asaptogether.org/en/new-fees/ horrendous. where are the community fund pools? 'It will now cost $100 per year to continue with your asylum case in immigration court. '

tear gas, pepper or coated bullets were given an industry label of 'less lethal munitions' to justify their use & boost their sales. we saw them tested in palestine at protests, they were used to kill and maim. chicago journalists shouldn't be repeating a propaganda industry name of these weapons

Byron 'do anything but toss the ball to pritzker in a press conference' challenge. this is so weak!!!!

was anyone present for the closure of Humboldt park? what equipment was used to destroy people's tents?

i have therapy at 7am from next week lol, thanks time difference & my commitment to not having a US therapist

she's still there, monday edition

im finally watching boris fishman in couples therapy and he is fucking awful! so wild how cathartic it was to read savage feast compared to how he comes off in relation to his partner

its just fine to not treat your journalist friends as buddies in the trenches, the ones with principles & their own sense of ethics understand there are inherent tensions. you can still get drinks together, they dont need to be in signal group chats.

hey so i'm going to say something that should be really fucking obvious and see who gets mad if you're a reporter covering ICE actions in chicago, you should not be posting the internal discussions of rapid response groups without their consent

to be clear, this nice property owner thinks the appearance of tents in parks undermines her very safety. she and others lobby for more violence & we have seen how the Park District acts to this demand. www.youtube.com/live/cegJ-uf...

Carlos RR said chicago was a housing first city the day after the Park District violently demolished homes in legion park, DFSS was there to tell people to leave after the cranes started. There were 20+ of them & their best offering was a cold sandwich. They had literally nothing else to offer.

liberal/ progressive elected officials just extend the dangers for unhoused, theres not real pushes for housing, and theyre picking up language for the right about unhoused but swirling it in a bucket of paternalistic care language to cover for the violence.

this is horrific, executions of unhoused people, a second mass shooting in minneapolis. abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...

This camp is being violently evicted right now in the wake of a devastating shooting. People are mourning community members and simultaneously having their homes bulldozed. If you have t shirts, drinks, aspirin, new underwear, or cigarettes please bring to 1100 E Lake between 3-7 for distro!

This is horrifying & devastating. Every single person that has said unhoused people are dangerous, that they are undeserving of support, that they need to just be cleared out & warehoused for forced treatment, contributed to this happening. Hating homeless people is a bipartisan policy position.

SF friend says the immigration court takeover by feds is happening so quickly

speaking with DC comrades last night confirmed that the way in which the Chicago Park District evicted & demolished the homes in Legion Park was absolutely horrific. Again, DFSS workers went in to the structures to tell residents to leave after the cranes overhead had already started to destroy.

persona non grata to two chicago white journalists who have no principles or ethics but running on white saviour fumes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the amount of casual anti homeless violence I see in liberal spaces on the daily is unmeasured. people on socials repping some leftist slogans or program & then cannot sit in a room with a poor person who makes them uncomfortable.

labeling a woman of color dangerous when all she's done is criticise your political actions is a wild one.

"less than lethal" is an industry propaganda term!! you can just call them munitions or whatever the thing is. .. apparently they used pepper ball shots against people in Broadview today.

speaking with DC comrades last night confirmed that the way in which the Chicago Park District evicted & demolished the homes in Legion Park was absolutely horrific. Again, DFSS workers went in to the structures to tell residents to leave after the cranes overhead had already started to destroy.

Made some maps to show the different operations &, in our opinion, goals of National Guard versus fed agents. Map 1 shows National Guard stations predominantly clustered around the Mall & other tourist spots. Map 2 shows where checkpoints have been set up by federal agents, at the direction of MPD

notable that media edited out every instance of residwnrs & supporters naming the officials responsible for the home demolitions at legion park today - carlos ramirez rosa, beth tomlins, selena ruiz, michael torres.

