- 🧵🧵 This thread highlights some of media people and organizations energetically covering the Trump regime’s campaign to terrorize Chicagoans. These folks are well worth a Bluesky follow. Of special note is Unraveled, the kind of independent journalism we need when some legacy outlets are in retreat.Nov 2, 2025 16:59
- 🧵 Heather Cherone, senior Chicago politics reporter for WTTW public television, does an outstanding job keeping track of what Homeland Security is doing in court and in the streets.
- 🧵 Gregory Royal Pratt and Laura Rodríguez Presa of the Chicago Tribune are doing great work on the immigration crackdown. Homeland Security has called out both of them on social media in futile attempts to intimidate them. @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social
- 🧵 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
- 🧵 Block Club Chicago has been very active on the Trump regime's attempts to bring violence to Chicago in the guise of fighting violence.
- 🧵 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
- 🧵 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
- 🧵 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.
- I have learned more about ICE activities in Erie from prayer vigils organized by Catholic women religious than from the Gannett-run local paper.
- Unraveled has been incredible, showing the reality of the police state's invasion of Chicago while legacy media looks away.
