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Trump may have set out to get revenge on former FBI Director Jim Comey but it’s not working out well for the government. Today, two motions to dismiss the case & Comey calls the govt’s bluff when U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan tries to smear one of his lawyers. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
21.10.2025 04:35 — 👍 2755 🔁 678 💬 49 📌 22Trump posted an AI video last night of him wearing a crown, flying a jet and bombing protesters with shit. Yes, shit. Many U.S. media have ignored this latest example of Trump’s mental instability. Others have downplayed it. The response says a lot about why we’re in this mess. 🧵 1/
19.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 714 🔁 292 💬 79 📌 29
President Trump is dehumanizing and demonizing his opponents using totalitarian language seen in the worst governments around the world. This essential @danvock.bsky.social report breaks down its dark meaning. No place getting it worse than Chicago.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/t...
Hope folks feel less alone today, that people join with others to take further and deeper actions, and that everyone fights like hell to protect those most vulnerable to this regime.
19.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 1378 🔁 304 💬 3 📌 0
Photo from a different Chicago protest of woman in a hot dog costume hold in a sign: COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS
Chicago’s under siege, and I worried ICE would use the NKD protest downtown as a distraction to attack the neighborhoods. So I covered a rally in an immigrant neighborhood. It really encouraged me to see Chicagoans under attack celebrating their defiance to injustice.
19.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 243 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 0Gratitude to all of the organizers.
19.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 430 🔁 58 💬 1 📌 0
"REIGN CHECK": More than a month after President Donald Trump sent federal agents to the Chicago region as part of a mass deportation effort targeting immigrants, opponents turned out in force Saturday to show what they think.
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Thank you!!
19.10.2025 13:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We marched in heavily Latino Cicero IL including along a busy road. People honked horns took photos & video & showed support. & they felt seen & supported after our cities have been terrorized by ICE. Some drove past multiple times, passengers cheering & in tears. El pueblo unido jamás será vencido
18.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 32 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 2
Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
18.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 6718 🔁 1779 💬 138 📌 406A group of musician sing protest songs at Randolph and Michigan.
18.10.2025 19:20 — 👍 66 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0
If you’ve never been to a protest like “No Kings” and worry it will be a downer or a bore, I’m here to tell you it’s fun and inspiring. It will make you feel better about people, and we need that after seeing all those MAGA thugs and liars on the news. You are not alone. Get your ass out there!
18.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 911 🔁 263 💬 33 📌 12I am never ever fucking EVER getting over these fuckers just driving around snatching our neighbors off the street.
17.10.2025 01:54 — 👍 3004 🔁 577 💬 21 📌 18AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
16.10.2025 01:36 — 👍 36456 🔁 9819 💬 778 📌 558AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals
You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing
If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,
Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”
@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”
AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans
Oct. 15, 2025 PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION STATEMENT Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution. The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all. PPA
“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
15.10.2025 21:52 — 👍 6741 🔁 3078 💬 407 📌 360
CHICAGO (October 14, 2025) – A 15-year-old American citizen was detained by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents today in a manner reminiscent of authoritarian regimes, holding him incommunicado in a federal building garage for five hours without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney. The teenager, who is Hispanic and African American, was grabbed off a Chicago East Side street at approximately 12:30 p.m. CST slammed to the ground, kneed in the back, and zip-tied by CBP agents. He was then transported to a federal law enforcement facility not affiliated with CBP or ICE, where CBP agents held him, handcuffed, in the back of a vehicle in a garage—never booking him, never reading him his rights, never stating why he was detained, and never allowing him to contact his mother.
For five hours, his mother had no idea where her son was or whether he safe. Federal agents provided no information about his whereabouts, no phone call, no explanation for the arrest. His mother’s terror was amplified by her son’s heart condition and the complete absence of any information from authorities. "This is how people disappear in autocracies—grabbed off streets, held in unmarked locations, no calls to family, no stated charges, no due process," said Founding Partner Antonio M. Romanucci of Romanucci & Blandin, the firm that obtained his release this evening. "A 15-year-old American citizen was effectively 'disappeared' for five hours in Chicago. This is not law enforcement; this is the playbook of authoritarian regimes."
The 15 y/o detained by CBP today in the East Side neighborhood has been released per a statement from his attorneys.
Story tk in the morning.
We're not supposed to invoke Hitler, since that somehow loses the argument, though there really isn't an argument anymore, just an increasingly fascist state. But imagine if regular Germans turned out in numbers with whistles and frog outfits when the Nazis started rounding up Jews. #ChicagoProud.
14.10.2025 18:35 — 👍 32 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
14.10.2025 03:28 — 👍 4495 🔁 1418 💬 26 📌 1
Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole
No ice in sidewalk chalk
Rapid responder posing with whistle
Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner
There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.
People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.
More photos! chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
12.10.2025 05:32 — 👍 201 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 0I'm a big fan of WBEZ but this headline stinks. These two issues have nothing to do with one another and tying them together suggests that Donald Trump is actually attempting to do something about "crime". Please don't perpetuate that lie, even inadvertently.
10.10.2025 23:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BREAKING: A federal judge has partially blocked the Trump administration's efforts to mobilize the National Guard in Chicago.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/09/j...
As I told @markjacob.bsky.social, Chicago journalists are doing a helluva job covering the ICE incursion of our city. The dogged, on-the ground- reporting reveals what's actually happening, not what ICE wants you to believe.
www.stopthepresses.news/p/the-press-...
A 1A win
08.10.2025 22:57 — 👍 202 🔁 68 💬 1 📌 4If you’re particularly despairing tonight, remember that you can always choose to show up tomorrow and help people. Narrow your capacity for concern to a specific person or place through volunteering. It feels good. Call your local school or aldercritter’s office to ask about opportunities.
08.10.2025 00:41 — 👍 125 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 5Please don't perpetuate the lie that this is about "illegal immigration". Just like it's not about "crime". This is fascism. Call it what it is.
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