Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I have started making mine out of sticks and grapevines and string 😅 000
Reposted by Katherine 😷Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Four years ago today, President Biden said, "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID." At the time, we were in the 5th COVlD wave. We're now in the 13th. 4259121
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Kinda makes me think the tools to “detect AI” are simply another layer of trying to get people to upload original work so that and the accompanying data can be stolen by LLMs? 1160
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I cheer for all the bats I see. And all the dragonflies. There’s a buffet for yall right here in my backyard, WELCOME! 010
Reposted by Katherine 😷Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We’ve reached the “buying electric shock gloves for the secret police” stage of our dystopia.theguardian.comICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocksAccording to manufacturer, shock ‘is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds’ 39139
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 11/08/2026We need sooo much rain garden (and earthwork) in this city. Immediately. 010
Reposted by Katherine 😷unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28/07/2026We received a firsthand report of ICE taking someone from downtown Chicago this morning during a routine immigration check-in at 101 W. Ida B Wells. In addition to street and court arrests, ICE has been taking people from immigration check-in appointments since before Operation Midway Blitz. 3197102
Reposted by Katherine 😷Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada” 270166664438
Reposted by Katherine 😷genna @genna.bsky.social · 15/07/2026iPhone doesn’t do justice to the rust-coloured haze over Toronto, or the stench. I was fine in an N95. Birds were having a bona fide party in an utterly deserted Home Smith Park. Thinking about my impassioned speech in elementary school arguing for the swift implementation of the Kyoto accords. 251099206
Reposted by Katherine 😷Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend. 1129301559
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Unfortunately, MUCH of our agricultural growing soil is contaminated with heavy metals—my understanding is that it’s in many of the chemicals used to grow (fertilizers, pesticides, etc). So it isn’t naturally occurring trace amounts we’re looking at, it’s the result of destructive practices. 100
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I want to know what pr firm is paying for this to be published. 070
Reposted by Katherine 😷Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/06/2026Something I learned a few years ago that's really salient for the heatwave that's about to hit the northeast/mid-atlantic (maybe the south IDK) is that Northeastern prisons have higher rates of heat deaths than southern prisons because of bad heat protocols. 214334
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 25/06/2026“You can’t get a legitimate ticket”—do you know how many tickets and arrests happen solely because the ticketers have full ability to do whatever abuse of power they want? Look around. 010
Reposted by Katherine 😷Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Lots of ICE alerts in the northwest side of Chicago (Logan, Humboldt, hermosa) in the past week. Bad sign to start the summer. 0112
Reposted by Katherine 😷shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026rapid response groups are reporting at least two ice abductions in chicago already this morning: one in avondale at diversey/pulaski (pictured below) and one in humboldt park at kolmar/grand. 2155120
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Where is this pet food store? I would like to also give my money to people who are real people. 100
Reposted by Katherine 😷unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16/06/2026New: We've been tracking reports of ICE activity across Chicagoland for five weeks. In that time, rapid responders have seen an escalation as feds have abducted dozens, caused at least two car crashes, threatened community members with weapons and flouted state courthouse protections. Read more:unraveledpress.com“ICE never really left:” car crashes and courthouse arrests mark spring escalationVideos show federal agents pointing weapons at bystanders and trying to access state property as rapid response groups have reported at least 80 detainments across Chicagoland in the last five weeks. 121009608
Reposted by Katherine 😷unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/06/2026Federal immigration agents are still swamping Chicagoland. Sightings in multiple city neighborhoods and in the suburbs today, with reports of at least three people being taken. "ICE is everywhere," the immigrant advocacy/rapid response group Hijos de Migrantes posted in an alert earlier today. 4342240
Reposted by Katherine 😷dan sinker @dansinker.com · 04/06/2026As ICE ramps up their bullshit for the summer, a reminder that me and a whole bunch of other folks will get whistles out to you, for free, in quantities of 100 to thousands, to distribute in your communities. Just send a request here linktr.ee/3Dwhistleslinktr.ee3D Printed Whistles | LinktreeWe ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them. 7985555
Reposted by Katherine 😷Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 02/06/2026This morning federal agents hit a woman’s vehicle while chasing and eventually detaining a man, later using a taser on him while pointing tasers and pepper spray at bystanders at Lawrence/Kedzie in Albany Park. Story to come via @chicago.suntimes.com 5181120
Reposted by Katherine 😷Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026Just cross posting this horrific intel from an independent journalist who has been on the ground in NJ for the last few days: www.threads.com/@hereswhykev... 7735403
