The two councilors, 7th District Councilor Dion McGill and 12th District Councilor Leonardo Quintero say, “Communities cannot afford business as usual. We are facing unprecedented attacks, and it is time we take unprecedented action,” and call for electeds to “take real action.” Full statement:

Two Chicago local district councilors are calling for ICE to release Alejandro Fraire Valdez who was taken by ICE on Friday. According to the statement, ICE refused to tell family where he was being held. He has since described overcrowded, inhumane conditions w people sleeping on bathroom floors.

Hmm, this looks like municipal law enforcement closing off a street and setting up a perimeter in aid of civil immigration enforcement

An 11-year-old Michigan boy was expelled from school for a year after he took a gun away from a classmate, disarmed and disassembled it, according to his mother He’s now enrolled in a non-accredited online program as he tries to keep up

Chicago Public Schools told the U.S. Department of Education it would not be walking back the rollout of its Black Student Success Plan or changing its policies related to transgender students until a federal investigation is completed. Chalkbeat reports: blockclubchi.co/4noylre

Wow seems like a university would have been wise to sue

🧵 for every attorney and law student

imagine wanting to go up against every late-night injury lawyer wondering why the ads they paid to run on kimmel are running on some other bullshit

it's like they really are living in the 1950s

*stares in defeat at pile of homework*

Community Altar for Silverio Villegas-Gonzelez at the Latino Cultural Center in UIC, created by MESAA, a UIC organization. #uicdigital

Community Altar for Silverio Villegas-Gonzelez at the UH Lawn on Thursday, September 18, 2025, hosted by MESAA. The altar has now been placed in the Latino Cultural Center at UIC. Made with #VNVideoEditor #uicdigital If you wish to donate: gofund.me/52991c0b1

Q: when was the broadview "processing" center sold or leased to the federal govt?

Who is real-time calendar syncing MS Outlook (w institutional security) and gcal (w some institutional security)? I thought maybe I had but it is failing me A lot of the online info seems autogenerated or trying to get you to grant and/or purchase sketchy 3rd party access I need human advice

A roundup of useful and pertinent information Underscoring that the primary issue in IL is (IMO) political will, much more than actual limits, that are the first real roadblock on holding federal government accountable Don't feel bad about pressuring your electeds accordingly

ICYMI: Brooklyn Defenders concocted a union-busting scheme that involved offering a lighter workload to an employee in exchange for replacing the ALAA-UAW with a so-called "sham" union friendly to management's interests, according to a complaint from ALAA www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/19/b...

The US has embarked on a new program of state-sponsored terror. It's different from the War on Terror (which was horrific) in that there's no precipitating event like 9/11. Instead, it's a very public, very illegal murder of civilians, done entirely in the open as a PR program for the new regime.

The first time Trump made the national news was 1973 when Richard Nixon's, (Richard Nixon's), justice department said he and his dad violated fair housing by having managers write C for colored on rental apps, so they would know not to rent to blacks or Latinos.

"'I killed a baby,' [Lt. Nick] Goc whispered ... 'You're alright, you're OK,' Lieutenant Investigator Todd Tedrow said. 'We're gonna take care of this.'"

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

An important piece about the vulnerability we face in a world that is increasingly surveilled and authoritarian. Politicians want to address crime, but this administration will hopefully teach local politicians that surveillance doesn't prevent crime and comes at a much larger cost to residents.

Feels like $50k at Cava could get you as much as one entire quart of dip

It's worth pointing out that 5700 N Harlem is a senior living community (that used to be a monastery).

“Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them and call them slurs. He also told his daughters detainees are only given food and water based on good behavior.” These are the conditions at the site of yesterday’s protest.

Again, the 6 IL Dems who lied about the fact that he defamed their constituents, voting "YES" to a resolution claiming that Charlie Kirk spoke with "honor, courage, and respect for his fellow Americans" 🤢 Durbin, Duckworth, Budzinski, Foster, Schneider, Sorensen (DNV: Casten, Garcia, Schakowsky)

The Northwest Side Rapid Response Team posted this community alert a short while ago. It describes how a resident in Albany Park was lured by a phone call that indicated they had won a prize. Another was lured to an address to pick up scrap metal. Both were detained by ICE upon arrival.

Live-streaming a hate rally

The Democratic tent already had many, many anti-abortion democrats, who got wiped out because — and this is the crucial point! — independents and republicans *did not vote for them*

I can't wait for the next installment of my new favorite soap opera, which might drop on Monday (eternally grateful to people who send me things I have fun reading)

DHS helicopter TROY228 has returned to DuPage airport. Interesting flight path. See alt-text for a description of the inflection points. I don’t know for sure this was related to ICE/CBP activity, but I’d guess it was, at least in part. flightaware.com/live/flight/...

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Tfw u scream into the abyss and abyss screams back 〰️😱😱〰️ #whitegrunt #mouthoff #mouthfight #grunt #gruntfight #screamingintotheabyss #staghorn #acerventura #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

live every day in whatever way precludes the possibility of Alan Dershowitz eulogizing you

this is soooo not the point but on a day that our Lt Governor/US Senate candidate, 2 other Congressional candidates from IL-09, at least 2 Chicago alders and at least 1 state senator were present it is so funny to me that the Broadview mayor would decide to blame it all on Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss

I think the (audible, public) Business Knowers still have not grappled with what it means to have a POTUS who is not meaningfully invested -politically, emotionally, or financially- in the success of the US (and who in fact personally profits from the devaluation of the USD).

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

A good reminder that entrepreneurship and capitalism are not the same thing. (The right wing has fought hard to make them synonymous in people's minds.) If you start a business, you're an entrepreneur. If you use your own money, you're also a capitalist. If you use someone *else's* money...

MAGA types just trolling for clout. Tied to DeVore which defines his career. And sleeping with clients.

Side note: some people and orgs insist that entrepreneurship is the best route for marginalized people, incl ppl w convictions If that's what they truly prefer, k. But it's so irresponsible to push this solution on people w/ no capital + no social infrastructure to rely on for regulatory compliance

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Pls lmk if the Mackinac Center or any other death cult bootstrapper free marketeers have tried to defend her entrepreneurship from this new, worse iteration of les miz

Can THIS be the point where all of his liberal fans who haven't noticed or cared about how terrible he is on both race and critical thinking finally understand that they need to be done with him? Instead of reading/listening to him: eat a piece of plain white toast. It has more nutritional value

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

this exists it is called thinking

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Please understand who contributed to getting us here. If those people are not explaining how they helped get to this moment, then you should act accordingly.