Landscape shot looking across a farm field towards a distant small community, being overshadowed by a tornado-warned storm. The sky has a teal tint to it due to how the storm clouds are filtering the light. A large, positive strike lightning bolt is visible to the left.

Same view of the farm field and distant community with a much larger lightning strike visible.

A different view of a large storm in the distance, looking along a country road that disappears into the horizon, with some farms visible on either side of the road. The storm is very well-defined with a large area of rain visible beneath it.

Shot of a storm cloud that was directly overhead and was developing rotation which is apparent from the shape of the cloud.

@bsky.app Tornado producing storms over NW Illinois on 4/17/26, with @ninabrady.bsky.social

#wx #weather #storms #Midwest #photography

I really appreciate their non-science remarks in particular. It's really special to be able to hear their reactions as humans, and get a little glimpse into how it feels to experience that. 🥹

Stable air that got disrupted by some kind of upward motion

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

The conflict resolution piece, especially, is much-needed right now 😬🙏

And seeing how little everyone cared about the shit with Kane...not surprised. Fuck those guys. Pathetic.

I do this, too. I wish all messaging apps had the send later feature. I regularly schedule personal imessage texts to send at 8am, lol.

Juliana Stratton is the obvious pick. I hate even having to weigh in here. It's plain as day, and the frontrunner is so bad. Folks, this needs to get turned around. Like desperately. Phone bank for Stratton, talk to your friends, anything, just please, Illinois, NO.

Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

Forgive my ignorance, but does that translate into a stronger CME if one does manage to escape?

I was there, too, and recorded this as people left the scene.

Hard to see in the video, but the baby in mom's arms was also crying with red eyes.

I really hope folks are listening. It's hard out here as an earnest person. Let me like things and express feelings, y'all! 😩

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.

He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.

At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.

Wael died on Friday at age 30.

ICE caused his death.

They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Looks like Signal

A local rapid response group I work with is desperately trying to raise $5K tonight to get immediate legal representation for a group member who is facing deportation. It is crucial that these funds be raised by tomorrow. These are organizers I trust.

Venmo for donations: @geebees5818

The Cost of Staying Human Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

Organizing My Thoughts Kelly Hayes writes about things you should know if you want to change the world.

Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.

Usually I'd agree. But after two winters of getting almost no snow, I've been delighted by this sudden onslaught of winter weather. The childlike wonder and joy brought on by a snowstorm is unmatched. I'm ready for more snow and more playing! (For like, a month. And then I'll be so over it.)

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

Foggy sunrise. Dark landscape, with a blurry tree-line with lifting fog, creamy yellow light with tree silhouettes, dark band of clouds, the sun partially exposed above, cream yellow sky and clouds above.

Foggy sunrise this morning. Cascade foothills. Portland Oregon. 🩶☀️

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up. Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

Updated x5 with this CBS2 story www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Downtown Chicago, today.

The little girl …