Best Sellers of the Week
Last Week's Bestselling Books: A Taste of the US We're leaning in on politics and history nowadays with a compilation of letters to activists and a new exploration of the US Justice Department.
bookshop.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Whoop-whoop! I love that our book is getting this visibility because it is full of such useful and necessary wisdom. I want everyone to know ‘Read This’ is here for them. Speaking as a fan as well as contributing author.
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
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DHS lies constantly, and this has been confirmed in court. There is no evidence that any shots were fired at federal agents. The fact that the claim has no known basis in fact should be out front here.
Department of Homeland Security agents were shot at during an immigration enforcement operation in Chicago Saturday, the agency said — as federal agents were also accused of using pepper spray and flash-bang grenades against protesters across the Chicago area.
DHS says agents were shot at amid chaotic day of immigration enforcement operations in Chicago area
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
DHS lies constantly, and this has been confirmed in court. There is no evidence that any shots were fired at federal agents. The fact that the claim has no known basis in fact should be out front here.
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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Flash fundraiser closes today!! Any amount helps.
Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective.
All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/flash-fundra...
Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective.
All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/flash-fundra...
Flash Fundraising Drive for Sudan
Join us in raising 8k for our comrades at Sudan Solidarity Collective!
Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me With Sudan in memo. Collecting etransfers this way helps our comrades save on individual t...
www.weavingourworlds.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Flash fundraiser closes today!! Any amount helps.
Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective.
All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/flash-fundra...
Etransfer weavingourworlds@proton.me With Sudan in memo for Sudan Solidarity Collective.
All funds will go to Emergency Response Rooms and to families displaced from El Fasher to Tawila and Kurma.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/flash-fundra...
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THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY
Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
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Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Here’s how we should all be reporting on the spurious claims from these agencies that have repeatedly been caught in lies and exaggerations:
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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 2:46 PM
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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DHS spokespersons consistently give petulant, amateurish, deeply unserious responses to inquiries about extremely serious matters.
After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
DHS spokespersons consistently give petulant, amateurish, deeply unserious responses to inquiries about extremely serious matters.
Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.
When Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of “Innocence”
No one should be caged, tortured, detained, or deported by the state — all carceral violence is done wrongfully.
truthout.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM