I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

We heard about 18th & Wabash, a brand new protected intersection planned to help keep people biking and walking safe, so we trekked out in the cold after some snow, just in time to film it before it was partially rolled back. So what's all the fuss about? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpKJ...

The United Center is one of many big buildings that hasn't been reporting their energy use and emissions, and the city hasn't given them any of the fines written in the law! Let's make sure that's fixed, and get more buildings reporting their energy use 💪🏻

This was a key part of the “reverse Underground Railroad,” too. And they worked closely with federal agents, the US Marshals Service. theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

PSA - this chemical will induce miscarriages

Gotta keep up our work for the long haul, my friends.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Solo Ben ebike bus departs for queens landing at 9am. #vendertour @sharrows.bsky.social

As ICE continues to terrorize our communities, kidnapping our neighbors, 9 cyclists came together this morning at 6am to buyout 5 vendors and donate the food to a local shelter. They went home safe, hungry ppl were fed, this is #BikeChi ✊🏽

NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...

Today’s front page features @royalpratt.bsky.social’s heartbreaking story on this amazing family and Ofelia’s fight against cancer, for her dad to be with her and against a government set on terrorizing families and our communities. If you read one thing today or ever, make it this.

(from the inbox) Bikes were essential to ICE watching and rapid response on the north side today, helping people better locate feds in traffic. In this anonymized video, cyclists tail masked agents in a white Denali with Georgia plates through Rogers Park:

Can anyone tell me what an ‘egg brick’ is?

The silent treatment works!

“They literally ushered us into the street to protest and immediately after started beating the shit out of us.” This is 100% an accurate description of how this started. Broadview PD mishandled the situation from the start, then unleashed ISP to beat the protesters they’d led into the street.

Thank you @peternickeas.bsky.social for documenting the munitions used today. (As a side note in the future I would recommend wearing gloves, I’m just worried about any ill effects).

Chicago is a wonderful place! I imagine this is pretty good exercise too!

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

“Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b----,” before pulling over & shooting the woman five times.” DHS has lied, a lot, about every act of violence.

So “you come through me” was actually directed at protestors, message received @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Sense8 is one of my favorite shows. They should actually watch these shows, something will be other liking.

For folks asking why we keep seeing FBI/ATF at these operations: they're needed at larger raids (see also, mass arrest situation like we saw Saturday). ICE/CBP doesn't have capacity or training to process large amounts of evidence, write affidavits.

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

The feds are arresting the press.

Sweet! I’ve only seen one or two of these in person before!

I'm calling Governor Pritzker's office to leave a comment about this illegal activity by the Broadview Police. Someone picked up immediately to take my comment in Chicago. Springfield went to voicemail, I'll try again later.

That certainly looks like on-site support to me! 🤨

For anyone assessing their risks at these protests, keep this in mind. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Not sure what to say about this besides benignly saying it needs to stop.

Feds just fired a tremendous amount of pepper balls at Reverend David Black, a regular protester here. A number of them hit him in the face and head.

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

This update is even more shocking than the original story.

#BikeChi due to our impending guests, CxS will be responding with mutual aid efforts via group rides. DM if you want to get involved and/or join our virtual meeting Thursday at 7p. ✊🏽

An anonymous supporter will match every dollar up to $1,000 donated between now and the end of day Friday 9/5. Love our work? Donate here www.bikelaneuprising.com/product-page...

Been saying for a minute now that we are going to start seeing them in other vehicles. Trying to hold two thoughts at once here: this is definitely an escalation, but it also shows how desperate they are not to be tracked/surveilled. Anyway, no seatbelts in the back of those things.