Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody. Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org). And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.

SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

There’s truly so much to unpack from what went down with PTS last month and there has not been any time to go over it with folks, but I promise you this energy is actually warranted and the Mayor and some progs deserve the heat too lol

Fuck every alder who voted against plowing the sidewalks in chicago. I hope you don't slip and fall and break some bones. Special fuck you to the alder who did some terrible "back of the napkin" math. Stop ruining our lives!!!! Photos from a two block stretch of a busy commercial corridor.

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Same energy.

Last night I watched my 100th movie of the year at one of my favorite places ever, The @davistheater.bsky.social! An incredible way to experience Carlito's Way presented by @oscarbate.bsky.social. Support your local independent theaters! ✨ Support cinemaaaa ✨

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.

I love when the doctor's office says to get to your 1pm appointment 15min early so you can spend 15min reading this sign

if any of my mutuals are impacted by the EBT/SNAP funding lapse please let me know, I'll try my best to chip in. DM if necessary.

It's a Chicago holiday

And we've got CPD clearing the way for federal agents to abduct people. And state police protecting their federal facilities in the suburbs. City 🤝 feds 🤝 state

SB2111 BAYYYBEEEEE

I want sb2111 to pass for the dumbest reasons you can ever imagine (amongst other better reasons)

FFUUUUCCCCKKK YOOOUUUUU JJJJBBBB

I am AMAZED by how many Chicagoans don't know what a livery plate is...

Do you love the Chicago Public Library? Do you not want to wait weeks for books? Do you still want to be able to go to programs? Send a letter to electeds ! In the budget, Brandon Johnson is proposing 89 cuts to positions, and cutting our book budget in half. actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...

Fucking boo.

I keep forgetting my whistle at home and that's why my voice is shot rn

Feel free to DM and I can point you to orgs

If you have more privilege and wealth and haven't done much rn, please support hard-hit nhoods and support the work being done by frontline orgs. Southwest Side nhoods are on the streets daily trying to keep their neighborhoods safe. Rapid responders across the city unpaid but doing the work.

those empty streets are rahm emanuel's fault, it's honestly amazing the greasy streaks that man's tiny little hands left on our history

THEY ARE STILL STAGING IN THIS AREA. PEOPLE NEED TO FLOOD THIS ZONE.

ICE is using the empty streets around Lincoln Yards to stage their abductions. They're patrolling in individual and groups of SUVs and then moving people into passenger vans to transport to Broadview. Scream in their face and watch them scurry out of their holes like roaches.

I gave $50 to the Greater Chicago Food Depository, who wants to match me?

If this pisses you off: 1. Figure out how you can actively support a rapid response network 2. Get 5 of your privileged friends to actively support a rapid response network 3. Donate to @unraveledpress.com unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

This mfer pulled me over and asked me if I was a us citizen.

ICE is absolutely crawling all over west ridge, Uptown, buena Park right now. In groups of two vehicles. Usually SUV. Sometimes pickup truck.

Damn, when a federal judge says people should retain faith in the judicial system ***for just a little longer***. We're cooked.

Chance no cloth/fabric face masks gets added to the TRO???

I love the little dopamine hit I get whenever I see a bench we made getting used somewhere in the neighborhood. My favorite is when I notice them getting moved around.

Promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors is literally what Pritzker is doing in Broadview....

Just watched someone off the street thank a DHS agent for their "service" in Ravenswood. Fuckkkkk thaaat.

“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.

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

It's clear that some people think that only those who "work hard" and pay taxes deserve dignity.

Camera discourse again, yay! Proponents of the proliferation of traffic cameras (that record 24/7 btw) have never done crime or crime-adjacent things in the public realm and it shows. Not that I've done crime or crime-adjacent things in the public realm. I just don't wanna live in the panopticon!

Literally even federal judges don't trust DHS statements.

Call @govpritzker.illinois.gov and tell him to call off the Illinois State Police from assisting ICE. This is a violation of the intent of the TRUST Act. Pritzker Phone: 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

should I publish this?

honestly whats even the point of working for a fintech company anymore...

What an absolute embarrassment for our city. Shame on Lopez, Sposato, Gardiner, and Napolitano.

Wake up babe, we're putting bikes on bikes.

Love seeing a low flying helicopter overhead in a dense city with its ads-b transmitter turned off. The colors made me think CBP but I can't tell for sure.

I take some pleasure in knowing that Robert Moses is rotting in hell.

We're on the nextgen acela, next stop, marginally faster train service. GOSH SHE'S BEAUTIFUL.

Chicago is the best small town in America. [current conditions in Andersonville 48th ward]