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Today is the 1st day of Prison Banned Books Week, a week examining the catastrophic impact of censorship on information access in carceral facilities. Go to prisonbannedbooksweek.org for updates & actions this week, and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKS TO PEOPLE IN PRISONS GROUP via books, $, volunteering!
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Once again, @govpritzker.illinois.gov's state police have attacked protesters while doing crowd control for ICE in Broadview. Pritzker positions himself as a Trump opponent, but he's doing ICE's dirty work in Broadview. It has to stop.
thank you to Kathy Patterson and ODCA for tireless and careful, too often unrecognized, work. And thanks @maustermuhle.bsky.social for the reports.
Interesting: In testimony to the D.C. Council on overspending, Auditor Kathy Patterson says that a review of the last 20 years found that city agencies have consistently been overspending their budgets. Regular overspenders include DCPS, DPW, MPD, DGS, and DBH.
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State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.
I thought Pritzker's argument was that ISP was there to protect Illinois folks FROM violence....Does he have anything to say?
After 8 a.m., Illinois State and Broadview Police let protesters into Beach Street according to witnesses. Then a slew of baton-wielding ISP officers entered the street, forced protesters off the street & arrested multiple people. Now folks r on sidewalks

#OnAssignment for @blockclubchi.bsky.social
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"Remember to stay connected to others while taking action, rooting yourself in interdependence. We’re in this together, we change the world together, & we keep each other safe."

The next edition of the YES! newsletter, housed at the Truthout Center, is out!
us11.campaign-archive.com?u=7cdb828972...
"Do you stand with ICE?" email from Heritage Fndtn warns of "liberal media...vicious hit pieces against America’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who are courageously carrying out the immigration policies the American people demanded in 2024." Then asks for regurgitation. Just fyi
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"Prisons are built in remote locations, shielded behind wire and walls, and utterly severed from society’s truth-seekers—its journalists, its documentarians, and its scholars—and from the families and loved ones of those inside." Read more:
Prison Journalism Is a Disinfecting Light. That’s Why Prisons Suppress It. - Inquest
A new initiative on prison journalism from the Institute to End Mass Incarceration aims to restore prison transparency and First Amendment rights for incarcerated journalists.
inquest.org
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Everyone deserves to be seen, heard, and affirmed.
Honoring pronouns is a simple act of respect, dignity, and care.

Art by FoxFisher
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In 25 states & DC, ICE & US Marshals exclusively rely on local jails to lock people up.

These facilities are incentivized by contracts with federal agencies that line sheriffs' pockets (but in some cases, like in TN, counties are actually losing $$ while doing the dirty work).
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Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.
"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.
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🚨ICE is not sharing critical information with the public on the true scale and human cost of Trump’s immigration agenda. But Vera is. Our ICE Detention Trends dashboard provides you with the best glimpse into ICE’s vast detention system.

🧵A thread...

www.vera.org/news/more-pe...
More People Are in Immigration Detention Than Ever Before
Vera’s research reveals what ICE is not sharing with the public and the vast scale and human cost of Trump’s immigration agenda.
www.vera.org
Great news.
BREAKING: ISRAEL TO RELEASE Dr. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA

Israeli media: Under pressure from mediators, the list of Palestinian prisoners has been amended, and Hussam Abu Safia will be released from Israeli prisons in a prisoner exchange deal.

Names that the Israeli Knesset just approved.
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“Hope is often misunderstood… real hope requires action and engagement.” — Jane Goodall

Tonight, we embody that hope. As Indiana plans to execute Roy Ward — on World Day Against the Death Penalty — we gather in defiance and compassion.
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A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness compiles Francesca Albanese's damning reports on Israel’s conduct in Palestine since October 2023.

The ebook is free to download. We encourage readers to donate to @unrwa.org to support their critical work: www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...
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📚BOOK EVENT📚

@thelrm.bsky.social, author of The Feminist Art of Walking visits @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social for an author talk and walking event!

🗓️Wed, Oct 22
⏰6 pm
📍@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-femini...
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"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."
organizingmythoughts.org
"The Talk Show was a terrible product, memorable only for dreadful humor and snooze-inducing interviews....reminder that the right wing is waging a well-funded war on the media that is unlikely to end soon." Thx @theguardian.com for watching and reporting. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...
A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter
Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow
www.theguardian.com
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Flood his office with calls to make clear the people of Illinois don’t want this. Demand he send these pigs home!
Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?