“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

This pivot went hard! And then he proceeded to drop many bars of his own. One fav: “Respond to oligarchy & authoritarianism with the strength it fears rather than the appeasement it craves”

Chicago! @drashleydfarmer.bsky.social will be here tomorrow Wed 11/5 to talk about her new book on Queen Mother Audley Moore at Women & Children First Bookstore! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event...

NEW: “I Don’t Feel Safe.” Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force, by @wendicthomas.bsky.social @katieburgess.bsky.social w/ @mlk50.com

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Wanna hear a scary story? The first American vampire was Black. Seriously. 78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy. It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States

“Chicago is the future.“ @joseolivarez.bsky.social for @chicagomag.com

Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police

In 1968, as a summer intern for Newsweek magazine, Monroe Anderson was one of the reporters covering the anti-war protests in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. thetriibe.com/2025/10/the-...

Willian Giménez González, a known advocate for the rights of day laborers who was abducted by federal agents on September 12, is speaking out from ICE detention. @sarahlazare.bsky.social reporting in our latest joint publication with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/chic...

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.”

NEW — A lot happened today. • Multiple protesters were arrested outside the ICE “processing” facility in Broadview. • Chicago Ald. Jesse Fuentes was handcuffed and detained by ICE agents inside a hospital ER. thetriibe.com/2025/10/illi...

In case you're wondering whether the TRUST Act will protect anyone: Border patrol just attacked press and protesters inside ISP's designated "free speech zone" and the state police reacted by immediately establishing a protective perimeter for the feds

“if any of these universities cave, it’s hard to imagine any limit to what the administration might try to demand next. We all learned long ago on the playground that trying to appease a bully only makes things worse”

NEW — Video shows feds escorting a Black man — with his hands behind his back — down an alley beside a nearby gas station. The man appears to be the same Black man who is in the earlier reported video being choked by federal agents on Chicago’s West Side. thetriibe.com/2025/10/new-...

HAPPENING NOW — Video obtained by The TRiiBE shows a federal agent with his hands around the neck of a Black man following an apparent car crash on the West Side near California Avenue and Congress Parkway. thetriibe.com/2025/10/vide...

Bronzeville homeless shelter residents are "traumatized" after federal agents chased and arrested 4 people. blockclubchi.co/474l9Sq

Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell, Jr., and a coalition of legal groups and social service organizations are petitioning Chief Judge Tim Evans to enter a general order prohibiting warrantless immigration arrests in or around courthouses.

State Sen. Robert Peters accuses Trump of engaging in a "propaganda campaign of terror."

Chants of “No ICE, no troops!” rang out Tuesday evening as hundreds marched against President Donald Trump’s recent surge in immigration enforcement locally.

We have an on-the-ground report from Chicago, where the ICE blitz has been met with a community response to protect residents. But some employers are using the abduction campaign to retaliate against and silence worker organizing. From @sarahlazare.bsky.social and @workdaymagazine.bsky.social:

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...

My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."

The Feds were extremely violent towards protestors today, including public officials and the media. thetriibe.com/2025/09/and-...

“whether it’s police killing Black people or now ICE shooting someone they believe is an immigrant, any loss of life should be cause for us to rethink the most militarized approaches to safety. These approaches do not stop violence; they simply add to it” @thetriibe.com thetriibe.com/2025/09/stat...

NEW — “We are alarmed to hear that, weeks into Trump threatening Black and brown communities in Chicago with military invasion and weeks into calls from community leaders across the city opposing these threats, ICE agents have shot and killed a man in the suburbs.” thetriibe.com/2025/09/stat...

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

One thing about Chicago, we’re gonna keep showing up & showing out! Lots of people in the streets today

NEW — Are you looking for ways to resist? In preparation for whatever Trump sends to Chicago, several nonprofits, grassroots organizations and activists are providing Chicago-area residents with information on how to stay safe during these times. thetriibe.com/2025/09/we-k...

In Chicago, thousands protest against threat of ICE, National Guard deployment reut.rs/4newN2y

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton

This is terrible. Bring back Bongo Beach!

It's important to understand that he singles out Black women because there are few negative consequences for him when he does. It's his most frictionless lane for bullying. The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.

Chicago-area doctors are returning from Gaza with horror stories, and demands for elected officials chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

Go get @madameclair08.bsky.social’s book! It’s out today. And join us in Chicago on 11/20 @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social to hear her talk abt the book!

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

According to the Supreme Court, the President can cancel the Department of Education but can't cancel the student debt that the Department of Education holds? Do we have that right?

The US prison population has declined from 1.6 M in 2009, years to about 1.2M in 2023 and was projected to fall as low as 600K in 10yrs The escalation in ICE is designed to facilitate state repression, but it’s also a blank check to the prison industrial complex and private prisons. Abolition now

IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE DISTRICTS PLEASE MAKE A CALL RIGHT NOW DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES CALL AND SAY YOU OPPOSE BBB Scripts here: 5calls.org

They were wrong in 2003 and they're wrong now.

It's important to understand that centrists DO NOT ACTUALLY care about crime statistics EXCEPT as a way to weaponize them against particular groups of people.

Mahmoud said free them all

Happy Juneteenth, y’all! We’ve got a guide of Juneteenth happenings in Chicago to get you through today and the weekend. Spread the word. thetriibe.com/2025/06/wher...

“We cannot afford to normalize this kind of environmental injustice — where billion-dollar companies set up polluting operations in Black neighborhoods without any permits and think they’ll get away with it because the people don’t have the power to fight back” AI is polluting Black communities.