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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago Teachers Union
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50501 Chicago @50501chicago.bsky.social · 20h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov wtf?

Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 22h

I want to add this, because if you haven't been in this situation, maybe you don't know. When a cop in riot gear is shoving you and yelling "GET BACK," there's usually nowhere to actually get back to, because there's a crowd of people behind you and you literally can't move at the pace they want.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

state police continue to push protesters down 25th street. at one point, cops swarmed a group of people and pushed them to the ground.

multiple people arrested.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

One month into Trump’s immigration blitz, Chicago escalates its fight back.
blockclubchi.co/3Wticoe

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21h

Are Republicans refusing to swear in Democratic representative-elect Adelita Grijalva to prevent a vote on the Epstein files?

Epstein Files Fight: Rep.-Elect Grijalva Still Waiting to Be Sworn In

Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election for a House seat in Arizona two weeks ago, has still not been sworn in to Congress. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is bl...

www.democracynow.org

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truthlioness.bsky.social @truthlioness.bsky.social · 1d

@50501chicago.bsky.social @50501portland.bsky.social @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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50501 Supporters @50501supporters.bsky.social · 2d

GM of the Day.
No Kings October 18th.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

Image shows a stick figure with the head of Trump using a stick to poke the American flag. