Speaking to @inkstickmedia.com, a military officer in California warned about the increasing “MAGA-fication” he's seeing inside the military. As Trump deploys troops to more cities, he says he's worried that some of his fellow soldiers have “softened at the idea of abusing their fellow people.”

inkstickmedia.com/lets-go-bash... Check out the article that I am in. Written by the great journalist Tyler Hicks from Instick Media. It's very enlightening and powerful piece. Thank you again, Tyler. We need more columnist and a voice from folks like you more than ever now.

"The Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender and the MacArthur Justice Center are petitioning the Chief Judge of Cook County Timothy Evans to prohibit arrests in and around courthouses without a warrant." abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

youtube.com/shorts/_kWu_... Delivery man gives ICE the run around. Only in Chicago. I love my beloved city!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This is absolutely disgusting. My thoughts and prayers to these families that have been detained. If we can't even protect children basic rights in this in the United States than we really have lost our minds.

www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news... It got ugly yesterday in the city council meeting. Alderman Lopez is absurd Alderwoman Fuentes has done more for immigrants than Lopez has ever done for the immigrant community as a city council member in our wonder city of Chicago. Lopez is the Fox News alderman.

www.thebenjoravskyshow.com/denali-dasgu... My good friend Denali kicking butt on Ben Joravsky show! The number 1 progressive pocast in the Chicagoland area. Folks should listen to it!

"The Agriculture Department said in a statement on Saturday that the report had become “overly politicized, and upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”" REMINDER: The Ag Sec is the co-founder of the America First Policy Institute

ktla.com/news/local-n... This is an incident everyone should read about. The 80 year owner of the car wash was seriously assaulted by ICE. I'm surprised this story hasn't picked up more traction.

"Under federal law, members of Congress have explicit authority to inspect immigration detention facilities, including conducting unannounced visits. State and city lawmakers don’t have that authority and must rely on DHS or ICE to approve such requests."

"The arrests came as part of a coordinated action by progressive Democrats, timed to amplify demands for Albany to reconvene and pass the New York for All Act. The bill would bar state and local agencies, including police and sheriffs, from sharing information or resources with ICE"

"Along with New York City Council’s proposed Trust Act—which would let people sue if city agencies unlawfully cooperate with ICE—the legislation is essential, Democrats say, to defend due process and prevent local governments from becoming de facto extensions of ICE."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news... The Trump Administration is now going using VA hospitals' facilities for staging ground for ICE raids. This is absurd and dangerous to veterans getting care.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Trying to deport someone over minor driving violations that half Chicagoans have on their record. Now a man's dead and a family mourning over something ridiculous and avoidable. First it was hard criminals they said, now there going after your tio's and abuela's

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... This is a trying time for the most vulnerable people in the country. We need to stand up for these communities all over the nation. Being silent is being complacent. My thoughts and prayers to their families.

the illinois department of corrections is trying to use its emergency rulemaking power to ban almost all physical mail into state prisons. a hearing on the emergency proposal—which doesn't require public comment—is set for 9/16. (via @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social) chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This is called racial profiling plain and simple. As history has given us this is the basic foundation of facism.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/live... Couldn't make the demonstration this morning. But my thoughts and prayers were with the people today. Chicago is the birthplace of the labor movement. I'm sure we represented what is all about at the rally today!

thetriibe.com/2025/09/live... Couldn't make the demonstration this morning. But my thoughts and prayers were with the people today. Chicago is the birthplace of the labor movement. I'm sure we represented what is all about at the rally today!

www.reuters.com/world/us/chi... The National Guard Deployment is pointless. We just don't learn from history. When you occupy a city or any kind of terrority that doesn't want any part of this in most instances turns out to be a disaster in many different ways. Financially, Morality, and so forth.

Furthermore the bill "Requires a school to develop procedures for reviewing and authorizing requests from law enforcement agents attempting to enter a school or school facility by July 1, 2026" Every school admin is thinking about this as they write safety plans and run lockdown drills.

Rep Mike Kelly (IL 15)'s office got back to me about the Safe Schools for All Act. I'm glad they responded but the extent to which this guy and so many other people are bought in on "good guy with a gun" does not realistically assess risk or follow expertise or community experience.

The idea that safety and civil rights are preventing police from keeping us safe is not a credible claim. Just this month new footage emerged in from Robb Elementary in Uvalde, TX of parents urging law enforcement to enter the school during a shooting. Police did not enter for over an hour.

