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Nora Flanagan

@noraflanagan.bsky.social

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Union organizer, English teacher, horror dork, derby enforcer, book glutton, rabid Chicagoan, coffee junkie, metaphorical nazi-puncher

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · Nov 6

If you woke up in organizer mode: part of my role at my union is researching and organizing against right wing attacks on public education and labor spaces. If we should be collaborating, reach out. The work didn’t start today, but if we aren’t connected and should be, let’s fix that.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19h

SPOILER: There is no limit. There is no line.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 5h

School safety patrols are forming all over Chicago. I helped organize a training last night in one of the last neighborhoods you might expect. People are furious, and they’re done feeling helpless.

Jes @jwolfe73.bsky.social · 17h

I gave up my lunch hour today to stand on a street corner in my neighborhood as school was letting out to try and make sure the government didn't fuck with the kids or their families as they walked home, so that is where things are at right now in this country.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 5h

27 CPD officers tear-gassed by ICE in one incident, 13 more yesterday, and Chicago FOP President John Catanzara is nowhere to be found. Maybe if they gassed a statue of Columbus. (photo by Anthony Vazquez, Chicago Sun-Times)

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

www.instagram.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

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

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

So can we call it occupation yet

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 2d

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution” includes comedy. Thank you, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Watched this after a long day of ICE alerts in and around my neighborhood. Needed the laugh, to say the least.
youtu.be/iSfC_N8XOTE?...

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi on SNL

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Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

THE MORTON SALT GIRL

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 2d

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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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 2d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2d

These guys are absolutely going to shoot more people.

They’ve already killed one man, shot a woman, and we’ve seen a pattern of pulling firearms on unarmed people doing nothing violent or illegal over the past few weeks.

Clearly they do not care at all about the temporary restraining orders.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

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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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

One continuous scene of two separate run-ins with ICE from an alley in Rogers Park this morning, from three entirely different POVs.

1. www.instagram.com/reel/DPt0Roi...

2. bsky.app/profile/roya...

3. bsky.app/profile/juri...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 2d

I lost faith in the Trib as an entity a WHILE ago (and I learned to read using the Chicago Tribune), but this seems wild even for them. There are still great journalists there. Interested in what the decision not to cover this looked and sounded like.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 3d

Feds just making up laws on the spot to try to scare people from reporting on their activity.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 3d

It just seems strange that feds repelling from military helicopters, dragging people from their homes, and zip-tying kids in the middle of the night didn’t seem worth a story to the Tribune. National and international outlets covered it, but not the Trib?

Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 3d

It’s weird that the Chicago Tribune never ran a feature story on the South Shore apartment building raid…right? It’s mentioned in an article about warrantless arrests and that awful editorial about how we’re all overreacting. But no stories. Every other Chicago news outlet covered it. Why is this?

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 5d

Pass it on: If you FILE A COMPLAINT about police activity, it flags the body-worn camera video so reporters can obtain it later via FOIA requests.

City: www.chicagocopa.org/complaints/i...
County: apps.cookcountyil.gov/oiig/
State: oeig.illinois.gov/complaints/o...

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5d

State troopers just dragged three people out of the crowd.

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Veronica @veronicaeye.bsky.social · 5d

Holy shit.

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 5d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago and Portland showing us how it’s DONE!!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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