Karla Altmayer
@karlaaltmayer.bsky.social
Gender-based violence organizer and attorney in Chicago. Co-founder, Co-director of @healingtoaction.bsky.social. Current chair of City of Chicago’s GBV Taskforce. Parent to two beautiful humans. Views my own.
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watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
December 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Police has never been the response to stop gender-based violence. #listentosurvivors
One officer was accused of spreading a nude photo of a woman he knew.
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Police has never been the response to stop gender-based violence. #listentosurvivors
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The federal blitz moved to Charlotte, but the trauma and damage in Chicago are still with us—and DHS says 1,000 agents will hit our streets in March. I wrote about what this moment demands of us: care, clarity, and preparation.
What Now, Chicago? Regrouping After Midway Blitz
Let’s make this a winter of fortification, of learning, and bonding together like the winter snow that federal agents are so afraid of.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The federal blitz moved to Charlotte, but the trauma and damage in Chicago are still with us—and DHS says 1,000 agents will hit our streets in March. I wrote about what this moment demands of us: care, clarity, and preparation.
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615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
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NEWS: Internal Homeland Security documents on 600+ detainees to be released prove that the vast majority of immigrants detained in Chicago area are "low" public safety risk, even by the government's loose standards. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/o...
Only 2.5% on list of 614 ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees had criminal histories, DOJ records show
Meanwhile, the other 598 people on the list had no listed criminal history at all.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
NEWS: Internal Homeland Security documents on 600+ detainees to be released prove that the vast majority of immigrants detained in Chicago area are "low" public safety risk, even by the government's loose standards. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/o...
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Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
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Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
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Housing advocates say Chicago should pause evictions as ICE raids continue. blockclubchi.co/47CnTFw
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Housing advocates say Chicago should pause evictions as ICE raids continue. blockclubchi.co/47CnTFw
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
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Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.
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Minnesota’s energy assistance program is processing applications, but the state’s Department of Commerce said federal assistance dollars will likely be delayed by a month. The agency does not plan to pay recipients’ heating bills until the shutdown ends.
Government shutdown threatens to delay home heating aid for millions of low-income families
With temperatures beginning to drop in areas across the United States, some states are warning that funding for the program is being delayed because of the federal government shutdown, now in its fift...
www.mprnews.org
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Minnesota’s energy assistance program is processing applications, but the state’s Department of Commerce said federal assistance dollars will likely be delayed by a month. The agency does not plan to pay recipients’ heating bills until the shutdown ends.
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I want the United States government to ensure that every American has food to eat, a place to live, a safe neighborhood, transportation to move around & work, clean water to drink, free health care & free education.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
November 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I want the United States government to ensure that every American has food to eat, a place to live, a safe neighborhood, transportation to move around & work, clean water to drink, free health care & free education.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
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Chicagoland going for MVP:
“This is beyond anyone’s wildest imagination in the best possible way,” Khan said. “It’s overwhelmingly amazing, and we just want to make sure we get food to people who need it the most.”
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/e...
“This is beyond anyone’s wildest imagination in the best possible way,” Khan said. “It’s overwhelmingly amazing, and we just want to make sure we get food to people who need it the most.”
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/e...
Evanston food drive overwhelms 'in the best possible way' as SNAP recipients face uncertainty
Many waited more than an hour to drop off bags of groceries during a food drive at Evanston Township High School.
www.nbcchicago.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Chicagoland going for MVP:
“This is beyond anyone’s wildest imagination in the best possible way,” Khan said. “It’s overwhelmingly amazing, and we just want to make sure we get food to people who need it the most.”
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/e...
“This is beyond anyone’s wildest imagination in the best possible way,” Khan said. “It’s overwhelmingly amazing, and we just want to make sure we get food to people who need it the most.”
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/e...
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The thing about Johnson not swearing in Grijalva is that’s it a test for 2026.
If you think they will accept an outcome they don’t like, they will just Grijalva it.
So what’s the plan when the GOP says “we ain’t leaving, fuck you, make us.”
Because that IS what they are going to say.
If you think they will accept an outcome they don’t like, they will just Grijalva it.
So what’s the plan when the GOP says “we ain’t leaving, fuck you, make us.”
Because that IS what they are going to say.
November 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The thing about Johnson not swearing in Grijalva is that’s it a test for 2026.
If you think they will accept an outcome they don’t like, they will just Grijalva it.
So what’s the plan when the GOP says “we ain’t leaving, fuck you, make us.”
Because that IS what they are going to say.
If you think they will accept an outcome they don’t like, they will just Grijalva it.
So what’s the plan when the GOP says “we ain’t leaving, fuck you, make us.”
Because that IS what they are going to say.
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LAPD officers used tear gas to disperse Dodger fans in Echo Park after the World Series. Gas canisters were thrown outside of a 7 Eleven on Rosemont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. The gas caused people to quickly leave the area. @shoton35mm.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 6:41 AM
LAPD officers used tear gas to disperse Dodger fans in Echo Park after the World Series. Gas canisters were thrown outside of a 7 Eleven on Rosemont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. The gas caused people to quickly leave the area. @shoton35mm.bsky.social
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This is how every opposition leader should handle the press. Absolutely brilliant @neguse.house.gov
November 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is how every opposition leader should handle the press. Absolutely brilliant @neguse.house.gov
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Fresh off the boat (yeah, she came on a ship, then train to Chicago), my mom went to this high school in the 60s.
Another group of immigrants is still striving — and striding — to make a mark in this country
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/l...
Another group of immigrants is still striving — and striding — to make a mark in this country
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/l...
Lake View High Cross Country Team Fights For State Title As ICE Targets Their Community: 'We're Not Hiding'
The boys team, made up largely of Mexican Americans, is chasing a rare state championship while their community faces fear and uncertainty.
blockclubchicago.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Fresh off the boat (yeah, she came on a ship, then train to Chicago), my mom went to this high school in the 60s.
Another group of immigrants is still striving — and striding — to make a mark in this country
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/l...
Another group of immigrants is still striving — and striding — to make a mark in this country
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/l...
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This quote hit me hard. Sending love and power to these kids, and to Chicago.
October 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This quote hit me hard. Sending love and power to these kids, and to Chicago.
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👀 on the record even? let's go
Two Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors."
2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors"
Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they'll defy federal orders regarding Trump's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.
cbsn.ws
October 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Chicago-area companies raked in millions from the feds as Operation Midway Blitz intensified.
The Watch investigative team reports: blockclubchi.co/3Wk8c0Q
The Watch investigative team reports: blockclubchi.co/3Wk8c0Q
October 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Chicago-area companies raked in millions from the feds as Operation Midway Blitz intensified.
The Watch investigative team reports: blockclubchi.co/3Wk8c0Q
The Watch investigative team reports: blockclubchi.co/3Wk8c0Q