There's still Bai Ordo and Cafe Arzan in the general area for kyrgyz (though that doesn't answer your question)

Lao Peng You might be a good option, but a large group might be hard. Minyoli is another thought, but idk if Andersonville is too far.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think Jibek Jolu in the city is closed

It’s fun how the Neo liberals are openly saying they don’t plan on defunding the Gestapo. They’re just going to to ask them to stop wearing masks nicely and that’s it. The national level Democratic Party is completely unwilling to do what is going to be needed to regain democracy.

Establishment Dems in a nutshell: "We have a well defined process and procedure for secret kill lists that we should be following!"

You may have noticed that folks who are from Chicago love this city. There's a reason for that. I walked to the lake with friends yesterday, and when I saw the waves rolling in, I felt something shift back into place inside of me. So many parts of this city are part of me. We will defend this place.

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The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

One thing this moment in Chicago has opened up for me is how many people want to be more involved in each other's lives but aren't sure what the first steps are or if their care is wanted or welcomed.

I have a lot of appreciation for the people who are creating more spaces for people to connect.

We are going to Win

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

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This is a very good and concise explainer you send to someone the next time you hear “why doesn’t CPD just arrest ICE?”

You’re girl-bossing too close to the sun, Michael

I'm genuinely starting to think that the people who say they want to see American's really fight back are really saying they want a specific kind of visible, stereotypical depiction of protest, and have zero zero tolerance for the kind of groundwork it takes to make change happen.

Surprise, surprise 🫤

it's a little extra confusing because the total clear was ~$16B this year, but the $16B they attribute to datacenters is ~$9B last year and ~$7B this year.

Next year no longer has the current price cap agreement, so 🤷‍♂️

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