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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they)
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accountability + solutions journalist for chicago’s south & west sides @citybureau.bsky.social via @reportforamerica.bsky.social ✉️ [email protected] or 💬 signal @sophiakalakailo.76 one of the bad ones
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · Sep 5
latest from @citybureau.bsky.social: tips from Chicago community groups, Know Your Rights trainings, how you can take action and other resources:
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
How Chicagoans Can Get Help and Help Others During ICE Raids — City Bureau
Local community groups are providing hotlines, trainings, legal support, community canvassing and other resources to keep people informed.
www.citybureau.org
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Chicago Documenters @chidocumenters.bsky.social · 8d
🧐From the #Newswire: How you can get involved amid ICE crackdowns. Plus, Know Your Rights trainings, rapid response teams and more ⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · 8d
I visited his church last night for a vigil held in solidarity with Willian and immigrant communities. Congregation members have visited him at North Lake. Dozens of people came to the service and called for his release.
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
ICE Arrests Chicago Day Laborer who Sued Off-Duty Cops — City Bureau
Willian Alberto Gimenez Gonzalez was detained Sept. 12. Advocates believe he was targeted because of an ongoing lawsuit alleging he and four other day laborers were assaulted outside a Chicago Home De...
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · 8d
we updated our resource guide with the latest headlines and more ways to protect yourself and others— like how to get updates from your local rapid response teams, how you can run errands for your neighbors afraid to leave their homes and more 👇🏻👇🏻
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · Sep 5
latest from @citybureau.bsky.social: tips from Chicago community groups, Know Your Rights trainings, how you can take action and other resources:
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
How Chicagoans Can Get Help and Help Others During ICE Raids — City Bureau
Local community groups are providing hotlines, trainings, legal support, community canvassing and other resources to keep people informed.
www.citybureau.org
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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 12d
CPD has 20+ injured on duty this afternoon, most/all from federal use of gas. Related: no arrests by CPD, no documented uses of force by CPD. (I wasn't everywhere / didn't see every skirmish. And possibly some late-entry TRR forms to come.) Saw two federal arrests, saw one on video didn't witness.
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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 12d
Chaos in Brighton Park. This is representative of the amount / direction of pepper and smoke sent into the neighborhood, in this case, for no reason I can discern other than because they were leaving. Feds had a clear path out in a different direction, and residents were vocal but not violent here.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12d
Protesters have decorated this parking lot fence on Beach with flyers for Silverio Villegas González. Two ICE agents shot and killed him in his car in neighboring Franklin Park three weeks ago. He leaves behind two sons he was caring for.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 13d
Words and actions, compare and contrast
Image text, from IL Gov. Pritzker: "Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens. They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities."
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · 14d
this video is so obviously AI lmao. like he’s one of my favorite artists and this isn’t even remotely how he talks 💀
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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 15d
Eileen O'Neill Burke made it harder for people to have their innocence claims investigated by the Cook County Conviction Integrity Unit — one of several ways her office is weakening review of wrongful convictions. Read the latest from us and @boltsmag.org:
Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent
State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations…
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · 16d
come thru!!
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City Bureau @citybureau.bsky.social · 16d
🗣️ Join City Bureau & PUÑO for a #PublicNewsroom on how to document & report ICE activity in your neighborhood. 🧊📹
Get trained, stay informed, and protect your community.
RSVP for free! We’ll see you October 9 at 6pm: www.citybureau.org/events/publi...
Public Newsroom 161: Migra Watch training with PUÑO — City Bureau
Join City Bureau and PUÑO for a Public Newsroom on how to document and report ICE activity in your neighborhood! PUÑO has been building collective power to protect Chicago’s immigrant communities thro...
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 17d
“Noemi Chavez and her two children are now confined to a room at O’Hare International Airport, awaiting transfer to a detention facility in Texas before deportation to Guatemala,“ reports the @chicagotribune.com
Mother, children detained by ICE at Millennium Park Sunday held at O’Hare with other families: ‘We never imagined’
The mother said she felt her family was targeted because of their appearance. “There were a lot more people there, but the agents came directly to us because of how we look,” she said.
