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Dems can’t stop - should not stop - until GOP restores healthcare subsidies to the budget.
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I have learned more about ICE activities in Erie from prayer vigils organized by Catholic women religious than from the Gannett-run local paper.
November 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Unraveled has been incredible, showing the reality of the police state's invasion of Chicago while legacy media looks away.
November 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Thank you for the recommendations.
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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🧵 Please feel free to recognize other fine journalists in the comments. I’ve mostly highlighted those active on Bluesky.
Local news orgs in Chicago have risen to this sad occasion, as I noted in my Stop the Presses newsletter last month.
The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago
Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable
www.stopthepresses.news
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🧵 Photographers are doing a great job covering the Trump regime’s attempts to terrorize our neighbors in Chicago. Among the fine shooters are the Chicago Tribune’s Armando Sanchez and Stacey Wescott. @staceywescott.bsky.social
Border Patrol officers detained several people while conducting immigration enforcement actions in Niles, Skokie, and the Edison Park neighborhood in Chicago Friday on Halloween.
November 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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🧵 Tom Schuba of the Chicago Sun-Times and Chip Mitchell of the Sun-Times’ sister org, WBEZ public radio, have written important stories. @chipmitchell1.bsky.social
Shortly after Trump took office, DHS wiped from its website a policy regulating facial recognition use.

Face rec tools — like Clearview AI, which Illinois cops are barred from using, and Mobile Fortify — are now being used to support Trump’s deportation campaign.

www.wbez.org/immigration/...
ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight
The Trump administration has contracts with Clearview AI, a firm banned from doing business with Illinois police agencies. “This is what dystopian nightmares are made of, this kind of continual expans...
www.wbez.org
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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🧵 Block Club Chicago has been very active on the Trump regime's attempts to bring violence to Chicago in the guise of fighting violence.
Immigration agents detained a schizophrenic man — then dropped him miles from home. blockclubchi.co/4qAtK75
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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🧵 Court challenges to the ICE and Border Patrol misconduct are well covered by the Chicago Sun-Times’ Jon Seidel, who has live-posted court hearings. The Tribune’s Jason Meisner does a fine job, too, but is less active on Bluesky. @jmetr22b.bsky.social
#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sides against U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who had asked Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino to appear in her Chicago courtroom on a daily basis.

The appeals court finds that her order "infringes on the separation of powers."
November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM