if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance." www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

Chicago taxpayers should pay $8 million to a man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of a 2002 murder, city lawyers recommended. https://to.wttw.com/48Seyf6

I don't know that I'll ever get tired of Trevor Bauer getting his ass kicked nonstop at every level of organized ball in Japan

Not that anything actually matters any more, but the ICE facility where most of the protests have been happening is not in Chicago, MBJ has nothing to do with that

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

The Trib edit board should be very familiar with what hedge funds do, it happened to them. They strip the assets and cut costs before eventually completely dismantling the company. It’s not Chicago that’s failed here, it’s Walgreens. No one wants to go to their overpriced and dirty stores.

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

Look, I know this is controversial, but I’m on the side of the ones who **aren’t** shooting priests in the head with pepper balls.

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

one of my most durable political lessons out of Occupy is: not only is it a bad look to instruct people at protests you are not part what to do based on posts online, it’s bad tactics to order around people with local experience and who are doing countless things you won’t know about from posts

"However, a look at some of the alderpeople’s actions toward Trump’s immigration tactics provides some insight into their positionality." I'll say! 😱

Comunidad latina de Chicago expresa miedo y tensión por inminente despliegue militar laraza.com/2025/10/07/c...

@blockclubchi.bsky.social, our nonprofit newsroom, is suing the federal government after 4 of our journalists were shot w/ pepper-spray bullets & tear-gassed by federal agents at Broadview. Here's why we're defending our First Amendment right to report — and your right to know:

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

It would be great if more journalists just assumed cops were lying until proven otherwise. I mean, it’s kind of integral to the job. Good on these journos for exposing this.

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

Remember when @govpritzker.illinois.gov said they'd have to go through him? Where is that? The feds are shooting people with live rounds. Like with a regular, actual gun.

Vecinos de Waukegan se organizan para proteger a su comunidad ante los operativos de ICE mediante "patrullas comunitarias" . trib.al/L8Iqs6D

huh weird seems like the sort of thing the FBI should investigate

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

Chicago ADUs is in local Polish language news! www.monitorlocalnews.com/chicago-lega...

How many videos have you seen of protesters being brutalized? Pretending this imagery still changes the math the way you wish it would is an insult to the people whose bodies you would treat as props. Ghandi's era was more complex than many of you make out. This is not the 60s either. Things change.

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“In the charges filed Sunday, prosecutors notably did not mention a loaded gun in Martinez’s car that was referenced in a previous statement by the Department of Homeland Security.”

Actually it did begin with a parade of tanks

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

This just happened:

Donald Trump is as racist as they come.

The TRiiBE asked why people should feel safe with this new EO, given the feds have ignored his previous order to not wear masks within city limits. “This is just one action of many,” Johnson said. thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Yeah uh there is video evidence of them shooting directly at my face as I'm on the ground checking the back of my head for blood from their last pepper round (I am a named plaintiff in this suit)

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

US District Judge Sara Ellis in a hearing over ICE protests in Chicago: "I can't tell you how many judges have been doxxed. I can't tell you how many judges have received death threats. … It's unfortunately part of the cost of doing business as a public servant in government."

We are starting to see coverage with much more context surrounding the raid at 7500 South Shore Drive in Chicago.

Men who wear face masks and zip-tie children’s hands are not the good guys. Fuck ICE.

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

I’m struck by the willful refusal of Snelling, Pritzker, & Raoul (and presumably Johnson although he’s avoided saying it so far, which could change) to admit that “keeping the peace at moments of confrontation” absolutely assists the Feds in their “immigration enforcement”! How could it not?

Free speech* *offer available only in designated zones and posted times, subject to change.

What a profoundly disappointing concession from Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson in the face of the federal government's aggression and disrespect shown towards her and her 7,867 constituents.

Oh, fuck that lady. I've been all over the city in the past three days, from South Shore and Washington Park to Belmont-Cragin and Uptown. The scariest thing in Chicago, aside from ICE goons, are those houses with the really fucked up 10' tall clowns on the front lawn on Austin north of Addison. 😱

If only there were some governing document that like, I don’t know, prevented the government from suppressing free speech. That would be great! Seriously though, this screams “I’m doing this for your own good” and objectively sucks.

Important to note ICE tends to drop off detainees before 9 a.m. and after 6 p.m., which is why people were protesting at 5 a.m. to begin with. It's not because waking up at 4 a.m. was a convenient time for protesters!

Last week Jesse Watters spoke to man named Eric who claimed he was formerly a member of antifa. Two years ago Watters interviewed Ramon "Mundo" Mendoza, a former Mexican Mafia member. Some folks thought the men looked similar. This is a side by side comparison. 🤷‍♀️

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Well, yeah, we're suing ICE. This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never. May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.