With Chicago in the ICE crosshairs right now, here are some independent and nonprofit media orgs to read, follow and support.

Unraveled: @unraveledpress.com

Block Club Chicago: @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Chicago Reader: @chicagoreader.com

The TRiiBE: @thetriibe.com

WBEZ: @wbez.org

Re: "narrative infrastructure for narrative power," I had a great conversation with @catachresis.bsky.social -- of the fantastic @convergencemag.com -- about creating enabling spaces and permission structures to think of new ways of being.

Listen here:
convergencemag.com/podcast/cont...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Say less

Just been thinking about this great article from January by Emma Tai in @convergencemag.com. No reason.

convergencemag.com/articles/occ...

Been passing this 2020 classic around in my group chats lately:

As easy as it is to dunk on the acetaminophen announcement today, I just can't stop thinking about how all this claim of a "cure" for autism plays into a fundamentally eugenicist way of looking at the world. Those who diverge are to be cured or purged.

Congrats Beth! Excited to see this in print.

“The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - Nemik's Manifesto.
#BoycottDisneyABC

This is also very much the work we're trying to do with the Movement Media Alliance (movement-media.org). We need lots of types of new infrastructure, from fact-based reporting to arts and entertainment, that are unmoved by bullying.

Media crackdowns are a core part of the fascist playbook. As more repression looms, @neginowl.bsky.social & I write,
those of us in media need to ground ourselves in our own power, seeking creative ways to raise our voices and rooting ourselves in our solidarities.

truthout.org/articles/jim...

It's Friday in my heart fwiw

Just a friendly Friday afternoon reminder from your friendly neighborhood lawyer to keep your doors phones & computers locked don’t let anyone in you don’t know & ask anyone who claims to have a warrant to slide it under the door first! Make sure address is correct & it is
dated & signed by a judge

Super grateful for Sam's reporting on this story. If you haven't heard about Mario Guevara, please check this out.

h/t @freepress.bsky.social for bringing Mario's case to my attention in the first place, and for being part of his support network

This was such a massive failure at the congressional level. The misguided and widely criticized attempts to ban TikTok only empowered Trump and his conservative media allies in the end—like many critics of the ban legislation feared it would

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

My only note is that it's probably more like, brought to you by Coinbase, BetMGM, and BlueChew, but yeah.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

AFSC’s Kerri Kennedy joins @catachresis.bsky.social on the Block and Build podcast (@convergencemag.com) to discuss how Trump-era deportation policies eroded civil liberties, normalized state violence, and what we can do to protect our communities. Listen here:

As a swatting survivor I can tell you that you can wind up with PTSD even without a single shot being fired.

I'm lucky that I was able to access the support in the days and also years after that experience. I've processed it in a big way but I can't say I'm the same person I was beforehand.

Won't surprise me; it's probably already starting. 😑

look at this bullshit.

And if you liked THAT, you should definitely check out @mediajustice.bsky.social's new report on fighting data centers in the South: mediajustice.org/news/out-now...

They have a webinar about it coming up 9/17, more info in the link.