On Sunday, in yet another botched raid, ICE agents mistook an Evanston resident for another man and injured him badly enough that he required an ambulance.
Feds say Evanston man injured by ICE agents 'refused to identify himself' - Evanston RoundTable
The DHS says that an incident between an Evanston man and immigration agents stemmed from the man refusing to identify himself.
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Check out the latest episode of The Caste Pod on the diaspric Hindu Right with members of Savera! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Diasporic Hindu Right with Savera
Podcast Episode · The Caste Pod · June 8 · 1h 16m
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1. Caste. Most people in the west don’t understand that the waves of engineers and doctors who immigrated out of India in the 70s and onwards were ‘high’ caste folks, who resented the Indian equivalent of affirmative action for caste. Caste solidarity is very powerful…/
theklittle@kdiddy.bsky.social · 4mo agoCan anyone explain that to me? How and why do they support them? I’ve never been able to figure that out as a non racist white guy.
I have a heavy fundraising lift. I am trying to raise $40,000 for REBUILD to help keep it going: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil... There's so much to say about the people who are being supported through this program. I co-founded it and am an advisor. I believe in this work.
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REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.
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The fast-moving narratives around AI are head-spinning by design. Here's my take on what you need to know right now.
What Actually Matters About AI Right Now
A war almost began, not because a machine wanted something or “went rogue,” but because a machine was wrong, and human beings believed it.
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In one of the most important convos I’ve had this year, I talked with Sherry Turkle about how our interactions with AI platforms, simulated companions, and artificial personalities can reshape us, diminish our capacities, and alter our very conceptions of ourselves and what it means to be a person.
Artificial Intimacy Is Changing Who We Are
“We start to judge our human interactions by what the chatbot can deliver,” says author Sherry Turkle.
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Reporters at @illinoisanswers.bsky.social spent the past year digging into records from the state’s more than 90 county jails, as well as coroners, state police and more to show the conditions people are being subjected to. This is what they found. projects.illinoisanswers.org/inside-illin...
Escapes. Fires. Rebellions. Trove of records reveals chaos inside Illinois county jails.
Illinois county jails report thousands of “extraordinary or unusual” incidents every year, but the state doesn’t keep track. So we stepped in to shed light on what’s happening inside.
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Hundreds of people died in county jails across the state in recent years. After @illinoisanswers.bsky.social reporters found that dozens of these people weren’t counted by the state agency responsible for tracking in-custody deaths, the agency said it would audit and update its data.
Dozens of deaths in Illinois jails missing from state records
An Illinois Answers Project analysis revealed that 63 people who died in jails were missing from state data on in-custody fatalities. Now the state is auditing its records.
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Jim Daley@jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2w agoReporters at @illinoisanswers.bsky.social spent the past year digging into records from the state’s more than 90 county jails, as well as coroners, state police and more to show the conditions people are being subjected to. This is what they found. projects.illinoisanswers.org/inside-illin...
It was an honor to co-facilitate a session at @socialismconference.org alongside my dear friends @tanuja.bsky.social & @atenaoyadi.bsky.social. We gave away copies of The Understory Toolkit (and some mini chocolate croissants), shared some things we've learned and wrapped up with a group sing-along.
Thank you for this @mskellymhayes.bsky.social ❤️🔥 “Now that we are here together, carrying all of this—our dead, our histories, our disappointments, our anger, our attachments, our grief—how are we going to take care of one another and endure what comes next?”
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3w agoSomething has really bothered me about the Gloria Steinem discourse—something that's not really about Gloria Steinem. So, I wrote about it.
Some thouggts/ connections: As @mskellymhayes.bsky.social presented today on her & @tanuja.bsky.social 's Understory Toolkit on emotional support for those engaged in The Work of resistance/ survival organizingmythoughts.org/the-understo... Where else do we find unmet needs & how can we offer more?
The Understory Toolkit
Creating spaces of reflection, belonging, and collective care
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The Fascism Barometer@fascismbarometer.bsky.social · last mo.What if resisting MAGA means challenging the status quo, too? In the latest episode, @ejeris.bsky.social talks with Marisa Franco about how movements have to listen for unmet needs and find ways to address them—without abandoning our values. “I am damn not okay with the status quo.”
