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Max Blaisdell’s 2023 investigation of how CPD deals with—or in most cases, doesn’t deal with—abusers on the force is once again relevant
December 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Max Blaisdell’s 2023 investigation of how CPD deals with—or in most cases, doesn’t deal with—abusers on the force is once again relevant
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This year, because of the impact ICE raids, our holiday gift guide is focused on La Villita/Little Village.
We urge you to shop at the Discount Mall and other businesses on 26th, ride the holiday trolley, have dinner and be in community with our beloved neighbors who help make Chicago strong. 🎄❤️🎄
We urge you to shop at the Discount Mall and other businesses on 26th, ride the holiday trolley, have dinner and be in community with our beloved neighbors who help make Chicago strong. 🎄❤️🎄
La Villita Holiday Gift Guide
igh profile border patrol and immigration agents may have largely moved on since “Operation Midway Blitz” wrapped up its campaign of terror in mid-November, but that doesn’t mean life for Chicago’s 60...
southsideweekly.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This year, because of the impact ICE raids, our holiday gift guide is focused on La Villita/Little Village.
We urge you to shop at the Discount Mall and other businesses on 26th, ride the holiday trolley, have dinner and be in community with our beloved neighbors who help make Chicago strong. 🎄❤️🎄
We urge you to shop at the Discount Mall and other businesses on 26th, ride the holiday trolley, have dinner and be in community with our beloved neighbors who help make Chicago strong. 🎄❤️🎄
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The @southsideweekly.bsky.social’s final issue of 2025 is on newsstands, and it’s chock-full of incredible stories. Here’s a preview.
On the cover: @almacampos.bsky.social and Max Blaisdell’s investigation of how immigrants seeking legal paths to citizenship are defrauded by scammers. 1/🧵
On the cover: @almacampos.bsky.social and Max Blaisdell’s investigation of how immigrants seeking legal paths to citizenship are defrauded by scammers. 1/🧵
SSW 12.11.25
issuu.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The @southsideweekly.bsky.social’s final issue of 2025 is on newsstands, and it’s chock-full of incredible stories. Here’s a preview.
On the cover: @almacampos.bsky.social and Max Blaisdell’s investigation of how immigrants seeking legal paths to citizenship are defrauded by scammers. 1/🧵
On the cover: @almacampos.bsky.social and Max Blaisdell’s investigation of how immigrants seeking legal paths to citizenship are defrauded by scammers. 1/🧵
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Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
I wrote a thing I was afraid to write!
[Falls over]
Huzzah! 🎭
#playwrightstuff
#pleaseclap
#RuptureRepair
#writingcommunity
[Falls over]
Huzzah! 🎭
#playwrightstuff
#pleaseclap
#RuptureRepair
#writingcommunity
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I wrote a thing I was afraid to write!
[Falls over]
Huzzah! 🎭
#playwrightstuff
#pleaseclap
#RuptureRepair
#writingcommunity
[Falls over]
Huzzah! 🎭
#playwrightstuff
#pleaseclap
#RuptureRepair
#writingcommunity
True facts
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
True facts
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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Shutting it down for the night. Our toy drive is ongoing. Please feel free to support if you can.
Toys: bit.ly/48pJUrK
Teen gifts: amzn.to/4rDn7BG
Good night to all.
Toys: bit.ly/48pJUrK
Teen gifts: amzn.to/4rDn7BG
Good night to all.
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Shutting it down for the night. Our toy drive is ongoing. Please feel free to support if you can.
Toys: bit.ly/48pJUrK
Teen gifts: amzn.to/4rDn7BG
Good night to all.
Toys: bit.ly/48pJUrK
Teen gifts: amzn.to/4rDn7BG
Good night to all.
Thank you @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for this newsletter and the powerful reflection questions!!!
The latest edition of my newsletter includes must-reads, organizing resources, year-end reflections, and a writing exercise for anyone trying to stay whole and take action in 2026.
Must-Reads and Some Notes on Taking Action and Staying Whole in 2026
As we close out a year of crisis and courage, I’m thinking about what sustains us — and what comes next.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Thank you @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for this newsletter and the powerful reflection questions!!!
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Turns out police superintendents CAN order their officers to intervene in unlawful immigration detentions.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Turns out police superintendents CAN order their officers to intervene in unlawful immigration detentions.
What’s your favorite season?
Me?
I love them all:
Spring, Summer, Fall,
Station Eleven
Me?
I love them all:
Spring, Summer, Fall,
Station Eleven
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What’s your favorite season?
Me?
