@milmanschmidt.bsky.social
Chicago artist, educator, union member and parent
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
ICE vs the clergy
So thankful for Chicago photojournalists lately, but I really wish we didn’t have to have photos for the history books *every* day.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
So thankful for Chicago photojournalists lately, but I really wish we didn’t have to have photos for the history books *every* day.
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broadview pd turned sprinklers on the people waiting to provide post-release practical support and medical care for arrested community members. after those waiting to provide post-release care moved, broadview pd turned on a different set of sprinklers for the new spot. ugh just leave people alone!
CCSO, ISP, & broadview PD reported arresting 20+ people.
police repeatedly slammed bodies and faces on the pavement, and sat / knelt on limbs, heads, & necks. they threw & broke glasses, keffiyehs, bike helmets, & protective masks, leaving remnants of people’s possessions in pieces on the street.
police repeatedly slammed bodies and faces on the pavement, and sat / knelt on limbs, heads, & necks. they threw & broke glasses, keffiyehs, bike helmets, & protective masks, leaving remnants of people’s possessions in pieces on the street.
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
broadview pd turned sprinklers on the people waiting to provide post-release practical support and medical care for arrested community members. after those waiting to provide post-release care moved, broadview pd turned on a different set of sprinklers for the new spot. ugh just leave people alone!
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Federal agents who have carried out a series of increasingly aggressive raids in Chicago as part of President Trump’s effort to deport undocumented immigrants deserve no credit for the continuing drop in violent crime across Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker said. @wttw.bsky.social
Trump Deserves No Credit for Continued Drop in Crime in Chicago: Johnson, Pritzker
Crime in Chicago has been dropping significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic began to wane in 2022, a trend that accelerated after Mayor Brandon Johnson took office in May 2023 and has continued since...
news.wttw.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Federal agents who have carried out a series of increasingly aggressive raids in Chicago as part of President Trump’s effort to deport undocumented immigrants deserve no credit for the continuing drop in violent crime across Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker said. @wttw.bsky.social
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Chicago saw decreasing murders in 2022, 2023, and 2024. In 2025(Jan-Aug) saw less murders than every year except 2014 and 1964, prior to Operation Midway Blitz which began in September.
Obvious lies fuel their propaganda, which makes for a very shaky foundation. Not something that can last.
Obvious lies fuel their propaganda, which makes for a very shaky foundation. Not something that can last.
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Chicago saw decreasing murders in 2022, 2023, and 2024. In 2025(Jan-Aug) saw less murders than every year except 2014 and 1964, prior to Operation Midway Blitz which began in September.
Obvious lies fuel their propaganda, which makes for a very shaky foundation. Not something that can last.
Obvious lies fuel their propaganda, which makes for a very shaky foundation. Not something that can last.
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Hundreds of people arrested and held in custody amid the feds’ deportation campaign in Chicago could soon be released on various conditions under a federal judge’s order Wednesday.
Judge says he'll order release of hundreds of people arrested under feds' deportation blitz
chicago.suntimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Hundreds of people arrested and held in custody amid the feds’ deportation campaign in Chicago could soon be released on various conditions under a federal judge’s order Wednesday.
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Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer.
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
DHS takes credit for crime being down in Chicago. Data shows that was happening before they arrived.
Immigration officials on Tuesday said a drop in crime numbers was thanks to their work. Police data show the decrease was taking place before federal agents arrived in the city.
www.nbcnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer.
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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snow icing them out www.cbsnews.com/news/gregory...
Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say
Some Border Patrol agents could soon leave the Chicago area, after taking a leading role in the Trump administration's controversial immigration operations in the nation's third-largest city, official...
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
snow icing them out www.cbsnews.com/news/gregory...
Okay 1st, I called this months ago. Downtown photo ops. 2nd, last time I checked you can’t just bring guns into Millennium Park. 3rd, FUCKING GUARD DOGS?! Also: “While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” And finally, I love Block Club sm!!
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 3:57 PM
Okay 1st, I called this months ago. Downtown photo ops. 2nd, last time I checked you can’t just bring guns into Millennium Park. 3rd, FUCKING GUARD DOGS?! Also: “While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” And finally, I love Block Club sm!!
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Time to swear in Adelita Grijalva, let her cast the final vote to release the Epstein files!
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Time to swear in Adelita Grijalva, let her cast the final vote to release the Epstein files!
Disappointed in Dick Durbin tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Disappointed in Dick Durbin tonight.