One of my high school teachers set up a "debate" about whether women could be president. No really. In like the late 90s. That was a great lesson nothing you can say in a manufactured conversation matters as much as the legitimacy given when you pose an unserious thing as a serious question.

apnews.com/article/trum... It amazes me that people believe that the National Guard is trained for this. Hello fellow Americans, their role is different, they are equipped to assist in local and national natural disasters. Deployments to combat zones. Not policing the streets of urban areas.

www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago... What a shitty article. This is why most people don't watch television news anymore. The reporting is terrible. Local news knows that the majority of Chicagoans don't want the National Guard here. But they still paint it as a split. Do a better job on reporting!

Do not come, Donald Trump. You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news... If anyone hasn't watched the TV drama series Homemaid's Tale I highly recommend watching it. The show parallels in someways of what's going on now in the US. Illegal act in bringing the National Guard without the Governors approval first. Chicagoans be ready.

So now that you see how this works understand why it's EXTREMELY dangerous when Dems want to talk to you about Dearborn or Trump's gains in Latine districts. You can't get to a healthy multiracial democracy through a frame that claims minority voters are up to no good and theyre breaking America.

Electoral interference is also planting lies about election integrity, showing military force of American cities, stoking white rage at democratic institutions, and reaching for election interference whenever you want to change the news cycle.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... Wtf is he talking about 90 percent of black women in Cook County and Chicagoland area voted for Harris. It's absurd and hypocritical that he never talks about cities in red states. Plus, to add that red states are poorer than blue states. I wonder why 🤔

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... Wtf is he talking about 90 percent of black women in Cook County and Chicagoland area voted for Harris. It's absurd and hypocritical that he never talks about cities in red states. Plus, to add that red states are poorer than blue states. I wonder why 🤔

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... I got to give it to South Park. While many are scared of the Trump Administration in the news industry, South Park has come right at them! With a counter punch.

www.npr.org/2025/08/14/g... We need more veterans around the world to speak out what's going in Gaza. This is not a war of survival anymore for the Israeli State. This is a war of annihilation towards the Palestinian people. Democratic Party you're responsible for the complacency of doing nothing.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... I got to give it to South Park. While many are scared of the Trump Administration in the news industry, South Park has come right at them! With a counter punch.

news.wttw.com/2025/08/18/c... It still amazes me how most of citizens in our city don't care about the future our kids and complain about a budget. I wonder why🤔? But has no problem with paying subsides in taxes to developers that build expansive housing that most of us cant afford to live in.

Update from @txfreedomread.bsky.social SB13 (which passed in the Spring) goes into effect on September 1. They're asking residents to share this letter with their local school board & district leaders

news.wttw.com/2025/08/18/c... It still amazes me how most of citizens in our city don't care about the future our kids and complain about a budget. I wonder why🤔? But has no problem with paying subsides in taxes to developers that build expansive housing that most of us cant afford to live in.

I had the pleasure to meet Mr. Klinenberg at unclaimed decedent Prisoner of War WWII veteran Emilio Aguirre posthumous honors at Homewood Memorial Cemetery who tragically died in the 1995 Chicago Heatwave. It was Eric who first came across Mr. Agurrie story and items 25 years ago which inspired me!

www.thebenjoravskyshow.com/eric-klinenb... The great Eric Klinenberg on the Ben Joravsky Show. Author of the critical acclaimed book Heatwave. About the 1995 Chcago Heatwave, which took the lives of 739 Chicagoans and Mayor Daleys Administration failure to respond to the crisis.

I had the pleasure to meet Mr. Klinenberg at unclaimed decedent Prisoner of War WWII veteran Emilio Aguirre posthumous honors at Homewood Memorial Cemetery who tragically died in the 1995 Chicago Heatwave. It was Eric who first came across Mr. Agurrie story and items 25 years ago which inspired me!

www.thebenjoravskyshow.com/eric-klinenb... The great Eric Klinenberg on the Ben Joravsky Show. Author of the critical acclaimed book Heatwave. About the 1995 Chcago Heatwave, which took the lives of 739 Chicagoans and Mayor Daleys Administration failure to respond to the crisis.

www.npr.org/2025/08/14/g... We need more veterans around the world to speak out what's going in Gaza. This is not a war of survival anymore for the Israeli State. This is a war of annihilation towards the Palestinian people. Democratic Party you're responsible for the complacency of doing nothing.

Now, the Trump Administration is going after the Homeless on their enemy list. One of the most vulnerable populations in the country. And the MAGA movement call themselves Christians. Hypocrites to their faith and Jesus philosophy. Don't use social media much. But enough is enough!

Now, the Trump Administration is going after the Homeless on their enemy list. One of the most vulnerable populations in the country. And the MAGA movement call themselves Christians. Hypocrites to their faith and Jesus philosophy. Don't use social media much. But enough is enough!