For years, people have asked @tanuja.bsky.social and me how we built and sustained Understory, our spiritual and emotional support group for activists. So we made a toolkit to help others build spaces of their own.
The Understory Toolkit
Creating spaces of reflection, belonging, and collective care
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🏳️⚧️ Please read, use, and share these safety resources for trans folks and their allies! 🧵
I talked to Krystal Two Bulls and Joseph White Eyes about how Native organizers are resisting the sprawl of data centers in Indian Country. We also discussed how chatbots, robots, mineral extraction, and surveillance are affecting Native communities.
You Can’t Drink Data: Native Communities Are Resisting the AI Death Cycle
“These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us,” says organizer Krystal Two Bulls.
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In my latest, I talk with @silkys13.bsky.social about the struggle against ICE. How are the government’s tactics shifting, and how must we respond? We also discuss the tremendous victory of fighting off the warehouse model for the regime’s concentration camps, and where the fight goes from here.
The Fight Against ICE Has Entered a New Phase
“This is a time to build on organizing on the ground and sustain it over time,” says Silky Shah
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The impacts of Rahm Emanuel's austerity measures continue to be felt more than a decade later.
Crystal Paul@cplhouse.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs of late July more than 110,000 books were waiting in branches across the city to be picked up and processed. Library workers say this is another consequence of a shortage of delivery drivers this spring. And they're still not fully staffed. ✍️Rachel Hinton blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/05/t...
ICE is already planning to target communities in Ohio and elsewhere as soon as TPS expires tomorrow. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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Jim Daley@jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2mo agoOn Thursday SCOTUS stripped Haitian and Syrian refugees of Temporary Protected Status, throwing thousands of Chicagoans in legal limbo and sparking fears amid ongoing ICE raids in and around the city.
This is my first episode since coming back from medical leave, so if y'all can help give it a lift, that would mean a lot. I really loved this conversation, and I think a lot of you will, too.
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2mo agoI talked with @bcmerchant.bsky.social about AI in the workplace, Google’s decision to ruin its search engine, robotaxis getting people arrested, Flock cameras getting destroyed, the movement against data centers, and what it means to build power against the tech industry.
I talked with @bcmerchant.bsky.social about AI in the workplace, Google’s decision to ruin its search engine, robotaxis getting people arrested, Flock cameras getting destroyed, the movement against data centers, and what it means to build power against the tech industry.
The AI Boom Is a Corporate Project. It Can Be Disrupted
“A lot of people are really sitting up and pushing back,” says Brian Merchant.
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We can do multiple things at once 💅🏾 I believe in us 🙏🏾
ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 3mo agoYou could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.
ICE agents shot and killed a man in Maine one week after ICE agents shot and killed a father in Houston. Both victims were in vehicles when agents killed them, echoing other fatal shootings by ICE/CBP. In Maine, the victim wasn't even the man agents were after. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...
ICE Agent Kills Person in Vehicle in Biddeford, Maine, State Officials Say
The fatal shooting in Biddeford, Maine, was the second in a week involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent firing into a vehicle.
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“Shame on you! When money calls the shots, the #WorldCup loses all credibility. Adapting the rules to please Trump, trying to cheat to win—what a deplorable image for FIFA, for the soccer World Cup, and for the United States. Rules must be respected by everyone, in sports as in life.” #Belgium
'Shame on you': Belgium accuses FIFA of caving to Trump ahead of World Cup clash
Politicians across the political spectrum blasted the decision to clear American star Folarin Balogun to play Monday.
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FIFA announces that team USA can use their hands “just if they need to”
“The immigration camp, it really depends on a lot of local infrastructure. It is not this untouchable federal abstraction. It is up to us, neighbors, community members, and we have the actual power to shut them down.” @jwashing.bsky.social talks to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
ICE Camps Are Not Untouchable. Here’s How Communities Can Push Back.
“You can do something. It is within reach. You can have an effect,” says journalist John Washington.
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Do white USians wonder how it feels like for non-white people to live in a country where the President is a full on racist white supremacist? Like where he announces every single day that you are inferior, unintelligent, and need to be eliminated from the country?
