Me, before meeting up with friends: *I can be around people, people like me, I have fun and interesting things to say*

Me, while meeting up with friends: *responds to question about how I’m doing by somehow talking about qualified immunity until everyone gets super silent*

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

"Protesters are expected to absorb violence but never inflict it—to function as shock absorbers to be acted upon, whose sympathetic value is nullified by any deviation from that standard ... under capitalism, 'peace' is the maintenance of violence on the state’s terms."

this is what it takes. we're here now folks, there is not a "if the nazis came" it's "they're here and your mettle will be tested now"

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

AAAAAAAAAAHHH

If this is the same black Jeep Wagoneer that was in these same neighborhoods yesterday, it may have a TN plate reading BTO 2976 (rear only, removed from the front). Obviously plates can change or they may be different vehicles so keep an eye out regardless for masked men in camo or vests.

A lot of people just don’t know what the Supreme Court has given police the legal power to do, even when the liberals held the majority. Knowing this is some real party pooper shit.

That's two Chicago journalists feds have arrested (that I know of) in the last few weeks.

We're less than 24 hours out from federal judge Sara Ellis entering a restraining order that was supposed to protect journalists, among others, from abuse by federal agents.

In Chicago, democratic socialism does not extend to health-supportive facilities for the general public that might also risk benefiting homeless and unhoused people.

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

we’ve reached the point where local police are willing to start at riot at 8am to enforce a city block’s worth of buffer space around federal detainment facilities so that protestors cannot effect more meaningful disruption of the ethnic pogrom committed by the secret police.

Many have commented on ICE’s lack of training & Nat’l Guard’s appearance as reasons they shouldn’t be here but no amount of preparation, organization, or projections about fitness, ability, or morality erase the fact that the state violence they’re enacting is the disqualifying factor.

Everyone deserves to be safe and free from the harm and violence of policing - whether local, state, or federal - with clear material protections enforceable in ways that don’t increase community harm.

It’s not good enough that CPD eventually cleared space for ICE to leave their pkg lot, blocking streets with their own SUV’s and holding neighbors back while the ICE vehicle drove away. This is not a NIMBY situation where I want ICE to just post up in different pkg lot in a different neighborhood.

I’m not new to organizing against the violent behemoth that is CPD but still remain frustrated at their (& ISP’s) willingness to make ICE operations & protection possible, and the lack of enforcement to keep ICE, CBP, or any police force out of our parking lots, streets, alleys, & neighborhoods.

Even the TRO passed in IL Northern District Court today, which makes necessary chemical weapons prohibitions, wouldn’t have happened if multiple people doing essential work on the ground hadn’t first experienced serious physical, mental, & emotional harm. I wish they hadn’t had to go through that.

While an essential start on paper, orders like the ICE-free zones are only as useful as their enforceability. It’s not enough to rely on the courts, which take time and often require the occurrence of injury or harm as standing to sue.

At one point, a vehicle of ICE agents tried to hide from residents in the parking lot behind the 24th District Station. When uniformed CPD officers communication with the vehicle were reminded m that ICE can’t use city lots to prepare for operations, they denied knowledge of the order.

I remember when he died on the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians, and that felt great.

Everyone deserves to be safe and free from the harm and violence of policing - whether local, state, or federal - with clear material protections enforceable in ways that don’t increase community harm.

It’s not good enough that CPD eventually cleared space for ICE to leave their pkg lot, blocking streets with their own SUV’s and holding neighbors back while the ICE vehicle drove away. This is not a NIMBY situation where I want ICE to just post up in different pkg lot in a different neighborhood.

I’m not new to organizing against the violent behemoth that is CPD but still remain frustrated at their (& ISP’s) willingness to make ICE operations & protection possible, and the lack of enforcement to keep ICE, CBP, or any police force out of our parking lots, streets, alleys, & neighborhoods.