A few dozen protesters at 25th and Harvard are walking back and forth across Harvard where ICE vehicles are now entering and leaving. As a couple ICE vehicles depart, Broadview PD clears a path for them.

The Street Vendors Association of Chicago is raising emergency funds to support vendors who can't safely work right now. They have a significant goal of $300k for impacted workers + families. GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st... Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago

That definition has since been criticized as overly broad and open to interpretation, shaping how successive administrations have approached politically motivated violent acts inside the United States. Trump is now trying to expand that definition to also include politically motivated speech.

While the measure is new, it roots draws on a legal framework dating back to the post-9/11 USA PATRIOT Act, which introduced a statutory definition of “domestic terrorism.”

Trump’s new executive action, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” was signed yesterday. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Essential reading www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

"Florida Mandates Institution of Nazi Youth Chapters at All Schools."

In Russia in the 90s Putin imprisoned the oligarchs who put a toe out of line. Only those who supported him, whom he could control, were allowed to continue making and using their money.

Here's a Democratic politician, Byron Sigcho-Lopez, a Chicago alderman, who is saying the same exact thing that I'm saying. You're full of shit.

Yeah, troll brigade isn’t right. More like Blue MAGA bots. Pointing out a failed way of doing politics isn’t helping fascists, it’s a basic part of bettering a free society. Cults can’t abide criticism. Ask yourself are you acting in support of a party or acting like you’re in a cult?

My principles are for sale? That's a hollow, baseless and unprincipled accusation. 🤷‍♂️

Are you guys part of some AI troll brigade?

So far I've been noticing a lot of activity from trolls encouraging me to not call Donald Trump a dictator, which he is, and to not encourage politicians to do their jobs and arrest ICE agents, which should have happened already.

Nearly every company out there is owned by fascists. ICE's activities are illegal, immoral and harmful to our communities. I expect governors and state police to do their jobs, and if the police don't want to, I could find an army just a stone's throw from here who will. Not everyone is a coward.

The OP mentioned an "opposition," which includes anywhere between 60 to 75 percent of the populace, including governors.

Also, *arrest ICE agents for breaking the law.*

With handcuffs.

Why? Do you believe governors lack the authority to uphold and enforce the law?

No time machine is necessary. All you need is a politician with a spine and the people willing to do it, and those people would not be hard to find if state or municipal police refuse to do their jobs.

NEW — Multiple videos and photos shared to social media show over a dozen federal agents, including Border Patrol, raiding a Home Depot on 47th Street and Western Avenue in Chicago. This Home Depot has been targeted for arrests at least twice before. thetriibe.com/2025/09/bord...

Harassing NGOs and NGO funders is a big part of the authoritarian handbook www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Tariffs will never “kick in” to benefit farmers.

@moderation.bsky.app, grow a spine. This woman was insulting and harassing me long before I signaled for her to back off.

This is basically what I feel like all the time now

MechaHitler (this is what the "AI" calls itself) is going to interface with the US government. What a fucking nightmare.

There are videos all over social media now of Border Patrol having moved on to the Home Depot at Western & 47th. Early reports suggest they may have snatched a tamale vendor.

~4am today: video shared to social media by a neighbor shows an early morning raid with flash grenades on a house in Cicero. Border Patrol agents are on the scene, including one who looks a lot like Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino, seen alongside a person filming.

Things are moving fast this morning. As of a few minutes ago, Border Patrol is still in Back of the Yards, unclear if more arrests are ongoing or agents are just lingering. Neighbors also report seeing ICE agents in far northwest Dunning neighborhood.

If you live in Chicago (or its suburbs), but you don't follow Unraveled, then you do not know what's happening in your city.

These people are so dangerously unfit to lead us, it’s exhausting and horrifying.

I would keep an eye out for Israel or Russia to strike.

“Hegseth’s order…applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers.” This is not normal. This has basically never been done. And nothing good can come of it. 🎁 wapo.st/4nidndf

Finally read this and the incompetence of ai companies is so stunning that you’d think they wanted to distribute CSAM and I’m not so sure they don’t.

Another plaintiff has lived here since 2019 and is going through the asylum process. He is already checking in with ICE and was even wearing an ICE ankle monitor. A Border Patrol agent randomly arrested him without any questioning or explanation. He was detained for 10 hours.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

💙 @davidsirota.com speaks with @equalityalec.bsky.social *award-winning #civilrights lawyer & author of the book Copaganda: How #Police & the #Media Manipulate Our #News, about how government officials are manufacturing #fear to justify #authoritarian rule @levernews.com 🇺🇸

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

It's never occurred to me that it IS an assumption. This is the most astonishing start to a paper I've read in years: "Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species."

When the state legislature refused to give Walters the $3 million required to put bibles in classrooms, he managed to scrounge up just enough special editions to put them in some AP classes. With some caveats. okcfox.com/news/local/t...

Look at all this gear; such cowardly buffoons.

Chicago area: if you believe you may recognize this federal agent who choked a protester last week, please text us 📱

1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people. His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority. Subscribe to support our journalism.