All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

ice has brought far more violence to chicago than was there prior

The assault is horrifying on its own, but then there's the other agent shouting "...or else you're next" while another fixes their face shroud.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

They’ve roughed up and arrested people for trying to get in ICE’s way. That’s more than complicity. The state of IL is not resisting, it is culpable.

In Broadview, IL this morning outside Chicago—

Federal agents have kidnapped hundreds of immigrants in recent weeks.

Outside the ICE processing center here, protesters are gathered for another Friday morning demo. Last week's ended in tear gas and arrests.

ICE vans periodically rolling in.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

They can call it whatever they want, but by setting up a "Unified Command" to handle crowd control at Broadview, the Cook County Sheriffs and the Illinois State Police are performing security work for ICE—something that is not supposed to happen in this state.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

state police just arrested a person for sitting in the street.

looks like the isp swat team is onsite too.

this is protecting free speech, right?

good morning from the ice detention center in broadview, illinois.

these regular friday morning protests have grown in size and intensity since ice began its deportation surge last month.

masked ice agents in cars are coming/going. broadview police on scene helping ice navigate through protesters.

State of Illinois now doing the goons' job for them.

After the Civil Rights era, racism became legally defined by explicit intent, allowing systemic violence to hide behind insurance “risk” assessments. This piece argues that Ansfield’s "Born in Flames" exposes this racial capitalism.

@charlotteerosen.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com

not that anyone cares but all I meant w/ this was like yeah ofc these moves represent a crude effort at capital accumulation & broader attempt to cement radical right wing ideology as normative, but it matters for our organizing that this sentiment is not straightforwardly "mass"

This is essentially the same thing that happened during the Red Scare in the ‘50s. How long before teachers are required to sign loyalty oaths? How many more people’s lives have to be destroyed before we’re tired of “rooting out” undesirables?

"The Radical Cringe of 'The Pitt'" by Charlotte E. Rosen
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Missed the Emmy Awards last night? Here are LARB's reviews of the nominees and winners to catch you up!

See below for a post-Emmys reading list, courtesy of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Featuring brilliant essays on THE PITT (by @charlotteerosen.bsky.social), WHITE LOTUS (by @cinementalist.bsky.social) & SEVERANCE (by @jordanrbrower.bsky.social) (plus something partly sorta on THE STUDIO by me)