cat garcia 🐈‍⬛
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chicago based journalist | online radicalization, extremism, culture | ex-sportswriter — 10 years covering MLB | the athletic + baseball prospectus alum | rp 🙅🏻‍♀️ e | 🇲🇽 🇮🇹 | www.bycatgarcia.com
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In 2023, I made the decision to step away from sports writing.

Today, I’m finally talking about why and what I’m doing now.

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Why I Left Sports for Extremism Research
“It’s been a long time coming…”
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(obviously not for the writers and staff there… but… good.)
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ICE is up. Feds have been spotted in Rogers Park. Video is also circulating of Border Patrol grabbing someone near their usual hunting ground at the Home Depot in Cicero.
ICE went after folks coming out of a Rogers Park laundromat on Thursday
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No idea what's going on here (tried asking about it, did not get an answer, lol). This vehicle with an ISP plate has a second license plate beneath it—a Texas one, and it reads "WILL RUN."
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In addition to a drone, mobile PODs and (nonstop) choppers circling, surveillance now also includes CCSO on the roof of this business.
Blue sky cop on roof
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Some clergy are begging to be allowed closer to the detention center to perform communion.

"You are preventing our religious freedom," someone in the crowd shouts.
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A number of masked NIPAS officers here now have relieved troopers. These are cops from other suburban departments called in for police "mutual aid." Unsure what, if any, rules these guys have to follow re: face coverings while deployed right now (they are wearing assigned numbers).
this neighborhood is my second home, and where i was born. this shit is so personal now. when my dad is calling me because he watched this happen while at work… yeah.
A man was just abducted by ICE on Clark and Lunt, feet away from our campaign office.

Now our community is showing up and patrolling for ICE. Join us by getting involved in Protect RP: www.facebook.com/share/1DQqPQ...
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ahh yes they better get used to using down detector a lot during the work day 🙃
🎶hey chicago whaddaya say we’re gonna sueee ICE today 🎶
JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.
lemme know where to pull up it’s okay if my plate is cold
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The Sun-Times *is reporting these were live rounds* fired at a vehicle.

There's been much confusion in the immediate aftermath of this about whether whether they were that or pepper balls, and whether person in vehicle was hit by them. This is the most current info we have *at this time.*
Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side
Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...
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🤣😭 this thread is giving me warm memories of postseasons past
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Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources."

Oracle is about to own TikTok.
Execs at Oracle, the likely new owner of TikTok, are VERY outspoken in Israeli media about the company's "mission to support the State of Israel" & "unequivocal support for Israel."

Insufficiently pro-Israel Oracle staff receive mental health counseling. responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...
Oracle execs: Love Israel or maybe this isn't the job for you
Employees who disagreed were reportedly referred to company mental health services
responsiblestatecraft.org
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reddit occupied government
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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.
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I am just so fucking proud of her.
hiding over here for the weekend because no one in my feed is talking about taylor or charli tg
When I looked back at my first story in late 2020, I realized that it was a couple Reply All episodes you did that first got me into this whole thing!!!! OG!!

Bless the Uber driver who picked me up that one day and happened to be listening to Long Distance in his car and got me hooked.