Chicago Transport Association
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Chicago transport, bikes, walking, zoning, biz, but no guarantee we won’t talk about something else. Don’t take all posts literally.
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Chair of @chicagocta.bsky.social Board has concerns about the transit reform bill. Says that Chicago may have given up too much local control over the CTA. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/o...
Lester L. Barclay: Transit funding was secured, but the CTA paid a price
Illinois’ public transit bill marks the end of Chicago’s autonomy over its own system.
www.chicagotribune.com
Nah. I think we’re good trying something else. The current way doesn’t work, and that’s what the chair suggests continues.
Example: Red Line extension that should have just been a repurpose of the Metra Electric infrastructure
Example: Red Line extension that should have just been a repurpose of the Metra Electric infrastructure
Good work, NC
"Many residents have yelled profanities at them, and honked their horns at agents when their unmarked vehicles are spotted..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
In North Carolina, the Border Patrol’s Presence Divides a Swing State
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Good work, NC
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Sure sounds like current board members are actively trying to sabotage the hard-fought #RevenuesAndReform of SB2111 through an amendatory veto.
We're not done yet: call @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office and tell him to sign SB2111 **as-is**!
gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/c...
We're not done yet: call @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office and tell him to sign SB2111 **as-is**!
gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/c...
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Sure sounds like current board members are actively trying to sabotage the hard-fought #RevenuesAndReform of SB2111 through an amendatory veto.
We're not done yet: call @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office and tell him to sign SB2111 **as-is**!
gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/c...
We're not done yet: call @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office and tell him to sign SB2111 **as-is**!
gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/c...
According to this CNN report, it sure does seem like agents tried to murder her, even though they were never actually in any danger
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CNN speaks with woman shot by Border Patrol five times
YouTube video by CNN
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November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
According to this CNN report, it sure does seem like agents tried to murder her, even though they were never actually in any danger
youtu.be/LbkfUcuHfKo?...
youtu.be/LbkfUcuHfKo?...
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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The reason people freak out and run from Trump’s racist goon squad is they are literally disappearing people. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The reason people freak out and run from Trump’s racist goon squad is they are literally disappearing people. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
Nah. I think we’re good trying something else. The current way doesn’t work, and that’s what the chair suggests continues.
Example: Red Line extension that should have just been a repurpose of the Metra Electric infrastructure
Example: Red Line extension that should have just been a repurpose of the Metra Electric infrastructure
Chair of @chicagocta.bsky.social Board has concerns about the transit reform bill. Says that Chicago may have given up too much local control over the CTA. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/o...
Lester L. Barclay: Transit funding was secured, but the CTA paid a price
Illinois’ public transit bill marks the end of Chicago’s autonomy over its own system.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Nah. I think we’re good trying something else. The current way doesn’t work, and that’s what the chair suggests continues.
Example: Red Line extension that should have just been a repurpose of the Metra Electric infrastructure
Example: Red Line extension that should have just been a repurpose of the Metra Electric infrastructure
Any Democrat that isn’t running around saying they will prosecute the people who made this possible don’t deserve a vote at the next election.
Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff.
There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.
There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Any Democrat that isn’t running around saying they will prosecute the people who made this possible don’t deserve a vote at the next election.
The world needs to see what happened in Chicago.
The Trump-Vance admin's Chicago ICE raid resulted in sobbing children restrained with zip ties, U.S. citizens detained, homes trashed, and many traumatized.
This raid was extensively recorded by the admin – and we intend to force the release of ALL raw footage. That’s why we’re back in court today.
This raid was extensively recorded by the admin – and we intend to force the release of ALL raw footage. That’s why we’re back in court today.
'I Lost Everything': Venezuelans Were Rounded Up In Dramatic South Shore Raid But Never Charged With A Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
blockclubchicago.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The world needs to see what happened in Chicago.
Great job Charlotte. You made them sad, and they had to go
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Great job Charlotte. You made them sad, and they had to go
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NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Because of the Republican Party’s draconian immigration policies, a brewing institute that has been in Chicago since 1872 is moving to Quebec, citing “increased student visa challenges.”
