Just to keep all of you incredibly generous people up to speed. Some of the money is being used to directly support the “Rescatistas” —first responders, volunteers, & people digging up rubble—. They’ve been asking for coffee, water, and sugar as they work for hours.

Thanks y’all!! We’ve reached the goal of $600, and the money has been sent to people on the ground supporting first responders and volunteers. I’ll leave the code up in case more people would like to donate. All this money is going directly to people on the ground helping families and victims.

I’m trying to raise a few hundred dollars to support mutual aid efforts in my home city after this week’s devastating earthquake. Feel free to reach out for more details!

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

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It is wild to me how little attention the ramping up of ICE activity in Chicagoland is getting. Feds changed their tactics, operations are faster, more targeted, and broader operation range. My colleagues @djbyrnes1.bsky.social, @zoetakaki.bsky.social and @domguan.bsky.social wrote about it.

This story took a lot. On several days that seemed like it'd be good to finalize things, we'd hear of some new ICE fracas we needed to include in the data and reporting. Now that it's done, kudos to @zoetakaki.bsky.social, @domguan.bsky.social and @andral404.bsky.social for their incredible work.

This story took a lot; watching traumatizing videos of abductions and creating data out of ever-changing numbers. Proud of my @unraveledpress.com team. Thanks @domguan.bsky.social, @djbyrnes1.bsky.social, and @andral404.bsky.social for your collaboration on this story. It’s an important one.

Just so this doesn’t get lost in the thread, there were unconfirmed reports in RR networks of gunshots heard, but so far it seems like this was not the case.

The resident who shared the video, Edward Krueger, also provided a photo of the crashed red car. We arrived on scene hours later, after 2 pm. But signs of the collision were still evident.

Earlier today rapid responders reported federal agents detaining someone on Grace & Olcott in Chicago. A nearby resident got video of an unmarked SUV striking a red car at high speed in the residential area around 10:24 am. He then described seeing men in tactical vests on scene, one marked "ICE."

Happening now in Albany Park: Protesters are gathering in the corner of Kedzie and Lawrence to protest ICE’s increasing activity in Chicago. On Tuesday morning a man was was taken by federal agents by this intersection, sparking two days of protests and demonstrations.

Federal 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.

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

NEW, from @zoetakaki.bsky.social & @peoplesfabric.bsky.social: A Forest Park cop won't be charged by North Riverside police over an incident captured on video where, while off duty and wearing a Trump jersey, he yanked a terrified young woman from her car and arrested her—for hitting a curb.

There’s one thing that’s definitely not talked about enough when it comes to this conflict. It’s wild—although expected—how giant corporations still send ships staffed by workers into danger just to keep commerce flowing and quarterly profits up. As if workers were disposable.

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

The rapid response/immigrant advocacy group Hijos de Migrantes has released a summary of yesterday's surge of federal immigration agents through the Chicago area, incl. ICE presence at 4 Cook County courthouses and an arrest outside one of them. The group reports 5 confirmed ICE detentions total.

Hmmm maybe we should shut down every street on the north side next time CPD kills someone.

The innocent blood of the martyrs was calling for revenge

An attorney with the People's Law Office in Chicago says he can confirm one arrest Saturday amid protest outside the Broadview, IL ICE facility. @zoetakaki.bsky.social also captured footage of a Broadview PD officer Carlson shoving one person in the face, afterward brandishing his taser at others:

Chicago peeps: if you can, join us at the Hideout on Monday evening! We'll be talking about the state of media, and independent journalism, in our current hellscape—but they have a bar, so it'll be fun!

In Chicago today—what was supposed to be a simple off-street cleaning at Eugene Field in Albany Park turned into an encampment sweep that lasted for hours. City workers destroyed two unhoused residents’ belongings and shelter.

"Ope we bombed a wedding...well, we got SOMEONE right? Cool let's move on" has been US foreign policy for more than two decades.

Going to go on a rant here for a second… This is the scariest point for me, which is the normalization of ICE activity and the desensitization to these abductions as they happen more sporadically and at lower profile. Last year was a mess, it created a spectacle, but now it’s just everyday.

Just posting this photo my friend took of me and I think it’s kinda dope

Sunday I was back at C2E2 working alongside the fantastic @elleiram.bsky.social to grab another fantastic gallery of cosplay. Check it out!

Check out the latest @unraveledpress.com article written by @djbyrnes1.bsky.social with some of my photos featured in it.

En Cicero, un grupo de personas se reunieron frente al ayuntamiento, el cual es compartido con el departamento de policía, como parte de las protestas “No Kings” en contra de ICE y la administración de Trump.

Happening now in Cicero just outside Chicago— A growing crowd is gathered at town hall this morning for a No Kings protest to many honks of support. Big anti-ICE themes here today as this is a community that has been heavily targeted by the feds—including kidnappings in recent weeks.

A couple hundred neighbors and families marched around Independence Park in protest of Trump this morning before many headed to the Loop. There was one solitary pro-Trump guy there with a “Latinos for Trump” banner. A protester asks him why his sign is plural when he’s all alone.

On the ground @ Cicero!

This is just one example of how the feds have been completely disregarding any type of safety measures in their unhinged campaign against our communities and neighbors. Read more details about this incident below!

Police officers sabotaging police accountability efforts. Who would have thunk it?

ICE killed Silverio Villegas González 4 months before Good & Pretti. No officials in Illinois are doing things like this.

For context: This encampment closure was done under the excuse that the residents would have housing provided for through the city. The process of relocation was sloppy, and devoid of any type of consideration for the needs of the residents, such as location etc.

March 17, 8:15 am, Legion Park - Community members gather to support the residents of Legion Park, which is scheduled to be sweeped by the Chicago Parks District at 9 am. Residents of the park are gathering their things in 15 degree weather. Many don’t know where they will sleep tonight.

for the @chicagoreader.com's 2025 best of chicago issue, i wrote about cops! for the best conglomeration of local police to protect a murderous army of federal agents, look no further than the unified command of broadview, illinois.

I hate this man so much

“To be free, one needs to be feared” He said the quiet bit out loud. Countries need to either have the power to blow up earth or be bullied into submission. I guess we’re just going to have to get used to this type of escalation, and maybe start stockpiling potassium iodide pills.

All typos are intentional so you know it’s a human typiing, and not AI.

The first Fight for $15 action I covered was in 2012. Critics at the time bemoaned how it was "too much" and "unrealistic." It wasn't enough then in many places, and 14 years later most of the country still doesn't even have that and it's nowhere near enough to live on almost anywhere.

Before I moved to the U.S., as I was learning about the American democratic system, I was told over & over that the system was built upon this idea of checks & balances. 12 years here and I see the system fail to “check and balance” itself every single time. Accountability seems so out of reach.

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Rip bozo

I have been reliably informed by members of this government that losing access to twitter is one of the worst things that can befall a human being so this may be the single harshest consequence they have imposed on one of their own

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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