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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 2h

Via Tribune's Jason Meisner

Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 2h

Federal judge orders immigration agents to turn on any bodycams they may be wearing during interactions with the public in Chicago. Says she is "profoundly concerned” that agents are her earlier order restricting use of tear gas on media and protesters. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/16/j...

‘Concerned’ judge orders ICE field director into court to address use of tear gas, requires agents to use body-worn cameras

A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday said she is “profoundly concerned” that immigration agents are violating her orders restricting the use of tear gas on media and protesters and ordered the fi…

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 17h

As a rule I am more inclined toward the old @themountaingoats.bsky.social catalog over their newer stuff but have been really enjoying COLD AT NIGHT.

"Let yourself go in the current
Only rise and fall as the angles allow
Finally make a break for the surface"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qm7...

the Mountain Goats - “Cold at Night” (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by the Mountain Goats

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 18h

DHS claims a “high-ranking Latin Kings member” from Chicago, solicited the murder of top Border Patrol chief.

But at his indictment, there was no mention of gang ties. His lawyers & family say DHS’s narrative of Juan Espinoza Martinez, is false.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/c...

Chicago man indicted for allegedly soliciting killing of Gregory Bovino, but without contention of gang involvement

A Chicago man has been indicted on charges he solicited the murder of U.S. Border Patrol field boss Gregory Bovino, but the bare-bones document makes no mention of previous allegations that he is a…

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 19h

Feds swept a parking lot of rideshare drivers near O'Hare last Friday. Read to the end.
@taliasoglin.bsky.social (one of my best humans) on working people caught up in the story of the times
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Feds target ride-share drivers at O’Hare: ‘They didn’t focus on anybody who didn’t look Mexican’

Last Friday, Border Patrol officers arrested 18 people at O’Hare, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 1d

Dispatch from this morning/afternoon in East Side, with @samjcharles.bsky.social and photos by Terrence A. James

Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 1d

Chaos at 105th Street and Avenue N. A couple bricks and possibly an egg got thrown at a squad of federal agents who were standing in the intersection. Two cars — a white SUV and a red one — got trucked out after a chase and a crash, per neighbors. At least three detained from this confrontation.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 1d

One guy scooped a spent can up in a baseball hat — said he teaches high school science and planned to use it in a lesson.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 1d

Bunch of CPD (13 per dept. statement) were out there, none with gas masks. Several looked pretty uncomfortable following the gas deployment. Had not seen the "muzzle blast" type of chemical crowd control yet.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 1d

Chaos at 105th Street and Avenue N. A couple bricks and possibly an egg got thrown at a squad of federal agents who were standing in the intersection. Two cars — a white SUV and a red one — got trucked out after a chase and a crash, per neighbors. At least three detained from this confrontation.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 2d

....Driving along
with your hand out squeezing the air,
a meadowlark waiting on every post.

Behind a shelterbelt of cedars,
top-deep in hollyhocks, pollen and bees,
a pickup kicks its fenders off
and settles back to read the clouds.

"So This is Nebraska"

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42625/...

So This Is Nebraska

You feel like that; you feel like letting your tires go flat, like letting the mice build a nest in your muffler, like being no more than a truck in the weeds, clucking with chickens or sticky with ho...

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 5d

I’m not talking about the kind of thing you can photograph or advertise, though goodness knows religious imagery has been a major part of the wave of protest and dissent we’re seeing at the moment. It’s just this background thing that runs alongside everything else that’s going on.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 5d

Something sort of interesting I’ve noticed is that this conviction has followed me almost everywhere since I’ve started covering violence and its responses and preventative measures intensively. Doesn’t matter where — a street corner or a village hall or a parking lot.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 5d

Thompson and almost everyone I spoke to around her are really serious about their faith, and the idea that there is something holding them even when things feel chaotic and unstable.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 5d

Went to church and a bunch of other places with Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson as she navigates an intense chapter in the life of the village and the country as a whole.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/r...

Refusing ‘a position of fear,’ Broadview’s mayor deals with ICE and a national spotlight

Broadview, the 2.2 square-mile, majority-Black village, where Katrina Thompson is in her third term as mayor, has become the locus of what she sees as both a spiritual fight and a political battle.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 5d

He banged his head against the wall, but he still could not think of a story.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 6d

VERY IMPORTANT NEWS: New Dem Atlas open.spotify.com/album/0kn3jS...

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 6d

“Who knows what tomorrow may bring… tomorrow the feds may be on unicycles.” - a transit oriented friend as we are (trying) to make plans in a rapidly changing news landscape

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 7d

Journalism is so glamorous pt infinity: sitting in the grass in an industrial corridor writing and peering around for national guard troops

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 7d

A man came home from work yesterday to find his roommate dead and tied up in their Bridgeport apartment following an apparent burglary, per a police report. No firm ID yet on the victim.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/a...

Man found dead, tied up in apparent burglary in Bridgeport: report

A Bridgeport man came home from work Tuesday to find his roommate dead and tied up in their shared apartment after an apparent burglary, according to a police report obtained by the Tribune.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 8d

Hey Ms. Sheridan. Sounds like a really stressful week for you. Are you willing to send me an email at [email protected]?

Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 9d

Mayor Thompson adjourns the meeting. I have covered hundreds of local government meetings and don’t think I have ever covered one with that much singing.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 9d

Encourages love over hate and says protesters get to go home at the end of the day, without the “drama and trauma” of an ICE facility in their hometowns.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 9d

Says she tried to visit the processing center and meet with Noem and was told she was unavailable. And reaffirms her commitment to 1A rights but says she has to balance those rights with well-being of Broadview residents.

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 9d

On Friday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem tried to visit village hall, claiming she needed to use the bathroom.

“I’ve never known a public official to bring a photographer, videographer to a bathroom break.”

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Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 9d

Mayor Thompson is addressing the comments.
On the “crisis of leadership” brought up by the first commenter, she says she needs to get her facts right. Then says she is here to be the messenger of love and kindness.
Thanks the police dept. for “doing a good job for this community.”

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