NEW — Rod Johnson will never forget federal agents zip-tying his hands behind his back.

The night of the South Shore raid in Chicago, Johnson said he was detained for two hours.

“I’m an American citizen with no warrants,” Johnson said.

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Pope Leo tells Catholic bishops to be 'more forceful' pushing back on this Trump policy

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

This is a backdoor, administrative way for Trump to disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans.

235,000 Americans have already submitted comments.

America First Legal, a right-wing organization cofounded by Stephen Miller, has asked the nonpartisan Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to require Americans to show a passport or other citizenship document when registering to vote.

I swear I try to come over here to post, and it's just... DRY AF. Convos boring, content boring and way too much navel gazing. Imma keep checking back in tho...

Watch: The Guardian covers how the ICE deployment in Chicago has been "met by a defiant wave of sustained protests."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...

BREAKING NEWS: We just secured a court order blocking the president’s order to deploy federalized National Guard troops to Portland when a federal judge granted our request for a Temporary Restraining Order. Read our statement.

#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon

Early Tuesday morning in Chicago, ICE agents stormed homes under cover of darkness, ripping families from their beds. They detained 37 people — including U.S. citizens and children — who were held in harsh conditions.

shocking details out of an ICE raid on an apartment building in South Shore area of Chicago on September 30th abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Gavin Newsom has threatened to withhold state funding from California universities that agree to the policies in a new “compact” distributed this week by the Trump administration.

Statue of Trump and Epstein reinstalled in the same location. This time there are no government workers to remove it.

Italian union says 2 million joined general strike over Gaza, as masses march nationwide

https://www.newsbeep.com/162410/

More than 2 million people across Italy rallied in over 100 cities on Friday for a one-day general…

Dr. Ian Roberts deserves the support y'all managed to mobilize for Jimmy Kimmel.

To some, mainly some white Americans and government officials, Assata Shakur was a controversial figure. To others, including many Black Americans, she was a revolutionary, oppressed and wrongly convicted.

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Congressional Republicans shut down the federal government - their third time under Donald Trump’s control.

Here’s what that means for you.

Every day, I find myself wishing that our new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Organizers in Crisis, was already out in the world, because I think it could really help people right now. Preorders really make all the difference in terms of helping a book become widely available.

Wrote about this a while back: lesliemacspeaks.substack.com/p/black-wome...

I'm building a closed digital community over @kyndr-app.bsky.social for Black Women Changemakers - join here: kyndr01.app.link/dVGDfxWTDWb

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

Y'all said you wanted to hear from me. Just posted a long thread. Sit with it a bit. Breathe. Repeat.

Maybe go journal.
Take a walk outside if you are able.
Eat something decadent & sweet.

Then come back & read it again.

This isn’t the end.
It’s the other side of awakening.
Let’s meet each other there—with clear eyes, steady hearts, and strategies that can outlive the morphing.

Fin.

To those arriving at this moment of clarity:
Welcome.
I hope you’re surrounded by people who can hold your grief with care.

I hope you find community that lets you be honest - not performative - as we prepare for what comes next.