Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

before, when they were saying "Chicago is a warzone", I didn't realize it was a promise

American Jewish institutions simply do not represent Jewish popular opinion Which means the time is ripe for new institutions

Today was a very difficult day. Almost 5 years ago, the #PlowTheSidewalks campaign was born out of frustration from a problem that we were determined had a solution – and one that unites us all in the winter.

The real infrastructure is the friends we made along the way.

The Johnson admin refusing to use its heft to complete even the most modest of its own campaign goals is something we expect from Chicago mayors, but never this silently. Johnson doesn't get to complain about progressives and lefties abandoning him if this is how his admin treats them.

Witness video shows federal agents throwing tear gas canisters in the middle of Armitage Ave today as they appear to be blocked in and heckled by angry neighbors. This is around the 3500 block of West Armitage.

Cops and feds have successfully split up the demonstration now. ISP standing side by side with Border Patrol.

Yes I am to a small extent flooding the zone this morning with reminders that JB Pritzker, while saying the right things, is indeed the chief executive of Illinois, which puts him ultimately in charge of the Illinois State Police, which means he is presently an ICE collaborator.

@jbpritzker.bsky.social your Illinois State Police are escalating tensions at Broadview. Call them back.

If you want to see how much a single local official can change things, look no further than Chicago, where the new prosecutor this year has ground exonerations to a halt by hindering the work of the commission that reviews wrongful convictions boltsmag.org/chicago-cook...

Chicago has been appropriated roughly 485M in federal DOT grants that overlap with the 2025 federal fiscal year (Estimated via usaspending.gov)

The intensity of immigration operations in Chicago are really ramping up-- even without military deployed here yet. The details (via @blockclubchi.bsky.social) about an armed raid late last night at a South Shore apartment building are striking.... (THREAD). blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/a...

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community. thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

Update: horrifying details about last night's raid are emerging. Organizers + electeds are reporting potentially dozens of people (at least 40 per initial estimate) were detained. Not much more confirmed at this time. More will be shared at press conference at 5 at corner of 75th & South Shore.

Concentration camps with extra steps. You can’t officially call them “camps” if they shuffle them off to hod knows where so fast no one can keep up. Its all by haphazard design. And truthfully, we probably still dont know the worst of the system

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it is revoking, or proposing to revoke, 52 food standards after concluding they are obsolete and unnecessary.” ~ FDA press release, July 16, 2025

Community members held a vigil in Cicero tonight for those abducted by ICE in recent weeks. After a prayer from a local pastor, the group marched through the parking lot chanting “¡ICE, escucha! ¡Estamos en la lucha!” and “ICE son los ilegales. ICE son los traficantes. ICE son los criminales.”

Stylin’ riders on the way to/ at last night’s @chicritmass.bsky.social : Alex in shades of burgundy and purple, Nicole, Kool-aid and Pierat of Rat Patrol, Kiera in disco ball helmet.

I'm about to get two shots in my big toe and I must say, I am not looking forward to it!

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

"one rub, please"

The Broadview Police are investigating ICE for shooting chemical munitions at a media vehicle

Probably 40+ border patrol some holding automatic weapons on South Michigan Avenue just now 12:20 pm. Fully masked. #NoIceInChicago. @icirr.bsky.social @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Chaos again, feds tackling protesters at random. They just detained @peoplesfabric.com.

I've been ordering food delivery way more than usual these past few weeks and I should probably plan ahead for tonight but I also really want to eat Stop Along pizza.

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

Honestly no meaningful side effects except my arm hurts like a bitch.

IDK I sort of think if you can't be at an ICE detention facility protest without your service animal then maybe this just isn't the protest for you. Given the tear gas and pepper balls and all that.

I would like to be able to Google "COVID vaccine side effects" to have some sense of what I'm actually likely to experience in the next 24-72 hours and it not be conspiracy riddled filth.

Folks they are still here and things do not seem to be going well.

Is today the day? Is this really happening?

This is like Chicago baptism

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

Speaking of Instagram, I wish they had an option for story views that was like "don't show me this person's content until at least three hours after it was posted so I don't seem too thirsty"

Instagram reverting to autoplaying audio while you're scrolling with no apparent way to turn it off is one of the most frustrating ad updates I've experienced in a minute.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

You know what league doesn't air In Memoriams for fascists that got got? The WNBA.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This was somehow a flash in the pan headline in all the chaos last week, but throwing out there that at this rate this would be in the vicinity of 50k people vanishing from the face of the earth over the remainder of the term. And this is before they use that newly allocated $75B to fully scale up.

I only stayed for about an hour and change but I got to see an apartment in the Pittsfield building, and that was pretty dope. I was also the oldest party attendee by a good margin.

Can't believe I mustered up the energy to leave the house at 9pm.

Support the journalists taking pepper balls in the face

These poor cupcakes have seen war (an 8-mile Divvy ride)

The latest from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social: www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/18/d...

Friends, colleagues, comrades. I regret to inform you all that I have caved to Big Refrigerator.