Peter Cunningham

FACTS about SNAP:

-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

Trump taps big City Hall contractors for ICE operation Brandon Johnson opposes “We do have to take this seriously and make sure that we are not collaborating by hiring or benefiting companies that are acting against us,” said Ald. Rossana Rodriguez (33rd).

War has always been a money-maker for big business. Now the immigration crackdown is the new cash cow.
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Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was years old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.

Shocked!

ICE videos are using false imagery.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Newsom closes highway section amid feud with White House over Marine exercise The announcement came after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) traded jabs with the White House over the live-fire exercise Vice President JD Vance is attending in the area.

More conditioning for martial law? In a pointless display of military toys for VP Vance, the Marine Corps fired live artillery rounds over a busy California highway, requiring the state to temporarily close the road. They want us to get used to this. #Resist

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Judge hauling ICE official into court as aggressive tactics continue despite her order: 'I'm not blind' U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis is requiring federal immigration agents to wear body cameras, as she asks an ICE official to explain "why I am seeing images of tear gas … [with] no warnings given." A T...

Kudos to federal judge Sara Ellis for holding ICE accountable. We will soon find out if anyone in the Trump administration -- or the entire Republican Party for that matter -- has a shred of respect for the law. #NotHoldingMyBreath
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ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

Chicago resisting ICE is a national story. We're winning. Keep filming. Keep sharing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

YouTube video by The Chi Podcast Trauma's Grip: Young Men, Fear, and the Streets #gunviolence #podcast #chicago #iceraids

Our @licensetooperate.bsky.social podcast talks with Aaron Rivas from New Life Centers. Here's a taste of the conversation:
www.youtube.com/shorts/GWQ5L...

Full video episodes on www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTgr...

You can listen at licensetopodcast.com

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No -- was that from J-school?

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

Flood, by Peter Cunningham 6 track album

Well done Andy. Just gave it a listen. Glad you are still playing music. Me too. Just put out a jazzy mini-CD (6 songs) last year.
petercunningham.bandcamp.com/album/flood Also just dropped a little protest song on IG @petercunningham57.

Gestapo history repeating itself
In our country
In my city
In our community

This is absolutely sick. It's illegal. It should be stopped.

Donald Trump: Stop trying to incite Illinoisans into violence. Pack up and go home.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

When we vote, we win!

Preserving our right to vote, and actually voting, will determine whether our democracy survives past 2026.

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Trump Calls for Jailing of Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor The president in a social-media post says Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker have failed to protect ICE.

The man with 34 felony convictions and dozens of unresolved indictments calls for the arrest of @mayorofchicago.bsky.social and @govpritzker.illinois.gov for resisting federal agents who are terrorizing communities, and violating the Constitution. #25thAmendment
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Florida School Bans Amanda Gorman's Inaugural Poem 'The Hill We Climb'After Parent Complaint: I'm Gutted' - Blavity

Florida will always lead the country in censorship and whitewashing history- so incredibly outrageous!

It’s incumbent for parents, community leaders, local bookstores and libraries to stand in that gap, and ensure that their children do not remain ignorant.

blavity.com/florida-scho...

Live Updates: Illinois Sues Trump Over Guard Deployments, Expanding Multistate Fight

Illinois suing the Trump administration over Texas troop deployment in Chicago. A Trump-appointed judge has blocked a similar action in Oregon. Block them everywhere.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Great to see Chicago's business community pushing back on the threat of bringing troops to Chicago. Every sector needs to speak out.
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Exclusive | Trump Explores Bailout of at Least $10 Billion for U.S. Farmers Farmers are harvesting one of the largest crops in history, while China holds off on buying U.S. soybeans.

Trump wants $10B to bail out farmers who are getting crushed by Trump's tariffs prompting China to stop buying U.S. soybeans. Waiting for farm-state Republicans to speak up.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Is Chicago's business community going to say anything about this or just stay quiet?

President Donald Trump cancels $583 million in energy projects for Illinois, one of many blue states affected Exelon, the University of Illinois and the Gas Technology Institute in Des Plaines are among those in Illinois affected by Trump administration cuts following the federal government shutdown.

President Donald Trump’s planned termination of nearly $8 billion for energy projects primarily in states that didn’t vote for him includes $583 million in cuts for projects in Illinois.

To all my friends, respected leaders & scholars in Higher Ed:

Just say “No!” to the outlandish offer coming your way from the White House. The Party of “local control” now wants to control you.
If you take this bait, you will be complicit in the downfall of one of America’s greatest institutions!

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

Border Patrol agents chase after cyclist after he claims he's 'not a US citizen' in downtown Chicago A group of United States Border Patrol agents in Chicago chased after a cyclist on Sunday, after he taunted them and repeatedly told them that he was "not a U.S. citizen."

And here's a bunch of clownish ICE agents chasing a man on a bicycle who had taunted them.
abc7chicago.com/post/border-...

'We'd love to go into Chicago,' Trump says after controversy over 'war' meme President Donald Trump on Monday continued to take aim at Chicago as the city braces for expected federal intervention.

Here's the President threatening to go to "war" with cities like Chicago.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wed...

ICE agents didn’t have body cams during deadly shooting of Silverio Villegas González outside Chicago The Trump administration scrapped the agency’s body cam program soon after the president took office this year, according to a former ICE chief of staff in the Biden administration. The Chicago Police...

Here they are refusing to wear body cameras during a fatal shooting of an immigrant who had just dropped off his children at school.
chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...