Michigan Avenue right now.

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

“If you come for my people, you come for me. So come and get me.” IL Gov. JB Pritzker talks to @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social about Pres. Trump's call for the governor to be jailed

This is a good article covering what's been done in my neighborhood to protect our schools, since a spate of ICE activity took place last Wednesday, some of which took place near the schools. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/c...

Chicagoans have arrived at Trump Tower, chanting "all power to the people, no human is illegal!"

Beautiful on the river today in #Chicago. We don’t need no stinkin’ #ICE🚫. Not to mention the Texas National Guard. 🙄 Ludicrous.

"Putin couldn't do a better job" of attacking America. How do we know this isn't Putin's doing?

Important farm labor update: Trump DOL is now planning to massively expand the H2A program. Their logic? "Gee, all the farm workers are gone now. It's causing a food crisis. We just HAVE to run a crash-expansion of our slavery-prone H2A program." prospect.org/politics/tru...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Oh, what are the odds?

I think you're right. In twenty years, that photo is likely to be as iconic as this one from the May 4, 1970 National Guard shooting of protesting students at Kent State University.

Actual photo. Fake hair.

Sweaty, furtive little grubs. It’s an absolute rule of thumb that people who hold such views are always the very last people anyone would ever choose to breed a so called master-race. Pitiful, if they weren’t so repulsive.

That's her "oppo research notebook" that she's brought to all her hearings. It's made up mostly of lies. If a Dem asks her questions she doesn't want to answer, she'll flip to their page & deflect w/an attack on them. Ex. Sen Schiff (D-CA) only listed off the topics she'd refused to discuss, 1/2

@pambondi should be sanctioned put before a disbarment tribunal and criminally investigated. Bar complaints to www.dcbar.org and www.floridabar.org

Random "disappearance" seen in 3rd World that we shake our heads in disapproval…

The Passive Party needs to adopt GOP tactics & strategies, recruit, educate & motivate the non voters to campaign for replacements for the GOP that pushed the BUL through & gerrymander for more GOP congress people demanded by FOTUS.

I guess these are the guys that makeup SOW Pig Hogsbreath was bitching about.

Chicagoans & neighbors, if you haven’t already, now is the time to save the ICIRR hotline in your phone: 1 (855) 435-7693 And read their advice for documenting ICE or Federal Agents - posted with alt text here. We can see how much documentation matters.

We are in late-stage authoritarian media takeover. Fox and CNN are owned/controlled by rightwing billionaires. Twitter and Truth Social WSJ and WaPo CBS and ABC Newsweek, Sinclair, now Tegna; TikTok getting close. We are far along in the Putin-mold media takeover plan.

I think so too. This is the most anti-American federal administration in American history.

It’s cruel, it’s irresponsible, it’s plain stupid. It’s clear they don’t give shit about poor American families,…

If these people were serious, they would just fucking impeach all of these bastards, including forcing Mike Johnson to go forward with it or fucking get rid of him. Hopefully these hearings lead to that happening.

People with images in their posts, if you're finding your reposts aren't happening, or that certain accounts you'd like to repost your posts just aren't... Have you put alt text on them?

Absolute failure of our system that a federal judge can be “very concerned” about Trump’s unlawful attempt to send troops into a city, but also powerless to stop it. The default should be to protect us from government abuse, not to protect government from temporary inconvenience.

@brandon4chicago.bsky.social @mayorofchicago.bsky.social was brilliant on Chicago Tonight:

Worth watching the @brandon4chicago.bsky.social bit. Calls out that: Chicago’s guns flow in from red states w/ lax gun laws. “For every gun CPD gets off the streets, 2-3 new ones come in” Trump gutted the ATF, cutting $460mil and thousands of jobs, making illegal guns harder to get off the streets

Thread.🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

This is a theme we keep repeating too. Until you see it for yourself, I think it’s hard to really understand how completely unnecessary and disproportionately violent the federal response has been. How much is for fun, terror, or social media, I don’t know. A mix of the three for sure.

Fam, this is a challenging moment. We (as reporters) are trying to balance urgency of news & amplification of resistance narratives with not assisting in putting people in prison. It's tough for everyone right now with how fast videos go viral. There's a lot we are not sharing.

Question: If Oregon can get a restraining order before they deploy the Guard to Oregon, why hasn't IL already done this?

for the first time ever wishing our current electeds would ask themselves: what would an angry Daley do

“Where bones become voices, and history learns to wag its tail.” Omg what a tagline! Genius! Brilliant! Warm & fuzzy! 🥹 Totally following u.

We are already in a full-blown civil war. It's just one side won't admit it... and the other side is rounding up & murdering citizens and refugees as quickly as possible.

If California and Oregon sued against the guard being sent to their states, why hasn’t or can’t Illinois? My head is fucking spinning.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

Sue them, @govpritzker.illinois.gov ❗️What r u waiting for?

You all know that it’s a matter of time before we relive Kent State all over again

File a damn lawsuit like Oregon did.

Do what Oregon did. Take them to court.

Thrilled to see city leaders stepping up. And both our senators.

Thread! Wow. These ppl r out of control. This judge rocks.