Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

Hey Chicago NW Side….if you’re looking for good news!

NEWS: Meta is about to start a $65 million midterms push — its biggest political effort in its 20 years in business. Meta is standing up two super PACs that this week will drop money in races in Texas and Illinois to push A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

Join our partners on Feb. 5th to learn more about the federal voucher program & receive the tools to advocate for your state to opt out of this program — which harms our public schools, students, and communities: 🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

ICYMI: Watch a recording of @a4pep.bsky.social webinar, “Unpacking the New Federal Voucher Scheme,” featuring @edlawcenter.bsky.social’s Patrick Cremin. www.a4pep.org/unpacking-th...

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.” #EpsteinFiles

All of the artists speaking out against this fascist regime at the Grammys tonight makes all of the actors who won awards at the Golden Globes collaborators or cowards or both for not saying a single thing.

😱 ICYMI: American Federation for Children (AFC)—founded & funded by Betsy DeVos to promote anti-public school legislation & policies launched a nat’l scholarship granting organization (aka voucher middleman). $10M initial bankroll for “ambitious” Trump federal school vouchers awareness campaign.

THIS cannot be overemphasized. @palan57.bsky.social

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

When Google cuts off the headline at the proper place.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

YES. "A tax surcharge on incomes over a million dollars, modeled after Massachusetts, which Forbes reports saw a windfall of $5.7 billion during the first two years, is possible, he said." abc7chicago.com/post/illinoi...

UPDATE: Judge Menendez makes it clear she intends to rule on the emergency motion by protesters — seeking to halt key police tactics by ICE in Minnesota — by Thursday afternoon.

Hey Minneapolis ❄️—we're indie reporters here from Chicago. If there's anything you'd like us to know about community actions, vigils, or fed activity, please drop us a line on Signal at unraveled.66 📱

a packed house inside thalia hall for tonight’s meeting of the community commission on public safety and accountability.

Hundreds of people have packed into Chicago's Thalia Hall tonight for a community listening session on CPD collaboration with ICE/CBP. Police district councillors who gathered petition signatures required to hold tonight's hearing are opening by thanking the community for showing out.

This is Renee Nicole Good, the 37 year old woman murdered by ICE in Minneapolis today She was a wife, mother & a fellow writer She was shot point blank in the head as she was attempting to drive away from armed masked thugs Say her name. Share her photo. Do not let ICE & DHS control the narrative

I need you to recognize the true cruelty of this. A 🧵 Welfare today is the product of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996, which established TANF - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families 1/

Maduro was a brutal ruler, it’s true. So is Putin—who Trump supports. So was Bolsonaro, who Trump supports. So was the drug-trafficking former head of Honduras, who Trump just pardoned. So is Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. MBS. Bibi. Stop pretending Trump cares about illegitimacy or brutality.

“A comprehensive anti-corruption, anti-oligarchy, pro-consumer movement would inevitably target the tech industry and its indifference to the harms it creates. Such a movement could be incredibly potent, and the tech barons would have no one to blame but themselves.”

@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

An incredible list. Losing Rob Reiner is a tragedy on so many levels. #RIP

In this season of gratitude, we give thanks to everyone fighting for public schools in Illinois and across the country. Together, let's continue to do right by our public schools, a public good that benefits ALL of us!

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration. We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem. @justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Between 2010–2013, Chicago's job growth rate was 66% above the national rate—despite having had a head tax. “This employment data does not support the claim that the head tax was a ‘job killer,’” wrote Julie Dworkin, a member of the mayor's budget working group. 🖋️@leighgiangreco.bsky.social

Protestors gathering for rally in support of @michaelrabbitt.bsky.social, @catsharpforcook.bsky.social, @katmabu.bsky.social and others indicted in attack on 1st Amendment rights to protest fee gov’t’s attacks on Chicagoans news.wttw.com/2025/10/29/d...

The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children. Read that again. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

For some visual context on today's federal court case about the inhumane conditions in ICE's Broadview facility, this is a rare glimpse inside. In the background, you can see men in one of the holding cells.

Chicagosky loves a hyperlocal holiday and since we do not have an election today, it's Michael Rabbitt Legal Fund day over here! Michael was indicted for protesting at Broadview. He's the 45th ward committeeman and a principled leader building an engaged community on the NW side. We need this guy.

Don’t know many who care deeper and work harder to protect democracy and human rights than Michael Rabbitt. Federal charges were brought against him for standing up for those who can’t and he needs our support to build a legal defense fund. Please give to his fight for justice: gofund.me/ba0309567

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

Trump was asked by 60 Minutes about immigration agents using aggresive"H tactics like busting people's windows. "Have those tactics gone too far?" "No", Trump said, "I think they haven't gone far enough." This is what that looks like in the real world. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

GoGuardian, Gaggle, Lightspeed & many others are all surveillance tools: “Instead of deploying invasive student monitoring tools, schools should keep students safe by keeping their data safe. Students deserve to learn without being tracked, profiled, and targeted online.” www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

FL, 2023: parents should have broad school choice; passes law to redirect taxpayer dollars to private schools, including religious schools. [Among 2700+ schools that received vouchers for students,~25 were Islamic schools] FL, 2025: no not like that! Let’s ban sharia law shorturl.at/c30O1

I made some #halloween treats as a tribute to Phineas Gage--the most important lesion patient in neuroscience Gage survived an accident in which an iron rod shot through his frontal lobe that damaged his social capacities If you want to make these treats www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-people...

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

will taeheung kim, a korean american scientist and doctoral candidate with a green card, is still being detained by ICE. he's been in detention since July 21, first at SFO for over a week and then in various ICE facilities all over the country.

Never Rahm ad infinitum. bsky.app/profile/jenj...

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police

There’s a fascist official named Greg Bovino, a section chief for Customs and Border Protection. Folks in L.A. and Chicago know and recognize him, and we should, too. His illegal actions already caused one federal judge to haul him into a courtroom yesterday. And hoo boy. My write-up in the replies.

NEW: For decades, allegations of abuse and misconduct have swirled around Chicago’s juvenile detention center. On Thursday, a Cook County judge will begin proceedings in a rare trial of a former employee accused of physically harming a child at the facility.

Great reporting from @mannyramos.bsky.social: "One Chicago-based company was awarded more than $7 million to relocate ICE employees while a suburban weapons manufacturer was paid nearly $1.5 million in two weeks to supply pepper balls and air-powered guns." blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/23/c...

🧵I just called @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office again to express my horror & rage. I also called my State Senator @harmonil.bsky.social & State Rep Camille Lilly. If you're in IL, please call. Pritzker's offices: 217-782-6830 217-782-6831 312-814-2121 312-814-2122 Find your IL state electeds ⬇️

At the Broadview ICE detention center outside of Chicago.