Thread… I’ve grown up in Chicagoland since the 1980s. As Trump plans to ransack our city & region with illegal military occupation, here are 3 facts he & most of corporate media won’t bother to address—because doing so would undermine Trump’s entire fascist narrative to enable autocratic rule. 1/5
Trump illegally killing drug dealers, illegally unleashing the national guard and military against citizens, illegally detaining and kidnapping immigrants, threatening to end mail-in voting, and urging gerrymandering. Folks, what would you call these actions if another leader did them?
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
“Stay at a safe distance and don’t interfere. Video the encounter, make sure people know about it, get the person’s name and where they’re from, and their birthday,” says Lukens. “We all have to be witnesses to what’s happening and make ICE’s terror campaign public.”
FUCK, man.
NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City. Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.
The subheading: “Mesa County Sheriff’s Deputy Alexander Zwinck is resigning effective Tuesday. Because of his decision, Phil Weiser can no longer sue him.”
Prices are up just in time for back to school. Thanks, Donald Trump.
Your Labor Day reminder that if the minimum wage increased at the rate of inflation & productivity since 1960 it'd be $28 today—not $7.25. Meaning—billionaires & corps have stolen at least $21/hour from working Americans for 60 years. We don't suffer a lack of resources—but from an excess of greed.
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Please, please read this and share it with everyone. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
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BREAKING: At least 78 Palestinians, including 32 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7i3qdp
GOP: We are the pro-life party! So—free pre-natal care? GOP: No Extend child tax credit? GOP: No Paid family leave? GOP: No Universal pre-K? GOP: No Gun reform to stop school shootings? GOP: No So...HOW Exactly are you pro-life?🤔 GOP: We force 11-yr-old rape victims to give birth
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
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BREAKING: At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 32 aid seekers, medical sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ukxcfz
Bumping what I wrote the night he quit the Raiders Jon Gruden's emails made clear he's a racist, sexist, homophobe. That doesn't just make him a bad person (thought it obviously does!), it makes him a bad football coach, because you need to work with Black people, gay people, and women to win
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Those who can't compete destroy.
The party of “family values” is attacking our kids.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
So not only did ICE goons arrest someone fighting a wildfire here in WA, the person was here legally. Even if he wasn’t, he shouldn’t have been taken. But this just further goes to show how awful ICE is.
Rubio has denied Palestinian diplomats visas to attend the UN meeting claiming "terrorism"—but grants access to Israeli officials despite undeniable evidence of war crimes, genocide, famine, bombing Christians, & child sexual abuse & prisoner rape by IDF soldiers. This is what fascism looks like.
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
Remember when Trump trotted out an innocent Black child who was a cancer patient, like he was a prop, and then MAGAs pretended to be offended when we didn't celebrate that publicity stunt? Yeah...Trump's fascist policies have defunded pediatric brain cancer research. MAGA wants Structural Eugenics
President Trump is using our tax dollars to pay for his unwarranted deployment of military troops to D.C. in a blatant attempt to expand his power. We’re fighting back.
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UPDATE: The firefighter Trump’s ICE goons arrested in Washington was on track for legal status. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
Republicans keep saying the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts are only cutting “waste fraud and abuse”… and yet not a single arrest. Funny how that works!
"This is why liberals operate solely in reactive mode when it comes to Trump: Trump is the one constant when all else is chaos. This is a very unhealthy habit. We have a much better chance of combatting autocracy if people are creative instead of reactive." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...
“Reports of mistreatment have been widespread and have included disturbing details of overcrowding, food shortages, lack of adequate medical care, and unsanitary conditions.”
ICE raided a DC high school football game. ICE RAIDED A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME.
🚨The worst of the worst criminals are going after kids with backpacks and leaving their scooters in the road. 📌 WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA. We are running out of time. 🚨
Welch: The people that elected Donald Trump are the people that he's punishing the most with this stuff. And you guys, if a democratic president was doing this, would be going bananas. You guys would lose your minds.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is spot-fucking-on. 🎯🎯🎯👇
Worth reading CDC's Pledge to the American People from 2024. It is, put simply, the antithesis of RFK Jr.'s actions in office to date. www.cdc.gov/about/pledge...
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Wow.
(1/3) Pediatric health care and strong public health agencies are two planks in the foundation of children’s health and wellbeing. CDC has long been a leading resource for research and evidence-backed recommendations on how to keep children healthy.
