Julia Fierro

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This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

Ditto. Sometimes it seems this is my only comfort. But my children, their children… 🥲

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

thank you brett kavanaugh!

YouTube video by U2VEVO U2 - Gloria

#20songsbyyear

1981. Unranked.

14.

U2 - Gloria

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Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Just made a huge order of new books by #sackettstreetwriters tonight!

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

What restaurant? Yum

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

No one. Ever.

They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

New affirmation/reminder for every moment I spend enraged: BILLIONAIRES BILLIONAIRES BILLIONAIRES fucking BILLIONAIRES BILLIONAIRES BILLIONAIRES (and those who enable them).

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Loved it. Atmospheric. A little crazy in the storyline but I’m in for the ride.

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

I’m looking at what Black women artists did in their thirties.

Lucille Clifton published Good Times at 32.

Toni Morrison published The Bluest Eye at 39.

What? How much?

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

BOOM 🔥:

Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

My Italian immigrant dad turns 90 next week. Born in a Fascist regime, he knows the signs in the country he has called home for almost 50 years.

I loved this

Beautifully written and informative. A must read by @debbiemillman.bsky.social

I’ve been a fan of @crooked.com shows for awhile but finally became a member with the addition of Alex Wagner (fantastic choice). Looking forward to her Sunday show w/ @roxanegay.bsky.social @podsaveamerica.crooked.com