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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 22h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 22h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 22h

CTA taking their next big step in the smart streets pilot. Up until now, fines had mainly been coming from just 4 cameras that I believe are tied to Dept of Finance vehicles.

Chicago smart streets pilot fines by Camera ID

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm. Spouse works in Cicero and she noted this morning how eerily uncongested Cermak was today. ICE is very intentionally destroying the livelihoods of Latino/a communities.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

To a somewhat lesser extent, the same is true of several other areas. Cicero has seen heavy ICE activity similar to Sunday in Rogers Park about twice a week lately. Same for the southeast side, same for southwest suburbs like Burbank and Bridgeview, same for Hammond and Whiting across the border.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

To a somewhat lesser extent, the same is true of several other areas. Cicero has seen heavy ICE activity similar to Sunday in Rogers Park about twice a week lately. Same for the southeast side, same for southwest suburbs like Burbank and Bridgeview, same for Hammond and Whiting across the border.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in BotY, Brighton Park, Gage Park, or Englewood a couple times a week. ICE and CBP have been so ever-present there that I have run into multi-vehicle phalanxes of masked agents completely at random on two different occasions in the last three weeks. 47th is a ghost town compared to spring.

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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 1d

On Sunday, Albany Park residents came out of their homes to link arms and shout down ICE agents attempting to abduct one of their neighbors. They were successful, even though in response, agents ran over one woman's foot and deployed tear gas.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/13/f...

Federal Agents Deploy Tear Gas In Albany Park as Neighbors Block Immigration Arrest

It is the latest use of chemical irritants deployed by agents in neighborhoods. The incident was also the latest example of increased neighbor resistance to immigration enforcement in Chicago.

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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Chicago Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards Day for all those who celebrate

Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 7d

Your attendance is requested at City Hall!

At 10am on October 14th, the Zoning Committee will vote on the Broadway Land Use Framework, allowing thousands of new homes to be built next to four brand-new Red Line stations. 🏘️🤝🚇

Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

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Tell the Zoning Cmte. to Support 1000s of New Homes in Uptown & Edgewater

City Council's Zoning Committee will take up the Broadway upzoning ordinances on 10/14/25.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t say this without offering your own

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm, so it feels like they're squeezing the tourist/visitor passes to the benefit of the commuter/one-off rider fares

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 2d

Finally got something out of my head that's been there a while: A capsule history of the mid-density Chicago apartment building daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-life-dea...

The life, death, and rebirth of moderate-density apartment buildings in Chicago

The pantheon of Chicago architecture tends to cluster at either end of the density spectrum. In one corner you have the trophy commercial skyscrapers; in the other you have icons of domesticity, the b...

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Fields Sisters undefeated: racism comes before race.

mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 2d

"Ta-Nehisi Coates, in Palestine, May 2023, observes black Israeli soldiers "lording their power over Palestinians, many of whom would, in America, have been seen as 'white'. This reminds him "of something [he has] long known: that race is a species of power and nothing else."

(h/t Jeremy Bushnell)

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 2d

Finally got something out of my head that's been there a while: A capsule history of the mid-density Chicago apartment building daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-life-dea...

The life, death, and rebirth of moderate-density apartment buildings in Chicago

The pantheon of Chicago architecture tends to cluster at either end of the density spectrum. In one corner you have the trophy commercial skyscrapers; in the other you have icons of domesticity, the b...

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 3d

A bus is only just as efficient up to a certain ridership

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 3d

Obama era

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Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 3d

Chicagoans: Attend this virtual Rapid Response training on Wed 10/14 at 4pm to learn how to help protect our neighbors during this occupation. zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 3d

That said, street-running rail with its own dedicated lanes (in Minneapolis, etc) has been quite successful, and I think would be great on western/Ashland/Cicero/etc

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Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 3d

The streetcar era really was a missed opportunity

Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. Just wow.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Budget cut means D.C. Streetcar will shut down in March

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) stripped funding for the doomed streetcar service from future budgets.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 4d

ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The Chicago raids send a worrying signal about the ideal ICE agents in Trump's America

The agency is on a hiring spree. But we know what that kind of breakneck expansion of the workforce can result in because we’ve seen it before.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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