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a man wearing sunglasses and a hat with the words we 're putting the band back together ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a hat with the words we 're putting the band back together

I could not resist posting this GIF as a Chicagoan.

This is some Tuskegee Experiment shit

NCAR is now being dismantled.

One thing you may not recognize if you’re not from here: This isn’t a puritanical town, but casual swearing in public is much less common here than elsewhere.

Now? Now, pretty staid folks say “FUCK ICE” like it’s a greeting and it’s on signs everywhere. The unofficial motto of Minneapolis.

I have an alternate proposal and lets ake that money to pay doctors and nurse in Africa with real intelligence. thehill.com/policy/healt...

ANDING ROCK Standing Rock Sioux Tribe The Office of Chairman Sitting Bear P.O. BOx D Fort Yates, ND 58538 CHAIRMAN SITTING BEAR'S STATEMENT REGARDING SRST PUBLIC SAFETY JANUARY 9, 2026 I have been receiving reports and evidence of First Nations people being racially targeted, assaulted, and detained by the federal agency Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). We want to remind our members to be safe and proactive by carrying with you at a minimum your tribal identification cards or a copy of your degree of Indian Blood. Our tribal identification affirms our citizenship and political status. Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands. Any federal activity within our boundaries must recognize and respect our tribal sovereignty, treaty obligations, and established jurisdictional boundaries. Any ICE presence or activity within our lands is not authorized, not welcome, and will be addressed. Unauthorized personnel will be escorted off our lands.

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.

This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:

“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

YEAR-ENDER - How climate change has impacted Africa so far this century Africa is warming faster than the global average, with rising heat, erratic rainfall and extreme weather reshaping livelihoods despite the continent’s minimal role in causing climate change - Anadolu Ajansı

"When the climate shifts, communities pay the price" www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/ye...

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.

Federal Agents Fired Tear Gas at Lakeview Crowd Protesting Immigration Raids, Videos Show The incident, which took place in the heart of one of Chicago’s wealthiest and most tourist-friendly neighborhoods, marks the second straight day that federal agents have deployed tear gas against Chi...

This happened 6 blocks from Wrigley Field where the Cubs play. He is supporting these thugs in masks that are terrorizing Cubs fans in the neighborhood where they play, while mothers in their pajamas came out to fight these fascists and show what real courage means.
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F*ck ICE A Chef's Perspective...

"Fear isolates people. Community defeats it." F*ck ICE siouxchef.substack.com/p/fck-ice

In Austin, Black mentors are making college possible Black men in the West Side community face some of the biggest hurdles to getting a degree. Just 1 out of 4 who make it to college graduate in six years.

Another great story from my favorite reporter @lkpwrites.bsky.social - really reminds one of the importance of mentorship. www.wbez.org/education/20...

U.S. citizen offered to show I.D. but was arrested by immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside A Somali U.S. citizen, Mubashir, was arrested by federal immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside Tuesday during a mass enforcement.

Federal agents chased this man, tackled him, cuffed him, put him in a car, and drove him several miles away from the Minneapolis neighborhood where he was abducted. When presented ID showing he's a US citizen, agents released him, and told him to walk home in the freezing weather.

Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Trump launches fresh attacks from familiar playbook with tirade on Somali immigrants President Trump made racist comments about Somali immigrants and Somalia multiple times this week. It's a common tactic used by the president to get attention from those who share his nativist views.

" For two days in a row, the president has gone on racist tirades against the Somali community in Minnesota."

NPR, actually calling racism racism. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

>1,700 people are dead from floods & landslides across Indonesia, Sri Lanka,Thailand, Malaysia & Vietnam, with many more still missing & more extreme rain predicted

It's barely news in Australia

Has anyone in the Albanese govt even acknowledged these warming-induced unnatural compound disasters❓

This is stomach-turning, and giving Chinese Exclusion Act

Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from hitting the U.S. "People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, 'What the f---? What do we do with this?'"

Did he nuke hurricanes without us knowing about it? 🙃 www.axios.com/2019/08/25/t...

'A Collective WTF': National Renewable Energy Laboratory Gets a Trumpian Name Change NREL employees, many of whom joined the lab specifically to work toward its clean energy mission, are not happy about the oil-soaked leadership's moves.

NEW: I heard from a bunch of NREL employees after the announcement of a name change yesterday. They're not thrilled.

"Morale is bad. Funding is tenuous.... I've been through two W administrations, many R congresses, and [the first] Trump admin. This is the worst."

Could skip a few steps and just hit him with a sandwich DC style.

"Tried to call or at least beep the lord
but didnt have a touch-tone
It's a dog-eat-dog world
u gotta mush on
Some of this land I must own
Outta da city they want us gone
Tearing down the 'jects creating plush homes
My circumstance is between Cabrini & Love Jones
Surrounded by hate yet I love home"

Greg Sargent is one of the clearest thinkers on Trump's ongoing construction of a dictatorship. Everyone who cares about defending democracy and decency should give him a Bluesky follow, read his New Republic writings and listen to his podcast. Highly recommended.

1-year-old, parents allegedly pepper-sprayed by federal agents during immigration raid near Chicago Cellphone video showed the moment Rafael Veraza says he and his family were pepper-sprayed on Saturday morning by Border Patrol agents in the parking lot of a Sam's Club.

@durbin.senate.gov You should resign for selling us out while our state is being terrorized by ICE and the federal government. Let someone else actually do the job we expect from our Senator. abc7.com/post/1-year-...

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

These are shocking photos from @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social. The entire scene today in Little Village is grotesque but these three really jumped out because federal agents are pointing weapons directly at people...again.

"The climate emergency is here."

Chicago police officers securing an exit path for Border Patrol vehicles in Little Village.

Ald Byron Sigcho-Lopez (he's the one livestreaming) has some words for them as they drive away.

Obama catches fainting pregnant woman during speech YouTube video by The Telegraph

And they said Obama wasn't "presidential", also ironically happened while he was talking about healthcare. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X10...

A daycare. Every day in Chicago. The state is not stopping this. Pritzker’s and Johnson’s cops have ONLY been protecting these assaults so there is so far nothing that is stopping them besides unarmed residents screaming. How many children are technically orphans now @govpritzker.illinois.gov?