He’s the Vice President of the United States. He could actually *do* something about this instead of just play pretend games.
One guy helped a bunch of people stranded on a roof by hiding the black people inside so the helicopter only saw the white people. Helicopters had been passing them by for hours. But when he did that, a helicopter came 15 minutes later.
Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved earned sick time last November. Governor Mike Kehoe and Missouri Republicans signed away that right. Corporations won. Working Missourians lost.  This is an actual email forwarded to me from an employee of a company removing earned sick time.
The ICE agents followed my friend for several miles before pulling him over on the pretext that his brake light was out. (That was a lie; it wasn’t out.) They are targeting work vehicles driven by anyone who “looks” Hispanic to them.
ICE agents in DC today appear to be focusing on the North Capitol Street corridor. One is wearing a Texas-themed hat and a “thin blue line” patch that says SEND ME. Again: Keep an eye out for an unmarked black Ford truck with the Texas plate NTV9211.
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
Since 1999 Americans have seen 2,000+ shootings in houses of worship. I don't want to hear a word from MAGA extremists who claim mass shootings happen because "we've taken God out of schools." It's not God out of schools that's the problem, it's NRA and gun lobby money in your coffers that is.
when you’ve made america healthy again www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
In case you missed it in the comments:
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
Me, trying again, on how John Roberts gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzdH...
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
All the lawsuit excerpts I’ve seen on here are way worse than what’s in the New York Times story about the 16-year-old who killed himself while consulting with ChatGPT.
Yes. I also felt this way about the assassinations in Minnesota. In fact, I continue to feel this way about the assassinations in Minnesota.
this (from the brilliant @everywhereist.bsky.social) puts into words the big black tangle of frustration i have whenever i get the same question
Internal docs from the State Department show that the person approving these documents is Amarallyis Fox Kennedy, identified as the “Program Associate Director for Intelligence and International Affairs Programs.” Ms. Fox Kennedy is the daughter-in-law of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"'I’m having sleepless nights,' she said. 'How can we have five people providing lifesaving H.I.V. services to 10,000 clients?'" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...
Sen Patty Murray: “… Russ Vought has choked off a huge chunk of funding provided by Congress for PEPFAR,” she said. “And he’s managed to hide this cut from lawmakers and the public until now because he took down a key spending transparency website.”
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
Why is this not bigger news? What do you mean I can't get things shipped from these places? How is this tolerable?
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
This is replacing a previous post: A Veteran was detained outside of the White House by Secret Service after burning an American flag.
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
If not morally shocked, are you not at least insulted? Israel bombs a hospital. Kills several people, including a journalist. Rescuers & journalists rush to the scene. And then Israel bombs them. On live TV. And then Israel tells you they never target civilians, and were just trying to hit a camera.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
I recorded a second video for my job at ARTnews about my report on the art world figures who donated to Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaigns: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
Netanyahu issued this statement because Israel just bombed journalists in a hospital, then bombed the rescue workers that showed up on live TV, and he knows anyone with a conscience will be horrified. That’s not a “tragic mishap”. And there will be no “thorough investigation”.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
Aside from anything else, it is a national emergency that the president of the United States has lost his mind.
I am getting on the subway for the scavenger hunt. I'll be with Max.
Now that I am home, here are my post-completion thoughts on the #Zcavengerhunt. First off: it was much more fun than I thought it would be, and that was largely due to how well it was organized, how it encouraged participants to talk to each other, and the spirit of the event.
But if we abolish the police, who will come to your house when you're out, shoot your security cameras and your windows out, break your front & garage door door down damaging the foundation itself, trash all your shit, then say Oops wrong house lol, leaving you with the repair bill
It’s funny, we never get those anguished “but how will I explain this to my child?” posts when it’s armed goons violently snatching people off the street. They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.
Breaking: Kilmar Abrego García has just been detained by ICE after arriving at the agency's Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in, according to his attorney. "The only reason to take him into detention was to punish him."
if sully sullenberger were a bird
good one
and today everyone is talking about Clemens’ longtime exploitation of late country singer Mindy McCready that began when he was 28 and married and she was just 15 so enjoy that spotlight Roger (backstory: pitcherlist.com/bbwaa-is-era...)
And American “Christians” in the GOP.