People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

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.

excellent a-plus parenting

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

What shortens your life: racism against Natives and Black people, primarily.

I've made scrambled eggs in a microwave but I found them rubbery. Still, others may have better methods.

Bring a mug, though, it's nasty in the styrofoam ones.

yes, exactly, it's just fine. I mean, at home I use a kettle anyway for aesthetic reasons, but it's perfectly possible in the microwave.

You can also easily boil water in the microwave for tea.

I make oatmeal in the microwave using old-fashioned oats: put oats in a bowl, add enough water to see but not so much as to cover, a pinch of salt, don't stir, and microwave for one minute. Add fruit or nuts or whatever.

I remember when the FBI was deliberately spreading lies about the Black Panthers and frightening people about hitch-hiking and stuff like that too.

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

oh, absolutely, that's why I was laughing so hard.

hahaha

Enjoyed the new Imago production of Noel Coward's Design for Living tonight; also sushi beforehand at Mirakutei, just a couple of blocks away.

#war-torn-Portland

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

First as tragedy. Then as frogs.

Indeed.

very sorry to hear about Diane Keaton, wow.

People are SHOWING OUT for today’s Protect Rogers Park ICE protest at Clark and Lunt!

There are a lot of great resources here:
- sign making
- school watch group chats
- ICE Watch newsletters
- KYR posters
- and more!

Drop by before 3!!

Hey Kristof, you still aren't from Portland, and you don't speak for us.

The Portland protesters
try not to escalate
tensions with the federal
occupying troops.
For instance, none of
them wear dog
costumes.
Don't want to give
Noem's a twitchy finger.

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

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