A loss for the city AND the country.
www.facebook.com/Siebelinstit...
A loss for the city AND the country.
www.facebook.com/Siebelinstit...
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Because of the Republican Party’s draconian immigration policies, a brewing institute that has been in Chicago since 1872 is moving to Quebec, citing “increased student visa challenges.”
A loss for the city AND the country.
www.facebook.com/Siebelinstit...
A loss for the city AND the country.
www.facebook.com/Siebelinstit...
Disturbing things from Republicans, to be exact.
The same Republicans also ok with the swastika not being considered racist.
They can choose to stop this madness anytime
The same Republicans also ok with the swastika not being considered racist.
They can choose to stop this madness anytime
truly unhinged and disturbing propaganda from the United States government
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Disturbing things from Republicans, to be exact.
The same Republicans also ok with the swastika not being considered racist.
They can choose to stop this madness anytime
The same Republicans also ok with the swastika not being considered racist.
They can choose to stop this madness anytime
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theres no coming back from this without prosecuting everyone up and down the chain of command
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
theres no coming back from this without prosecuting everyone up and down the chain of command
Lying liars that lie
This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Lying liars that lie
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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Every paragraph of this is either horrifying or infuriating chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/1...
'Brutal and vicious' Blue Line attack leads to terrorism charge after woman set on fire
Federal authorities say 50-year-old Lawrence Reed, who was arrested at least 40 times, had “no business being on the streets," but now is charged with setting woman on fire on the Blue Line.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Every paragraph of this is either horrifying or infuriating chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2025/1...
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Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
An awful attack.
The CTA Blue Line arson attack is twisted and reprehensible. What a crazy, messed up story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/f...
Man hit with federal terrorism charge for setting woman on fire on CTA Blue Line, shouts ‘I plead guilty!’ in court
Prosecutors Wednesday afternoon charged Lawrence Reed, of Chicago, with a single count of terrorism against a mass transportation system in an attack on the CTA Blue Line.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
An awful attack.
Walgreens is awful. It used to be not awful, just not great. But every store is depressing
private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Walgreens is awful. It used to be not awful, just not great. But every store is depressing
Nagle blue line. The NIMBYs will insurrection before that’s allowed
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Take the Cook County Rail Infill Station Study Survey for where you'd like to see rail stations.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Nagle blue line. The NIMBYs will insurrection before that’s allowed
Yes, we need @duckworth.senate.gov and @quigley.house.gov talking about this. You can’t reform this
we have got to destroy ICE and salt the earth
I will not vote for any federal candidate who doesn’t vow to abolish ICE
I will not vote for any state or local candidate who doesn’t agree to fight ICE
I will not vote for any federal candidate who doesn’t vow to abolish ICE
I will not vote for any state or local candidate who doesn’t agree to fight ICE
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Yes, we need @duckworth.senate.gov and @quigley.house.gov talking about this. You can’t reform this
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Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.
Kristi Noem is mad that protesters are blowing whistles at ICE agents.
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.
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He should know the criminal record of those landscapers. And if he doesn’t, then he’s clearly racial profiling. Fuck Bovino.
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
He should know the criminal record of those landscapers. And if he doesn’t, then he’s clearly racial profiling. Fuck Bovino.
This infuriates me on numerous levels.
First, that man shouldn’t be held by ICE.
But how can his wife think, based on what they are doing to her husband, that there is any fairness to the process whatsoever?
First, that man shouldn’t be held by ICE.
But how can his wife think, based on what they are doing to her husband, that there is any fairness to the process whatsoever?
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This infuriates me on numerous levels.
First, that man shouldn’t be held by ICE.
But how can his wife think, based on what they are doing to her husband, that there is any fairness to the process whatsoever?
First, that man shouldn’t be held by ICE.
But how can his wife think, based on what they are doing to her husband, that there is any fairness to the process whatsoever?