So grateful to have been able to have this convo with @deanspade.bsky.social for his 'Love in a F*cked-Up World' podcast, thinking about anti-militarism, fighting gender violence in movement spaces, and the imperfectness of transformative justice--among other things. Check it out!

Benji Hart | Love in a F*cked Up World EP21

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For folks (including the police themselves) saying the Georgia teacher who died as the result of an ICE car chase would have survived if it had been local police instead of ICE on the scene: #AbolishICE #AbolishPolice #SayHerName #LindaDavis

Police Chases: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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The notion that more money and training will save us from ICE is as ludicrous as the notion that more investments in policing will save us from police violence. #AbolishICE #AbolishPolice #DemilitarizeNow

This article was written in 2018. Undocumented, Black, and queer communities predicted this moment. We need a united front committed to abolition and demilitarization. No vulnerable communities can be left out. #AbolishICE #DefundPolice #DemilitarizeNow blackyouthproject.com/calls-to-abo...

Everything we have to say about ICE... they are cruel, patently racist, exist to protect the wealthy and white, are a waste of resources, spur violence against the public, and our communities would be safer without them... can and must be said about the police, also. #AbolishICE #AbolishPolice

NEW — Columnist Bella BAHHS is back with a message for everyone joining the resistance in Chicago and beyond. What some non-Black Chicagoans are now experiencing is what Black folks have faced for generations: policing as a tool to protect power and profit. thetriibe.com/2025/11/the-...

THE REVOLUTIONARY COLUMN: Racist police violence is always the common denominator • The TRiiBE

ICE violence does not exist within a vacuum. It didn’t come out of nowhere. This is how it feels to be Black and policed in this country.

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UPDATE — Multiple witness videos today show an older white federal agent straddling a young Black man on the ground outside of a Walgreens on Chicago’s Southeast Side. This is a developing story. thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Feds gas Chicago neighborhood, detain young Black man amid day of Southeast Side raids • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods. Nearby, they detained a young Black man onlookers insisted was a U.S. citize...

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NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area. Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas. thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

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.

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"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...

“Abolish ICE” doesn’t mean rebranding or shifting its powers elsewhere—it means ending the deportation, detention & incarceration machine targeting immigrant communities. Read @sarahlazare.bsky.social's 2018 piece on the demand’s roots & meaning: inthesetimes.com/article/abol...

Chicago.

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A man here is passing around Italian beefs to people protesting Border Patrol.

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

A protester holds out a sign as a shield as tear gas canisters are launched and pepper balls are fired.

At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk. He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board wrote a hit piece about me. While they didn’t name me they quoted me, made a whole lot of false offensive assumptions about me, my classroom & called me an “extremist”. Response coming after full days of teaching & parenting. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/p...

Editorial: Teachers’ extremist social media posts don’t do their students any good

Teachers are getting themselves into trouble on social media. The bigger concern is what’s happening in their classrooms.

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NEW — Video footage posted to Facebook shows an arrest outside of the Cook County criminal courthouse in Chicago at 2650 S. California Ave. The video shows federal agents stuffing a person in a vehicle as their feet kick in distress. thetriibe.com/2025/09/prot...

Feds stuff man in SUV during arrest outside of courthouse in Little Village • The TRiiBE

Here’s a roundup of federal agent sightings today, Sept. 24.

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NEW — In this op/ed submission, one Chicago organizer writes: “This week, the City Council will have the opportunity to move Chicago in the direction of a city that supports its residents and doesn’t turn a blind eye to market forces that terrorize them.” thetriibe.com/2025/09/opin...

OPINION: Chicago alders need to pass the Jackson Park Housing Pilot to protect residents from Obama Presidential Center displacement • The TRiiBE

This week, the City Council will have the opportunity to move Chicago in the direction of a city that supports its residents and doesn’t turn a blind eye to market forces that terrorize them.

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new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

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I was interviewed for this piece in South Side Weekly about the tear gas and pepper ball attacks ICE waged against protesters on Friday.

We Want Them Back: Protest and State Violence at Broadview ICE Facility

Hundreds protested outside Broadview ICE in Illinois, resisting Operation Midway Blitz and denouncing raids, deportations, and state violence.

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As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago

“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.

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NEW — “We are alarmed to hear that, weeks into Trump threatening Black and brown communities in Chicago with military invasion and weeks into calls from community leaders across the city opposing these threats, ICE agents have shot and killed a man in the suburbs.” thetriibe.com/2025/09/stat...

STATEMENT: Black communities know that every police killing is a tragedy • The TRiiBE

Three Chicago organizers on standing together against Trump’s attempts to militarize and divide us.

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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Update from outside Broadview ICE facility in Chicagoland— Even after feds killed a man a few towns away today, a small group remain to finish their 7am-7pm protest. SRT takes the dwindling numbers as an opportunity to unleash less lethals on a protester with a mobility aid sitting on the ground.

All authoritarian power grabs must be resisted. It's never about "crime," and it's never about how people respond to Trump's aggression. Those are just story points, and the administration makes up story points every day when reality doesn't fit. Remember this. Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Get ahead of the narrative and get it straight. No one on the ground in Chicago is responsible for the waves of federal agents that are about to descend on our communities to snatch and kidnap people, or for the troops Trump plans to send here. This is an authoritarian power grab— a fascist plot.

Talk about how this is all being staged to set Chicago up for a military occupation. Talk about how they are planning to attack cultural gatherings, picnics, and parades, knowing that people will cling to their neighbors and family members—and that Trump will use those acts of decency as an excuse.

The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.

This week, I talk to @dreanyc123.bsky.social about the role of criminalization in authoritarianism and fascism—and why we need more outlaws, and less confusion about what the law protects and who it targets.

The Trap of Law and Order Under Fascism

“There’s no rule of law that’s going to get us out of where we are,” says Andrea Ritchie.

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