sixty-eight chicago community, faith, + social service organizations are calling on cook county commissioners to “protect and increase social service spending” amid drastic cuts nationally from the trump admin. they suggest freezing all law enforcement spending, which has “unjustifiably increased.”

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Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

I thought the voice sounded familiar, and sure enough, it's fucking soup guy.

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports. Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase. Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

They gave the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who supports and praises Trump’s extrajudicial execution of Venezuelan civilians?

Sandra Bland was murdered for being calmly defiant.

“The presence of frogs is often a mark of a healthy ecosystem, something we should strive to preserve.” – David Attenborough

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

You actually don’t have to hand it to Donald Trump. You don’t have to give him credit for anything. He’s a horrible human being who has never known a day of suffering in his life. Nor does he care an ounce about the suffering of anybody else. Hope that helps.

I stopped giving my heart to comedians a long time ago. If you're funny I hope you keep being funny and don't break the ephemeral and difficult-to-define thing that allows you to go on being funny. If you break it I probably won't find you all that funny anymore; hard to laugh when you have the ick.

i’ll never get over this

here it is! my CareFax 1.2 update, with a link to a template I made on Canva so you make your own edits, fill it in digitally, or just print copies to try it out with your people IRL. I would love your feedback and to hear about your experiences if you try it out! template: bit.ly/3KAAul4

RACISM RACISM is why "a bunch of you yelling for 10 minutes" got my 24 hour account spam ban reversed and why ALL OF US SCREAMING FOR LINK for DAYS has done nothing the mods are transphobic, but they're more racist

I love people's creativity and the various ways they have found to support each other. I've seen several examples of people doing this in Chicago. If you know a local vendor, can you do the same for them? Sell their goods so they won't be vulnerable to ICE?

Are you starting to get it? He was always going to hit us. You will not change the math by insisting that people assume some magical form of perfect victimhood that somehow reels in a monster. That's not real. And I am so sick of hearing it.

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

ADF has a track record of representing clients with just-so standing claims, like wedding businesses that are incorporated just long enough to challenge nondiscrimination laws protecting queer couples and are never heard from again

The University of Illinois press just offered an ebook of “Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977” for free which may be really useful to read at the moment.

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal. bsky.app/profile/aman...

It's the first Monday in October which means the Supreme Court is back in session. Here's my preview of all the cruelty and evil they will visit upon us this term. My *cover story* in @thenation.com :) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Like I don’t know how you simultaneously undercut your argument for being a meaningfully decentralized platform while *also* doing a racism while *also* doing a transphobia while *also* proving to everyone you’re too petty and involved in forum drama to hold your position but Graber pulled it off

this is so weird

I'm reminded of when the Free Press wrote about a mother who said she was "bullied" by staff at a gender clinc - only for her kid to get on twitter to dispute the story www.them.us/story/trans-...

Yeah, but given the amount of time it appears to have taken for them to actually respond with their email I assume that’s a post-hoc rationalization. The real reason is he unfavorably quoted Jay.

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

The wildest thing about implying this user base “doesn’t pay bsky” is that even if I take Jay’s word about them being atpro devs and nothing else, a 25 million person community that you use to test your development without paying them for labor is, you guessed it, a source of value

This is so absolutely outrageous and BlueSky admins should be ashamed of themselves, but clearly lack the souls or self awareness to be. Racist, eugenicist transphobes, all of them.

Sending every safe vibe and courageous thought to the Honorable April M. Perry. Next stop, a letter to the Gov that he'd best be protecting her from trump's radicalized and violent fans.

this part. the feds are *already* here. they’ve *been* here, tear-gassing neighborhoods, abducting people from their cars and homes with helicopters and bearcats, beating and arresting protesters. so far, the state’s response has been to just let them do it—and to send in the police to help them.

Have seen a few troopers out here without their name patches. This one tells me they're not required to wear them "with this uniform." Asked him to identify himself and he then told me his name is "Tad Nelson."

Watching Jay, I realize I am simply exhausted by folks in positions of leadership who are driven to distraction by critique. If you can't function with critique and pushback, a leadership position is not for you. Leadership REQUIRES you to absorb and process the critique of stakeholders.

while smiling! Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world. Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate; Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.

America is collapsing and will continue to because so many white Americans refuse to listen to Black voices or confront the truth about themselves. The fact that they keep reaching back to Nazi Germany for warnings is telling; that playbook was borrowed from America in the first place.

“In Chicago, agents appear to attack a man who is not threatening them, leg-sweeping him to the ground, something agents are trained not to do because it has the potential to be debilitating. The violence is condoned, in fact directed, by the Department of Homeland Security.”

@govpritzker.illinois.gov - what will you do about the Illinois State Police attacking protesters at the Broadview ICE facility?

This is a hard job on any given Tuesday. Right now: A nightmare. Support Broadview and this brave public servant. Amid national glare, Broadview mayor keeps focus on her 8,000 residents: ‘I can’t be afraid’ www.wbez.org/immigration/...

One thing to bear in mind here is that the union that represents the wide majority of Chicago police earlier this year dedicated the cover and a good chunk of the inside of its magazine for members to praising Tom Homan and ICE.

Here’s the Bluesky employee in question, she spent her day wringing hands and clutching pearls over people being “racist” towards AI. This despite the fact her employers are playing fast and loose with their own TOS because they want to accommodate transphobes and Nazis. bsky.app/profile/hail...

Wow, recalling my political history, and in a time of strife. Not a good look

The men kneeling on this peaceful protester are not ICE. The reality is that the sheer number of people in a city like Chicago means that without the state assisting in its own occupation, these “operations” could not succeed. Which certainly begs the question of who serves whom.

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

ICE is illegally raiding apartments in minority neighborhoods and Trump is trying to deploy the national guard to suppress dissent and people are really out here wasting their time arguing that LLM bigotry is a thing ??? please wake up and care about literally anything that matters

If you find yourself feeling this way, please go to your mirror every night and repeat the affirmation "I will not extend my circle of empathy to specially processed rocks that convert training data into copyright infringement lawsuits" five times

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’ Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE. A rogue fascist agency.

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

Trump's secret police are flooding local Chicago police departments with bogus 911 calls in an effort to distract them and drain their resources. This is a class 3 felony in Illinois (720 ILCS 5/26-1) www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...