@sbrann.bsky.social
Some legendary Chicago broadcast veterans speak out against DHS' reign of terror in our city.
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Some legendary Chicago broadcast veterans speak out against DHS' reign of terror in our city.
Celebrating Veterans Day with a former Commander in Chief. Thank you all for protecting our freedom.
Hoping you all had a great Veterans Day! I know these lucky veterans did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiYL...
President Barack Obama Greets Veterans
YouTube video by Barack Obama
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Celebrating Veterans Day with a former Commander in Chief. Thank you all for protecting our freedom.
The Professor, a consummate professional, quiet but effective, has hung up his glove. Always a Cub.
Ex-Cubs pitcher, 2016 World Series champ Kyle Hendricks to retire: Source
Hendricks, who will turn 36 next month, wants to spend time at home with his family and enjoy his private life.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The Professor, a consummate professional, quiet but effective, has hung up his glove. Always a Cub.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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November 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
'They're hunting!'
Around Chicago ICE/Border Patrol are mostly just driving around looking for landscaping crews. It’s not targeted by threat or criminal background. It’s just Kavanaugh sweeps of brown men in work clothes operating landscaping equipment to hit quotas. They’re not investigating, they’re hunting
Still haven’t seen a video of neighbors cheering an abduction, still haven’t seen reports of a neighbor pointing out a hiding migrant to ICE/Border Patrol
The only people praising the ICE/Border Patrol terror patrols & kidnappings are people who live nowhere near where they’re happening.
The only people praising the ICE/Border Patrol terror patrols & kidnappings are people who live nowhere near where they’re happening.
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
'They're hunting!'
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
Happy Halloween! Be wary of ghosts & goblins on the prowl tonight. They may be DHS agents.🎃
October 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Happy Halloween! Be wary of ghosts & goblins on the prowl tonight. They may be DHS agents.🎃
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Noem - We'll increase our activities to keep kids safe. Um, sure.
Just to level set, this is a sample of what Noem's DHS agents have been doing lately in Chicago neighborhoods sometimes WITH KIDS PRESENT & during at least one early Halloween gathering. So much for keeping kids safe...
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Noem - We'll increase our activities to keep kids safe. Um, sure.
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There’s a @briancassella.bsky.social shot for this from just today!!
October 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
There’s a @briancassella.bsky.social shot for this from just today!!
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“.. 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...
@apnews.com #Chicago
apnews.com/article/chic...
October 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“.. 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...
@apnews.com #Chicago
apnews.com/article/chic...
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Democrats should hold a press conference and announce that if Mike Johnson has no interest in running the House they'd be happy to do it for him
October 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Democrats should hold a press conference and announce that if Mike Johnson has no interest in running the House they'd be happy to do it for him
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Such a contrast with the usual news story quoting law enforcement's side of the story. Richly detailed report of neighbors' and witnesses' experiences with the latest Chicago raids today. Thanks, reporter @royalpratt.bsky.social.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
Federal immigration agents deploy tear gas in Chicago’s Irving Park and Avondale neighborhoods
Federal immigration agents again deployed tear gas on Chicago streets Saturday morning, despite mounting scrutiny from a federal judge over their use of the chemical weapons.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Such a contrast with the usual news story quoting law enforcement's side of the story. Richly detailed report of neighbors' and witnesses' experiences with the latest Chicago raids today. Thanks, reporter @royalpratt.bsky.social.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
This is how you do it!
Donald Trump's masked agents believe that their actions are immune from investigation or accountability — they're not.
I've signed an Executive Order today establishing the Illinois Accountability Commission to create a public record and capture the impact on our communities.
I've signed an Executive Order today establishing the Illinois Accountability Commission to create a public record and capture the impact on our communities.
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is how you do it!
IL SoS: Don't mess w/IL license plates! Looking at you, DHS!
www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/oc...
www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/oc...
www.ilsos.gov
October 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
IL SoS: Don't mess w/IL license plates! Looking at you, DHS!
www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/oc...
www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/oc...
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"Political opposition is not rebellion. A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized (or) call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government."
NEW: An appeals court on Thursday upheld a federal judge’s order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from sending 500 National Guard troops into Chicago. @wttw.bsky.social
Appeals Court Upholds Federal Judge’s Temporary Order Blocking National Guard Deployment in Chicago Area
A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s request to allow the president to immediately deploy National Guard troops into Chicago.
news.wttw.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"Political opposition is not rebellion. A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized (or) call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government."
Speaker Mike's ex-employer & the group that brought us Dobbs, anti-LGBTQ bakers, wedding planners, & soon therapists, AFD is exporting its 'Christian' Nationalism to Britain.
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Speaker Mike's ex-employer & the group that brought us Dobbs, anti-LGBTQ bakers, wedding planners, & soon therapists, AFD is exporting its 'Christian' Nationalism to Britain.
Judge April Perry: 'DHS's perception of events [in Chicago] are simply unreliable.' But who's lying?
“They are all lying… and dishonest people” — Kristi Noem threatens to double down on Portland & Chicago
October 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Judge April Perry: 'DHS's perception of events [in Chicago] are simply unreliable.' But who's lying?
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To revive and paraphrase a classic Richard J. Daley quote, "DHS and ICE aren't there to stop disorder; they're there to CREATE disorder."
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard
Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.
www.vanityfair.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
To revive and paraphrase a classic Richard J. Daley quote, "DHS and ICE aren't there to stop disorder; they're there to CREATE disorder."
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...