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Joshua K. Harris @joshoowuh.bsky.social · 1h

VITAL reporting on one of the most egregious examples of ICE’s campaign of terror.

Follow Marisa and the other independent journalists like her. They are the only truly trustworthy sources who show their work in a time when multiple government and corporate interests have skin in the game.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Matt Cohen @mattdcohen.bsky.social · 2h

Good morning for the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, where hundreds our already gathered to rally in support of the Voting Rights Act. Oral arguments begin in about 30 min in a pivotal case that will decide the future of voting rights in this country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Joshua K. Harris @joshoowuh.bsky.social · 16h

D’Angelo died? Goddamn. Fucking incredible voice and some iconic music. Go listen to anything he made. He even made one of the most moving parts of RDR2! A personal favorite is his cover of Prince’s “She’s Always in My Hair”. Remember him well.

Joshua K. Harris @joshoowuh.bsky.social · 17h

UPDATE: I can’t be there, unfortunately, but several others on the team will be. Join in!

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Joshua K. Harris @joshoowuh.bsky.social · 21h

Harm is the point.

Violence is the point.

Cruelty is the point.

Infinity.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 21h

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

tear gas billows from canisters in a residential intersection, at 105th street and south avenue north, on chicago's southeast side.

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Joshua K. Harris @joshoowuh.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s them dirty deets on tonight’s launch listening party. I’ll be there! Join us, won’t you?

Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 1d

Finally! If you want to listen to these episodes with other audio fiction fans, I'll actually be doing Listening Parties every night this week, so we can listen to these together.

That's Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week, at 8:00 PM Eastern each night.
youtube.com/live/s7AQzca...

Listening Party - The Harbingers, Episode 1: I'd Love to Change the World

YouTube video by Gabriel Urbina

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Joshua K. Harris @joshoowuh.bsky.social · 21h

THE HARBINGERS is OUT NOW!

Gabriel has created something truly special and I’m tickled the pinkest to be a part of it. Subscribe to the show at podcast purveyors near you.

Plus, TONIGHT there will be an official launch/listening party with a few of us from the show! Details in my next repost.

Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 1d

THE HARBINGERS
Created by Me
Produced by Eleanor Hyde
Directed & Sound Designed by @euripidesredux.bsky.social
Starring Andrés Enriquez & @lgrace.bsky.social

Out Today!

So here's the official thread with all you need to know about the new fiction podcast from the minds behind Wolf 359 & Unwell!

A banner for The Harbingers, showing two hands, a man and a woman's, each wearing a ring, reaching towards one another.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

You officially live in a “show me your papers” nation, if you were wondering how far along things are now.

And ICE took his unhoused friend.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Chef Boyardee

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Joshua K. Harris @joshoowuh.bsky.social · 2d

Good day in the U.S. to remember white folks aren’t from here. We didn’t bring our “best”. We brought murderers, rapists, etc.

We’re on stolen land, our “heritage” is built on massacre, and our demonizing of modern immigrants is a cruel irony.

Abolish ICE. Restore justice for Indigenous Americans.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d

Indigenous Peoples’ Day has never been just a celebration. It is a call to action against the ongoing assault on our sovereignty and existence.

Native Survival Depends on Protecting Both Tribal and US Citizenship Rights

Trump’s attacks on Native sovereignty and citizenship are a deliberate effort to undermine the rights of tribal nations.

buff.ly

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Joshua K. Harris @joshoowuh.bsky.social · 5d

our heroes

ugh

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5d

State troopers just dragged three people out of the crowd.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5d

In Broadview this morning, just outside of Chicago, where you can get a police surveillance pod, a drone, and a helicopter in a single shot.

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DEI Shaniqua @mediocrecoder.bsky.social · 5d

If the city and state are so against this federal incursion- why are the cops so eagerly supporting them?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

the DOGE-ification of CBS news

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Joshua K. Harris @joshoowuh.bsky.social · 6d

This includes the upcoming television and audio series. No more numbers for the transphobic lady

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 6d

sixty-eight chicago community, faith, + social service organizations are calling on cook county commissioners to “protect and increase social service spending” amid drastic cuts nationally from the trump admin.

they suggest freezing all law enforcement spending, which has “unjustifiably increased.”

In the last year, the Trump administration has taken unprecedented action to dismantle institutions and programs benefiting marginalized communities, cut funding for essential social services, and pull back funds allocated to states and local jurisdictions. These cuts jeopardize public safety and risk reversing the incredible progress Cook County has made in reducing community violence.

