Chicagoans, please sign this. And keep Wrigleyville from getting even more ridiculous. More bikes and buses.

Noooo

BLOCKED. A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt its illegal and aggressive third-country deportations. It is inhumane for the Administration to send immigrants, without a shred of due process, to countries where they lack ties and may face torture or persecution.

I'm S Gronkiewicz-Doran, and I'm running for Alderperson of Chicago's 45th Ward. I can't wait to meet you, and to organize together to bring new leadership to the Far Northwest Side.

Hey NW Side/45h! Let’s go, @sgdfor45.bsky.social!

“Chicago is the bicycle center of the United States,” the Chicago Tribune confidently declared in 1896, backing up the claim with nearly a full page of bicycle-related statistics and stories. The paper estimated that Chicago had 200,000 riders, including 40,000 women and 2,000 children."

Fascinating history of the historical (and prominent) role of bikes in Illinois, and Chicago. Interesting class and gender lenses, too! Thx, @atalliance.bsky.social Cc: @sharrows.bsky.social @chicritmass.bsky.social @chiwho.bike @bikegridnow.org @betterstreetschicago.org

SCOOP: IL-9 congressional candidate and current state senator Mike Simmons had police called on him in Buena Park while canvassing for votes. No arrest was made. Here’s the video of the interaction @senmikesimmons.bsky.social recorded and shared with me.

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

Reporter here. Most local / regional papers charge an initial 99 cents for a digital subscription. Try it for a year. Aim to be an engaged and informed member of the public. Democracy is counting on you.

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Many truths in two grafs. From @fotoole.bsky.social in @nybooks.com.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

wgntv.com/news/chicago... Chicago bicyclists hit 😢 on the near Northside

This.

You really can live without Amazon. You really can.

During the week after Pretti was killed by DHS, Fox News made at least 75 claims blaming Pretti for his own death or contradicting video evidence.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the monied power elite. https://bit.ly/3ZPQUKt

With WaPo locked into a death spiral, CBS effectively an arm of state news, and public media facing massive budget cuts, it's more important than ever to follow and support independent media.

Incredible interview by @wbez.org’s @adrianacardmag.bsky.social with Marimar Martinez — who was shot, charged, vindicated in Trump’s deportation blitz in Chicago chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Once again, a massive gap between the official story — and what the facts are

1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document. Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Swalwell: "The masks has to come off. These guys, the don't just wear these masks for their own anonymity. They wear it for moral cover. They hide their identities from us and their humanity from themselves. So their masks have to come off. Period."

Hey Chicago cyclists: we got an ask for squeezable water bottles for eye wash in the Twin Cities and I bet those plastic ones you seem to accumulate at races would be perfect. DM me for a drop-off address (Albany Park) or possible shipping details if you have a large quantity

Endless guides to how to talk AT your students instead of talking TO them and WITH THEM. When you do the latter, they'll buy into what you're asking them to do, even if it's not what they would choose. Because you care about them. So they care about what happens in class. The rest is just dialogue.

The Minnesota Star Tribune and its reporters have been doing indispensable work on ICE and Minneapolis. Old-fashioned, high-quality and deeply committed local reporting

A federal judge has order federal officials to preserve the evidence related to the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents.

🧐👇🧵

More on the Bovinos’ American story — and other aspects of his life — in this profile we published last month chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

It was that law that a Calabrian guy named Michele Bovino worked around to bring over his son — the grandfather of Border Patrol honcho Gregory Bovino. Here’s our research into the Bovino family tree

Read all about that anti-immigrant push here www.amazon.com/Guarded-Gate...

And at the exact same time they throttled a huge wave of southern and eastern European immigration (Jews, Poles, Italians, Greeks etc), inspired by eugenics

A thread with a twist ending (Maybe rank hypocrisy is no longer a twist)

this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

Read more about the CyclingXSolidarity mutual aid cycling project, led by Rick Rosales, here. @swcollectivechi.bsky.social @chicritmass.bsky.social @atalliance.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @bikegridnow.org

New reality for kids in the U.S.

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)

Gonna need Chicago: Always Down, Never Out on a t-shirt ASAP

Hey Minneapolis ❄️—we're indie reporters here from Chicago. If there's anything you'd like us to know about community actions, vigils, or fed activity, please drop us a line on Signal at unraveled.66 📱

Lots of Tory loyalists out there telling Crispus Attucks he deserved to get shot alongside his four buddies by those Redcoats - they were just enforcing George III's laws and were in fear of their lives.

PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

In Chicago's Winnemac Park tonight, a growing crowd of around a hundred neighbors have gathered for an emergency vigil for Renee Nicole Good, a 37 yr old mom shot and killed by DHS in Minneapolis today.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

Those of you too young to remember: the protests before the start of the Iraq War were MASSIVE, but GREATLY underreported by media. That false war would've never been possible without total compliance by corporate media. Don't expect American media to stop them now. It's up to us.

250 burritos, water, care packages, blankets, winter hats, feminine hygiene products - all delivered via bike in the middle of a beautiful Chicago winter 😍 #BikeChi shows up!