for Chicagoans who think the drumbeat of negative coverage of the Johnson admin is fair & accurate, here’s the full Ed board of Crains claiming he is antisemitic bc 2 months ago I did not delete bot comments on a viral video about Michael Sacks donations: www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/edit...

me at the restaurant telling everyone it’s not JUST my best friend’s bachelorette we also all adore her future husband

hilarious to me when politicians are accused of pandering to the base. we’ve strayed so far from god’s light that it’s now a diss to point out that government officials are doing things that the people who elected them want them to do

good morning, you have no idea how much it's been killing me not to be able to tell you this but we made it and wow I can't wait to dive in: blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/11/l...

Lawyer Who Went Viral Opposing Midway Blitz Named Mayor Johnson’s Communications Director

Rachel Cohen first made headlines for quitting her job at a top Chicago law firm over Trump's policies. Now she's being tapped to lead messaging for Mayor Brandon Johnson.

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i think enough people remember stimulus checks and associate them with Trump that coming online to preemptively call people idiots for believing he might cut a check is perhaps not the move

Boycott is still on. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract.

Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · 3w ago

I spoke to a member of the SBWU boycott committee about the call to boycott Starbucks. As a reminder, boycott Starbucks! www.weareravenous.com/starbucks-wo...

having such a good* month it's making me feel legitimately bad for all of my opps. thoughts and prayers *personal level only, obviously

the DNC has apparently told him that so long as this is his team name it is ok to have Deshaun Watson as QB?

Rachel Cohen@cohen489.bsky.social · 3w ago

logging on to fantasy draft to see my friend’s team name is “I denounce hasan piker”

logging on to fantasy draft to see my friend’s team name is “I denounce hasan piker”

Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and

the peace that comes from only finding out about AI chatbot outages from Bluesky because you literally never interact with them…I wish it for everyone

I earnestly believe that one of our strongest tools for combatting the spread of fascism is good local government that is accountable to, and delivery results for, local communities in ways that they can recognize as making their lives better.

John@localcelebrity.bsky.social · 3w ago

Decades from now when my kid asks what I did during this time I can point to this, the Clark st bike lanes, and all of the changes to Lincoln Square and proudly say I worked to bring my community together to make it cleaner, greener, safer, more welcoming and more accessible. I’m very proud of that

last weekend i got into an actual argument about organizing tactics - like, RAISED VOICES argument - with a friend/fellow organizer who i respect deeply. multiple times, i or someone else unsuccessfully tried to deflate the tension/agree to disagree/move on. went for like 20-30 minutes. 1/

shameful to watch people call themselves progressive while fearmongering during historically low crime rates to try to give more money to a police department that goes tens of millions of dollars over budget every year. this is not a subtweet it’s about Alexi www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

Mayoral candidates decry Chicago violence ‘crisis,’ even as summer murders hit 61-year low

Chicago had 122 murders in June, July and August, the lowest summer total since 1965, according to city and police data. But in their mayoral quests, candidates keep stoking public anxiety about viole...

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I do not say this lightly—I think Gillian is probably the most important person you could follow on this app and also just in general. doing more than anyone I can think of to keep focus on the admin sending people to gulags

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4w ago

Two ICE charter jets operated by Journey Aviation pass one another in the air — one having just finished deporting people to Sierra Leone and Benin, the other heading to Senegal for a fuel stop and crew change before expelling shackled people to god knows where.

an echo dot? none for me, thanks, I’ll just reach out to a suburban police department to see if they can install a flock camera directly in my home

got to go to the inaugural daisy chain fields yesterday and when I tell you it was both incredible and a powerful reminder that many rich and powerful people are acting like they can’t do shit and FULL OF IT…Olivia Rodrigo is the moment, we are so lucky to have her I stg

If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.

Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social · last mo.

Its been compared to the great migration.

Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.

i started doing this a few years ago, but when someone shares with me that they have lost a loved one (recently or ages ago or anything in between), I like to ask if there’s a story or something about the person they don’t get to share often bc people don’t know how to respond to mentions of death.

Noting this is was all happening under multiple presidents, D and R.

Brian Barrett@brbarrett.bsky.social · 2mo ago

WIRED obtained internal records that detail hundreds of allegations of CBP officers using federal databases to spy on exes and family members.

NEW FROM ME: The US Air Force has done dozens of secret ICE flights to Honduras since early June, in the largest and most regular use of their aircraft in Trump's second term. Read it here now, or read it in NYT six months from now. gillianbrockell.com/the-air-forc...

The Air Force has been doing secret ICE flights to Honduras for months

At least some of the flights were third-country removals, human rights group says.

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My only comment about Woke 1 vs Woke 2 is that neither of these things is real &, for the thousandth time, we don’t have to frame <every topic in American politics> on the terms of the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits. Other, more serious choices are readily available:

the firing of top brass was to ensure a completely loyal military in case Trump decides he doesn’t want to leave office, and everything else is a side effect. we understand this, right? “side effect” here not to minimize, but I just want to check that we’re all aware?

Cheeky Alpha Monkey@alpha-aurora.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Navy is lying about the conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln as well as the suicide attempts, Kegseth needs to go, the firing of all top brass who took their jobs seriously and had professional integrity is the reason for this abuse now by this admin, this is a volunteer force, shameful🤬

BREAKING: ICE charter Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a massive contract to operate DHS's "deportation fleet." gillianbrockell.com/breaking-eas...

BREAKING: Eastern Airlines gets contract to fly DHS 'deportation fleet'

Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of ICE charter airline Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a contract to operate a fleet of Boeing 737 jets acquired by the Department of Homeland Security to conduct ...

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Nick is the hero who recorded thousands of his immigrant neighbors in Minnesota being loaded onto ICE flights, pushing airport officials to do more. And he FOIA'd the video of Liam Ramos and his dad being smuggled to a Texas family jail on a Delta flight. If I lived in Burnsville, he'd have my vote.

Nick Benson for Burnsville@bensonforburnsville.com · 2mo ago

Good morning! Get out and vote progressive by 8pm tonight! I’m running to flip Burnsville’s conservative City Council. Learn more at bensonforburnsville.com

Happening now in Chicago: Local officials and attorneys, alongside Border Patrol shooting victim Marimar Martinez, are holding a presser outside CPD's District 19 police station to announce the filing of police reports over alleged crimes by federal immigration agents.

We've got a fantastic show Saturday on @heartlandsignal.bsky.social talking Michigan, Wisconsin, data centers and much more with: + @ahmedbaba.bsky.social + @cohen489.bsky.social + @timothypmurphy.bsky.social + @patkreitlow.bsky.social 🤳Stream 1-4 CT heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820/

Last min road trip? :) We can keep this momentum going across the Midwest, but we need all the help we can get -- which is why we’re adding one more canvass trip to Milwaukee for Francesca Hong this Saturday, 8/8!! If you've been waiting for the right time to make an impact, this is it.