Kristi Noem must go now.
It's long past time she steps down, and it doesn't excuse her from justice or accountability.
She believes she’s above the law while taking away fathers from children with cancer and mothers being shot in the face by her agents.
We demand answers.
Join Chicago Family Biking & Sam Balto for a bike bus training! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📍 Butcher's Tap (3533 N Southport)
⏰ March 12th, 6-8p
Being an American these days kind of feels like if you have a shitty parent and they're constantly embarrassing you in public like leaving a dime for a tip with a note that insults the waiter, so you have to go back in and apologize and leave $30.
Please don’t forget to vote today! Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina are kicking off the 2026 midterm cycle with their primary elections.
More early voting sites open Monday in Chicago and Cook County suburbs. The 50 ward early voting sites in Chicago open as will 55 sites in suburban Cook County. Additional early voting sites also open in the collar counties.
Justice sure took a long while…
apnews.com/article/henr...
A major win!! A federal judge in Boston has ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of summarily deporting immigrants to third countries (countries other than their nation of origin) is unlawful.
After over five years at AWS, I'm part of the February layoffs. I've spent that time close to practitioners and the community, and that's what I'm looking for in what's next. Developer advocacy, DevRel, or community building. Longer post here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/gunnar...
if you want to listen to a podcast about policing in Chicago, I recommend 16 Shots from WBEZ & the Trib about the murder of Laquan McDonald
www.wbez.org/16-shots
Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.
Good on @defcon.bsky.social for banning these individuals who enabled and encouraged Epstein. techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/h...
Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
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It's been a while so I'd like to remind everyone that the "migrant crisis" in Chicago was a term aimed at Venezuelan refugees but was not used to describe the *larger* wave of Ukrainian refugee migration; this is because the crisis is of bureaucracy and policy choices, not the number of immigrants.
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”
MAGA wanted you to boycott this.
Back to back years with men named Drake taking big Ls at the Super Bowl. Wild.
ICE exists to enforce CIVIL immigration law, not CRIMINAL law of any kind. Ergo, there is no legal justification for them:
* to be armed.
* to be masked.
* to kidnap anyone they want when they require judicial warrants to make CIVIL arrests.
* to provide security for the Vice President, ever.
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
ICYMI - “Trump claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua took over the building. But new docs make no mention of them”
They lie & use gangs as an excuse to terrorize immigrants. @MarshaBlackburn tells this lie all the time—even TBI got caught telling it. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Still image from the Super Bowl halftime show of Bad Bunny looking serious, talking directly to the camera, pointing at us.
“If I’m here at Super Bowl LX, it’s because I never stopped believing in myself. You should never stop believing in yourself either. It’s worth more than you think.” —Bad Bunny
TOGETHER
WE ARE AMERICA
#badbunny #superbowl #nflhalftimeshow #superbowllx #benitobowl #halftime #halftimeshow #superbowlhalftime
❤️ Pedro Pascal just chillin with Bad Bunny.
ICE was flawed from day one... born out of post-9/11 fear and built on policies that blurred national security with domestic control. Some systems don’t need reform. They need to be abolished.
#AbolishICE #ICEtapo #FDT
Working in coordination with standwithminnesota.com, I’m raising rent funds for Minneapolis immigrant families in need. We now have a $5000 match offer (!) and are going to help as many families as we can to stay housed today.
V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater
Thank you so much! 🌷
400k raised so far! A red hat becomes a quiet form of protest in Minnesota : NPR share.google/gBJlCyqsAmu4...
Reminder about "They're here ILLEGALLY"
Being undocumented is a civil offense, not a criminal one. That's why they're not entitled to a court-appointed lawyer, why it's "civil detention" not a jail, why it's not in the criminal code, etc. Other civil infractions are things like parking tickets.