Reposted by Katherine 😷Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 31/05/2026seeing reports of rubber bullets and tear gas with an absolute deluge of police forces at Delaney. for tue second night in a row, people are facing cops on charging horses. the governor said sending in state police was “deescalating” the situation. 15772341
Reposted by Katherine 😷shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026i feel like people should maybe be more concerned about the license plate readers they strapped to every parking gate 4365
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Shit thank you for posting this, I wasn’t even thinking about it! 010
Reposted by Katherine 😷molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it. 16294563373
Reposted by Katherine 😷data center NIMBY @thedahater.bsky.social · 25/05/2026my sincere hope for this moment is that people understand that these reports apply to every detention site, and that detention in of itself is a potential death sentence for anyone in this country no one should experience these horrors regardless of what they’re accused of 2248114
Reposted by Katherine 😷Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Baby great blue herons at Oak Woods Cemetery 29419
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 15/05/2026“Thanks for selling out the neighborhood and welcoming DARPA, here’s your pool, Claretian Associates!” 000
Reposted by Katherine 😷unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/05/2026Chicagoland has seen a steady pace of ICE sighting + abduction alerts all week. After one person was taken in Waukegan yesterday, this morning feds are dispersed broadly across the burbs again. Seen in Round Lake Beach and Joliet so far. A worker was snatched at a Bolingbrook Burger King at 5:30am. 6279210
Reposted by Katherine 😷John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/05/2026It's always cool to see amazing people get attention for their awesome books (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...nytimes.comA Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge 13889147
Reposted by Katherine 😷Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Just my opinion, but this is starting to sound like letting the sheriff spend a million dollars AND unilaterally decide all of the county's ALPR policies 192
Reposted by Katherine 😷shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026if you take one thing away from my reporting pls let it be that *all* surveillance is bad. not just flock. not just briefcam. get rid of one and they’ll get another. companies and police have deliberately built a world where every aspect of our lives is collected and centralized and commodified. 14613
Reposted by Katherine 😷Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...404media.coICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to PalantirThe comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction. 6018251051
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 11/05/2026She didn’t have her AI chat bot to tell her the right phrase. Actually, wait maybe she did. 020
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 10/05/2026The VC guy sounded exactly like every AI Bro on LinkedIn, especially when he started getting pissed at Deborah. 010
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Another said three of their DIALYSIS PATIENTS missed their appointments, and won’t have access to their care until Monday. People certainly will experience grave harm because of this. 230
Reposted by Katherine 😷Nicholas Meletio @nicholasmeletio.bsky.social · 06/05/2026#books #read #write #authorlife #blueskywriters #booksky 894999907
Reposted by Katherine 😷自由と正義のRainbow Cleric 🏳️🌈🇯🇵 @reinbowcleric.bsky.social · 04/05/2026May the 4th be with you as we are living in a crisis where the distance between what it said and what is known to be true has become an abyss Even so, you are not alone, you have friends everywheremedia.tenor.coma man and a woman are standing next to each other and the word kepler is on the bottom rightALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the word kepler is on the bottom right 133000568
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Maybe the alders who are quoted in this article could do literally anything behind wringing their hands helplessly and bemoan “disrespect,” as these closures are so much more than some kind of isolated business decisions. 000
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 02/05/2026This Walgreens in Chatham is neat, the staff are helpful and kind, and I’ve never seen *anything* at all negative there. Citing “violent” incidents as the reason they’re closing is just overt racism since the area it serves is majority Black. WALGREENS is the one doing violence! 100
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Walgreens is closing another two locations this year in my area (SE Chicago). After they closed THREE last year. When they closed the 3 last year, my Walgreens became UNBEARABLE in terms of waiting. You’d walk in to pick up your “ready” med, & wait 45(!) minutes! Routinely!yahoo.comWalgreens to close another South Side Chicago store, citing theft and ‘violent incidents’Walgreens is planning to close another South Side location, citing theft and violent incidents — a move that’s drawing the ire of local leaders who say their communities rely on the store. The Walgree... 100
Reposted by Katherine 😷Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 02/05/2026There’s a Chicago Beaver Festival this afternoon in Nichols Park on the South Side. www.illinoisbeaveralliance.org/2026-chicago... 0306
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Loving the random Xena nods on Hacks lol Please can we have a Lucy Lawless/Renee O’Conner rewatch podcast?? 020
Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Not to mention the data they collect on us when they are “smart” and connect to the internet. 040
Reposted by Katherine 😷Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights is reporting an uptick in ICE activity across the Chicago area over the last week, incl. reported abductions at Cook County courthouses and immigration check ins. Chicago neighborhoods of reported activity include Rogers Park, Austin and Pilsen. 4260217
