Alex Nelson

Feds just making up laws on the spot to try to scare people from reporting on their activity.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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Well Better Streets Chicago Action Fund is issuing questionnaires to candidates, so stay tuned!

Mostly it's paying the state's bills.

If you're not spending your Saturday night researching Illinois State Comptroller responsibilities, are you really even living?

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems

criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

Bold to assume they can read.

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Biking through Wrigleyville less than an hour before Cubs start a home playoff game. Truly harrowing.

Alum Tonika Johnson '03 Named MacArthur Fellow The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recognizes the Englewood native and Columbia College Chicago graduate, who uses creativity as a catalyst for social change.

Columbia College Chicago alum Tonika Johnson ’03 was named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, a prestigious honor that recognizes creative individuals who demonstrate the ability to impact society in a significant way.
Johnson studied journalism and photojournalism.

MacArthur 2025 ‘genius grant’ winners include a Chicago photographer Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

So, about that letter of support for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes: 13 alderpeople didn’t sign it • The TRiiBE The letter describes what the agents did to Fuentes as an “abuse of power.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, City Clerk, Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin also signed it.

Chicago Ald. Gregory Mitchell oversees the 7th Ward, which is home to the South Shore apartment building at the center of last week’s ICE raid.

He didn’t sign the letter.

Mitchell has not yet publicly issued a statement on the raid.

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TIMCAST NEWS Timcast News @TimcastNews Follow "At my first AIPAC reception, you had to wear a name badge with a QR code, talk to donors, and if they liked you, they scanned it to donate on the spot." @mattgaetz on the surreal, humiliating world of AIPAC fundraisers. [GAETZ interview video 1:40] 8:15 PM • 10/7/25 • 885K Views

Wow:

Matt Gaetz says politicians at an AIPAC reception had to wear QR codes around their necks and go around and introduce themselves to potential donors. AIPAC members would scan the QR code to donate if they liked them.

If true, AIPAC is literally buying US politicians like groceries at a store.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

i think lots of evangelical leaders GENUINELY believe this, and that their followers believe IN THEM, so that while millions might not have a personal theology that espouses this, they're members of an evangelical community that DOES have this view as a core value.

Actually 50 noise complaints from one singular crank is exactly what I'd expect

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

They escalated the situation! Local, state, and federal cops will always choose one another over the people. Or you, for that matter.

before, when they were saying "Chicago is a warzone", I didn't realize it was a promise

American Jewish institutions simply do not represent Jewish popular opinion

Which means the time is ripe for new institutions

Today was a very difficult day.

Almost 5 years ago, the #PlowTheSidewalks campaign was born out of frustration from a problem that we were determined had a solution – and one that unites us all in the winter.

The real infrastructure is the friends we made along the way.

The Johnson admin refusing to use its heft to complete even the most modest of its own campaign goals is something we expect from Chicago mayors, but never this silently. Johnson doesn't get to complain about progressives and lefties abandoning him if this is how his admin treats them.

Witness video shows federal agents throwing tear gas canisters in the middle of Armitage Ave today as they appear to be blocked in and heckled by angry neighbors.

This is around the 3500 block of West Armitage.

Cops and feds have successfully split up the demonstration now.

ISP standing side by side with Border Patrol.

It happens to the best of us. I went to the same high school as Donald Rumsfeld and Rahm Emanuel.

Yes I am to a small extent flooding the zone this morning with reminders that JB Pritzker, while saying the right things, is indeed the chief executive of Illinois, which puts him ultimately in charge of the Illinois State Police, which means he is presently an ICE collaborator.

Great work @jbpritzker.bsky.social, you're making Broadview more dangerous for protestors.