Spooky season in our neighborhood already going hard

@nlgchicago.bsky.social is trying to raise $10k to fund ongoing legal support for protesters. They've had to cover long shifts at Broadview, and their volunteers have been repeatedly assaulted by police in the process. More info with ways to donate here: instagram.com/p/DP36ITJja-W/

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

‼️ 🧊 Keep ICE partners out of our kids’ Chicago Public Schools’ mental health services. Reach out to your Board of Ed member and urge them to stop an automatic renewal of the Hazel Health contract. Find them here: www.cps.edu/about/chicag... Email addresses here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

IL-FPS learned this week that Hazel Health, a for-profit telehealth startup with a CPS contract to provide counseling services to HS students, merged with another tech startup, Little Otter, founded by a member of the “Palantir mafia”, alums of Peter Thiel’s notorious surveillance tech behemoth…😱+🧵

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

Holy bejeebus, y'all. Keep in mind that Thiel was/is JD's mentor 😬

NEW: In the weeks leading up to a massive ICE raid at a South Shore apartment building, neighbors saw drones surveilling the area, and teachers at a nearby school regularly saw agents in the neighborhood. ✍️ Jose Abonce for the Weekly and Maira Khwaja for @invisible.institute

Federal Vouchers, Funding Cuts, Firings: What You Need to Know About the Impact on Public Schools pfps.org/federal-vouc...

So, who is running against Raoul for Illinois Attorney General in '26?

What we just saw: state police not only assisting federal agents with crowd control out here, but also protester arrests. All morning, this has been a nonviolent demonstration. Have not seen a single crime from this crowd (not that that would excuse the brutality).

I cannot express enough how this is what has been happening for some time in Broadview. Federal agents assault, shoot chemical munitions at, and arrest protesters completely unprovoked. And state police are now helping border patrol to combat and arrest protesters. Great work everyone.

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Someone needs to press @govpritzker.illinois.gov about whether he's considered using his emergency powers at any point in this crisis and if not, why. bsky.app/profile/samh...

When a state or local law enforcement official violates your rights, you can sue for money damages. When a federal official violates your rights — you largely cannot, thanks to a quirk of the law and the Supreme Court's decision not to find an inherent cause of action to sue under the Constitution.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

We are going to live in the cultural consequences of 20 years of counterinsurgency warfare and its influence on policing and popular media until a Democratic administration takes seriously its responsibility to defund, abolish, and prosecute.

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

this should be a much bigger story

I’m so relieved to hear Ray Collins is going home. Of the five people charged from Saturday’s protest, Collins was the last to be released from pretrial custody.

As anticipated, a number of IL state troopers are here today assisting Broadview PD/"protecting free speech."

“The feds also claimed the South Shore neighborhood was “a location known to be frequented by Tren de Aragua members and their associates,” but DHS gave no evidence to support the assertion, and authorities did not confirm that any of the people arrested were members of the Venezuelan gang.”

National parks are providing bare-bones services with skeleton crews on the first day of the federal government’s partial shutdown.

The official White House account is threatening to release daily racist AI videos unless the Dems cave to their demands. They think it’s ok to make bigoted jokes about leaving millions of Americans without healthcare. About immigrants. About their political opponents. Nothing about this is “ok”

91% of homeland security personnel are exempt from the "shutdown," including most of ICE, Border Patrol, TSA and other agencies: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-border...

Illinois law prohibits sheriffs from assisting ICE with immigration enforcement. Some wish they could capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinoi...

IL GOP talking about “keeping communities safe” and then…selling ICE merch. Hope they’re all getting primaried. mailchi.mp/capitolnewsi... @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

The very definition of complicity. Why would they not walk out of the meeting immediately?

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

It was never about safety www.wbez.org/immigration/...

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

I made a free printable bookmark you can use for any banned books week (or before or after!) displays, books, etc., that gives people *action items* for defending the right to read. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Rahm Emanuel’s legacy = austerity, privatization, patronage, displacement, gun violence, and police brutality. Do not believe he will ever stand with “the common people”—he is the corrupt elite. politi.co/3ILQyj8 @politico.com

Why are people saying "this is not normal" over and over again, instead of "this is illegal" or "this is unconstitutional" or "this is treason?" Not normal sounds subjective, wishy-washy and neurotic. It communicates nothing of substance.

Community members held a vigil in Cicero tonight for those abducted by ICE in recent weeks. After a prayer from a local pastor, the group marched through the parking lot chanting “¡ICE, escucha! ¡Estamos en la lucha!” and “ICE son los ilegales. ICE son los traficantes. ICE son los criminales.”

Masked ICE agent who saw car window down, shot 50 ft from the inside of the fence…Rezaei (CBS reporter) stated there were no protests or crowds present—she was alone, checking the scene as she had done in previous weeks.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

ICE has threatened a “sh*t show” in Broadview today, per a village statement. “ICE is seeking to intimidate the Village of Broadview because we dared exercise our 1st Amendment constitutional rights calling for an end to their war on Broadview. We will not be intimidated. We are Broadview strong.”

Yes, arresting a journalist for doing their job is a big flashing red light. But I don't want people to forget the whole reason everyone is out there. This is what I saw inside: Four holding rooms. Two smaller rooms were being used for holding protesters. Two larger rooms held ICE/CBP captives.

Steve is fine/uninjured. Some neck pain from being tackled. His biggest concern while in custody was what was happening to people outside the facility since he couldn't hear any of the munitions from inside. In typical Steve fashion, he also made a number of new friends while detained.

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Very relieved @unraveledpress.com journalist and all around great human @peoplesfabric.com was released after being unjustly detained by federal agents last night while reporting on the horrifying events at the Broadview ICE processing facility outside Chicago.

So glad to hear that @peoplesfabric.com has been released but deeply concerning to hear that some detained protestors remain in federal custody and may have been moved to a different location. Hope folks will continue to follow the on the ground reporting. bsky.app/profile/did:...

This reporter helped expose the falsity of ICE's narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez. His work is a perfect example of why we don't have secret police. Journalists have a constitutional right to cover protests and their aftermath. Release @peoplesfabric.com immediately.

These disgusting fascists are now detaining reporters. Release Steve now!

it’s difficult to express how dangerous an organization the college board is in the total absence of any kind of social justice mission

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”