🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence... Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-

omfg #goals

86 degrees this late in September should be illegal

Yes, restore the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells--- Restore the healing frequencies of bells!

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Took fire to the face. ICE definitely isn’t aiming at ground and firing at people’s heads again.

Meet incoming ALA director Daniel J. Montgomery in American Libraries' new interview. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/09/25/meet-dan-montgomery/

No protester has taken any violent action and yet ICE has deployed at least a dozen canisters of tear gas, detonated a flash bang in a man’s face, and now a sniper is shooting us with pepper balls.

Federal agents continue to fire on and off at protesters here in Broadview. They threw a flash bang, too, and shot out a window of the adjacent office. #OnAssignment for @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Some protesters are throwing plush toys at ICE vehicles as they drive through the crowd.

It's candy skull season! (also, candymaking process videos are incredibly soothing to watch)

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Reminder that the cotton stretchy decorative spider web stuff is terrible for local wildlife (yes, even in the city).

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

UPDATE — Witness videos captured Border Patrol agents boating down the Chicago River today. Also, there are multiple anti-ICE protests planned for the Chicagoland area this weekend. More details ⬇️ thetriibe.com/2025/09/bord...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

ICE is a physical and existential threat to the fabric of this nation and they must be shut down.

~4am today: video shared to social media by a neighbor shows an early morning raid with flash grenades on a house in Cicero. Border Patrol agents are on the scene, including one who looks a lot like Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino, seen alongside a person filming.

Sexual Matador records, is that anything???????

We only rate dogs. This is very clearly a red panda. We've had just about enough of your tomfoolery. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (IG: __joyjoa)

"Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control." Roxane Gay nails it, as usual, in her latest column.

This interview is bonkers. If the only way to "save liberalism" is to define it so broadly that it includes Reagan, Buckley & Kissinger, it's not worth saving. JFC, Sunstein is an idiot.

Jimmy Kimmel is short for Jimberly Kimothy

I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice

Oh, man -- I want to try a vegan jibarito!

Sunday Night Dance Party!

What movie do you consider perfect?

You can spend today seeking a way to support and uplift the many marginalized groups that Kirk demonized and harmed.

Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!

If you cancel ESPN, you can watch this 24/7

I'm at the Gen X Culver's -- anybody need anything? #whatdifferencedoesitmake

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I just watched Martha Stewart add a hard-boiled egg to guacamole and what the fuck?

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Today is International Red Panda Day. Make time to hug all the red pandas in your tri-state area.

It's all too much

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Even within the brutality of dementia, you can find moments of love. Mom doesn't remember me anymore, but we hold hands more than we ever did before.

And credit it to @staceywescott.bsky.social for the @chicagotribune.com

These weirdos lie about everything

An ICE agent unholstered his gun at a protest this morning. Please don't let yourself become numb to this.

Cannot escape the feeling that people would care more about the nightmare unfolding in Chicagoland if Trump had actually sent the National Guard. People hung all of their ideas about fascist escalation looks like on that. Meanwhile, agents hunt our neighbors and gas protesters here.

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois: a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work. a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

Psst… $1 of every Abolish Ice, Protect Migrants, and Warning: ICE Rats sticker sold goes to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. #chicago