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Dear people who don't live in the Chicago area,
Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.

Tasty food, great cause—-a favorite stop for my Skokie-born husband

Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters A judge recently issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents in the state, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz.

New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.”
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.

We’ve made our dataset public, read the full investigation at: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL

From an Evanston resident filming an arrest at Oakton/Asbury ~an hour ago:

"He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”

Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article) Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

Here's a gift link to the New York Times editorial, which makes a lot of good points. The news-side editors need to wake the hell up. 🧵 3/3

Every word of this is a lie. Right here in Chicago, we have first hand accounts of US citizens being detained for hours, many of of them were also arrested & most of those were released without charge. Also this: I trust @propublica.org 1000% more than anything Noem says:

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

We first revealed Mobile Fortify in June. It takes the CBP system usually used when people enter or exit the US, and puts it into an app to be used on American streets www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

The sacred American spaces desecrated by the American president The American faithful must find their voice if the divine American idea is to survive

In our secular American religion, there is no savior — but the duty of salvation falls to each of us.

The *more perfect* is the task of each American generation.

The man wrecking the White House doesn’t get it. So our chapter in the American story starts now.

www.greatpower.us/p/the-sacred...

"Please help. Please help. Please help us. We have rights, we’re citizens here, please help us"

My god. This 911 call with a Chicago woman pleading for help as ICE pulls pulls people from their cars, aiming weapons at them is grotesque. Monsters have invaded our city. Monsters.

“.. Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us.’”

@apnews.com #Chicago
apnews.com/article/chic...

11.1% of SNAP recipients are kids under age 5, 27.7% kids 5-17, 41.6% adults 18-59, 19.5% adults aged 60 & older https://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1124/snapparticipantage.xlsx

Did you know?

About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5.

About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development.

The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.

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Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.

Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

The House Democratic caucus needs to step up and support soldiers’ patriotic intuition here. What they’re being called upon to do doesn’t simply *feel* wrong, it’s *treason*. POTUS told generals: his campaign in cities is war. He’s levying war against the U.S. Representatives have a duty to say so

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

Federal Judge Sara Ellis orders Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino to appear before her *every weekday* at 6 p.m., presumably to go over any new incidents of federal agents abusing Chicagoans.

No no no no no

This photo of the military veteran protesting in Illinois with American flag held high still grabs me. “What’s happening in Chicago matters to everyone.”

Illinois communities where friends and family live, where I grew up and raised my children—filled with great people—under attack from our government. Thanks for spreading news of the ongoing crisis for those of us watching from afar @newsjennifer.bsky.social

Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters:

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...

Literally the man with the nuclear codes

I actually don’t know how you solve the problem of people just refusing to believe sources that tell them the truth instead of ones that lie to them

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com

"What I need you to know is we are organized.
What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.
What I need you to know is they are coming.
What I need you to know is you can stop them...
This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family"

ICE is tear gassing schools

Lots of heroes throughout Chicago including this guy: the one seen on the viral videos barefoot, wearing Chi Blackhawks PJ's & screaming “Nazis!” and “Gestapo!” at ICE agents as they terrorized a Northwest side neighborhood.

Great story from @chicagotribune.com: