Federal immigration agents once again moving through Chicago's Little Village neighborhood this morning; Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino among them. Video shared online a little after 10 am shows Bovino and another masked federal agent carrying long guns in the street near 26th and Troy.

I did say bsky.app/profile/rpsa...

This is of course true, but again, every episode of our own history suggests that it will never happen. It would require a shared ethical and political clarity and commitment than I would be surprised to discover this country is capable of

This is making the rounds so I wanted to underscore again that institutional gatekeepers’ zealousness in giving reactionary moral panics a hearing as a means of showcasing their own broad-mindedness have been complicit in bringing down the Republic

Not over the fact that they called their shot, followed through, and people I'm supposed to believe are "objective" and "trustworthy" still joined in the fun of attacking a Black woman

New: Pablo Moreno González and Felipe Agustin Zamacona, two men formerly held at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, and now the named plaintiffs in a federal class action alleging inhumane treatment at the facility, are being released from federal custody per a successful habeas petition.

It cannot be overstated how much swallowing up the Dixiecrats post Civil Rights turned the GOP into a party of Southerners and turned everywhere governed by Republicans into the South.

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants. Appeasers.

just looked over at my labor economist partner hard at work at his desk and saw he was reading a Reddit page about whether joining a union is against scripture

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

im a single issue voter and its exorcising from politics all of the participants involved in this absolute moral stain of a policy

real sign of the times that an oil fund has to suspend its ethics rules to hold tech company stocks

Socialism or barbarism and we’ve made our choice

So many perversities to concern ourselves with right now but I’m taking this one in particular as evidence that civilization is impossible under the actually existing levels of inequality

American children are going to bed hungry tonight because the government is withholding food aid

It would be worth expending serious effort to force a reckoning and accountability and to forge systems of accountability (not just punishment) going forward. But power will resist with everything it’s got.

This is of course true, but again, every episode of our own history suggests that it will never happen. It would require a shared ethical and political clarity and commitment than I would be surprised to discover this country is capable of

"One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver." So far, the U.S. military has blown up 17 vessels, killing more than 66 people

He said there was no room to sleep. People sat up, slept on the floor, standing up. He saw many pregnant women there too. The conditions were unbearable. His wife is horrified by his account.

Her husband was at Broadview one month and she was never able to talk to him. Not until he was already in Mexico. He had been in Chicago for 20 years. Her husband shared that the numbers of people there were astounding. It just makes me think how many people that are not counted/just disappeared.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

American children are going to bed hungry tonight because the government is withholding food aid

Very excited to again see this weekend my third favorite diaspora Indian after darling partner and King Zohran: Hasan Minhaj

Wow do I wish anyone but Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries were running the Democratic Party. The Republicans are taking away food and travel at Thanksgiving, the ads write themselves.

Some screenshots from itp_chicago IG. You can see how federal agents stake their presence around some of these communities in intersections in the middle of traffic and sidewalks in front of businesses. This feels very particular to the SW Side with Little Village being a prime target for this.

Reminder! I'm raising money for food banks: @fooddepository.bsky.social says "900,000 neighbors across Chicago and Cook County, have no new benefits to buy groceries in November... Right now, we don’t know when our neighbors will receive their partial benefits or how much they will receive." DONATE:

Academic tip: sometimes you have to write "Importantly," to get a sentence started and then you can go back and delete it.

Oh my God she’s from Medellín

This is the teacher federal agents grabbed yesterday at Rayito De Sol daycare in front of children. Attorneys for Diana Santillana have filed a petition in federal court to have her freed from ICE custody.

It’s uncanny

I don't think enough of you are seeing this work of art

A federal judge in Chicago said she will issue a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying officials lied in their testimony and that their unlawful behavior on the streets “shows no signs of stopping.”

This is not a game. The life trajectories of women around the world, including myself and my mother, are defined by the attempt to free ourselves of men obsessed with domination. The press platforming this shit for clicks literally destroys women's lives. We are called on to fight it accordingly

It’s funny because conservatives’ gutter Islamophobia constantly refers to a spectre of religious oppression of women which is now clear to have just been projection all along of their own no-longer-even-repressed fantasies

Reminder! I'm raising money for food banks: @fooddepository.bsky.social says "900,000 neighbors across Chicago and Cook County, have no new benefits to buy groceries in November... Right now, we don’t know when our neighbors will receive their partial benefits or how much they will receive." DONATE:

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

Yes, the psychological aspect is central to ICE / CBP’s local occupation. They can’t physically be everywhere but they can instill fear and anxiety everywhere. It brings to mind testimony from Palestinians recounting the daily buzz of Israeli quad-copters, which was similarly ignored by US electeds.

These fucken fash dolts are like “how can we show them they’re literally subject to us, let’s hound their residential neighborhoods all day every day with choppers”

Within a few months of this admin taking office we Chicagoans have discovered what occupation is. It is an indignity and affront to every person who lives here

Up here in Albany Park the low-flying helicopter shit is so aggressive and constant that it seems specifically designed to scare people. I hear them now

Each day, ICE / CBP descend on different city neighborhoods & suburbs. It’s often not the same ones two days in a row but sometimes it is. You might hear the helicopters before the rapid response alerts begin. They start around 7a & go til 3 or 4p, even on weekends. It’s been like this for 8 weeks.

NEWS: A federal judge ordered govt to provide immigration detainees enough food, water and bed space, finding that conditions at the ICE holding facility in Broadview do not “pass constitutional muster.” By Madeline Buckley www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/b...

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

This is the type of alternate viewpoint that NYT finds worthwhile to host on their platform

The NYT tomorrow: Does menstruation really attract bears?

The whole press is Breitbart now