While we're doing local civic votes, Chicago neighbors, the Name-A-Plow ballots are online! Abolish Ice made the candidate list... go vote for your favorites (up to 6, since there will be 6 winners). www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

The Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military pilots in the U.S. armed forces, achieved an1exceptional combat record during WWII (1943-1945). They flew over 15,000 sorties, destroyed 112 enemy aircraft in the air, destroyed/damaged 150+ on the ground, and protected bombers.

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

"I’d like to think #JohnCandy will be there to greet her. RIP #catherineohara" Art by Jonathan Welford.

Breaking: The special agent in charge of the FBI's Atlanta field office was forced out this month after questioning the Trump Justice Department's renewed push to probe Fulton County's role in the 2020 election, two people familiar with the matter told MS NOW. www.ms.now/news/atlanta...

@jonathancapehart.bsky.social Thank you for making the point about the constitutional protection of a free press. Abernathy needs to crawl back under his bridge like the troll he is.

@pbsnews.org Abernathy is a wackadoo waste of oxygen.

CDOT got out there and cleared the Dearborn bike lane and salted it well. I hate it when crews at the Federal Plaza and other spots dump snow into the cleared lane. 🤬 #bikechi @chi.streetsblog.org @atalliance.bsky.social

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A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but Homan is no better than Bovino. He’s just as craven and corrupt but he’s polished and wears a suit. Look at what he did during the orange demon’s first term and you’ll see what I mean. Always remember that when he’s trying to pretend he’s civilized.

Berwyn, Illinois

People are organizing We Ride in Unity rides on Saturday, January 31, in memory of Alex Pretti. Here's an article with a map of where rides are happening. I'm also posting info for rides in this thread. You're welcome to post for your own area in the comments.

ICE activity has been ramping up in Chicagoland again this month. The city's northwest side rapid respsonse team is reporting 2 people taken this morning from Chicago's heavily Latine Humboldt Park neighborhood, and advising that agents may still be in the area.

"If the [constitutionally protected political speech] doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed."

If you work at DHS and know the identities of the CBP officers that murdered Alex Pretti, my Signal contact info is in my bio. I’ll keep you anonymous.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

It's idiotic. 8 million have jobs (below says 7.5). 13-14% of both ag and construction labor is undocumented. 4.6% of the country's workforce. Who will replace them? There is an easy solution but GOP loves their labor without rights and living in fear. www.statista.com/chart/34074/...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Enterprise, stop doing business with ICE. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/ente...

It’s been four days. Who murdered Alex Pretti??

Plan for ICE agents at 2026 Olympics causes outrage in Italy www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...

#Metra views with icicles. @rogersparkman.bsky.social @ericallixrogers.com

“Ms. Martinez has no convictions nor pending criminal charges but is still publicly degraded as a ‘domestic terrorist’ by her own government.” ~ Defense attorney Christopher Parente

BREAKING: With no explanations. TikTok has throttled or frozen individual videos criticizing ICE and simply disabled entire accounts whether the video pertains to ICE or not - and not even offered spurious explanations or notices #TikTokCensorship

Sign this petition from Lakeview Urbanists demanding safety improvements NOW on Inner Lake Shore Drive “No one using Inner Lake Shore Drive should fear for their lives on their daily commute or stroll to the park.” actionnetwork.org/petitions/im...

If you ride a bike or walk in New York, you already know the danger: Even when we do everything right, we are still one bad driver’s actions away from the ER. Now Albany wants to make it worse.

Waiting for the train

I'm at a loss for words. I'm glad someone else has them.

They think they can provoke us into abandoning our values. They are wrong. We will keep the peace. We will secure justice for our neighbors. And we will see this occupation end.

Hanging out indoors today? ❄️ 🕯️ ☕️ Consider spending 15 minutes with this segment about Chicago pedestrian safety issues John taped this morning on Marc Sims' Just A Few Questions Video Chat Show.

WSJ says ICE is lying. Read that again…. The Wall Street Journal is calling out the lies

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

#Chicago #weather

Police mistakes happen, and they're big news. But if you think about a scenario in which US Government is proven to be lying about killing its own people, that would be one of the biggest news stories of the century. And it's happening. And it's not being reported as what it is.

Bondi's letter—essentially offering to stop attacking and murdering citizens in Minnesota in exchange for the state's voter rolls—shows what Trump, Miller et al. are really after: They want to fuck with the nation's elections so that they never have to cede power or answer for their crimes.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

My message to Durbin and Duckworth today was simple: if this isn't stopped now, before it escalates into warm weather and more places, nothing else is going to matter. This is the whole ball game.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

VOTE OUT EVERY REPUBLICAN!!!!!!!!

He wasn't a domestic terrorist. A domestic terrorist was the Oklahoma City bomber. This was a VA nurse looking out for his neighbors.

Protesters flooded the intersection of Nicollet Avenue and W. 26th Street in south Minneapolis, near where Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents Saturday morning. Video by Aaron Lavinsky, Genevieve Ross, Kyeland Jackson and Louis Krauss.

I keep thinking about how he was a federal employee too. Even that doesn’t stand in the way of the vicious posthumous defamation from Trump admin mouthpieces.

The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

The victim of today's ICE shooting in Minneapolis is the 5th person to be shot and killed by federal immigration agents since President Trump began his crackdown last year. This is the 19th time they've opened fire. We're tracking incidents here:

So much evil.

Everything but the kitchen sink: how to get rid of cooking oils and liquid waste without pouring them down the drain

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...