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“Some of you were tear-gassed right in front of and alongside useless CPD officers and still think they deserve the largest share of the city’s public safety budget. Some of you are still waiting for the police to come to your rescue and save you from the bad guys.

Don’t hold your breath.”

Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

District Judge Sara Ellis' injunction order limits how and when feds can use gas in the Chicago area.

It restricts the use of gas in "residential or commercial areas" that could risk injury to a plaintiff class member "who is not causing an immediate threat of physical harm to another person"

And the whole “you owe us money but we won’t tell you how much you have to guess based on these confusing instructions and if you mess up we’ll mess up your life” premise is fucked too

I also just saw they deleted the free direct tax file tool… which isn’t nearly the worst thing about all this but it is a nice cherry on top so… yeah. What are we doing here. Genuinely.

" I thought I knew what it meant to love Chicago—to feel something settle inside of me when I saw her skyline from the expressway, or her lights from the window of an airplane, after crossing the cloud line. I thought I knew what it meant to love her brick and steel towers, her annoying street preachers, her chorus of accents and the poetry of her activists, the grit of her workers, awaiting buses and trains in icy air, her guerrilla gardens, bookshops, bucket boys, and crashing winter waves becoming shelves of ice—so many corners that feel like home, even though you’ll never live there. I know this place. I love this place, and I thought I knew how much, until you made me love it more." - Kelly Hayes

I poured everything I had into this one. "I see you gathering, hundreds at a time, to learn, to keep watch, and bare your teeth. I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could." organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

‘They destroyed us’: East Chicago woman with schizophrenia who opted for deportation now missing in Mexico When federal immigration agents raided Martha Porcallo Martinez’s East Chicago, Indiana home on June 12, they also arrested her 26-year-old daughter who has schizophrenia.

The feds raided an East Chicago home, arrested a mother and her 26-year-old schizophrenic daughter. She's been here since she's 2. In ICE custody, she had no meds and chose to leave the country. Now she's in Mexico, barely speaks Spanish, and her family can't find her.

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NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

remember folks, if you see anyone taking food

no you didn't :3

After @mandophotos.bsky.social photographed federal agents pointing rifles at 26th/Lawndale yesterday, I inquired with DHS about what threat had prompted them to pull weapons on a busy commercial strip (pictured). This is the response I got from a representative of the United States government.

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Armed US immigration agents drive off with toddler after arrest of father

Educators rally for release of LA student held in immigration detention for 3 months

Man shot in ICE confrontation was a 'respected & admired' citizen journalist with TikTok following

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

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Donate to Support Mumin Jamiean's Fight Against Starvation, organized by E F Hello, we are organizing this campaign for Mumin Jamiean (13). From Mumin: … E F needs your support for Support Mumin Jamiean's Fight Against Starvation

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Loevy gets into the feds' use of tear gas.

Loevy: "Tear gas is a serious weapon, do you agree?"

Hewson: "No."

Loevy: "Did you know that tear gas has been banned in warfare?"

Hewson: "I did not know that."

Someone needs to take the Cricut away from the White House designer.

This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.

As many eyes will be on court downtown today, there are early indications ICE may be active in this area again.

Agents reportedly snatched a daycare worker in Roscoe Village this morning.

So long. Turns out the rules were all papier-mâché

A drawing of the character "the Giant" standing inside a train. The doors are open. There is no one else outside waiting. Everything looks vacant and abandoned.

the city's harmony, it's so familiar to me #art #digitalart

Really cannot stress enough how many times we’ve witnessed ICE or CBP agents laughing at and taunting protesters or bystanders as they fired chemical munitions at them.

They are having a grand time rolling with their boys, accountable to no one, wreaking havoc through our streets.

Here's what that looked like. Tactical excellence.

ICE gave us these same Subway “sandwiches” when I was in detention. It was the smallest, flattest “sandwich” I’ve ever seen. Like 1/4 inch thick. I haven’t eaten at Subway in forever but I’ve never seen anything like these. It’s a snack item, not a meal.

This better atty told her there was a longer penalty than Broadview agents told her for her deportation; that she may not be able to return for ten years.

She breaks down in tears at this.

"My children, who are so young..." she says, trailing off.

Pereira Guevara also says there was a camera on the toilet.

She says she wasn't able to shower while being held in Broadview, as there were no showers she saw.

Court back in session for a restraining order hearing on the class action alleging inhumane conditions at the Broadview ICE facility.

Class rep Pablo Moreno González still on the stand for cross-examination by the govt's legal team.