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“Just to go use the bathroom and get something to eat, that’s even a safety concern,” Border Control Cmdr. Greg Bovino told a Tribune photographer Thursday, holding up a Slim Jim in a Gage Park store where he’d just asked a guy buying a soda where he was from. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/b...

There are no words for how evil this is

A few photos from federal officers conducting an immigration enforcement action on Chicago's Southwest side Thursday afternoon.

Lot going on here

A few more

Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino gave a brief interview while federal officers stopped at a gas station while conducting an immigration enforcement action earlier today on Chicago’s southwest side. Story TK

“And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer” Judge Ellis today not only denounced the Trump administration’s immigration action, but had biting remarks on its clumsy views of Chicago itself UPDATE: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

"Judge Ellis spent more than 90 minutes handing down her ruling at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. She began by reading Carl Sandburg’s poem, “Chicago.”

Federal agents’ use of force amid an aggressive deportation campaign in Chicago “shocks the conscience,” the Trump administration’s arguments “lack credibility,” and a top Border Patrol official lied while trying to justify the use of tear gas, a judge found Thursday. - @jonseidel.bsky.social

Listening to CPD radio traffic from something last month and can hear the whistles in the background.

Judge Ellis finds that the Trump administration has placed "content-based restrictions" on protesters. "Tellingly, she says, "defendants do not deny that they would treat pro-ICE demonstrators more favorably."

"Describing rapid response networks and neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how it of touch these agents are, and how extreme their views are"

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who is still ruling, indicates a preliminary injunction is on the way.

Ellis on the Oct. 14 incident on the Southeast side: "Agents pushed, shoved, tackled protesters, pointed guns at them, threw tear gas and deployed smoke canisters. Everyone that agents detained were released by the FBI, and none of them are currently charged with assault."

“.. 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...

“Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” — Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas. Leia’s age: 2. Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Here's a photo of the old Chicago streetcar rails under Western Ave. that have been uncovered by construction. I took this from the Brown Line platform.

CBP agent shot a woman after a car crash in Brighton Park and bragged about it in a group chat to other agents, according to the woman's attorney -- said he "take(s) pride in my shooting skills."

Police found an ICE agent asleep at the wheel after an 18hr shift at Broadview and the agent crashed into a hedgerow. Charged with DUI. Cops knew they'd stumbled into a heater. Body-worn video footage with the story. (By two city news veterans, who I've admired as long as I have known the bylines.)

WATCH body cam video of an ICE agent arrested for DUI after his shift at the Broadview facility. He crashed into some bushes after officers found him asleep at the wheel and knocked on the window. "Oh this is a fun one,” the officer tells his sergeant. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...

Makes sense, I've seen BORTAC respond to their abduction teams being followed by our own rapid response teams to make arrests.

Couple hundred people in the square between Damen and Lincoln for this. Lots of kids.

"The fact that people can be courageous is irrelevant to the chilling effect" - Ellis

This is interesting, and I haven't seen it reported before: federal agents organized into targeting teams and quick-response teams to provide security. An agent testified to this in court today, in a hearing for the arrest outside the Laugh Factory #chicago

"Several teachers fled with a student and hid in a back of a pickup truck, 'terrified of being found,' Meadow said. 'They weren’t sure what was going on. ICE, an attack on the school — they didn’t know,' Meadow said."

stained glass should be in more schools schurz high school front office, chicago public schools

CPD Supt. Larry Snelling, during a budget hearing today, said multiple times that officers wouldn't interfere with federal operations. CPD has, multiple times, provided scene security or cleared traffic for federal agents doing immigration enforcement - Brighton Park, East Side, Little Village.

The incident happened in front of parents and children, Martin and a parent said. Other workers became afraid to come in, and the daycare center closed for the day, parents said. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d... 📝 @mollydevore.bsky.social & Mack Liederman

Here's Brighton Park as CBP and ICE were leaving. Encountered people over blocks who'd inhaled the chemicals discharged here. #chicago

Well, this story is a dystopian sci-fi scenario made real www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/m...

So hurting for baseball that I'm watching an interview with Aaron Boone. It's baseball, I don't know what else I have to say about that.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Bickering over Bovino: Lawyers complain to judge of obstruction, sandbagging during deposition NEW from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'" apnews.com/article/chic...

"We have to be good or ICE will get us." - A 6-year-old girl, whispered to her dolls. #chicago

911 calls in Chicago are down sharply over the last two months since the start of "Operation Midway Blitz" The decline is largest in Little Village www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/9...

When Jose Jeronimo Guardian showed up at a Spanish language traffic court this week, he didn’t expect to be detained and face expulsion from a country he’d lived in for more than two decades. With @capitolnewsil.bsky.social: illinoisanswers.org/2025/10/31/i...

This is a good story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/9...

Trump Administration Admits It Doesn’t Know Who It’s Killing in Boat Strikes Pentagon acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors. 🧵thread 🧵 theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...

Awhile back, I was having trouble reconnecting with my Catholic faith An Episcopalian priest laid it out for me. He said - of course. You have a fucked up relationship with violence. As a Marine you worshiped violence. And THE message of Jesus is: the power of violence is destroyed on the cross.

This thread describes something that the US government is doing to its people in 2025.

There has been a jarring shift in tactics and an escalation in force since Greg Bovino’s Border Patrol “Green Machine” started roving Chicago in made-for-TV patrols and raids. Now, they’re primed to take on a much larger role in the deportation campaign. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...

god that was an incredible series

Ah yes MLB app cutting off the radio broadcast in the middle for the infinite loop of terrible ads

Yoshinobu Yamamoto won Games 2, 6 and 7 of the World Series. He threw a complete game in Game 2, six innings and 96 pitches on Friday and came back Saturday to throw 2.2 scoreless innings on 34 pitches and induce the World Series-winning double play. A legendary performance.

Absolutely, positively, undeniably, without question: One of the best games in World Series history. One of the best World Series in history. And soul-destroying for Blue Jays fans.

Toronto radio crew giving props to Yamamoto. "It's highly unlikely we'll ever see something like that again."

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here