It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

It's hard to overstate how much this administration just straight up hates the large majority of Americans and couldn't care less if they died.

Freedom to Americans is forcing Applebee's open so you can spread COVID to the wait staff. Since there are no sidewalks in your neighborhood you have the freedom to barrel your absurdly large pickup through intersections without worrying about crosswalks. It's freedom for me, not freedom for we.

While this is going on here, ICE has been spotted on foot + in vehicles across SW + NW sides of Chicago. Can't verify reports rn, but also presuming suburbs. Yesterday was brutal. It's not lost on us they have more agents free for weekend kidnappings now with their facility secured by state police.

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

Surely this will trickle down to workers, right?

Just another day losing my mind that the first thing Trump did was pardon the January 6 mob violently breaking into the Capitol to overthrow the government. If I were an elected Dem, I'd be reminding people of that in every. single. interview.

Just saw an ad for a brand new game show on NBC where people compete to make ad campaigns for giant corporations. It's depressing on a level I can't articulate. And not just because it's hosted by Jimmy Fallon.

This is terrifying! ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents) This is Trump’s America.

This exchange is a microcosm of our country's current crisis.

Every day multiple people in the administration say into a camera: "we're nazis, the law doesn't apply to us, and we want to imprison and murder our enemies, and loot this country for personal gain." Then the news is like, "critics and Democrats question this plan to lower crime."

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Now: Hundreds assembling in the Chicago Loop for a march and rally to demand the National Guard leave town. Folks chanting "Donald Trump you racist clown! You're not welcome in this town!"

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders. Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

Man, I like Pritzker, but they HAVE been coming for the people of Illinois, and I haven't really seen anything stopping them. The rhetoric is spot on, but there needs to be some actual action to stop these abductions and violence by the feds and get the people back.

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Monstrous. "federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW. While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Chicago was named the Best Big City in the U.S for the 9th time in a row by Condé Nast! Through thick and thin I'm forever proud to call this city home ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶

"One doesn't ask of one who suffers: what is your country and what is your religion? One merely says, you suffer, this is enough for me, you belong to me and I shall help you." -Louis Pasteur 'Servant of Humanity' Erected by the people of Chicago, 1928

Non-exhaustive list of cops in Broadview yesterday includes: ICE, CBP + Border Patrol, BOP special ops, DEA special ops, ATF, HSI, FBI IL state police, Cook Co sheriff's officers, Broadview PD, at least a dozen other suburban depts both individually and as part of NIPAS

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

Tapping the “no one is coming to save you” sign.

If we get another Dem administration, they need to dismantle ICE & use those funds to investigate & prosecute everyone enacting Trump's illegal authoritarian lust. From the military to bureaucrats to elected officials to all levels of law enforcement. Full clean house of these white nationalists.

what the fuck. i still can't get over we have fucking nazis rolling around chicago kidnapping people and handcuffing kids, beating protestors, breaking into buildings and throwing gas grenades like every fucking day now. i love this city and they are fucking terrorizing it

Ald. Jessie Fuentes’ office just released a statement she was handcuffed and threatened arrest amid ongoing ICE activity in Humboldt Park. Tear gas was also used on passersby at a Home Depot an at Rico Fresh, her office says. I’m on my way to an emergency press conference now.

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

and scene

This is where @govpritzker.illinois.gov needs to back his strong words up with action. He said they'd need to go through him to get to the people of Illinois. Where is he?

If you’re in Illinois and you’re disturbed by the images that you’re seeing of the Illinois State Police in Broadview this morning, please call now. It will honestly take 30 seconds. I spoke to a real person. Here are the phone numbers: 312-814-2121 312-814-2122 217-782-6830 217-782-6831

These people are sociopaths, and they're pulling the power levers in our country.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

They kept Telegram on their App Store even after it was used as an organizing platform first for ISIS and then for murder Nazis

Every day is just countless alerts of ICE all over the city, with hotspots on the southwest side communities of Brighton Park and Back of the Yards. I do wonder long-term how our Latine immigrant communities can live like this. It's breaking our fabric. We need leaders at all levels to do more.

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”… “Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

It was on this day in 1994 that the CTA switched all of the names of train lines to colors. You see here both the purple and brown trains heading through downtown.

I opened YouTube and the first thing it recommended was a new CTA "Ride the Rails" video where you can watch the view from the train driver's front window. So far they've uploaded 2025 versions of the Red and Purple Lines (complete with the rebuilt north side stations). Happy birthday CTA!

Hot off Trump's crony's "public transportation sucks" guest oped, the Trib quislings are now directly posting "ICE is good, actually"

In the heart of Seoul, a ribbon of water now threads through where an expanse of asphalt once stood. The Cheonggyecheon Stream restoration, which replaced a major elevated motorway with an ecological and recreational corridor, has become a powerful case study in placemaking and traffic evaporation.🧵

In the last two weeks these feds have choked & beaten protesters, broken bones, given people concussions from munitions, pointed their sidearms at people, tear gassed a neighborhood, shot reporters in the face, destroyed neighbors' property, threatened elected officials No National Guard necessary

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I wonder if it's good strategy to insult your military command as you ask them to commit war crimes and declare war on their own people.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Tell Chris Murphy to contact his Senator.

New Orleans has had the fewest murders this year since 1970. Carjackings are down 80% relative to 2022, vehicle burglaries are down 70%, shootings are down 63%. This is a wholly unnecessary stunt that will hurt local businesses.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.