Philip Montoro
@pmontoro.bsky.social
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Chicago Reader music editor and union cochair, amateur drummer, persistent cook. Signal: pmontoro.39 he/him/y'all [email protected]
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"It is very pleasant just being domestic sometimes."
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If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc
30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.
Have you seen one of the Thirteendegrees° U-Haul pop-up shows? He's freshly signed to Island Records and managed by Fake Shore Drive founder Andrew Barber, so you're running out of time to catch him on his way up! chicagoreader.com/music/city-o...
Thirteendegrees° leads the rap renaissance of #NewChicago - Chicago Reader
Chicago rapper Thirteendegrees° is a key member of an underground movement that decenters drill in favor of what he calls “weird shit.”
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
Before USAID was illegally dismantled by the regime, its budget for 2025 was $34 billion.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.
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For your Wednesday, friends, have a deep-field image from #JWST taken late 2023 and early 2024.

The six-sided features are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else you see?

A galaxy.
A few bright, blueish star-shaped features are dotted throughout the scene. The remaining features are smaller, a little less bright, and of various shapes. The background is darkest black.
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new:

for the @chicagoreader.com’s night issue, @djbyrnes1.bsky.social wrote about the trend of people getting released from the cook county jail increasingly late at night.

between may 2020 and july 2025, more than twice as many people were released between 8 pm-5 am than between 5 am-8 pm.
Released from jail late at night
Over the last five years, the number of people released from the Cook County jail late at night has steadily increased.
chicagoreader.com
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Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.
Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.
www.msnbc.com
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BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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"Copyright growing pains" is a hell of a euphemism.

And nobody wants to see this. It's stupid garbage. The only people who want to boil the oceans for stupid garbage are the malevolent assholes who think it'll make them rich.
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everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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The world lost a genial man, a genius communicator and a supreme artist. I lost a friend - beloved Drew.
Rest in Peace, Drew Struzan
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At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.
Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request
The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.
trib.al
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Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.
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thirty-four people have been arrested outside the broadview ice detention center since illinois state police + the cook county sheriff's office set up "unified command" on oct. 3.

charges range from misdemeanors, like resisting/obstruction, to felonies, like criminal damage to government property.
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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.
Just as important: Even IF the only reason "these people" were to offer for welcoming immigration was "more variety of food," how does Mr. Raw Egg think dismissing that reason will work as a POSITIVE justification for white supremacy?
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Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic
Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.
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ICIRR reporting ICE activity throughout the north side of Chicago today, including outside of Ravenswood Elementary School.
ICIRR Eyes on ICE Update: Throughout the day on Friday 10/10, the Rapid Response Network verified the presence of federal agents at multiple locations in Uptown, Edgewater, and Ravenswood including 5400 N. Sheridan, 4700 N. Magnolia, and 4300 N. Paulina (outside Ravenswood School). Teams are following up on additional tips from the surrounding areas. The enforcement operation is ongoing. 

Multiple people have been detained today on the north side. If you witness any possible ICE activity, or know someone who has been detained, call the Family Support Hotline at 1-855-435-7693 

Remember: you have the right to film police activity, the right to remain silent, the right to speak to an attorney, and the right to refuse to sign anything. For a digital download of our KYR card visit: bit.ly/ICIRRCards
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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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they are really just rolling up on random landscapers and street vendors and kidnapping them
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New: U.S. attorneys moved today to dismiss felony assault charges against Paul Ivery, an intellectually disabled man who was arrested at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility on Sept. 27.

Ivery agreed to waive his Miranda rights while in federal custody.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...
Make It Make Sense: Five anti-ICE protesters face federal charges
Plus: Seminary Co-op union workers turn up the heat as they negotiate a first contract and Adler Planetarium workers launch a union.
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