Expanding on comments the other day: this is a completely unenforceable ban that represents carte blanche authority being granted to the police by Johnson’s administration to harass Chicagoans. (1)

What does the void require?

How many students’ air was poisoned to make this?

RE: last repost- I'm a union organizer who worked in image copyright for years, including for a major art museum and one of the largest image providers in the world. In case anyone has any questions.

How does this represent the “eco opportunities” Weingarten purports to support?

This is bad.

true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability

christmas on bluesky

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects the Trump administration’s request to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois at this time, over the dissenting votes of Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...

"ICE continues to violate parts of the court order despite the reduced population at the facility, including access for attorneys to go inside and speak to their clients."

CTA bus operators settle the debate between two holiday favorites- hot cocoa vs. eggnog ☕️

QTP with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers Hard Mode: No Gundam series, Battletech or Macross allowed.

Days before Christmas and masked federal immigration agents continue to take people from Chicago's streets. Video and photos shared to social media depict agents taking at least one man from the Logan Square neighborhood this morning, just west of the Armitage/Kimball intersection.

I’d just add that several US citizens detained by the feds during protests—people never charged with a crime—also had dna samples collected and presumably catalogued. For what purpose, idk.

ICE just released updated detention statistics. As of December 13, 2025, ICE reports a total of 68,442 people are held in immigration detention. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

I fucking hate "A.i."

How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has sued Illinois election officials for full access to the state’s voter registration database, including sensitive personal data sought as part of a nationwide effort that has raised red flags for privacy advocates.

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

It’s already hard enough to qualify for SFWA with the low rates of the majority of the industry, but they’re allowing generated work to be entered for an award? 💀💀💀

Love to live in a progressive city where over half the city council would rather sell residents' bills to debt sharks, and put even more fucking ads in public spaces, than make a minority of companies in the city pay a head tax. More info, per the Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

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There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Residents are pushing to place the quantum campus referendum on the March primary ballots. blockclubchi.co/4pICwz9

You roll into Ohare one week before Christmas and cause chaos in the rideshare lot for only one reason and it's not to keep people safe.

Again.

Pritzker, Johnson, and Biss are gaslighting us about solidarity on immigration, while the cops they control are running interference for Trump’s goons.

Teamsters Local 705 just confirmed that Bovino went with armed CBP agents to a Mauser picket line in Chicago this morning and "interrogated and laughed at our members while they were on the picket line." These workers went on strike to demand protections for immigrant workers, among other things.

Bovino is obsessed with Chicago.

Message from Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss about CBP & ICE in Evanston.

Currently watching CBP agents intimidate Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss in a Home Depot parking lot.

At least one person has been detained here that we've seen. Large crowd shouting "shame!" at the feds.

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

I wish I was capable of loving anything as much as ICE agents love crashing cars

I’m CBP, boys. I love driving on da’ sidewalk.

After Victor Rodriguez, Any Huamani with the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council spoke. She said federal immigration agents took over 15 people from Chicago's southwest side today. She also noted they drove while missing license plates, went the wrong way down one-way streets, and red red lights.

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After their violent raid into Evanston on Halloween, I'm not too surprised Bovino and Border Patrol are back in Chicagoland right before Christmas. No day is sacred to the faceless gestapo army; if anything it seems one of their goals is to destroy the idea that any time or place may be sacred.

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"Over who gets what piece of beef jerky"

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team This is Chicago's only Black owned media outlet and a crucial part of ICE/CBP reporting during an actual emergency. Unacceptable/please free @thetriibe.com

Bovino is back in Chicago with 200 agents.

The situation right now is developing fast; Border Patrol is detaining people across SW side. Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers. It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.

A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.

The Alternate Response Section is primarily cops with disciplinary problems, or those on modified injury duty, answering non-emergency police calls to 311. So according to CPD, he’s still on desk duty collecting a check.

I finally got an answer back from CPD on Carlos Baker’s status. He’s the cop who fatally shot his partner, allegedly shortly after she ended their relationship. “Officer Baker is on Active Status, assigned to the 6th District and Detailed to Unit 376.” 376 is the Alternate Response Section.