This is ridiculous. Immigrants make our country stronger

Born #OTD in 1898: C. S. Lewis, creator of Narnia! This hand-drawn map is his own sketch, later redrafted by Pauline Baynes for Prince Caspian. Spot Aslan’s How, Cair Paravel and Lantern Waste on the map. 🦁 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 220/1, fol. 160

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood on Monday called conditions inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview “terrible” and warned that staffing is expected to triple by January at ICE facilities in the Chicago area.

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

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“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

NEW: Senator Durbin and I are demanding that Kristi Noem put a stop to DHS arresting people for filming agents attacking their neighbors. How dare DHS call foul play while it uses taxpayer dollars to record propaganda videos? It is legal to record. It's called accountability.

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

🧵 Happy Halloween — and Happy Reformation Day! Today is the anniversary of the day Martin Luther challenged Roman Catholic doctrine by posting his 95 Theses on a church door.

Religion note: For years, conservative Christians — particularly evangelicals — heralded the cause of persecuted Christians, insisting the U.S. should aid them. But since Trump was inaugurated, accepting (virtually) anyone fleeing *religious* persecution as a refugee has stopped altogether.

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants. "What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

“ICE is causing this mayhem. They’re the ones who are tossing tear gas when people are peacefully protesting. ICE is the one who’s going into neighborhoods where they, frankly, are causing fear among people ... so they need to back off.” @wttw.bsky.social

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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"Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life," Pope Leo said. religionnews.com/2025/10/01/p...

Federal agents claim as many as 900 people have been detained in recent weeks in the Chicago area, but have shared few details on the arrests, making it difficult to independently verify the information and background of individuals. trib.al/XfWiYmd

Not ICE! CPD and the city destroying unhoused people's belongings:

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.

BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social

“I love this city fiercely. It has given me every good thing in my life. It has given me my children. It has given me my friends who are now my family. It has given me purpose.“ thetriibe.com/2025/08/trum...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.

I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.

A U.N.-backed food security group has issued a dire warning: famine has officially now taken hold in northern Gaza and is expected to spread in the coming months.

Federal officials in Washington, D.C. swept through a large homeless encampment Thursday and dismantled it. It's part of the Trump administration's purge to crack down on crime across D.C.

An Israeli strike targeted at least one journalist in Gaza, killing five total

The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.

It's official! Wrigley Field will host the 2027 MLB All-Star Game: blockclubchi.co/4fnXW0e

The Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza intensifies. Malnutrition is rampant, children are starving to death, people are shot while waiting for meager food rations — and US weapons allow it to happen. Trump and Congress must act NOW. Stop the slaughter. Feed the people.

Hundreds of people were sheltering in the Gaza Strip’s only Catholic church last week when an Israeli strike on the complex killed 3 people and injured 12, including the parish priest.

Wanting to be prepared stems “not out of fear but really out of faithfulness. If something were to happen, we would know that we’d done everything possible to protect what was entrusted to us." sojo.net/articles/new...

The shelling of the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza also damaged the church compound, where hundreds of Palestinians have been sheltering from the 21-month Israel-Hamas war. religionnews.com/2025/07/17/i...

Hundreds of people gathered Thursday evening at Daley Plaza as part of the city’s “Good Trouble Lives On” protest, a reference to the late civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis.

This is where I tell you that, just like Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert is a profoundly kind, generous and decent man. He has been that way to me and I've never heard a bad word about him, ever. He deserves better than this and I have no doubt -- like Conan -- he will get it.

You kan not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

We must fix transit funding and reform now! www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/r...

These raids are unacceptable

A New York Times Magazine investigation reveals how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political maneuvering left Israel more vulnerable to the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack and then helped to prolong and expand the war in Gaza, which has killed at least 55,000 people. nyti.ms/4nP5KMm

At least 17 people, mostly children, were killed by an Israeli strike while waiting for food supplements in Gaza, health officials say.

Amb. Huckabee told me during his confirmation process that he cared about Christians in the Holy Land.   So, Amb. Huckabee, I ask: What are you doing to get the Netanyahu government to stop these attacks and hold perpetrators accountable?

We have extended our call for papers for the volume on baseball and ecclesiology! More info below: popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/06/03/e...

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans are inflicting pain on Illinois families. No matter what happens, we can't let this silence us — keep speaking out and staying loud. I'll be right there fighting alongside you.

Republicans in Congress had a choice: 
Vote to protect the people they serve or vote to please Donald Trump. 
When millions lose their health care, SNAP benefits, local hospitals and nursing homes—this moment will be remembered. 
And the American people will know who to blame.

This is ridiculous, especially as they’re revoking the visas of people here legally as well as limiting refugees who supported us in Afghanistan.

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

Pope Leo XIV called Wednesday for humanitarian aid to reach the Gaza Strip and for an end to the “heartbreaking” toll on its people, as he presided over his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square. religionnews.com/2025/05/22/p...