When Midway Blitz ramped down late last year, federal officials asserted that they weren't done with the Trump admin's mass deportation campaign in Chicagoland. Activity has yet to reach the heights of last fall, but true to their word, ICE never left. My latest, for @southsideweekly.bsky.social:

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

Yall still need to cancel that service. If they did it once, they will do it again! Give them the Target treatment. Keep going.

Kid Rock led a half time show for parents who have no-contact kids

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...

"They are forcing the public, and Supreme Court Justices, to have to rely solely on the Government’s inaccurate version of events. This Court has the power to shed light on the truth of what happened on October 4."

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

Yeah this is EXACTLY what they did after killing Silverio Villegas González here. The ICE agents who killed him walked around the scene, picked up dropped gear and a magazine, holstered their weapons, and then one drove their car away. Cops helped them out and never even asked their names.

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

It’s this shit, Fam. People always tell on themselves. You just gotta pay attention.

We still do not know the names of the ICE agents who killed Silverio Villegas González on September 12, 2025 outside of Chicago. If you have any information, please reach out on Signal at @tpf.99.

Happening now: hundreds have gathered in downtown Chicago to rally against both ICE/Border Patrol violence and US intervention in Venezuela. This is one of only multiple anti-ICE demonstrations planned in Chicago this weekend.

I hope a lot of white women are realizing it's better to be alone than to be living with someone who thinks Good deserved to be murdered.

If you're not willing to arrest the killer, don't arrest the demonstrators.

Thousands here now. Absolutely enormous crowd. People are chanting, "ICE out! Fuck ICE!" Organizers are taking the street but it's a slow process because there is SO much ice (the water kind). People helping each other up left and right after slipping.

Pissed about Minneapolis and want to give money or show up to meet needs? This thread has a ton of resources for exactly that.

Reminder that if you still have FSA funds to spend this year, you can spend them at FSA store: fsastore.com - you can purchase menstrual products for example to donate to your local pantries and homeless shelters. I have $130 left and that's what I did yesterday.

Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.

My bus driver just called out the people watching videos on speaker and I think we should make him mayor

615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.

Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center. This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.

I will also add: I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.

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.

ARE YOU FUCKING WATCHING? They abducted a daycare teacher today, amid screaming and terrified children. What the fuck is happening and how are people still unaware of the consistency with which this is being replicated across Chicagoland (and other places)?

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

Sure you laugh now but how many people can say they lost two NYC mayoral elections in the same year?

ATTN: if you’re on the sandwich guy jury, my Signal is in my bio. I’d love to talk after the trial. I’ll keep you anonymous. Please share widely.

Northside Chicago peeps, the ICE/CBP convoy has been spotted around the Lincoln Park Costco. Please patrol your neighborhood and alert laborers at worksites, and landscapers who are removing leaves. The ones I've talked to were not aware of the situation

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Shouting this thread from the rooftops. There are so many white Chicagoans whose impressions of the neighborhoods that house the geographic and demographic majority of the city are just an accumulation of assumptions and other people's stories. That has consequences.

IDK what that means going fwd but it is a Very Big Deal that people with a lot of wealth and political power suddenly feel a personal stake in this issue It's VERY important that it translates into *solidarity* rather than the usual crime/policing "keep this unpleasantness contained to Over There"/

I have already heard/seen a huge difference. Ppl usually proud of being neutral/apolitical saying THIS is new and bad and different It's not and they're wrong but what IS different (and possibly very good) is their awareness and engagement and willingness to be publicly identified with opposition +

For most white people, the ICE surge existed only on social media - IF that Not in their social networks, not within miles of many It's different now. Lincoln Park is densely-populated and a many (most?) white people in Chicago know someone who lives near where fed agents gassed the neighborhood +

No, kidnappings have also not stopped at NYC's immigration court or in L.A. & D.C. Corporate media apparatus will continue treating this all as disparate events rather than a national emergency Children will go to bed without their parents tonight. Let's keep talking about that stupid video.

Waking up every morning and checking the kidnapping report alongside the weather is not a thing anyone should have to do.

every adult should know how to craft something. i use that loosely: cook a meal, do a bit of DIY, sew a button, grow a plant. if there is nothing in this world that you can make yourself... why. what are you doing

I was hoping someone was finding a way to track this. The treatment is inhumane no matter who they’re grabbing. But I’m so sick of people pretending that citizens aren’t getting snatched up in this, too.

@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/

School safety patrols are forming all over Chicago. I helped organize a training last night in one of the last neighborhoods you might expect. People are furious, and they’re done feeling helpless.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls for calling on them to redeem themselves. "I have not seen them cross the line yet" means the line doesn't fucking exist.

It now appears the federal agents have left the intersection, after deploying more gas into the crowd. Still working to sort more details. Feels almost trite at this point to bring up the federal court's restraining order, which included language meant to rein in agents' use of chemical weapons.

Developing: per photographer Matthew Kaplan and others on scene, neighbors are currently facing dozens of Border Patrol agents on the east side. Feds have been all over the area, some kidnappings confirmed. Saw one gas canister deployed on FB live earlier.

That fire comes from love, but sometimes, we need a moment to self-regulate, so we don't lose ourselves in it. If this moment is stretching you out or burning you up, please take care of yourself. Fortify yourself, honor your needs, and maintain your relationships. There's a lot more of this ahead.

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

If you see ICE agents, Illinois State Police, or Chicago or suburban police engaging in immigration enforcement or misconduct, file a complaint with COPA, Cook County, or the IL Inspector General and let us know. If you have video, here's how you can share it with us:

U.S. District Judge April Perry's temporary restraining order is in:

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded