@betsyrubin.bsky.social
Chicago. Democracy. Various interests.
@blockclubchi.bsky.social Do you have any explanation for who the solitary woman is and why she appears to be wearing a keffiyeh? She doesn't match the typical CBP profile.
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Illinois State Senator Robert Peters speaks to a group of people in a large room
Aisha Davis of the A.C.L.U. of Illinois speaks at a microphone
We must unite across the South Side & across Chicagoland to protect our communities, our neighbors, our families & ourselves from ICE & other agents. Thank you State Sen @robertpeters.bsky.social for organizing the Lakefront Solidarity Training, & thanks Aisha Davis of ACLU of IL for the vital info!
09.11.2025 02:45 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0CBP/ICE was supported by the FBI this morning in Little Village, with reports of plainclothes feds seen in vehicles across the area.
This also included using Chicago FBI HQ for staging. Bovino is seen here doing rock paper scissors with another agent for the DHS cameras, as people yell insults:
It’s been nearly a year since an Illinois Appellate Court overturned Kevin Jackson’s murder conviction.
The final step in his process, which has been months in the making, is for Jackson to secure a certificate of innocence.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/kevi...
🙏✊️ Thanks to all the folks who turned out today with Indivisible Chicago to spread the word:
❌️🧊 Stop ICE!
🍎🏥 Restore SNAP & ACA!
📢 This Veterans Day, join with veterans who say No ICE, No Cuts, No Occupation!
🗓 Tues Nov 11, 11:00 am
📍Chicago's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 24 E Wacker (on Riverwalk)
Stand with veterans to march, rally & refuse to allow growing fascism to be normalized! Organized by About Face Midwest.
💛🍴 We all gotta eat. We're all GONNA eat. That's the Love Fridge's tagline. The Love Fridge is a mutual aid group working to ensure every Chicagoan has access to fresh food by maintaining free community fridges in neighborhoods across the city. Find food, donate food, donate $.
07.11.2025 05:13 — 👍 35 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0
Read about WHY Ketanji Brown Jackson stayed the SNAP order. Her move is probably the best solution for getting SNAP benefits approved quickly. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
08.11.2025 04:04 — 👍 8343 🔁 3041 💬 313 📌 320
The New York Times says federal agents‘ abduction of a toddler “alarmed immigrant rights groups.” How about “alarmed all decent human beings“?
08.11.2025 00:40 — 👍 1839 🔁 445 💬 44 📌 16Yes the Roberts majority has destroyed SCOTUS’s legitimacy, yes Trump shoulda never gone to SCOTUS asking to starve people, but in the world we live in KBJ did the best she could to control the process and let CA1 put its reasoning on the record before her colleagues disregard it without explanation
08.11.2025 03:26 — 👍 157 🔁 59 💬 4 📌 9Why would Justice Jackson....? Ken White has an explanation:
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ICE detention shatters family in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.
08.11.2025 03:05 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0☀️ It's a long fight, but it's the only way to go. AND WE ARE WINNING. ~Bea Lumpkin, age 107, at Chicago's Oct. 18 No Kings rally
✊ Like Bea, we're in it for the long fight. We're not giving up. Ever. Who’s ready to join us on the road to winning again next November?
➡️ Go to takeactionchicago.org
❌👑 No Kings/Oct 18. Blowout victories/Nov 5. 🗳️💪
THEY'RE CONNECTED.
A weekend read — Chicago is home to some of the world’s largest and richest corporations.
Mayor Brandon Johnson and the grassroots coalition of organizers who elected him say it’s time for the wealthy to pay their fair share.
Enter the corporate head tax.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/eman...
Why is everyone recording videos of themselves imparting their Very Serious wisdom and admonitions while striding rapidly down the street, holding their phone in selfie mode? Are they so busy and important that they can't sit down for two minutes to impart their insightful influencery?
29.10.2025 07:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0❌👑 ARE YOU ALL READY TO DEFEND THIS DEMOCRACY? We will not bend. We will not bow. We will not cower. We will defend our humanity. We will tear down tyranny & we will do it TOGETHER. NO KINGS!!! ~Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social Oct 18
✊ Chicago, JOIN WITH US ➡️ takeactionchicago.org
Photo of people on a bridge holding an American flag and letters that spell out Oct. 18 No Kings
♥️🤍💙 The United States of America has no king, no emperor, no potentate. We work to protect the people from dictatorship. We stand for democracy, justice, peace, and the ability for everyone here to thrive. Join us in Chicago on October 18th or find a rally & march near you: www.nokings.org #NoKings
17.10.2025 02:43 — 👍 1116 🔁 259 💬 21 📌 8(OK, it's great to honor Susan Stamberg but is she summed up merely by the "cranberry-off"?)
17.10.2025 19:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0omg now apple recipes. Enough TRIVIA
17.10.2025 19:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@wbez.org Love and support you - love all the local programming, including In the Loop & Say More. But could you please ditch Here and Now? I tune in to hear news and there's this treacly story about the Chicago "rat hole." WHO CARES? And it's typical of this show. Maybe bring back BBC News instead?
17.10.2025 19:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social It is excruciating listening to the slippery, deceptive bloviating of the political opportunist Andrew Cuomo. Please never have him on again
07.10.2025 03:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Where in the world is this allowed to happen?”
From on the ground in Gaza, UNICEF Spokesman James Elder tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the worst things he’s seen — including children targeted by quadcopters and shot at American aid sites.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/unicef-gaz...
Out of interest: Do top Democrats still oppose abolishing ICE? Still think it can be ‘reformed’?
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ICE regularly held immigrants far beyond the hours they set for the Broadview processing center, data through July shows. Immigrants held there say there are no beds, limited food and toilets are out in the open with no soap or toothpaste.
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❗ ABJECT CRUELTY & DEPRAVITY. In Chicago's South Shore, federal agents went after Black Americans--US citizens--& Venezuelan families. They dragged a 67 y/o American man outside, leaving him ziptied for hours. They dragged out Venezuelan families, some unclothed, separating parents & kids. @wbez.org
02.10.2025 04:03 — 👍 432 🔁 223 💬 34 📌 34ICE and federal agents are targeting immigrants and US citizens, esp Black citizens, on Chicago's South Side! 🧵
02.10.2025 04:22 — 👍 32 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 3
I talked to staff members who work near where federal agents were seen on video choking a Black man on the West Side.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/vide...
SOUTH SHORE RAID: They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming.They was bringing the kids down, too, had them ziptied to each other. That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He said, "'F*** them kids." @abc7chicago.bsky.social
02.10.2025 04:45 — 👍 42 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 2
❌️👑 October 18th: Join us in Chicago as we join millions of people across the country in a national day of action to declare: #HandsOffChicago + #NoKings!
✋🏿✋🏻✋🏽Rally/March with us & partners:
👉 Sat, Oct 18, 12PM
👉 Butler Field / Grant Park
👉 E Jackson & S Columbus Dr.
Info/sign-up ⤵️
