we adopted Smartie and Bex from Harmony House, and I cannot stress enough how fantastic these people are and what a great shelter it is

P.S. If we hit our $25,000 match, that will jump to $50,000!!! Please join our campaign as a fundariser, share the link with freinds, and help us reach our goal! givebutter.com/hhcgt2025

It would mean everything to me if you supported @hhforcats.org. We have a lot of plans for 2026 which we’ll share tomorrow; we need you to make it all happen.

Giving Tuesday is just a few days away and we're halfway to hitting our $25,000 match goal. I'd love for you to support us as we expand our programs further into mutual aid as we work towards preventing animal homelessness. givebutter.com/hhcgt2025/br...

We’re working with our friends Hester & The Hound to host a Pet Supply Drive from Nov. 17th to Jan. 31st! Please donate any new or gently used pet food / items in order to help out those in our community facing a loss in government funded programs (SNAP) or those affected by ICE involvement.

A beautiful November day.

If you can get past all the cop quotes, there is a lot of important detail in here on the timeline of the last few months and how much violence the feds have inflicted on people. Infuriating and despair-inducing.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

You look for cracks everywhere to exploit against fascists. Period. I think some people seem confused about the state of things in this country.

The Neo-Confederate States of IA, MT, OK, AL, GA, IN, KY, SC, AK, FL, ID, KS, LA, MS, NE, OH, TX, MO, ND, SD, and WV support Trump subjugating Illinois by deploying the National Guard against Governor Pritzker’s wishes. We’re in a cold civil war. - Devin 🏳️‍⚧️ www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

"I promise there will be a vote in December to extend healthcare subsidies. I mean it this time."

The answer is no one.

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Good job Senate Dems. This is who you helped.

called it blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

Look y'all, we've got a $25k match as part of our Giving Tuedsay campaign and I want to max it out. Look at this good boy Loki who lost his home when his owner became terminally ill. This is who we are at @hhforcats.org - animal welfare is intersectional and that is one of our core beliefs.

This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

Fuck calling your representatives. Email and call the DSCC and tell them you won’t be donating to Democrats moving forward because of this. They only care about their money anyways. www.dscc.org/contact/

Republicans took away your healthcare. We refused to fight back. Please rush us $3

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

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This sucks dude. EVEN if Thune isn’t lying to you about the vote, the House won’t hold a vote. You got nothing, and just proved to the public that the shutdown was your fault. And you proved to Republicans that they can weaponize hunger. You negotiated with terrorists

I truly don’t know how you look at the past week and THEN decide THIS is an appropriate — let alone the right — response.

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

Don’t make deals with fascists. History is clear on this.

left my house initially to go buy some sore throat meds then just happened to stumble upon CBP grabbing someone before they then drive circles over and over throughout Bridgeport for 90 minutes. I did a lot of shouting & whistling, but I did finally get some new tea, worth it to yell at the cowards.

This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.

My understanding (at this time, we may learn more) is the doors were unlocked for her to enter and ICE agents barreled through behind her. That may not be legal, but that doesn’t matter to them. Let’s not jump to blame people other than those perpetrating these acts of violence.

ICE/CBP is active in Lincoln Park right now, has been spotted near Damen/Clybourn at Costco + Jewel (this is in addition to a morning abduction reported at Costco earlier). People believe grocery delivery drivers are being targeted and are asking folks to alert other vulnerable workers as well.

public officials shouldn't lie

A fall morning in Chicago now: biking down Lawrence through Albany Park, which looks like a relative ghost town compared to its usual foot traffic, watching as street vendors scramble to pack up and flee because ICE just grabbed someone. Folks screaming and whistling at every intersection.

So proud of my city. 👊❤️ (Albany Park is a diverse neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago.) * Continuing to fight the "Chicago is a hellhole" narrative: I saw this because I biked a few miles to a lovely chocolate cafe on a gorgeous fall day where the leaves were starting to turn golden.

Border Patrol slammed the burbs this morning while Bovino was in court. Now they're patrolling the city. Multiple people detained in Humboldt Park. A Blackhawk has been circling the north side. Just watched a FB live from Berwyn end as an agent backed into someone behind him, then detained them.

They've used Chicago as a testing/training ground for this roving army of BP dipshits after doing the same in LA. Feels pretty crucial that everyone not in Chicago continue paying attention to Chicago to know exactly what to expect when they move elsewhere.

That they did it twice in two neighborhoods within an hour on Saturday!

1. As SNAP benefits expire, 42,000,000 hungry people may turn to the USDA website. Now, the website blames their hunger on transgender people and immigrants. It's a cynical ploy, an an indication that anti-trans measures are a Trump priority for the shutdown. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The family of the man who was abducted by Border Patrol in Old Irving Park yesterday while he worked his construction job has setup a GFM to help support his family and to cover legal costs.

CPD: “Both sides are at fault”. Unsurprising. Fascists gonna fascist.

"Nearly everyone involved in this effort is a woman: the work of finding missing family members, like many other forms of labor for incarcerated people, is largely carried by women."

Bluesky made me enable adult content to see this Pulitzer-worthy photo. For non-locals, it’s overcast and 53°.

Distributed some of the whistles we packed @hhforcats.org this week throughout the neighborhood.

I haven't seen people here mention this letter from the mayor of Illinois' 2nd-largest city (Aurora, 40+% Latino) to the Aurora Police following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests So here it is!

ICE Secret Police shoots a priest point blank in the mouth with a 40mm tear gas grenade during a protest near the USCG Base in Alameda, CA (in the Bay Area of CA)

Come join us on Wednesday.

"There's noise, so much noise, but there's also signal and the signal was that they were here that they were everywhere. Smash and grab jobs happening across the city nearly simultaneously. But the things being stolen aren't jewels, they're lives." - @dansinker.com dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Video from today's first gas attack. Saturday morning in Chicago.