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dr℮w @giantmolecular.cloud · 17d
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 17d
NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · 17d
I'm constantly reminded that most people are completely disinterested in genuinely listening to gun violence survivors and are more interested in winning an imaginary debate competition. like wow, you really owned MAGA by plastering a mass murderer's photo everywhere. good job guys.
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · 20d
u know i had to bring this one back
Heading: “Cool bug Fact’s” Text: “The highest honor in journalism is being murdered by the ClA” The text appears next to a crudely illustrated computer-generated image of a caterpillar in red shoes and boxing gloves.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21d
This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · 20d
very casual brag
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WBEZ @wbez.org · 23d
BREAKING: Body camera footage obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times shows the scene after an ICE agent fatally shot Silverio Villegas González. The ICE agent said his injuries were "nothing major," video shows, but DHS reported the agent was “seriously injured.” trib.al/6UcvUU7
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · Sep 16
come to our next public newsroom in bronzeville! it's free and there will be food + beverages :D
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City Bureau @citybureau.bsky.social · Sep 16
Does your home have lead pipes? We'll help you find out.

WBEZ, Grist & Inside Climate News have mapped the lead pipes in the city, giving Chicagoans key info to track how the toxic material affects our water.

RSVP for free and join us for our #PublicNewsroom! www.citybureau.org/events/publi...
Public Newsroom 160: What’s in our water? — City Bureau
Join us for our next Public Newsroom on “What’s in our water” where you will explore an interactive map produced by WBEZ, Grist and Inside Climate News. See if your water service lines contain lead.
www.citybureau.org
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · Sep 16
And it seems like the survivors & victims at Evergreen High School — or any other recent victims of gun violence for that matter — couldn’t hold our attention for even a moment.
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · Sep 16
School-shooting survivors won’t remember your think-pieces but they will remember being forgotten. I remember how quickly news media and the public turned their backs on my university after a mass shooting in my senior year.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · Sep 15
video from west chicago posted to facebook this morning shows agents breaking a person’s rear driver’s side window, forcing them from their car, and handcuffing them.
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dr℮w @giantmolecular.cloud · Sep 8
one day the masses will understand the monumental value of my online ramblings, but until that day i will bide my time and continue my screaming into the void
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City Bureau @citybureau.bsky.social · Sep 5
Las redadas de ICE podrían comenzar en Chicago tan pronto como este fin de semana. Aquí hay recursos con líneas directas de apoyo, enlaces a servicios legales y materiales multilingües sobre Conozca sus Derechos. www.citybureau.org/newswire/2025/9/5/como-obtener-ayuda-redadas-de-ice-en-chicago
Cómo obtener ayuda — y ayudar a otros — en medio de las redadas de ICE en Chicago — City Bureau
Ante las supuestas redadas de inmigración, aquí hay consejos de grupos comunitarios de Chicago.
www.citybureau.org
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City Bureau @citybureau.bsky.social · Sep 5
Officials warn that ICE raids could begin in Chicago as soon as this weekend. We created a resource list with support hotlines, links to legal services, & multilingual Know Your Rights materials to help inform our communities. Access the guide in English: www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
How Chicagoans Can Get Help and Help Others During ICE Raids — City Bureau
Local community groups are providing hotlines, trainings, legal support, community canvassing and other resources to keep people informed.
www.citybureau.org
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · Sep 5
El Grito Chicago has been called off as ICE agents are sent to Chicago: "We need to keep our community safe." blockclubchi.co/4m2nUrQ
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Sophia Kalakailo (she/they) @sophiakalakailo.bsky.social · Sep 5
Lo último de City Bureau: Consejos de grupos comunitarios de Chicago, cómo actuar y otros recursos (versión en español)
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...
Cómo obtener ayuda — y ayudar a otros — en medio de las redadas de ICE en Chicago — City Bureau
Ante las supuestas redadas de inmigración, aquí hay consejos de grupos comunitarios de Chicago.
www.citybureau.org
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