I love them all:
Spring, Summer, Fall,
Station Eleven
Me?
I love them all:
Spring, Summer, Fall,
Station Eleven
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In one shocking case, a pair of fraudsters in Chicago and Melrose Park were named in complaints with the Illinois Attorney General alleging they defrauded clients of more than $100,000 between 2022-23 alone. @ilattygeneral.bsky.social didn’t answer our questions about the status of those complaints.
A months-long investigation by @almacampos.bsky.social and Max Blaisdell examined how immigrants who are trying to follow a legal path to residency can be defrauded by unscrupulous “notarios.” With @typeinvestigations.org
Fraudsters target immigrants seeking legal help
In Illinois, immigrants have lost thousands of dollars to notarios offering legal assistance they’re not qualified to provide—as well as other impostors. Nationally, the figure is at least $1.2 millio...
southsideweekly.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In one shocking case, a pair of fraudsters in Chicago and Melrose Park were named in complaints with the Illinois Attorney General alleging they defrauded clients of more than $100,000 between 2022-23 alone. @ilattygeneral.bsky.social didn’t answer our questions about the status of those complaints.
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A months-long investigation by @almacampos.bsky.social and Max Blaisdell examined how immigrants who are trying to follow a legal path to residency can be defrauded by unscrupulous “notarios.” With @typeinvestigations.org
Fraudsters target immigrants seeking legal help
In Illinois, immigrants have lost thousands of dollars to notarios offering legal assistance they’re not qualified to provide—as well as other impostors. Nationally, the figure is at least $1.2 millio...
southsideweekly.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A months-long investigation by @almacampos.bsky.social and Max Blaisdell examined how immigrants who are trying to follow a legal path to residency can be defrauded by unscrupulous “notarios.” With @typeinvestigations.org
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
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December should be for sleepytime tea drinkin and that’s it
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
December should be for sleepytime tea drinkin and that’s it
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The same road this picture was taken.
My neighborhood.
My neighborhood.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The same road this picture was taken.
My neighborhood.
My neighborhood.
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This week, I talk to @tamaranopper.bsky.social about abolition in practice — how people learn through engagement with state violence, what gets in the way of developing shared analysis, and why abolitionists need to take recruitment and counter-recruitment seriously.
Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: Abolition in Practice
“I think a lot of us could level up our skills,” says researcher Tamara Nopper.
truthout.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This week, I talk to @tamaranopper.bsky.social about abolition in practice — how people learn through engagement with state violence, what gets in the way of developing shared analysis, and why abolitionists need to take recruitment and counter-recruitment seriously.
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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New "How to Report ICE" zines up today:
#Nashville
#Asheville (In North Carolina folder)
#TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder)
#NewYorkCity en Español!
I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
#Nashville
#Asheville (In North Carolina folder)
#TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder)
#NewYorkCity en Español!
I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
drive.google.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today:
#Nashville
#Asheville (In North Carolina folder)
#TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder)
#NewYorkCity en Español!
I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
#Nashville
#Asheville (In North Carolina folder)
#TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder)
#NewYorkCity en Español!
I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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South Side Weekly’s reporting on the South Shore raid was featured on @maddow.bsky.social yesterday! (Story link in thread)
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
South Side Weekly’s reporting on the South Shore raid was featured on @maddow.bsky.social yesterday! (Story link in thread)
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I’m very proud of this collaboration—it’s yet another way Chicagoans came together and organized to defend our city.
Several Chicago newsrooms spent two months collecting and analyzing evidence of ICE & Border Patrol's use of tear gas and pepper spray in Chicago.
They found that agents deployed chemical agents nearly 50 times. Most uses occurred after a judge ordered federal agents to restrict their use.
They found that agents deployed chemical agents nearly 50 times. Most uses occurred after a judge ordered federal agents to restrict their use.
Feds Used Chemical Agents Dozens of Times in Chicago
An investigation by reporters from six newsrooms found that agents used chemical irritants nearly 50 times during Operation Midway Blitz.
southsideweekly.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I’m very proud of this collaboration—it’s yet another way Chicagoans came together and organized to defend our city.
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I am going to say this only once but fuck these white racists. Fuck them to hell.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.
Abbott Says Muslims Are “Threat to Our Freedom” as He Targets Civil Rights Group With Terrorist Designation
Governors do not have the authority to designate groups as a foreign terrorist organization.
truthout.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I am going to say this only once but fuck these white racists. Fuck them to hell.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
South Side Weekly’s reporting on the South Shore raid was featured on @maddow.bsky.social yesterday! (Story link in thread)
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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