Tim Midyett

Here’s video of the incident

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Acceptable. Acceptable as shit, man

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

Hahahaha that picture is literally 35+ years old. Step it up

Yo you dont gotta say grace for burgs

I'm so looking forward to this album. Everything by Mint Mile is fantastic. It was tough to read how this was one of the final things Steve Albini worked on.

ICE makes the CPD look like a bunch of nuns. I hope the Garland/Biden/Obama go-along-to-get-along crowd is happy with the result of their slowrolling and magnanimity. Preserve ICE and DHS, backburner any reasonable consequences for fomenting an actual insurrection. Wouldn't want to rock the boat

START-TRACK AT SHOW: Silkworm wsg. Gotobeds, Dianogah - September 24–25, 2025 "I have been a feverish fan of Silkworm since I was 22 years old. In my late teens and early twenties, when I first began playing the electric guitar and bass guitar in local punk bands..."

If you enjoyed my writing about the Chicago Silkworm shows, you may want to read another one from Jacob Simons (Moon Orchids). It’s quite good!!

If you’re a media outlet still quoting the regime at face value on any subject then guess what woodward you are the regime

You cannot trust anything any of these assholes say. They killed a guy in cold blood in Franklin Park and lied about that too. "Do something b----." Yes, that's what you're living for. An excuse

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Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"

Older veteran: “87.”

Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”

Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”

🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.

They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.

Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

Both experiences are real! They do not even require denial of one or the other — people whose bodies are on the line in real, physical struggle in this city are also still going about their ordinary lives in beautiful, late-summer weather.

Oh yeah. Agree completely with all that

On our part? I get the impulse but that is what they want. An excuse. As bad as it is, it can get a lot worse

A crucial follow about Chicago, police, on the street doings, city set-up, neighborhoods: @peternickeas.bsky.social. I want to know what he thinks about what he’s seeing

Zero sympathy, but the federal forces are desperate and a lot of those cops are unhappy to be there. Imagine waking up every day and this kind of shit is your job, that you signed up to do. Not too many people are really made for that. They either pull back or lash out

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this.

Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

At the Broadview, IL ICE detention center—

IL state troopers are already pushing non-violent demonstrators out of the street and away from the ICE facility. One arrest so far.

All eyes on Broadview, Illinois tonight.

Broadview is a suburb about 12 miles west of Chicago.

Our friends are reporting on the scene ⬇️

If you are a billionaire governor I don’t think posting ”damn that’s crazy” counts as doing everything in your power

one time a friend of mine got jumped by a bunch of dudes and as they were beating the shit out of him, he yelled "it's me, it's me!" they stopped. he was so shocked that it worked that he didn't run, and they started beating the shit out of him again. they should've tried that

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

the road to oppression goes through moderates and their tangential anxieties

Kyle Kinane is still the best.

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.