“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.

Ann Gillespie, director of the Illinois Department of Insurance, says as many as 30% of the estimated 466,000 Illinoisans who are covered under Affordable Care Act plans could be forced to drop their coverage due to the expected increase in costs. https://loom.ly/N-bj3O8

Never thought I’d see a VP defend Nazi sympathizers. Plus he insinuates that they talk like this every day in the Oval Office! WTF!

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.

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...