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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈

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Love people, drink good coffee, and bike everywhere. I care a lot about cities (and 🎢s) | HIV+ | fighting for better streets @betterstreetschicago.org | My posts are mine

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 11d

The real tea is that there is nothing stopping Brandon Johnson from implementing #PlowTheSidewalks other than himself.

We did not need to pass an ordinance today for the city to be allowed to do it. We just needed to pass one for him to agree to do it.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 17h

journalists know their shit challenge

level: impossible

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 17h

It’s more complicated than that and you *should* know it if you do *actually* care about surveillance and/or enforcement.

kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 17h

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 17h

AND ILLINOIS STATE POLICE ARE LITERALLY ENABLING THIS IM GONNA FUCKING LOSE IT

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

David Black, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, in a photo by Ashlee Rezin of the @chicago.suntimes.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

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

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 1d

It’s the observation car

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

3M is antifa now

Kimberly Vega

@caligurlluv

Replying to @MrAndyNgo and @patrioticmouse

Interesting same pink gas mask as those whose them in Portland, Oregon!!!!!

Who's supplying them?!!!

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 1d

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 2d

This was the Texas Eagle, a long-distance route that passes through Springfield.

I typically prefer Lincoln Service for a smoother and slightly faster ride, but the timing of this train worked better for my schedule today. And I took advantage, though the cafe opened far too late.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 2d

Where do you think? 😉😮‍💨

Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org · 2d

📢 3 weeks to save transit means we need you to get in the fight with us!

Join us every day in the streets to reach transit riders, urging them to contact their legislators. Sign up for a shift that works for you ➡️ mobilize.us/s/W7IiV4

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 2d

trains >

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 3d

We are not talking individual behavior.

They have set up literal physical infrastructure to protect the ICE facility in order to facilitate their ingress and egress.

All while brutalizing protestors.

That’s policy, not individual defectors.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 3d

#1 curfew is a tool of suppression

#2 that video was *posted* at 5:54pm — before curfew

#3 “neighbourhood” yeah go ahead and keep your opinions to the other side of the pond

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 4d

It’s literally happening right now.

Illinois State Police — not ICE, not border patrol, not atf.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 4d

If ICE raided your neighborhood today, they had smoother sailing because the Illinois State Police kettled and/or detained someone protesting just that.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 4d

No matter how many hit clips you see from @govpritzker.illinois.gov, the fact remains that the Illinois State Police are actively protecting and aiding ICE in their terrorizing of our communities.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 5d

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
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Tricia McLaughlin ®
@TriciaOhio
X.com
She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal D @HeartlandSignal • 3h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 5d

💯 He was the inspiration for our org deciding to take the leap into short form content.

kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 6d

Protecting federal property from what?

Capitol Fax @capitolfax.bsky.social · 6d

Isabel’s morning briefing

* ICYMI: Texas National Guard troops now protecting federal property in Chicago area, official says. AP… -An “element” of 200 Texas Guard troops were working in the Chicago area, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Northern Command. - The troops are in the city to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement buildings and other federal facilities [...]

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