@chidad3.bsky.social
Husband, Father, Chicagoan.
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
In the last year, the Trump administration has taken unprecedented action to dismantle institutions and programs benefiting marginalized communities, cut funding for essential social services, and pull back funds allocated to states and local jurisdictions. These cuts jeopardize public safety and risk reversing the incredible progress Cook County has made in reducing community violence. The undersigned 68 community, faith, policy, and service-providing organizations write to call on you and your fellow commissioners to protect funding for essential services like violence prevention, behavioral health, and community investment to reduce intra-community violence. You can support these services by freezing law enforcement spending, which is already far above the levels set when there were many more people in jail and many more criminal cases being processed by our court system. Over the last decade, Cook County has made tremendous progress in reducing pretrial jailing and improving community safety. This has been a byproduct of both moving away from racist policies promoting mass incarceration and strategically investing in expansions to the social safety net and community-based violence prevention programs. With the Trump administration gutting many of the federal programs aimed at supporting the neighborhoods most at risk of community violence, it is essential that Cook County not only avoid cutting budgets for these programs but also increase investments. We believe that Cook County can protect and increase essential health and human service spending by freezing all spending for law enforcement. Despite the nearly 40% decrease in the number of people incarcerated in the Cook County Jail, the Cook County Department of Corrections budget has not seen a reduction that coincides with that change in responsibility. Similarly, the budget for the State's Attorney's Office grew tremendously over the last decade, even as both the number of case filings and crime rates …
… continued to decrease. It is important to note that while the federal government has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for essential social services, law enforcement spending has unjustifiably increased. We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge President Trump's authoritarian attacks on residents of Cook County. Over the last several weeks, there have been repeated threats to the safety of our community members through executive orders targeting people without homes or who have mental health needs. Numerous federal law enforcement agencies have been dispatched to make arrests and deport our neighbors. It is essential at this moment that Cook County expand investments to ensure adequate support of community members targeted by the actions of the Trump administration and everyone impacted by its reduced funding for resources that allow marginalized people to live safe and healthy lives. The County's investment must include increasing the budget of the Public Defender's Office, which is responsible for defending increasing numbers of Cook County residents facing both criminal charges and immigration removal proceedings. Cook County must protect its important progress increasing community safety and reducing pretrial jailing from a federal administration that has made clear that it does not care about our most vulnerable residents. Please stand strong for community safety by freezing law enforcement spending to protect essential health and human service investments and expand support for Public Defense. Sincerely, The Cook County members of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and supporting organizations: A Just Harvest A Midwest Movement Project Access Living Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment | AFIRE Apna Ghar, Inc. Asian Americans Advancing Justice || Chicago Beyond Legal Aid BlackRoots Alliance Brighton Park Neighborhood Council Cannabis Equity IL Coalition
Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation | CAASE Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts Chicago Community Bond Fund Chicago Therapy Collective Chicago Torture Justice Center Chicago United for Equity Chicago United Solidarity Project | CUSP Chicago Urban League Chicago Votes Children's Best Interest Project Circles & Ciphers Color Of Change Community Renewal Society Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project | FLAP First Defense Legal Aid HANA Center Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice Illinois National Organization for Women Illinois Prison Project Illinois Social Justice Alliance Impact for Equity Indivisible Chicago-South Side Inside Out Network Jewish Council on Urban Affairs KAN-WIN Legal Council for Health Justice Liberation Library Lucy Parsons Labs Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition & Solidarity | MAMAS Muslim Civic Coalition NAMI Cook County North Suburban National Lawyers Guild Chicago Nehemiah Trinity Rising Nikkei Uprising Northwestern University Graduate Workers Pretrial Justice Institute Restore Justice Revolution Workshop Sana Healing Collective Saving Our Urban Leaders Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston She Votes Illinois Shriver Center on Poverty Law SisterReach Illinois Southsiders Organizing for Unity and Liberation | SOUL Stick Talk TASC, Inc. The People's Lobby The Puerto Rico Project To Defend If Necessary Trinity United Church of Christ Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of Illinois Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Ilinois Uptown People's Law Center West Town Law Office Wolf Pack Therapy Youth Empowerment Performance Project
sixty-eight chicago community, faith, + social service organizations are calling on cook county commissioners to “protect and increase social service spending” amid drastic cuts nationally from the trump admin.
they suggest freezing all law enforcement spending, which has “unjustifiably increased.”
KEEP MY CITY OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTH YOU RAPIST FUCK
#Chicago #fuckICe
Yeah and he's a shit human, literally
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Greg's friend fucks kids
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Strange Willie didn't ask Greg about his MAGA pal
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Hey #GOP, THIS IS ON YOU
HEY MEDIA, YOURE FAILING EVERY FUCKING DAY YOU DONT CALL THIS OUT.
#Chicago #LA #Portland #FuckICE
He should be more like JB and STAND FOR WHAT HE BELIEVES...
Yeah, fuck Greg.
Vin number 2C4RC1BG5TR162876
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10.10.2025 20:17 — 👍 56 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.
More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...
Re-upping this piece I wrote a month ago, which becomes ever more relevant as Trump's tyranny worsens, as masked thugs keep terrorizing immigrants, and as the "Justice" Department keeps inventing charges against political opponents.
I ask: WHY WON'T THE MEDIA SAY TRUMP IS BECOMING A DICTATOR?
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance
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“.. WGN is aware of this situation, and we are actively gathering the facts related to it,” the station said in a statement.
@chicagotribune.com
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
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The journalist feds grabbed this morning is reportedly Debbie Brockman, per her LinkedIn info a producer for @wgntv.com.
WGN gave a statement for this Trib story, but WGN's website has yet to mention one of its producers being seized by masked federal agents.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)
Follow @heartlandsignal for more.
I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.
A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.
Violent agitators! She must have been 3 feet and a half! She could have manipulated me into some violence against ice cream! Probably going to do it again but this time HOT COCOA!
The GOP is right, these people are MAD!!!!
This sounds like they're gearing up for a violent crackdown. The talking points obviously went out.
10.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 813 🔁 210 💬 64 📌 17Ohhh #DonnieDeutsch was crying like a baby while watching this. Love love love to see it
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This is how you headline.
Time: Trump loses Nobel Peace Prize he shamelessly campaigned for
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”
@cnbc.com $UPS
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