This is the thing - D mayors and governors can't control their law enforcement. We've seen cops refuse to work in cities that elected Black men as mayors - Cleveland and Chicago for instance. They are not afraid to assert their independence when they don't like the person elected. Massive problem.

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

the COPS wouldn't let her in to use the bathroom 😂

Jessie was advocating for someone who broke their leg trying to escape ICE and suffered injuries so bad that he had to be transported to another hospital with a trauma center to be able to get surgery. These men are Nazis.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

And here is the English:

In response to the Trump administration’s attacks on both undocumented & unhoused people, the Chicago Coalition to end Homelessness (in convo with other advocates) has created a specific “Know Your Rights” flier for unhoused Chicagoans. Here is the Spanish version:

That red brick building is Funston Elementary. They are gassing kids in their classrooms

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

JB Pritzker is doing ICE’s dirty work.

They are circling my office right now and I am shaking with rage.

Either Pritzker is all talk or he’s (understandably) afraid of officially kicking off a civil war. But this was never going to end neatly.

Well this leads to an uncomfortable question I think the electeds themselves are avoiding, who do we think the police will listen to?

I just called the governor's office because I'm deeply concerned with what I am seeing at Broadview today, with Illinois State Police detaining people who are doing what the governor has been telling Illinoisans to do: protesting and filming federal agents gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/c...

I reeeaaalllly hope local news stations show this because it is going to make @govpritzker.illinois.gov look like a hypocrite (which he is). This is outrageous.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

Journalist Mario Guevara is reporting that he will be deported to El Salvador today, after spending more than 100 days in detention after he was arrested on June 14 while covering a "No Kings" protest near Atlanta, GA. The charges against him were dropped, but DHS pursued deportation anyways.

When they can decide anyone is a criminal you really can’t limit your advocacy and concern for the “good” non-criminals who may suffer.

"You come for my people, you come through me" - Gov Pritzker last November Today:

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov these state police are making you out to be a liar

okay WHY THE FUCK are state police assisting ICE???!??!?!?!

More congresspeople need to say "It is treason."

Flatly untrue: *No legal requirement to cut programs/employees under shutdowns. Never happened before. *In Feb, Vought told agencies to prioritize firing employees deemed non-essential during shutdown to enable DOGE mass firings that occurred before the shutdown. www.opm.gov/chcoc/latest...

Do you think we are going without a fight Ari Michael Shapiro you work for us again bring your chiseled jaw and your white peoples curiosity… we are bringing down the man

*narrator* it means nothing

That there was more media coverage of and outrage over a certain discourse a couple of weeks ago than there is about ICE agents rappelling from a Blackhawk helicopter onto a Chicago apartment building says everything. Children were ziptied to each other. Barely a peep

We've recieved more photos from the inside of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided over Monday night. Doors bashed in, window panes missing, furniture smashed, water on the floor. It's unclear what damage was pre-existing and what was inflicted in the raid.

Everyone, no matter where you live, should read this piece about the feds terrorizing an entire building in the middle of the night. None of us are safe. They don't care about the constitution.

I mean, look at where Notre Dame got the name "fighting Irish" The kids are alright.

Chicago has journalists. We and others have been documenting ICE attacks on our communities for months. If you're going to parachute in, the least you could do is acknowledge the work already being done here, and demonstrate care for the community being terrorized.

ICE has hit three homeless shelters in the last week. All shelters that were set up to serve migrants. So they forced people to move to Chicago, Chicago stood up shelters to support migrants, and the feds use those shelters as targets for their kidnapping. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/01/b...

"'...how is it that I have no shelter at a shelter?' [Bright Star pastor] Harris told Block Club"

gotta build that palace at Versailles bro

🧵This is from yesterday's press conference with Johnson & Pritzker. Johnson was saying "we're talking about little girls & little boys being ripped apart from their mother & their father," & I was overcome by the fact that both these men are from communities who know that experience in their bones.

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community. thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

Who has watched the 24 hour live stream so far that the house Dems are doing on the shutdown????? This should be the biggest story right now and literally 45 people are watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBY...

What if he criminalizes reading and research: a probing analysis from our friend @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. (Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Update: horrifying details about last night's raid are emerging. Organizers + electeds are reporting potentially dozens of people (at least 40 per initial estimate) were detained. Not much more confirmed at this time. More will be shared at press conference at 5 at corner of 75th & South Shore.

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

A thing about this is that it's literal treason

Chuck Schumer, in an hour from now: The president plans to flood the streets with military personnel to oppress innocent people, but what he should be flooding the streets with is tax credits for the middle class!

This was the take home message I got from the conversation. Klein kept pushing Coates to give political/policy advice and Ta-Nehisi kept saying "that's not my role as a journalist."

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

White people aren't used to this mindset, we've never had to sacrifice our own comfort for the future. I heard Klein's words when talking with all of my dem leaning relatives who ONLY cared about getting Trump out of office asap. They were fine sacrificing others if it means a dem pres in 2028.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

wild how they see no problem with outright saying no more women or non-white men in the military

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.