Please consider coming to this online event. An extremely cool opportunity to learn about labor history through something we're all familiar with but may overlook as an important form of media: the button! Isaac Silver is presenting. Register here. (There is a free option.)

No Neutrals There Join @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social, and Nesreen Hasan for a conversation about US Labor, Zionism, & the Struggle for Palestine. Tuesday, 11/11 at 6:30 CT Live at @haymarkethouse.bsky.social & online RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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"unhoused people are particularly vulnerable to their violence: heavily criminalized, culturally scapegoated, and with fewer smartphones and eyes to notice or bear witness to their abductions." important reporting by @katieprout.bsky.social

"The Illinois Drivers Alliance worked with the City of Chicago to hire 24/7 security and install signs making clear the lots cannot be used for civil immigration enforcement, but the raids have continued unabated."

"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So hear me, President Trump, when I say this. To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

"Why 650 Minnesota Doctors May Go on Strike" - new report by Isabela Escalona

I can confirm that Willian Giménez González, beloved day laborer leader and advocate for his fellow workers, has been freed from ICE detention and is back in Chicago! For those interested in supporting him and his family, here is a GoFundMe.

Please consider coming out to this event. This is an important book, and there is much to discuss about its implications. You can RSVP here. www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

No Neutrals There Join @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social, and Nesreen Hasan for a conversation about US Labor, Zionism, & the Struggle for Palestine. Tuesday, 11/11 at 6:30 CT Live at @haymarkethouse.bsky.social & online RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

This video, obtained by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social, is from the morning after the federal raid on the South Shore apt complex. It shows 5 units tagged with tape reading ​“PC.” All of those units were raided by agents, while unmarked units were not raided. Story here. inthesetimes.com/article/evic...

This report by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social raises troubling questions about the role of the landlord in the federal raid on the apartment complex at 7500 South Shore Drive. Agents "appear to have received advance information about the building’s occupants that led them to target certain apartments"

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

“I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me.” @sarahlazare.bsky.social, reporting on the case of Willian Giménez González, an advocate for the rights of day laborers, abducted by ICE on September 12, and who is speaking out from detention. inthesetimes.com/article/chic...

Willian Giménez González, a known advocate for the rights of day laborers who was abducted by federal agents on September 12, is speaking out from ICE detention. @sarahlazare.bsky.social reporting in our latest joint publication with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/chic...

Volunteers at hiring sites are doing an incredible job of creating a friendly atmosphere, handing out donuts to passers by, giving directions to passing strangers, all while looking out for ICE, well aware of the high stakes. Combo of open-heartedness and hypervigilance. 📷 by Steel Brooks

There's been a huge outpouring of support for Willian. He is known as an advocate for day laborers and was in the middle of suing off-duty cops for harassing workers in the Home Depot parking lot. His Sept 12 abduction rattled his community. He's now speaking out from ICE custody.

Willian Giménez González, a known advocate for the rights of day laborers, was abducted by federal agents in Chicago on September 12. He told me that he is now facing retaliation within ICE custody. “I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me,” he says. My latest.

"The family is gone. The people taken in the raid never showed up to their jobs that morning, leaving coworkers to wonder. The child, if they attended the school across the street, was absent." Devastating piece by @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social

I visited the sites of three places in Chicago where ICE abducted people. Here’s what I found.

Why Twin City Tanning Workers are On Strike

This is funny! Trump recently claimed there are "beautiful black women walking around in MAGA hats" in Chicago begging for the national guard to be sent in. So this guy went looking for those women. But it turns out the red hats they're wearing are Chicago Teachers Union hats. They DON'T want troops

"The exact timeframe of the incident isn’t clear, but the video depicts an older white agent straddling a young Black man on the ground outside the convenience store."

“Some may call it a trade, some may call it a craft, some may call it an art, but whatever it is called, there is dignity in your labor”

Twin City Tanning workers who face hazardous conditions and exposure to chemicals are on strike! They're demanding fair wages and good-faith bargaining. The workforce is largely immigrants, and at a rally Tuesday, interpreters were speaking in Spanish, English, and Karen. New from Amie Stager.

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

Don’t be this guy.

Rapid responders in Chicago are amazing.

"Since September, at least six unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents. That number is likely higher, but the social invisibility and isolation already faced by people experiencing homelessness make their disappearances harder to track" by @katieprout.bsky.social @mulchy.bsky.social

A certain legacy-media editorial board recommended capitulation in the face of Trump’s invasion, but on the South Side, we believe Chicagoans should keep standing up for one another.

Seems worth noting that just the NEW annual funding for Trump's deportation machine is more than 10x the annual budget for the entire Environmental Protection Agency.

Even in a government shutdown, the 13th largest army in the world wages war in Chicago. ICE’s militarized raids & abductions are terrorizing communities—while billions are poured into their hands. @sarahlazare.bsky.social & @lindsaykosh.bsky.social report: inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

Yesterday I spoke to Brandon Lee from the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee rights. He said they are still trying to get in touch with people who were taken. “This is very much a case of DHS deliberately trying to disappear people. Why else would they do it in the middle of the night?”

"Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing."

NEW: If the U.S. immigration enforcement apparatus were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This bloated force is raining violence on Chicago. @sarahlazare.bsky.social and @lindsaykosh.bsky.social of @nationalpriorities.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com:

There is a class component to federal agents' crackdowns. They're abducting day laborers, street vendors, domestic workers, textile workers en masse. They're not going after big employers/people in Trump's corporate milieu.

Wherein @dskamper.bsky.social makes the surprising case for optimism, and is also really funny. Read about his forthcoming book! Interview by Isabela Escalona for @workdaymagazine.bsky.social

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges. What we’re seeing is the 13th largest army in the world unleashing violence in Chicago, writes @sarahlazare.bsky.social and @lindsaykosh.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the US were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Turkey, Canada, and Spain — and just below Israel.

“If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world.“ - @sarahlazare.bsky.social & Lindsay Koshgarian, @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

If Trump's deportation machine were an army, it would be the 13th largest on earth, ahead of Poland, Canada, Iran. The funding increase kicked in Oct 1, as federal agents unleash violence on the Chicago area, raiding communities and brutalizing protesters. By me & Lindsay Koshgarian, 📷 Steel Brooks.

This is how federal agents are showing up to protests against ICE. This is from Friday am, on 25th around the corner from the Broadview detention center. Looks like an invading army.

A note of caution to journalists: Don’t report ICE claims as fact. They lie all the time. And they have a huge propaganda apparatus to spread their lies. Don’t be part of it.

Pritzker told us to take out our phones and record ICE. But what do we do when it’s his own state police force brutalizing protesters, pinning them in so that federal agents can beat them? Illinois state police were standing shoulder to shoulder with ICE at Broadview today.

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

· ICE’s campaign of terror is “chilling speech and chilling organizing…among immigrant workers” prospect.org/labor/2025-1... @sarahlazare.bsky.social @prospect.org

Seen earlier today on 25th near Harvard, close to Broadview immigrant detention center, where protests were taking place.

Just to be clear, numerous local police departments were working in tandem with federal agents this morning to shut down protests against the Broadview ICE detention center. ICE and cops (and other federal agents) were shoulder to shoulder, doing maneuvers together to violently repress the crowd.