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Given how we are bombarded by bad news, it can feel like no matter how hard we try, nothing gets better. As natural & understandable as that feeling is it is also...bullshit. Here are some of the things Authors Against Book Bans have accomplished this year...

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Watch how government propaganda techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening across the city and suburbs. The diverging sources of information are creating “parallel universes," professor Nick Cul...

A good dissection of how ICE creates its propaganda videos: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

they edit out the screaming children and detentions of US citizens, and attempt to make tiny groups of protestors look like "terrorists"

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Why's this fool always smiling?

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

ICE Is Bringing the Violence to Chicago - Dame Magazine Inside St. Jerome Catholic Church in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood on a recent Sunday, incense wafted through the air as prayers in Spanish rose upward. The service was to honor friends and loved...

This month in @damemagazine.bsky.social I wrote about the siege of Chicago, what it feels like to live here, about the violation of the ICE invasion and the gratuitous violence of the president against a city he's hated for years:

I hope they send it to everyone they know, so all their friends see them dressed for war against the backdrop of our beautiful city and one of its most popular tourist attractions looking like the jagoffs they are

As a collective, we don’t have a sec. Those days are over. As an individual…if you need one…take it.

Making it clearer than ever that they don't work for the people

Quick snapshot of the @runforsomething.net candidate sign-ups -- we're building a party of fighters, not folders.

We had a moment of unity in the elections last week, a momentum that Dems could never have dreamed of, and then they turned their backs on all the voters that came out in support—to protect our democracy, our healthcare, and our neighbors. This is a colossal failure of the Democratic leadership.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask.

Cowards

Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’ Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.

"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

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."

The most heartening thing about right now is the propensity of my neighbors to run towards trouble

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Other attorneys who spoke at the presser wished to remind the public that they can visit tinyurl.com/chicagotro to report when federal immigration agents in Chicagoland potentially violate District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order against abuse of press, protestors and religious practitioners.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Mother speaks out after ICE raids #Chicago day care center.

“They are coming for all our children!”

#immigration

This—agents driving around in circles and provoking the community—has gone on for hours at this point with no discernible goal other than to inflict terror.

They also just fired pepper balls at someone.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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IMAGINATION AS RESISTANCE

I love the creative approaches to resistance - and there’s been so much to admire.

Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."