ICE is in Edgewater. Stay safe if you’re vulnerable on the far North Side. They’ve already been run off with whistles at least once today. Patrolling matters. That’s what I’m doing. Buy out the street vendors, fam.

🧊 in Albany Park again today, please warn neighbors/landscapers/construction workers.

Digital access to banned books www.cbs8.com/article/news...

We’re doing a bowl of whistles in case parents need them—there have been a few scares with kids getting hold of a whistle and then being kids with it, so it seems like the consensus is maybe don’t give to kids except for the very serious middle schoolers who specifically want to help

#Chicago whistle and zine folding parties today (Oct 29) and Thursday (Oct 30)

Idea…create bags with a whistle and a zine to hand out for #Chicago Halloween (plus candy of course) Here is a zine to print: drive.google.com/file/d/1yq1i...

If SNAP benefits are halted next month, it will mark the first time in history the program has not been funded during any government shutdown. The food stamp program was first established during the Great Depression in the 1930s under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. thetriibe.com/2025/10/mill...

My CTA stop! Great photo of Cermak-McCormick green line stop in #MotorRow #Chicago

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is set to appear before U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis. What you need to know, for @wttw.bsky.social:

thx to all the Chicago reporters at federal court for Bovino's testimony today including @heathercherone.bsky.social @jonseidel.bsky.social @leighkunkel.bsky.social @colinbphoto.bsky.social

Border Patrol slammed the burbs this morning while Bovino was in court. Now they're patrolling the city. Multiple people detained in Humboldt Park. A Blackhawk has been circling the north side. Just watched a FB live from Berwyn end as an agent backed into someone behind him, then detained them.

She has now ordered Bovino to appear personally at the court every day to report back what has happened and to list everyone arrested who is not being arrested for immigration enforcement reasons. This is the most insane court session I've ever been in. Feels like a headteacher bollocking

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

honestly the head of every major religion should be from Chicago

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP. A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify. I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

Border Patrol Chief Bovino exited the federal courthouse in Chicago today, facing questions over his use of tear gas in communities despite a federal ban without justification. Before leaving, he stood in the truck doorway, fist-pumped, and then placed a CS grenade on the dashboard.

Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP. If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them. Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.

So proud of my city. 👊❤️ (Albany Park is a diverse neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago.) * Continuing to fight the "Chicago is a hellhole" narrative: I saw this because I biked a few miles to a lovely chocolate cafe on a gorgeous fall day where the leaves were starting to turn golden.

“.. Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us.’” @apnews.com #Chicago apnews.com/article/chic...

🚨 The Senate votes 52-48 to overturn President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil. 5 GOP Senators break ranks to vote against Trump: Collins ME, McConnell KY, Murkowski AK, Paul KY, and Tillis NC.

If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social

Heretic Coffee in Portland, Oregon has announced that starting Nov 1st they will provide breakfast to those in the community who will be facing hunger due to SNAP benefits not being sent out in November. "we know it’s not much, but we’ll do our best to keep you fed" - Heretic Coffee #Pinks

OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

There is both hope and horror in this but I will take the hope. h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Far north suburban Waukegan is reeling from ICE raids

I was getting new glasses today in #Chicago. The woman who helped me shared that she always carries her passport now, but not her license, in case she has to prove she is a US citizen. She doesn’t want them to see her address. She is scared of getting stopped all the time 😢. This is beyond horrible

Its so hard to understand the scope and scale of the Federal attack on Chicago, led by ICE and CBP. I put this map and table together, highlighting the most significant incidents from 9/19-10/25. The area shown is roughly 30 by 35 miles with incidents in all corners.

“These weren’t activists, these weren’t paid protesters, these were literally my neighbors coming out of their homes at 10 o’clock in the morning because they saw lawless agents acting in violent ways,” said Brian Kolp, a former Cook County prosecutor. trib.al/np9nmL8

That’s $500 million lost per day

Goodbye Spotify. Was it worth running #ICE ads? I hope the stock keeps tanking. I feel better that our family is now on Tidal which pays artists more for their music!

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Today there was a Emergency Protest in Northside of Chicago at Jonquil Park denouncing ICE, their continual terror in #chicago and demanding. For several days in a row ICE has attacked neighborhoods deploying to teargas, assaulting citizens & abducting people. #ice

Lincoln Park protest against ICE today

The family of the man who was abducted by Border Patrol in Old Irving Park yesterday while he worked his construction job has setup a GFM to help support his family and to cover legal costs.

Federal agents have tear gassed Chicago neighborhoods three days in a row. Confirmed gassings during recent immigration raids in: Logan Square, Brighton Park, Albany Park, Little Village, East Side, Lakeview, Irving Park and Avondale.

Does this look like a riot to you? Of course, not. The videos all show how Chicago residents who were out walking their dogs and riding bikes came together quickly when ICE started grabbing people on their block. How did ICE respond? Tear gas, of course. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/24/l...

Another video about what happened in Old Irving yesterday.

The heroics of Chicagoans under the blitz are inspiring. But this is an awful situation, it’s hard to bear, and it’s getting worse

In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

Mayor of Evanston Daniel Biss talks about recent ICE targeting of landscapers & the city now encouraging owners to pay landscapers NOT to come to work. They are doing that also by putting a moratorium on gas powered leaf blowers to make it easier for people to maintain their own lawns.

ICE continued its aggressive tactics in Chicago today. Unlike watching this on TV, you cannot turn it off when it’s happening in your neighborhood. Gift link. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

The damn helicopters overhead in #Chicago are so disturbing.

A very disturbing video has emerged from today’s ICE/CBP operations in Avondale. An officer pushes a woman to the ground, prompting bystanders to react angrily and throw what appears to be a rock at a moving unmarked vehicle. This seems to be the new normal in Chicago.

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor. And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

Scene outside of Windy City Produce in Avondale/Old Irving area this morning.

I wrote a little bit about what it feels like to live in Chicago right now lauriemerrell.com/posts/dispat...

“most days your community might be totally quiet & then a day comes where things are lighting up everywhere around you all at once. One of the indicators that your neighborhood is being targeted is the presence of a helicopter …The sound is deeply unsettling.” - @laurie-merrell.bsky.social #Chicago

Fight like a Ukrainian....

I can feel my heart rate rising as I watch so many tear gas attacks happening in my beloved city of #Chicago. I’m donating to help the families impacted and started making a braided rug to try to calm down. How is this happening? How is it possible? Chicagoans are making me so proud right now.