“Brought to you by Bank of America” is taking me out.

Since the announcement of “Operation Midway Blitz” in September, thousands of people living in Chicago have been arrested by federal immigration agents. Community leaders joined “Chicago Tonight” to discuss the operation’s impact on local life. https://to.wttw.com/44wjGmp

It’s decades day at my kids school. My daughter picked 90s grunge (rude). I played her some Nirvana and she told me she understood why people liked this music in the olden times.

5 y/o daughter requested the Chicks’, “not ready to make nice” for her bed time song.

We've started doing "truths to be told" during our joys/ concerns time at church because it is so disorienting to live in a moment where you/your neighbors are being gassed, shot and disappeared only to have the people who are supposed to be on our side* giving flowers to the fascist responsible.

but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children. (From One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad)

"Our rage means that, for as hard as President Donald Trump and his administration are trying, they have failed in intimidating us or convincing us that what’s happening is normal. And there is Holy Spirit power in that." —@lajoyce.bsky.social on clergy protests at Broadview.

My hot take is that bad Christmas movies were so much better before “bad Christmas movies” became a thing. Now they’re too self aware and it’s REALLY hard to do that well.

The unity and clarity of (many) Christian denominations right now is kind of astounding. To be in alignment with all Catholic Bishops, as a female clergywoman, is Holy Spirit work. And that's not even mentioning the interfaith solidarity. People of faith are united against a clear and present evil.

A few days ago as we were leaving McDonald's my 5 year old yells, "MOM STOP THE CAR! I FORGOT SOMETHING!" And I said, "what did you forget?" And she yelled, "MY BARBECUBES!" And now that is our name for all McDonald's sauces

This is actually what happened at Broadview. Thanks to @jackjenkins.me for covering this. religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

One time a woman came to our Bible study and told me that you couldn't use a Bible app on your phone because the devil could get into the technology and changed the words. I brushed it aside and continued my lesson and, well, sorry to that woman I guess...

Sometimes it’s surreal to think…the DHS called me an imbecilic moron today.

I was there. Not one attempted to hurt an officer. But police brutalized protesters with batons, threatened tasers, ripped people from the crowd, etc. I asked on the mic, “Who saw the police brutalize someone they love today?” And 100 people raised their hands. Shame on Broadview’s Mayor.

NEW: So, the courtroom at the "Broadview 6" arraignment in Chicago yesterday featured lotsa Methodist pastors. Why? They were supporters of defendant/fellow Methodist Brian Straw. "If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,” one pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/11/13/m...

Welp, this aged like milk. Really disappointed that @govpritzker.illinois.gov refuses to deal with the fact that the State Police are brutalizing peaceful protesters, including my unarmed clergy colleagues, to protect ICE at Broadview. We need more than speeches, our neighbors are disappearing.

@durbin.senate.gov gets to retire in wealth/security while millions of people lose their healthcare, suffer, and die for nothing. And he won't face the political consequences. There aren't words for the rage I feel at the betrayal of the IL people at the moment we are under attack. Shame.

Regular occurrence in my city now to come face to face with masked armed men and to have guns pointed at you. Amazing, if unsurprising, that regular Chicagoans response is not to cower but to tell them to get fucked.

As always in this house it’s, “sit down, shut up, Rahm Emmanuel” Emmanuel deserves the Cuomo treatment here in Chicago.

reminder David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel both went on the record to Politico to say they were fine with this, either knowing the result would be mass death of children or being too dumb to know. Decide for yourself what’s worse!

Solidarity from Chicago. It’s so hard to explain to people not experiencing this that none of this is “law enforcement” it’s terror and cruelty.

I never want to live anywhere that “girl,” is not a gender neutral term.

First Tuesday 10am tornado siren test, read the room. (This is niche Chicago content)

Lmaoooo, they're cooked. But also...Aunt and Uncle are the correct expressions for your parent's cousins? My kids call my cousins Aunt and Uncle. What are they supposed to call them "Mom's cousin X?"

Last thought of the night. Another thing we are seeing from elected officials (Pritzker, Broadview’s mayor, many centrist alderpeople) is that if you truly believe the police have been/will keep us safe you cannot meet this moment.

Make each other brave, make each other brave, make each other brave, make each other brave. We know now, if we didn’t before, no one is going to do it for us. But we aren’t powerless so be brave.

This I exactly it right now

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk. I had it exactly backward.

It is disorienting to live in a time when your regular degular neighbors are so much braver than the people with the most power in our state.

Kwame raoul is failing to meet the moment

Johnson "This intense and growing wealth inequality is not sustainable for our city. We can not separate the immense wealth of the few from the poverty and insecurity of the many."

Chicagoland communities (and some of our politicians) are doing 10,000% more to resist ICE and protect neighbors than the national democratic party

Putting aside the fact that this is complete and utter bullshit (source: I’ve been tear gassed and shot with rubber bullets by ICE), that “yet” is doing some heavy work.

God help you if you are just a person driving an SUV with out of state plates in Chicago right now.

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!" This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

This is like when businesses saying raising the minimum wage would like their business 😬

I fear this is my circus and, possibly, my monkeys.

Raoul is wrong about this, but more importantly, he’s just made clear that he is unfit for this moment.

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW: (Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 (Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831 Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336 I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

I’m having a hard time doing anything today; thinking about that little girl who should be in a classroom and giggling with her friends on a playground, but instead is locked up at a makeshift facility at the airport because she wasn’t white.

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

We need an opposition party, not enablers.

Y'all, the lectionary goes hard this Sunday. Amos and Jeremiah? And the gospel about not being able to serve God and money? I might have to pause our series and do a one off on these passages.

Staring wistfully at Brazil, wondering what could have been

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

responding to fascist threats with strength and power rooted in community WORKS. in order for fascist rhetoric to work, the target of their ire has to be painted as weak and ineffectual. standing on business like Pritzker has done here is unironically the ONLY thing that works.

Chat is it a good thing that our staff meetings get cut short because folks need to go get a tattoo or bangs? (It's me, I'm bangs). Are we okay?

I like @nathanevansfox.bsky.social here, “so I’m praying for the mighty to fall, else ain’t no use in prayer at all”