This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here. bsky.app/profile/mand...

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

Michael Rabbit is my friend and the Cook County Dems Committeeperson for Chicago’s 45th ward blockclubchicago.org/2024/05/30/m... That the Feds are after him is outrageous. Support Michael’s legal defense fund. GoFundMe here: gofund.me/bfceefa9d

///BREAKING/// Controversial Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a surge of agents appear to be leaving Chicago within days as "Operation Midway Blitz" winds down after two months, sources tell the Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...

Bovino went into popular Carniceria Aguascalientes in heart of Little Village. “They said they were just here to buy something,” said Elizabeth Gutierrez. “I told them we wouldn’t serve them and escorted them out. Bovino seemed upset, but I don’t care.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

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The bean's sculptor, Anish Kapoor, once sued the NRA for using its image in a video dissing liberals and defending Trump.

Feds just making up laws on the spot to try to scare people from reporting on their activity.

Monsters.

@leniann.bsky.social -help families and not Salesforce.

This is how to write a headline about repeated liars.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

last time DHS said something like this it was DHS agents accidentally shooting at each other

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

Thinking about when Willie Wilson said police “should be able to chase them [anyone who runs from police] down, and hunt them down like a rabbit,” and Paul Vallas wanted to “take the handcuffs off police.” Everyone’s getting to see what that looks like in practice now & they don’t seem to like it.

In other news, here’s a clip from Telemundo of Little Village Ald. Mike Rodriguez getting hit with a flash bang. www.instagram.com/reel/DQ0DnIv...

There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask. Cowards

average ICE officer handling their gun in public

When a man uses all available laughing emojis, he is angrier than he has ever been in his entire life

Photos of the Feds with weapons out taken by @chicagotribune.com photographers yesterday @briancassella.bsky.social @mandophotos.bsky.social

Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

Would have been the correct headline since no one shot at them.

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police. It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Attorneys say the arrest of a daycare worker at a North Center preschool violated a consent decree. blockclubchi.co/4p3jjYm

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c... "Near 26th and Ogden a woman sat in the passenger seat of a car, bouncing an infant girl. The girl was silent, her eyes damp and bloodshot. Next to the car, a man screamed and stripped off his shirt. The man and the baby had both been hit by pepper spray."

This is my neighborhood. Don’t think it can’t happen to you and your neighbors. If we don’t stand up to this now, it’s coming for everyone.

“My joke is how do you radicalize middle-aged white women?” she asked. “You throw tear gas at them.” If you're not from Chicago, you should know that Chicago is once again rising up to the moment. It's who we are. Join our movement. We will not be defeated. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

“In a time when the levers of power are so limited, the steadfast organizing in Chicago remains a beacon of hope and essential guide for activists across the country.” - @silkys13.bsky.social This beautiful piece by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social encapsulates the loving & fierce power of Chicago ❤️

“All of a sudden, my eyes were just burning and I couldn’t breathe,” a Chicago mom told @nbcnews.com Then she heard her 2-year-old scream: “Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” She realized immigration agents were in the neighborhood and deployed chemical agents. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Yesterday, Block Club reported that the feds have said no more prayer outside the facility which is of course not something they can demand or enforce.

“If they are using tear gas, they better be able to back it up,” U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis said Oct. 28. “And if they can’t, then they will lose that as something they can use.”

Federal immigration agents pepper-sprayed an infant today. Story by @ckubzansky.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social

A Waukegan councilman was briefly detained by U.S. immigration agents on Friday, and he says the agents drew their guns on him while he was sitting in his car with his hands raised. “My life flashed before my eyes,” said Ald. Juan Martinez.

On second review, this looks to be just smoke grenades / flashbang. Bovino has been carrying around a CS gas canister in his hand though, so not ruling out that gas was deployed elsewhere this morning—it's been incredibly chaotic, with agents attacking people in multiple locations.

Community members armed with whistles, on foot and by car, again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods Saturday.

An infant girl in Chicago was tear gassed this morning by the U.S. government. Developing story in Little Village. Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground

My latest story about how the community at Chappell Elementary in Lincoln Square are trying to help a family after ICE took their dad. It’s a look at the disruption and resistance roiling Chicago www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/l...

Intuit, parent company of TurboTax, donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Always follow the money.

Good morning by Cricket Hill, Chicago

“There were about seven other day laborers on the corner there that scattered, and [the agents] seemed to just grab the first person they could get their hands on,” a witness told @katieprout.bsky.social. Horrifying reporting on unhoused people disappearing: chicagoreader.com/news/reader-...

Jeffries: "It's incredible that Trump & Rs have decided to weaponize hunger & starvation by unlawfully withholding SNAP benefits from 42m Americans. But this is not surprise when you consider that in their one big ugly bill, Republicans already enacted the cut to SNAP benefits in American history."

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now. Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it. Don’t forget this.

BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits. Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.

federal agents are back in the skokie/evanston area this morning. this video, posted to facebook about 10 minutes ago, shows federal agents driving through the williamsburg village subdivision amid construction vehicles parked along the road. lots of residents out with whistles.