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https://www.chicagoabortionfund.org/
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U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia was criticized on the House floor Wednesday night by a Washington state Democrat who wants lawmakers to adopt a resolution claiming he undermined “the process of a free and fair election” by helping his chief of staff take his place on the ballot.
Chuy Garcia blasted on House floor by fellow Democrat for leaving seat to chief of staff
chicago.suntimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia was criticized on the House floor Wednesday night by a Washington state Democrat who wants lawmakers to adopt a resolution claiming he undermined “the process of a free and fair election” by helping his chief of staff take his place on the ballot.
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“When you understand there’s torture in a concentration camp in your backyard, it would be wild if people from Chicagoland weren’t going to Broadview,” Woolf later said in an interview. “But [Mayor Thompson] doesn’t care about out-of-town cops coming to brutalize us.”
Pastors speak of brutality of arrests at hands of local cops at Broadview ICE facility
Pastor Luke Harris-Ferree and the Rev. Michael Woolf were arrested Friday while trying to meet and pray with detainees. They call on Gov. JB Pritzker to answer for the excessive use of force by police...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
“When you understand there’s torture in a concentration camp in your backyard, it would be wild if people from Chicagoland weren’t going to Broadview,” Woolf later said in an interview. “But [Mayor Thompson] doesn’t care about out-of-town cops coming to brutalize us.”
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I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.
F that!
F that!
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served.
F that!
F that!
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A long-eared owl in Chicago
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A long-eared owl in Chicago
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Today over Chicago's Lakefront
November 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Today over Chicago's Lakefront
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Is this losing? Feels like losing
November 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Is this losing? Feels like losing
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It’s pretty simple.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
November 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It’s pretty simple.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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Noem shouldn't resign because she failed to catch criminals, she should be deposed and prosecuted because she successfully committed domestic terrorism
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Noem shouldn't resign because she failed to catch criminals, she should be deposed and prosecuted because she successfully committed domestic terrorism
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Gonna take a heterodox stance and say they should not have done a brutal military assault on a civilian apartment building full of kids and families even if it bagged 1000 criminals
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Gonna take a heterodox stance and say they should not have done a brutal military assault on a civilian apartment building full of kids and families even if it bagged 1000 criminals
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
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Remember those national guard troops sent to Chicago by Texas Gov Greg Abbott? They went home after sitting at a suburban training facility doing nothing for a month. Abbott's little stunt cost taxpayers at least $12M. What an abuse of power.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Remember those national guard troops sent to Chicago by Texas Gov Greg Abbott? They went home after sitting at a suburban training facility doing nothing for a month. Abbott's little stunt cost taxpayers at least $12M. What an abuse of power.
wgntv.com/news/wgn-inv...
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“Gimenez Gonzalez, an outspoken advocate for migrant day laborers in Chicago, was released on Oct. 28 after 47 days in custody. ICE detained him despite his legal work permit, a pending asylum case and no criminal record.” www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...
'My love, I'm free': Day laborer released after 7 weeks in ICE detention
Willian Gimenez Gonzalez was sitting in his cell at a Michigan detention center when a few men began calling his name.
www.hpherald.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
“Gimenez Gonzalez, an outspoken advocate for migrant day laborers in Chicago, was released on Oct. 28 after 47 days in custody. ICE detained him despite his legal work permit, a pending asylum case and no criminal record.” www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...
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Chicago may experience less tear gas use as Operation Midway Blitz winds down. Cold and wet weather reduce effectiveness, while wind adds unpredictability.
Wind, cold temps can change the impact of tear gas and pepper balls, experts say
chicago.suntimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Chicago may experience less tear gas use as Operation Midway Blitz winds down. Cold and wet weather reduce effectiveness, while wind adds unpredictability.
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Our winters suck, but they do put a lid on nasty insects, dangerous reptiles, and Border Patrol.
Chicago may experience less tear gas use as Operation Midway Blitz winds down. Cold and wet weather reduce effectiveness, while wind adds unpredictability.
Wind, cold temps can change the impact of tear gas and pepper balls, experts say
chicago.suntimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Our winters suck, but they do put a lid on nasty insects, dangerous reptiles, and Border Patrol.
