Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

Thanks!

A Common Greyness Silvers Everything Sundays

This piece is excellent and made me want to immediately read more books about renaissance painters. Thanks @maryltrump.bsky.social.

open.substack.com/pub/marytrum...

This video was taken by a local resident who reportedly saw a man being beaten by ICE agents at 37th and Kedzie.

Low marks across the board on the government shutdown, per new CBS News polling

Power Lab — The Gaia Leadership Project

Hope you’ll join us.

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Power Lab — The Gaia Leadership Project

If you’re a beginning or intermediate activist/organizer, and you want to know what works in THIS era— not 5 or 10 years ago— we’ve got you covered.

POWER LAB: A 7-Week Course for Emerging Organizers to Overcome Outrage and Build Community Action, starts 11/1.

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Also helpful to Google the Federal Tort Claims Act, which by the way requires you to go through none other than Russ Vought to get a right to sue letter first.

Not a chance, in other words,

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

There's a lot to be upset about in the world. Strangers on the internet should not bear the brunt of your rage.

CALIFORNIANS!!!!

You’re gonna start getting your ballots. Vote YES for prop/ state measure 50, (it will be titled differently in different counties.)

Vote as soon as you get your ballot so that phone calls and texts can be directed to people who need more convincing.
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Federal agents shoot woman on Southwest Side, battle protesters for hours The shooting occurred Saturday in Brighton Park when federal patrols were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, an account that has yet to be verified...

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

ISP gets in formation and a number of them march away from the intersection, toward the parking lot neighboring the ICE facility (it belongs to a business, not ICE's lot).

The crowd starts a rendition of The Imperial March.

The judge who granted this restraining order was appointed to the bench by Trump.

Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM Document 56 Filed 10/04/25 Page 30 of 31 Furthermore, this country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs. "That tradition has deep roots in our history and found early expression, for example, in... the constitutional provisions for civilian control of the military." Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1, 15 (1972); see also James Madison, Address to the Constitutional Convention (1787), reprinted in 1 Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, at 465 (Max Farrand ed., 1911) ("A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home."). This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power to the detriment of this nation.

Well, that about says it all.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland | CNN A federal judge in Oregon has granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard into Portland after the president announced he would send in tro...

www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/u...

DHS doing what appears to be content creation in Broadview.

Rights defenders at the US-Mexico border tried for years to warn about Border Patrol's abusive culture. We built a database of abuses (borderoversight.org/event) and several reports. Maybe 2 dozen national Democrats were responsive; the politics were tricky. We couldn't keep that work funded.

Now:

Y U P

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Who's Profiting from ICE? - Google My Maps ICE depends on a web of private companies, local law enforcement, and elected officials around the country to support its work. This map includes: • Organizations receiving funding from ICE from FY...

ICE couldn't terrorize our communities to this degree without the hundreds of companies that provide it with goods and services—many of which also have contracts with blue cities and states.

*View map from browser, not app. Key on bottom (mobile) or side (computer). Click on pins for more info.

Glock making more than three quarters of a million this week off ICE contracts is a HUGE red flag.

Also: every one of these companies needs a protest.

Who is running the country?

And the entitlement to your time/attention/opinion that goes along with that. "I am here in your comments and *I* get to tell you what you're doing wrong, how to live your life, etc."

You're totally right about the power dynamics. I had never thought about it through that lens. Attention = peerdom

Yep. Yep.

A few years ago when I had @ 150k followers on Twitter, a staff member used to handle these for me just to put up an extra barrier. Also had staff at speaking events that would be a physical barrier if necessary.

It's so weird.

And yes on the race/class entitlement background totally.

I KNOW. This morning a stranger tried to tell me how to outsource my unpaid home labor and I was like I am just sitting here drinking my tea! I did not ask for advice! And then they got mad at me! LOL.

THE NERVE OF THIS MAN 🤬

Also parasocial relationships continue to be an absolute pox on our time. Like I don’t even know who you are.