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Hey Chicago, brace yourselves for bridge lifts causing delays from South Ashland Ave to DuSable Lake Shore Drive starting 9:30am on 10/8. Plan accordingly! 🌉🚗

Pro-tip: if you have video of you or others directly intervening to obstruct ICE or de-arrest someone, for god’s sake don’t post it on social media. Or at a minimum blur faces first. You’re just begging for federal charges.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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I hate this so much. It is inhumane, unnecessary and cruel. Better put a stop to this, J.B. Pritzker

Ah yes. The hell hole where I walked 3k in the park this morning then went thrifting with my mom. Amazed we survived today and over 35 years living in the war ravaged South Side. 🙄

temp check from Chicago: just witnessed four wine moms in the wine bar in a Marianos grocery store on the Far North Side swapping recommendations on where to buy “Fuck ICE” t-shirts

America in 2025 or Hollow Knight: Silksong? 1. It’s the hotly anticipated sequel of a late 2010s, grimdark existential nightmare. 2. The economy is really, really bad. Like. Really bad. 3. Th...

1. It’s the hotly anticipated sequel of a late 2010s, grimdark existential nightmare.

2. The economy is really, really bad. Like. Really bad.

3. There are almost no places to rest, and even when you find them, they cost money.

Libby just made a major change to its hold system, and some users aren't happy The "deliver later" feature disappeared overnight, and Libby users are not OK.

Huh. I'll have to pay closer attention to my holds, but if it cuts wait times that's a good thing. We'll see how it plays out. mashable.com/article/libb...

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

If you’re canceling subscription services with giant companies with ties to terrible people, you should think about replacing them with a library card. Many library systems give you access to physical media (some of which you can’t find on streaming!) as well as other great stuff.

We spoke with @chicagoreader.com @thetriibe.com and @unraveledpress.com about the lessons and strategies they learned from media in L.A. and D.C. for their coverage.

By @afroxander.bsky.social

Find the story (sans paywall) here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

Phenomenal set.

A half-sheet size flyer with green printing, ridiculing ICE agents. The design is modeled after the flyers commonly used by contractors in Chicago, who are frequently immigrants. These flyers often appear on the garages of homes.

A half-sheet size flyer with blue printing, ridiculing ICE agents. The design is modeled after the flyers commonly used by contractors in Chicago, who are frequently immigrants. These flyers often appear on the garages of homes.

After many requests, here are the files to print three different anonymous Chicago contractor-style flyers about ICE, as well my new zine of Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago. Print and resist, friends! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Psst… $1 of every Abolish Ice, Protect Migrants, and Warning: ICE Rats sticker sold goes to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. #chicago

We need concrete actions. Do something.

🧵*9/17/2025 noncooperation thread*

A daily thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, defiance, & whatnot by individuals, communities, &/or institutions.

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Bill McKibben has actual hope for the climate, aka us, & he & @sundayofaction.bsky.social are doing a thing - AND IT'S ON MY BIRTHDAY!

Berwyn / Cicero rapid response team has put out an alert warning the community that ICE has been patrolling S. Cicero Ave. from Roosevelt to Pershing, from around 6 a.m. onwards.

They warn ICE has also been seen in the parking lots of stores like Home Depot, Target and Menards along Cicero.

A crew of farm workers wearing the colors of the Mexican flag as they harvested peas on Mexican Independence Day

Today is Mexican Independence Day. This crew of farm workers celebrated it by wearing the colors of the Mexican flag as they harvested peas today on CAs Central Coast. #WeFeedYou

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

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ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday

Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere

If you have any national platform at all

Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

In Chicago, we do not submit Trump is trying to intimidate a city that refuses to be intimidated

Chicago has a long history of defiance, featuring bold characters such as Ida B. Wells, Studs Terkel and Jane Addams.
Now Gov. JB Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson and throngs of protesters are continuing the tradition, telling Trump:
Keep your troops out of our city.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.

“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday

Get your wet beefs ready

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Absolutely shameless, pitiful assholes

Know your rights, now in improved colors, in case you get stopped by ICE. 🧵

lataco.com/car-ice-rights

It’s already so hard to find care. This is terrible. My heart breaks for these kids and their families.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.