It's the middle of the night in Chicago. Reporters and electeds are trying to figure out why a US citizen was detained by CBP, why her phone was inside an ICE detention center tonight, and where she is now.
Also unclear what happened to the other five people she was detained with at O'Hare airport.
#OtD 7 Mar 1932 the Ford Hunger March massacre took place in Detroit. Police and Ford security killed four unemployed workers and injured 60 when they opened fire on a demo organised by the Communist Party's Unemployed Council stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1072...
Happening now- the Broadview, IL ICE facility: a few dozen people have gathered here over the bizarre situation re: a US citizen who was allegedly detained by federal immigration agents, only for agents to reportedly say she wasn't there.
Cook County Commissioner Kevin Morrison on scene as well.
folks otg have been asking anyone who can make it to join in support outside the ice broadview jai
@hackintimseeley.bsky.social
They say there's a prophet in Anvil now, preaching about the end of the world. He may have a point.
yes, the capital class is inclined to fascism, and they don't actually care about us and never have. it's interesting how people thought these guys were different, just because they had a good sales pitch but we've been here before. it's just now they have accumulated so much capital and power.
you can't write satire for people who won't get it, and you can't write complex characters for people who want moralism
unherd is usually not very relevant but the analyst in Iran thinks roughly ten days into it, after the US and Israel have wasted most of their interceptors, is when the real missile bombardment moves forward. approximately Monday/Tuesday?
unherd.com/2026/03/iran...
you can't actually be a competent public health expert if your answer to communicable disease is "write these idiots off," or you're just doing eugenics by neglect
you can chirp all you want but you're just an angry person who gets it but still doesn't actually understand how to address the issue. i get that you want your pound of flesh but that's not going to work for anyone.
the person who is being dogpiled is an actual public health expert. but i guess we should go with randos on social media who are fucking mad as hell and won't listen
if you think of policy in terms of people who personally made you mad rather than in terms of systemic issues and what works (regardless of your personal feelings), you end up punishing people instead of solving problems. do you want to listen to experts or not?
this is reactionary nonsense and dogpiling public health experts that don't cater to your revenge fantasies is not praxis
i think often people feel powerless and so desire to punish people rather than doing anything that will actually decrease vaccine hesitancy
i guess we ignore what public health experts know and go with our desire to punish people
i'm about as left-wing as they come and i am telling you, there is something seriously wrong with the information environment and personalities on this website. especially around public health
man, @publichealthguy1.bsky.social was (afaik) the first former CDC person to publicly call *explicitly* for RFK's resignation, rather than gently scold him, and he's currently being called a piece of shit and dogpiled for saying vaccine hesitant parents are facing a bad information environment
There is a perfectly understandable and simple definition of the working class for a century and a half and Americans keep trying to act like it's confusing or unsettled because they don't like what defining it properly forces them to contend with
My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.
The US and Israel have bombed at least 13 hospitals and health facilities in Iran and one in Lebanon.
Lol it would be hilarious if this war blows up the Ellisons bid to buy Warner Bros. Since the purchase is being backed by money coming from Gulf states.
“There is no thought process into what any of this means long term,” said one official. “It’s not coordinated regime change. It’s just ‘bomb them until they’re less of a threat.’”
Asked about the administration’s plan for Iran after the war, that official responded: “Whatever.”
It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
all depends on how you sell it. at a previous apartment I was discussing politics with our handyman, a middleaged white trump voter, and he told me "I just think everyone should do what they can and get what they need," and I said buddy, you're not gonna believe this,
My 89 yo Lebanese-Palestinian-Italian grandmother, who fled the Nakba in 48 as a child to Lebanon, has essentially never lived more than a few years at a time in nearly a century of existence without being impacted by Israeli state violence.
And then they call this 'crisis in the middle east.'
Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.
The real education of the masses can never be separated from their independent political, and especially revolutionary, struggle. Only struggle educates the exploited class.
A Fox News poll shows an all time high percentage of respondents saying socialism is a good thing, at 38%
I think the most surprising part is that 22% of republicans say that socialism is a good thing.
“Iran rejected the ceasefire” yeah I fucking bet they did- why would they ever negotiate with the US again??