Regarding the home demolitions at Legion Park by CPkD & their CEO Carlos Ramirez Rosa today - I don't know if others are noting it but the CPD chief told us no one would be physically forced out of their home/structure as they made forcefully us leave the exact area in Legion Park.

the DFSS crisis clinician showed up two hours after they violently destroyed people's homes without checking first if they were inside

there are dozens of park district employees here, Chris Kennedy has already come & threatened us. if you're nearby come through to legion Park west

this is why calling yourself a socialist cannot be the end goal. the label has no meaning if they give up supposed principles once in office & there is no collective willing to undertake continuous disciplining of their comrades in power. tension is good & necessary actually

CEO Carlos Ramirez Rosa and the Chicago Park District are increasing violence against unhoused neighbors and planning to evict those living in Legion Park tomorrow , 9 September 2025.

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anti-fascist talk has no meaning or value without anti-fascist action. fascism is not something coming from 'the outside' // donald trump but from the power holders in our own lives enacting violence against the most precarious. clearing our public spaces of unhoused people is fascism.

This is a choice being made by Carlos Ramirez Rosa and Beth Tomlins. Give him a call, plenty leftists in Chicago have his number. Maybe someone wants to share it.

it's not even 8am and chicago police have blocked off much of michigan avenue, ohio and ontario streets this is theoretically to contain driving caravans and celebrations for Mexican Independence Day it also keeps clear wide streets for any military vehicle, making it easy to trap people

This is in the Golden Triangle Business Improvement District, basically right in the heart of downtown DC. BIDs have been one of the main tools used by the DC government to displace poor and unhoused people and make the city more attractive for real estate developers and investors

FBI as “security” for MPD evicting camps.

i used to read days and nights of love and war for comfort when i lived in the west bank. tried to do it again a decade later & the premise of comfort seemed absurd. and yet he wrote with so much hope and humanity

Full compliance with her reactionary contemporaries. Full collusion in the fascist invasion of DC and the mass disappearances of unhoused and migrant residents of the city. Muriel's magnum opus of shit. Shame on you, @mayorbowser.bsky.social, your legacy is one of unfettered evil

Yes!! Strongly strongly advise against any kind of data collection like that right now, please feel free to DM if you want to talk unhoused support strategy & what we’ve seen on the ground.

Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is asking mutual aids to make a list of unhoused encampments they support, as they continue to work with the City of Chicago & the Chicago Park District on evicting people from public space. Beware about adding your neighbors without their consent to this list.

To Chicago comrades & anyone else facing possible federal occupation: The National Guard is standing around for photo ops. DHS, ICE, FBI, DEA, ATF, are working with local police to terrorize & kidnap our neighbors. Organize accordingly.

The Chicago Park District and CEO Carlos Ramirez Rosa do not need Trump or the the National Guard in order to evict unhoused neighbors from public space. On September 9th, they will evict everyone who is currently staying in Legion Park. They are also planning to evict again the people they moved ..

We talked to @igd.bsky.social about the ongoing resistance and mutual aid efforts happening in DC as the military and federal police occupy our city. Check it out! itsgoingdown.org/whole-city-f...

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sometimes when i feel frustrated i recall when my elder, a historian, stopped talking in a meeting because she ascertained she was not being listened to.

how do people have the time to do all the things!

to no one's surprise, the chicago park district is building the case to evict the neighbors *they* put in a eugene field park hamlet after they were evicted from gompers park.

the glenwood arts fest is always unsettling, its a slow gentrifying project in RP, organised by the RPBA. and the unease comes from not putting in the work to know how to relate to it with any kind of challenge. add in bad dynamics in community space shared this weekend & jets in the sky .....

anyone who has paid attention to MBJ would read this as an absurdly made up analysis on what has happened materially on the 5th floor these past two years www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

remember when brandon's deputies rossana & carlos tried to sell us gardaworld tent camps for asylees in chicago as a good plan www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

well that's going to be the second complaint to the FNB manager this week, and the first was Thresholds so random rebecca is in good company