the opened up the first lesbian sports bar in chicago yesterday and they had to shut down for the rest of the weekend because they ran out of liquor😭😭😭

I keep using the term "non compos mentis" to describe Trump because that's how he's acting. It's beyond his longstanding history of total ignorance, habitual lying, and constant exaggeration. He's genuinely disconnected from reality and often incapable of expressing coherent thoughts.

Have lost count of the number of reports of feds aiming their weapons at people across Chicagoland just in last ~72 hours. Protesters arrested Friday evening reported the same as well.

This morning, three members of the southwest side rapid response team were followed, kettled, threatened, and illegally detained by federal agents in unmarked vehicles while trying to respond to a report of immigration enforcement activity in their area. See the team's statement here:

TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War/Defense/whatevs Pete Hegseth has ordered 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to be federalized "immediately for a period of 60 days."

A big part of these situations falling out of popularity is safety. And I say this as someone who was the extra person in family residences. If you have good people then yeah do it, but in my personal experience a lot of people who grew up in homes made unsafe by relatives and friends choose peace

We cannot normalize militarizing American cities and suburbs. Make sure you know your rights and stay alert.

The Trump Administration's DHS officers appear to be carrying large weapons around downtown Chicago in camouflage and masks. This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses.

I feel like those agents pulled that whole scene downtown today so they could get photos like this one. They wanted propaganda images of their guys mobbing up and grabbing people in iconic downtown Chicago locations. Nazi tourist bitches.

five of the 11 people arrested during last night’s protest outside the ice detention center in broadview, illinois, are still in federal custody, per a statement from the national lawyers guild of chicago. nlg details indiscriminate violence directed at legal observers, protesters, and press.

Large groups of federal agents patrolled Downtown Chicago Sunday, marching through some of its most high-trafficked areas and making an arrest in Millennium Park, witnesses said. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/a...

This is the biggest development out of Broadview today:

Nancy Mace went on TV and told pregnant people not to take Tylenol and to take ibuprofen instead. And, I cannot stress enough, HOW STUPID THAT IS. Ibuprofen is PROVEN to cause fetal complications. Has been for years. TYLENOL HAS NOT. EVER.

They’re right (Obama drove them insane) but for the wrong reasons (being black and defying their expectations of black people was unforgiveable) bsky.app/profile/smot...

A sentient boomer chain email is president www.kgw.com/article/news...

Hakeem Jeffries twisting a huge dial labeled “appeasement” back and forth as he anxiously looks out at a crowd of consultants, waiting for them to boo or clap

ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.? #Chicago

BREAKING: Oregon & Portland just sued President Trump to block his order sending federal troops into the city. The plaintiffs call the deployment “patently unlawful” and say it violates the U.S. Constitution and the Posse Comitatus Act.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

The way HUNDREDS of them took to the street THAT DAY is wild when you consider the city has 200,000 people.

Listen, Des Moines wants its favourite black person back, these moms are out for blood.

Ugh, AP now saying more victims are likely to be found..which means they were still in the burning Church.

Um looool wtf

Before we move on to today’s shooting at a Mormon church, let’s not forget that this man killed three people and injured seven when he opened fire from a boat in North Carolina yesterday.

In our holding cell last night, there were 7 white men, two Black men, and one trans woman. In the women’s cell there was one woman. 7 protesters were released last night. You already know which ones those were and which ones were shackled and transferred to an unknown location.

Please keep up the same energy for everyone else that you did for Steve!

Heartbreaking must-read thread desrcibing the conditions inside the Broadview detention facility after he was arrested while covering the protests outside.

Northwestern is banning over 300 students for refusing to watch an extremist indoctrination video that demonizes anti-Zionists, including Jews, as Nazis and Klansmen. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Everyone knows the roughest part of Chicago is the...squints...South Loop, home of Columbia College and a bunch of hotels.

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

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Update: Paul Dama was released from immigration detention on Thursday night! This is him and his sister Cecelia

ICE has detained Chicago journalist Steve Held aka @unraveledpress.com an independent investigative journalist whose coverage of the #Illinois #ICE protests & agent abuses in #Broadview is the most up-to-date and constant source of coverage of this ongoing occupation. Please share w/media contacts.

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening. A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

I’ve known Steve for several years — he’s dug up a lot of stories of great importance to Chicago about a variety of topics, including CPD and now ICE. Journalism is not a crime

Trump posting an AI video of himself promising something that doesn’t exist should get the full failing Biden front page treatment but we know it won’t.

If some random person posts an AI video of Trump, I agree it’s safe to ignore. The president himself posted this one.

I think people are getting confused when we say this video is AI. Yes, the video is AI generated. But Trump really did post it. The president’s account posted a fake video of him talking about a magic bed that cures all disease.

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is. Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.

Insane that our President just published a fake news report in which he falsely claims a major public program based on entirely fake technology.

This reporter helped expose the falsity of ICE's narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez. His work is a perfect example of why we don't have secret police. Journalists have a constitutional right to cover protests and their aftermath. Release @peoplesfabric.com immediately.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov what authority does ICE have to manage use of public roads? That sounds like a job for local and state law enforcement. Not ICE.

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

This seems to be an accurate estimate of number of people taken by feds but consider it unconfirmed for now:

No update on status of @peoplesfabric.com, assuming he'll be released by morning as that's the timeline we've seen with others detained but not clear at this time. Hanging back from cop line bc of yesterday's injury, still on scene monitoring. Many protesters have left. Many other press still here.

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.

Per witness, Steve was filming an arrest when feds knocked a group of people backwards and grabbed him. She says it appeared targeted to her since he had been filming CBP interaction with the protester from start to finish.

The suggestion that chemical agents like tear gas or pepper spray could be used indiscriminately against peaceful demonstrators, or even first responders, is unacceptable and not normal.

This is a rare one but it’s important governor pritzker is attempting to establish the boundaries and responses to federal actions agaisnt civilian populations bsky.app/profile/govp...

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