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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outside the ice detention center in broadview, illinois:
the illinois handmaids and the democratic women of cook county are demonstrating against the kidnapping of community members by federal agents.
the illinois handmaids and the democratic women of cook county are demonstrating against the kidnapping of community members by federal agents.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
outside the ice detention center in broadview, illinois:
the illinois handmaids and the democratic women of cook county are demonstrating against the kidnapping of community members by federal agents.
the illinois handmaids and the democratic women of cook county are demonstrating against the kidnapping of community members by federal agents.
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The feds have declared "no more prayer" and are banning religious gatherings outside the ICE detention center near Chicago. The fake Christians keep getting more fake.
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The feds have declared "no more prayer" and are banning religious gatherings outside the ICE detention center near Chicago. The fake Christians keep getting more fake.
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A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
A judge explains his reasons for resigning.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A leading federal judge quits in protest of Trump's corruption-- & to fight it
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Wow
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
Developing story with a big fat caveat that DHS has been lying about what’s happening in Chicago for weeks.
At least two people were arrested by Chicago police and shots were allegedly fired at Border Patrol agents conducting immigration enforcement operations as tensions flared in Little Village Saturday morning.
Report of shots fired at federal agents during immigration enforcement in Little Village under investigation
chicago.suntimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Developing story with a big fat caveat that DHS has been lying about what’s happening in Chicago for weeks.
CPD helping ICE is going to mark a turning point in the Chicago immigration raids. Bovino and his brownshirts clearly have no regard for the courts, so how does this end?
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
CPD helping ICE is going to mark a turning point in the Chicago immigration raids. Bovino and his brownshirts clearly have no regard for the courts, so how does this end?
My policy is not to believe anything DHS says without solid evidence. abc7chicago.com/post/little-...
Shots fired at Border Patrol agents during immigration operation in Little Village, DHS says
Someone fired shots at CBP agents as they conducted an immigration enforcement operation on Chicago's Southwest Side on Saturday, DHS said.
abc7chicago.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
My policy is not to believe anything DHS says without solid evidence. abc7chicago.com/post/little-...
Bovino is back at it, tear gassing babies while CPD clears his path.
“Either you’re with us or against us, either you protect us or protect ICE,” Baltazar told a CPD officer blocking those following the convoy.”
“Either you’re with us or against us, either you protect us or protect ICE,” Baltazar told a CPD officer blocking those following the convoy.”
An infant girl in Chicago was tear gassed this morning by the U.S. government.
Developing story in Little Village.
Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground
Developing story in Little Village.
Follow @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social who are reporting on the ground
Little Village residents confront Bovino, border patrol agents Saturday
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Bovino is back at it, tear gassing babies while CPD clears his path.
“Either you’re with us or against us, either you protect us or protect ICE,” Baltazar told a CPD officer blocking those following the convoy.”
“Either you’re with us or against us, either you protect us or protect ICE,” Baltazar told a CPD officer blocking those following the convoy.”
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There is no doubt at all that the Trump Administration spent the emergency USDA SNAP fund and they may have even spent the regular SNAP funds.
In this article they claim USDA would have to dig in couches for something that isn’t there.
Where is the SNAP money?
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
In this article they claim USDA would have to dig in couches for something that isn’t there.
Where is the SNAP money?
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
Full SNAP benefits start to go out even as the Trump administration appeals
A federal judge ordered the government to fully fund food aid by Friday. The Trump administration's appeal was denied, so it's asking appealed, saying it's up to Congress to fund SNAP.
www.npr.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
There is no doubt at all that the Trump Administration spent the emergency USDA SNAP fund and they may have even spent the regular SNAP funds.
In this article they claim USDA would have to dig in couches for something that isn’t there.
Where is the SNAP money?
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
In this article they claim USDA would have to dig in couches for something that isn’t there.
Where is the SNAP money?
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
I’m super focused on Chicago but this absolute bullshit also happened today.
BREAKING: Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to block transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers.
Supreme Court lets Trump block transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers
The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I’m super focused on Chicago but this absolute bullshit also happened today.
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A juxtaposition: Gregory Bovino at a gas station, complaining that “Just to go use the bathroom and get something to eat” is a “safety concern.” Just after asking a dude buying a soda where he’s from.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/b...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/b...
www.chicagotribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
A juxtaposition: Gregory Bovino at a gas station, complaining that “Just to go use the bathroom and get something to eat” is a “safety concern.” Just after asking a dude buying a soda where he’s from.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/b...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/b...
Well. That injunction didn’t last long. Color me surprised.
About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Well. That injunction didn’t last long. Color me surprised.