The undersigned 68 community, faith, policy, and service-providing organizations write to call on you and your fellow commissioners to protect funding for essential services like violence prevention, behavioral health, and community investment to reduce intra-community violence. You can support these services by freezing law enforcement spending, which is already far above the levels set when there were many more people in jail and many more criminal cases being processed by our court system.
Over the last decade, Cook County has made tremendous progress in reducing pretrial jailing and improving community safety. This has been a byproduct of both moving away from racist policies promoting mass incarceration and strategically investing in expansions to the social safety net and community-based violence prevention programs. With the Trump administration gutting many of the federal programs aimed at supporting the neighborhoods most at risk of community violence, it is essential that Cook County not only avoid cutting budgets for these programs but also increase investments.

We believe that Cook County can protect and increase essential health and human service spending by freezing all spending for law enforcement. Despite the nearly 40% decrease in the number of people incarcerated in the Cook County Jail, the Cook County Department of Corrections budget has not seen a reduction that coincides with that change in responsibility.
Similarly, the budget for the State's Attorney's Office grew tremendously over the last decade, even as both the number of case filings and crime rates …

… continued to decrease. It is important to note that while the federal government has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for essential social services, law enforcement spending has unjustifiably increased.

We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge President Trump's authoritarian attacks on residents of Cook County. Over the last several weeks, there have been repeated threats to the safety of our community members through executive orders targeting people without homes or who have mental health needs. Numerous federal law enforcement agencies have been dispatched to make arrests and deport our neighbors. It is essential at this moment that Cook County expand investments to ensure adequate support of community members targeted by the actions of the Trump administration and everyone impacted by its reduced funding for resources that allow marginalized people to live safe and healthy lives. The County's investment must include increasing the budget of the Public Defender's Office, which is responsible for defending increasing numbers of Cook County residents facing both criminal charges and immigration removal proceedings.

Cook County must protect its important progress increasing community safety and reducing pretrial jailing from a federal administration that has made clear that it does not care about our most vulnerable residents. Please stand strong for community safety by freezing law enforcement spending to protect essential health and human service investments and expand support for Public Defense.

Sincerely,
The Cook County members of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and supporting organizations:
A Just Harvest
A Midwest Movement Project
Access Living
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment | AFIRE
Apna Ghar, Inc.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice ||
Chicago
Beyond Legal Aid
BlackRoots Alliance
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
Cannabis Equity IL Coalition

Chicago Alliance Against Sexual
Exploitation | CAASE
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Chicago Therapy Collective
Chicago Torture Justice Center
Chicago United for Equity
Chicago United Solidarity Project | CUSP
Chicago Urban League
Chicago Votes
Children's Best Interest Project
Circles & Ciphers
Color Of Change
Community Renewal Society
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy
Project | FLAP
First Defense Legal Aid
HANA Center
Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice Illinois National Organization for Women
Illinois Prison Project
Illinois Social Justice Alliance
Impact for Equity
Indivisible Chicago-South Side
Inside Out Network
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
KAN-WIN
Legal Council for Health Justice
Liberation Library
Lucy Parsons Labs
Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition
& Solidarity | MAMAS
Muslim Civic Coalition
NAMI Cook County North Suburban
National Lawyers Guild Chicago
Nehemiah Trinity Rising
Nikkei Uprising
Northwestern University Graduate Workers
Pretrial Justice Institute
Restore Justice
Revolution Workshop
Sana Healing Collective
Saving Our Urban Leaders
Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston
She Votes Illinois
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
SisterReach Illinois
Southsiders Organizing for Unity and
Liberation | SOUL
Stick Talk
TASC, Inc.
The People's Lobby
The Puerto Rico Project To Defend If Necessary
Trinity United Church of Christ
Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of
Illinois
Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of
Ilinois
Uptown People's Law Center
West Town Law Office
Wolf Pack Therapy
Youth Empowerment Performance Project

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 7d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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33rd Ward Working Families @33rdwardworking.bsky.social · 6d

Join us Thursdays at 5:30pm or Saturdays at 11am to hit doors for our #ProvenProgressive candidates.

Every canvasser will get a *free whistle* for ICE-watch on the blocks where we are door-knocking for our candidates!

Thursday: bit.ly/33wfCanvass1...

Saturday: bit.ly/33wfCanvass1...

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Nat (Goth Cousteau) @gothshit.com · 7d

This is a very good and concise explainer you send to someone the next time you hear “why doesn’t CPD just arrest ICE?”

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 7d

NEW — Some TRiiBE readers, among many others on the internet, have been suggesting that the Chicago police arrest ICE agents for their misconduct.

TRiiBE publisher @morganelisej.thetriibe.com put out this explainer video, breaking down the legality for y’all.

youtube.com/shorts/WDHFe...

Can local police arrest ICE?

YouTube video by The TRiiBE

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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.

southsideweekly.com

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Joshua K. Harris @joshoowuh.bsky.social · 7d

Well goddamn.

Chris Miller @iamcurious.bsky.social · 8d

WOW....👀👀👀

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