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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 32m

If you work at a hotel, restaurant, or convenience store frequented by ICE agents in the Chicago area, I want to hear from you.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15h

We don't know how many people they took. The last update I got from a source I trust was between three and six, and they weren't even entirely sure about that range. ICE was also far more aggressive with our rapid responders today, pulling guns on at least three people and arresting one volunteer.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 17h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

Broadview, Illinois 10/10-10/11

Press scrum around Rabbi Ben Yosef talking to state Police officers

State police arresting anti deportation demonstrator

State police arresting anti deportation protester laying on the ground

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 17h

RP Provisions needs whistles if anyone wants to send them some! 6928 N Glenwood Ave
Chicago, IL 60626
United States

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14h

Excellent work @vimiller.bsky.social of @chicago.suntimes.com getting photographic proof of the use of tear gas in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago. Potentially significant in regard to federal restraining order now in place.

close-up canister on a residential sidewalk

stenciled lettering on its side: "TO BE USED BY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRECTIONAL OR MILITARY PERSONNEL"

Part of a tear gas canister deployed by federal agents in the 3200 block of Wilson Avenue Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025.Violet Miller/Sun-Times

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 12h

Roof cops were intentionally aiming for heads. There was a gaggle of photographers and at least three of them got pepper balled on their heads. No one else was around them. One of the feds on the roof was also waving to naked bikers and making hand gestures with two fingers to signal “small”

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paul @paulcope.land · 12h

I walked from Uptown through Edgewater up to Devon this afternoon and there was someone with a whistle every few blocks. Cyclists with whistles were patrolling alleys.

Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 14h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 12h

The most important news story in the country is happening in Chicago right now with the ongoing Trump deportation raids.

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 12h

PHOTOS: Views from this afternoon outside the ICE processing facility in suburban Broadview.

A federal law enforcement officer checks the lock on the gate of a fence constructed on Beach Street outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Around 50 protesters gather with lawn chairs, blankets, and yoga mats and listen to speeches from Jane Goodall and Mahatma Gandhi outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A small group of protesters continue to rally on the corner of 25th Avenue and Harvard Street after Cook County Sheriff’s police officers attempted to disperse protesters near the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A protester dressed in an inflatable bee costume walks over to the corner of 25th Avenue and Harvard Street after Cook County Sheriff’s police officers attempted to disperse protesters near the Broadview ICE processing facility, in suburban Broadview, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 12h

Hey Portland friends, is ICE snatching people in your neighborhoods or is all the action just costumes at the main facility?

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 21h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 13h

The 15 nautical mile TFR over Chicago’s city center has naturally cleared, we will see if they extend it any further or re-upped.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 13h

We need UN observers dog

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 13h

So many people i talk to mention that their out-of-state friends or family have heard little to nothing about what’s going on in Chicago.

Some viral stories like the South Shore apartments raid or Rev. Black getting shot break through but the persistent Fed violence in the streets in lost.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 14h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 13h

Chances are if they're blanketing an area with tear gas theyre also popping off pepper balls. PDs across the country have been purposefully aiming at people's faces. Better to get something shatter resistant than roll the dice on possible permanent eye damage

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 19h

No. No. No.

(Nothing against Steven, I used to do this too until I learned that it was a bad idea.)

Swim goggles hit by a projectile (like a tear gas canister or pepper ball) can direct force to the area around your eyeball and pop it out of your skull.

NOT desirable.

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20h

Pro tip to reporters and protesters: always have swim goggles in your pockets or bags. They’re small, $10 and if tear gas is used, slip them on & no matter how much you cough, you’ll still be able to SEE without burning eyes.

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