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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 19h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 15h

ICE agents in South Portland cleared the facility driveway for no discernible reason. Agents on the roof shot pepper balls at protesters.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

"To walk away from this system is to speak the only language the system will ever understand." Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Whatever late capitalism is, it seems to be careening into this embrace of growth by negation. Through that prism, it's hard not to see the advances in something like artificial intelligence less driven by technological breakthroughs as by a society that has, over years, over decades, become normalized to a greater and greater magnitude of both loneliness and theft, such that a sputtering algorithm badly trained on the stolen work of real human beings might be celebrated with a straight face as something approximating humanness. Under this ordering, it is not some corporation's increasing capacity for better that drives the extractive world, but everyone else's increasing tolerance for worse.
Unconfronted, this kind of negation will not remain confined to widgets or labor or even the economic world.
When the bigger wildfires come— as they already have-the industries whose callous disregard helped bring this about will depend on our ever-growing tolerance for calamity. When climate change upends the lives of billions, our governments will depend on our ever-growing tolerance for violence against the hordes of nameless others to enact its cruelest, most violent fortressing. In time, negation becomes all there is. To walk away from this system is to speak the only language the system will ever understand.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest #strike of the year starts on Tuesday, featuring 45k #healthcareworkers. This means tens of thousands across Oregon, California, Washington and Hawaii, in particular. Picket lines at 6 KP locations in Portland area, and will lead the labor march on Oct 18th.
truthout.org/articles/23-...

23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises

Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike.

truthout.org

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 18h

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride in Portland, OR—getting ready to go.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 18h

I should have added: sound on!

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19h

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 20h

another day of border patrol and ice terrorizing chicago—and of spontaneous community resistance.

they tear-gassed community members on a residential street in albany park. they pulled a gun on a rapid responder in rogers park.

they abducted people from alleys and parking lots and train stations.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 20h

Will repeat over & over: Chicago is the rehearsal for what's ahead (and yes, is also already underway) in other cities — AND for the campaign of noncooperation & opposition that must be unleashed. We must study & practice & prepare.

We love you, Chicago.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Under the Tree w/Bill Ayers - A Seminar on Freedom @underthetreepod.bsky.social · 21h

This is our new normal in Chicago.

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 22h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

I am so sorry. Awful.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

What gives you courage? Please immerse yourself in that right now.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

"To walk away from this system is to speak the only language the system will ever understand." Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

"The walking away is not nihilism, it's not cynicism, it's not doing nothing—it's a form of engagement more honest, more soul-affirming, than anything the system was every prepared to offer."

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

"The idea that walking away is childish & unproductive is predicated on the inability to imagine anything but a walking away from, never a walking away toward—never that there might exist another destination."

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

There is a part in Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This that I was re-reading today about "leavetaking" or walking away. I found it useful.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

For me, though? Nope. The only approach that makes any sense to me is to occupy as total a position of noncooperation as I can manage.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

Second most common: "I figure it's here, so better figure out how best to use it," or "Well, if the kids are using it—and they are—we need to be able to guide and coach them."

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

I try to mostly keep quiet about the fact that I do not & will not use ChatGPT or similar for *anything*. But occasionally people will ask. When I say I don't use it, period, I am met with a variety of reactions. Most common, "I hate it too, but use it for this one thing..."

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to overstate how ubiquitous AI use by teachers (in my school anyway) has become — and so quickly. It makes me enormously sad.

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