After nearly a month spent in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, a Chicago father of three has been reunited with his family. https://to.wttw.com/45Olesp

CPD officers so far this year have shot 17 people, killing eight, more than in all of last year, records show. In 2024, CPD officers shot 12 people, killing six, records show.

Approximately an hour before the hearing began, officers shot a man after a foot chase on the South Side.

It's been rumored for a bit they would leave mid-November. It's not the weather, just the natural lifespan of a ~225 person operation.

Before Border Patrol arrived, ICE was still here. They were smashing cars to pull people out of them, taking people from court and check-in appointments, etc.

new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz."

the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.

via @katieprout.bsky.social

Illinois State Police assist feds in Broadview protest, Chicago alderperson cuffed at hospital, rapid responders tear gassed in Logan Square thetriibe.com/2025/10/illi...

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…

Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.

And America shrugged and moved on.

Fascism erases and rewrites history. It debases facts. The fascist narrative supplants all else. Restricting the acquisition and exchange of information allows the regime to replace evidence with myths and propaganda, while silencing and punishing all contradiction.

Prism/Prison uplifts the work of incarcerated artists  chicagoreader.com/books/lit-fe...

It is really frustrating that the people who fired the Librarian of Congress did so because they explicitly disagree with the entire purpose of the Library of Congress.

This is an atrocity, to speak of human beings in this way.

I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.

The Administration for Community Living, housed in HHS, is shutting down. I spoke to disability experts for @motherjones.com about questions they have for what’s next, the services ACL provides, and how this move may lead to more folks being institutionalized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Effective immediately after this sentence, the university will no longer use the word “trans” since that’s not really a thing.

(The history department has informed us that [REDACTED] people do exist and always have.)

The history department has been dissolved.

Indiana just pulled funding for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program for the state. This program gifts all children, across the state, free books from birth-age 5.

This one's just fucking cruel.

www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...

Chicago’s immigrants are being targeted by ICE. Here’s what you can do to help: https://buff.ly/3Efghhl

⚡ via Twin Cities Workers Defense Alliance, a reminder of the SALUTE / ALERTA mnemonics — when reporting or signal boosting potential threats, provide as much info as possible. Spread information, not panic or chaos. We help protect one another by sharing useful, actionable information.

On Dec. 4, 1969, Illinois Black Panther Party chapter Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton was assassinated in a coordinated effort by the FBI, Chicago police and Cook County State’s Attorney Office.

This mural in Chicago honors him and Mark Clark, also killed in the raid.

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Sotomayor scoffs at suggestion that democratic process will protect trans people: "When you’re 1% of the population or less, it's very hard to see how the democratic process will protect you."

Adds: There are many more Black people/women, & the dem process "didn't protect them for whole centuries"

If you would like more information to share with family, friends, comrades and co-workers about the annual Holiday Solidarity Drive, it's all here. If you would like to co-sponsor or promote, reach out: MomsUnitedChicago@gmail.com. Info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...