Alex Han

There’s a viral video reposted by a lot of news people nationally about an abduction at West Loop Elementary School, but there is no school with that name. The video seems to be of ICE detaining people near UIC yesterday. Details matter. We need to try to get them right before sharing.

they hate us because of our freedoms.

A sad day, Kent was a tireless champion for workers everywhere.

The Billionaire Power Grab and How To Fight Back · May Day Strong Billionaires are taking control of our government and coming after our jobs, families, communities, and essential services at an alarming rate. That is why organized people across the country are comi...

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Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025 We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

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Are they trolling us

But I just want to say that the right has not WON, they're not a monolith, and they're are DESPERATELY spinning this escalation into civil war because they know how unpopular it is

On Parenthood and Genocide A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

Since October 7, 2023, Gaza’s children & families have proven to be the most vulnerable.

In this 2024 piece, sociologist and new mother @hebagowayed.bsky.social wrote about the unbearable loss of Palestinian children—and the power of parental love as resistance.

Drop Site confirmed this morning that our journalist Alex Colston has been released from Israeli detention. Alex has been imprisoned since Thursday as one of 462 participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Alex was covering for Drop Site. He was among 131 deported to Jordan today.

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

Meanwhile at the White House...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

What we’re seeing is the 13th largest army in the world unleashing violence in Chicago, writes @sarahlazare.bsky.social and @lindsaykosh.bsky.social

inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

Oh look, more Strike Captains!

Workers in Portland, OR letting Starbucks know they are ready to do whatever it takes to secure that first contract!

per reddit this is the 'ten car' incident -- weird!

Fed. judge grants TRO blocking Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Portland.

Holds that, at this stage, Plaintiffs appear likely to succeed on their ultra vires and Tenth Amendment claims.

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Make of this what you will but over on twitter major MAGA accounts want Chicago PD they say didn't help ICE "rounded up" and are doxing CPD commanders. I note this not to suggest sympathy for CPD but to point to a fault line.

What is the Cook County Sheriff's department doing at the Broadview ICE facility?

Let's annotate:
1. Who did it? Clearly assigns blame.
2. Why did the culprits do it? Motive.
3. What must be done in response?

My president.

Excellent reporting from at @inthesetimes.com that draws from some of my work. The labor movement still hasn’t got its head around the way the institutions of capitalism have changed between the 1930s and today. If the workplace needed democracy then, today pooled assets do as well.

“Earlier today ICE agents chase after a man in downtown Chicago after he made verbal comments but no physical or threatening contact. The man was able to get away.” - Christopher Sweat

The maga patronage chuds can’t catch #bikechi

The new TEDx talks are getting pretty weird

Gonna award medals for My Lai and Abu Ghraib next

Amazing efficiency for a guy who works like twenty hours a week

In the Shadow of the Obama Center, Chicago Residents Fight Displacement Investors are snapping up homes in the South Shore neighborhood, but a new tenants union is fighting back.

Chicago just passed a landmark plan to protect Black communities from displacement.

Read more about the years of organizing behind it: inthesetimes.com/article/obam...

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match? A new campaign from the Tenant Union Federation is uniting hundreds of tenants in four states to take on the mega-corporation that owns their homes.

Tenants across four states are joining forces to take on private equity landlord Capital Realty Group. From New Haven to Detroit, Louisville, and Kansas City, hundreds of renters are organizing through the Tenant Union Federation to demand collective bargaining.