DHS used a wide variety of weapons against people in Elgin yesterday, not only tear gas. Some wild photos in this writeup from @domguan.bsky.social:

Three weeks in and the Starbucks strike has grown to 3,000 workers.

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A study of recent ICE deployments shows unequivocally that the principal targets are US citizens protesting against ICE, not immigrants. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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ICE is arresting husbands & wives at their final green card interviews They’re going to the immigration meeting to complete the final step in the legal process and leaving in handcuffs One man had to take his crying infant from his wife’s arms as ICE forcibly detained her This is cruel entrapment

On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.

Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.

Say it with us 🗣️: What's disgusting? Union busting! We're FOURTEEN DAYS into our national ULP strike. Thousands of workers in over 65 cities are out on strike, and this is just the beginning. #nocontractnocoffee

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union. They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration. More updates TK.

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

The people who live in the South Shore building that was violently raided in the middle of the night by federal agents are forming a tenants union. Here are their demands, per a press release that just went out.

these are the judges you're expecting to reign in ice.

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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

“Several prisoners said their facilities had become stingier than usual with toilet paper, and women incarcerated in Carswell in Texas reported a shortage of tampons. “I was told to use my socks,” one said.”

for those not keeping track: masked feds, upset about being followed during kidnappings, reportedly swerved their car into martinez's, got out and said, "do something bitch," then unloaded five shots into her before driving off. feds then charged martinez w/ assault and offered $50k for more info.

NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man. We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:

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annoying little reminder that assaulting people then accusing them of instigating violence isn't just an ICE usurpation novelty, it's Cop 101

Federal agents used chemical weapons on Chicagoans at least 49 times — even after a judge said to stop. Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb

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New: a 7th Circuit appellate panel has issued a stay on Dustrict Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order, which limits federal immigration agents' use of force in the North Illinois court district. The panel, consisting of two Trump appointees and a Reagan appointee, found the injunction "overbroad."

Video of federal agents using chemical aerosol spray on protesters because a woman dared point at him at Bro-Tex in St. Paul, MN.

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This is bullshit! What are the charges? 📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence

Wow this was very brave especially not knowing what could have happened to him. U.S. citizens and permanent residents have been taken as well and some not returned for weeks.

16 out of 614. They arrested ~16 people with criminal records. They terrorized thousands, brutalized protesters, destroyed families, cratered businesses, tear-gassed a Halloween parade, traumatized kids in a day care, killed a man, & pepper sprayed a baby… for 16 people with criminal records.

ICYMI, @govpritzker.illinois.gov in October claimed state, county and local police at Broadview were working "to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights." In the month since those same police have arrested about 80 protestors at Broadview.

Earlier, in the first round of arrests, we saw state troopers drag one woman down the street over 100 feet to their wagon.

Cook County deputies, Illinois State Police, and Broadview police just arrested at least 8 to 10 people, including several faith leaders. State police in riot gear now arriving.

faith leaders and demonstrators tried to take beach street, which has been shut down to car traffic for weeks. immediately, cook county sheriff’s police, state police, and broadview pd moved in to aggressively tackle clergy, drag protesters across the ground and arrest at least 3-4 people.

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The same folks denying thousands of people due process before their lives are changed forever ask for almost two months to get their own ducks in a row (judge said no).

Some excerpts that stood out to me from District Judge Jeff Cummings' order today, compelling the release of at least some people found to have been detained in violation of a prior consent decree limiting how and when federal immigration agents can carry out warrantless arrests.

ICE actively destroying evidence

“an estimated 60% of those who have been arrested under Operation Midway Blitz have been removed from the U.S. Plaintiffs assert that many class members are choosing to voluntarily depart to escape the unsafe and unsanitary conditions that they have been subjected to while in ICE detention.”

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An interesting work about workers lives in Hungary under communism. There was tremendous hardships brought about by post war destruction and rebuilding but in a lot of ways they had a freer life than we in the us. mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/h...

New: Diana Santillana Galeano, whom federal immigration agents dragged out of a Rayito del Sol daycare on Chicago's north side last week, has been released from federal custody, the law firm HSPRD announced Thursday. The release states she will meet with Rayito del Sol parents on Friday.

Good morning from the "free speech zone" in front of the ICE facility in Broadview, IL. A federal judge and a team of attorneys are set to visit the facility this morning, per a class action lawsuit alleging poor conditions and inhumane conditions inside.

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me. I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

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

In Little Village, a small group has closed down 26th Street in front of the arch. About 12 hours after news that Bovino et al may be on their way out.

happening now: community members are gathering at the chicago fbi field office to demand ice and border patrol agents leave the city and stop terrorizing residents. yesterday, the fbi and other feds helped greg bovino and a caravan of border patrol agents ravage little village and cicero.