Current emotional state.

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

Chicagoans never stop. I was just watching a live stream of a press conference held by community members in front of FBI headquarters. In the rain in the dark. Umbrellas at hand they are calling for the release of 6 people taken by ICE, 3 also arrested by CPD. They never stop fighting.

Looking for some inspiration in Port of Spain, Trinidad, to be had from the rapid increase in bike commuting in Paris, France! 👍🚲 @annehidalgo.bsky.social #PoliticalWill #ActiveTravel #MobilityIsEquity #LeadershipMatters

Read this excellent report about the Trump Hollywood- style propaganda team and how they brainwash the public.

X is a fascist propaganda website. If you’re on X, you’re helping keep people on a fascist propaganda website.

even the cruelest of your own constituents cannot eat ICE propaganda videos, John

The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving.

First snow of the season in Chicago. We're eating cranberry sauce on pancakes and listening to Charlie Brown Christmas

Gangster wannabe morons

This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt? He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.

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One thing I have marveled at is the way that crowds have been disciplined in capturing immigration enforcement’s lack of discipline.

Bovino went into popular Carniceria Aguascalientes in heart of Little Village. “They said they were just here to buy something,” said Elizabeth Gutierrez. “I told them we wouldn’t serve them and escorted them out. Bovino seemed upset, but I don’t care.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

Chris Coons: "He's not listening to concerns about lowering costs. Instead he's worried about decorating his new Marie Antoinette ballroom or engaging in trying to figure out how to get his name on more statues and stadiums, or he's sitting across the table in the Oval Office with authoritarians."

CBP/ICE was supported by the FBI this morning in Little Village, with reports of plainclothes feds seen in vehicles across the area. This also included using Chicago FBI HQ for staging. Bovino is seen here doing rock paper scissors with another agent for the DHS cameras, as people yell insults:

The federal government is waging war on major American cities. Ever fucking day. Tell everyone. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

At least 26 unhoused Chicagoans have been kidnapped by federal agents since September, though many others remain uncounted among the disappeared.

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Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

My family of four buys our health insurance on the marketplace. We are facing unaffordable increases next year. I just called my senators and sent emails to them urging them to hold the line during the government shutdown and fight to reinstate government subsidies. Call your senator today.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

This is Amerika

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Listen, I’m a damn hick, but I’m not hick enough to believe people from New York City will want to move to Missouri because the city elected Mamdani…

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.

Ellis also finds that the feds' use of force in Chicago "shocks the conscience."

Ellis: "The unlawful activity by a few protesters does not transform a peaceful assembly into an unlawful assembly."

Ellis notes people being tear gassed, staring down the barrel of a gun and being "slammed to the ground with their head bashed into the street." "All of that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental constitutional rights."

Ellis: "It doesn't matter that someone continues to go protest, or continues to be courageous. That is irrelevant as to whether there was a chilling effect."

Ellis on the Oct. 24 incident in Lake View: "When an agent deployed gas, he stated, 'Have fun.' And then, two additional tear gas canisters were deployed."

Federal immigration agents led a caravan through Chicago's Southwest Side Thursday, questioning residents about citizenship status at multiple stops.

An alley in Chicago

I want my kids to see that our family stands for community. When they grow up, I want them to be proud that we walked a scared classmate and her family to the bus stop after school; proud that we packed whistle kits; that we fight to be better and build a better world. Be a neighbor, not a jagoff

From Steve Bannon's mouth to God's ears.

Fuuuuuuuuck ICE. We bought out 5 vendors this morning in Little Village and ICE is out there terrorizing the community. We also pass out whistles thanks to a supporter who 3D printed a ton for us. We keep us safe. ✊🏽

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ICE has been terrorizing Little Village and Bridgeport all day! Look out for each other!

I just spent an hour chasing these ICE jagoffs through Bridgeport. They detained and questioned two old Chinese ladies (clearly dangerous criminals) then let them go. They are terrorizing the entire neighborhood. There have been people abducted this morning. I'm beyond enraged.

Then when the bubble bursts, the US taxpayers will already be on the hook. “Too big to fail” redux. Meanwhile these folks will continue to collect on their massive compensation packages.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

Erika Sanchez, an author whose daughter went to Rayito, says she can’t eat because of the “collective trauma.” “I had this fear Rayito would be targeted, I always pushed it to the side,” Sanchez said. “All of these children have been traumatized, dragged out as if she was not a person.”

Parent from Rayito del Sol goes to speak before dozens of parents and kids from the school join her on stage. “She was stolen on her way to care for our children,” says Tara, daughter of an immigrant, mom of kid at the daycare and an attorney who was helping Ms. Diana.

Simmons is listing off how many people in the area have been abducted. He calls on IL Congressional delegation to move to defund ICE. “There cannot be a reformist mindset for this agency,” says State Sen. Mike Simmons. “We need to call for the abolition of ICE. … We get to write the next chapter.”

“If ever you feel despair in the coming days, look around you. Think about tonight. This is our community,” Martin said. “There are four of them, there are hundreds of us. Do not stop, we need you to keep showing up.”

Tyler and I are out here at the rally where the crowd has about doubled since this first post. Easily 400+ people. Group is chanting “no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here.”

The lesson federal immigration officials are teaching the public is not to trust any part of government. bsky.app/profile/radl...