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Major US cities are experiencing outbreaks of violence caused by armed gang members. These thugs are masked and dangerous. They attack and kidnap people off the streets and at their places of work. The group should be designated as a domestic terrorist organization. They call themselves ICE.
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Major US cities are experiencing outbreaks of violence caused by armed gang members. These thugs are masked and dangerous. They attack and kidnap people off the streets and at their places of work. The group should be designated as a domestic terrorist organization. They call themselves ICE.
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Library staffing literally decimated
I see people claiming the head tax is going to public libraries, but as far as we’ve been told- it isnt. The good news is, our lackluster book budget may be restored. The bad news? We’re still facing 89 positions cut. After 52 positions were cut last year. That’s 11% of our workforce!
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Library staffing literally decimated
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And they’re planning to defund us for the long term. To response to low staffing, they’re proposing getting rid of specializations (children, teen, adult), and streamlining “sister branches”, where library workers work at multiple branches depending on low staffing.
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
And they’re planning to defund us for the long term. To response to low staffing, they’re proposing getting rid of specializations (children, teen, adult), and streamlining “sister branches”, where library workers work at multiple branches depending on low staffing.
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I see people claiming the head tax is going to public libraries, but as far as we’ve been told- it isnt. The good news is, our lackluster book budget may be restored. The bad news? We’re still facing 89 positions cut. After 52 positions were cut last year. That’s 11% of our workforce!
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I see people claiming the head tax is going to public libraries, but as far as we’ve been told- it isnt. The good news is, our lackluster book budget may be restored. The bad news? We’re still facing 89 positions cut. After 52 positions were cut last year. That’s 11% of our workforce!
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Ross and Paula Fortini of Libertyville have insurance through Affordable Care Act exchange. If subsidies aren’t extended after the end of this year, their monthly insurance premiums will more than triple. A story facing many across country. By Lisa Schencker
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/16/h...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/16/h...
Illinois consumers face high health insurance prices, with Obamacare subsidies still in limbo after shutdown
“Everybody is going to be hit by this,” said Ann Gillespie, director of the state insurance department
www.chicagotribune.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Ross and Paula Fortini of Libertyville have insurance through Affordable Care Act exchange. If subsidies aren’t extended after the end of this year, their monthly insurance premiums will more than triple. A story facing many across country. By Lisa Schencker
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/16/h...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/16/h...
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Harlem Avenue could be one of the most productive city-suburban bus routes ever if we ever stopped arbitrarily designing bus routes around city/suburban boundaries
Do you ever think about how the bus route that connects with the MD-W, UP-W, Green Line, Blue Line, and BNSF, and also is almost always a Top-5 Pace ridership route, ends in a random parking lot instead of the CTA rail terminal and international airport three miles away? Because I do, often
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Harlem Avenue could be one of the most productive city-suburban bus routes ever if we ever stopped arbitrarily designing bus routes around city/suburban boundaries
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Weather report from hell
Chicago may experience less tear gas use as Operation Midway Blitz winds down. Cold and wet weather reduce effectiveness, while wind adds unpredictability.
Wind, cold temps can change the impact of tear gas and pepper balls, experts say
chicago.suntimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Weather report from hell
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CBP agent drunkenly stumbles into women’s restroom with a gun, tries to force a girl to go on a date with him.
Officers respond, he resists arrest. Later cries on video about being “doxxed”.
Then dies of a drug overdose
ca.news.yahoo.com/border-patro...
Officers respond, he resists arrest. Later cries on video about being “doxxed”.
Then dies of a drug overdose
ca.news.yahoo.com/border-patro...
Border Patrol agent who went viral over arrest video died of overdose, lawyer says
Isaiah Hodgson, 29, passed away in August after appearing in widely seen clip of a U.S. citizen being brutally detained in California and then being arrested himself over drunken incident a month late...
ca.news.yahoo.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
CBP agent drunkenly stumbles into women’s restroom with a gun, tries to force a girl to go on a date with him.
Officers respond, he resists arrest. Later cries on video about being “doxxed”.
Then dies of a drug overdose
ca.news.yahoo.com/border-patro...
Officers respond, he resists arrest. Later cries on video about being “doxxed”.
Then dies of a drug overdose
ca.news.yahoo.com/border-patro...
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?