Ben Johnson

A flyer credited to Coalition Against the Trump Agenda announcing an Emergency Protest Today, 10/8/2025 in Chicago: 5:30 PM at Michigan and Ida B. Wells, demanding that ICE and the National Guard leave Chicago. A large crowd is shown marching in downtown Chicago.

Emergency Protest Today, 10/8/2025 in Chicago: 5:30 PM at Michigan and Ida B. Wells. We're demanding that ICE and the National Guard get out of our city. I'll attend this.

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

they lie, all of the time. Don't believe a fucking word.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

"Please mess with Texas, sir. Please, tell us what to think."

Dried blood, children's clothing, baby bottle, and zip-ties on a hardwood floor.

the remains of a massive ICE raid on the south side of Chicago. Dried blood, children's clothing, baby bottle, and zip-ties. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

glad to see the @oah.org weigh in on this troubling case. Reinstate Tom Alter now! @aaup.org @texasaaup.bsky.social www.oah.org/2025/10/01/o...

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

stunned by this article; as bad as things keep getting, I keep being surprised. WE ALL NEED TO READ THIS. Not just law enforcement, this is thuggery. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

All across the country, as faculty rights and freedoms are under attack, @aaup.org is really stepping into the breach. If you teach in higher ed and aren't a member, please consider joining.

oops

this is why I have been an @aaup.org member since grad school in the 1990s. We cannot file and win cases like this without the financial, intellectual, and logistical support of thousands of faculty.

Hit me up with ideas! www.jtxh.org/vantage-points

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border chief says people arrested based on ‘how they look’ The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

they're saying the quiet part out loud, thanks to our AWOL Supreme Court, which has as much legitimacy as Taney after the Dred Scott decision.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

he is such a whore it is unbelievable. But of course the payment came in crypto, not brown paper bags.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

this double murder badly exacerbated the situation in south Texas in 1915 and has reverberated across the generations.

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

The university president's letter is bananas, and anyone who sends such a letter should not be running an academic institution. A thread. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

The regime is bringing higher education in compliance with its dictates, and it’s finding very little opposition

right, and the colleagues and students who rallied to his side are in San Marcos too. I just don't think the logic of collective guilt is helpful.

totally get your reaction, but it wasn't San Marcos that did that, it was San Marcos PD. More people voted against Trump in Texas than any other state except for California. The USA didn't do this awful fascist shit, American fascists did. I think Alter lives in San Marcos.

win every battle, lose the war. More isolated than ever, worldwide, in this country, and among Jews.

“On Friday, a Hays County judge ruled that a fired Texas State University (TXST) professor will be reinstated to his job while his lawsuit against the school proceeds, according to the professor’s attorney.” 👏✊🙌

actual good news this week: www.kxan.com/news/local/h...

finally some good news this week: www.kxan.com/news/local/h...

Highly alarming

if you want to win, you gotta fight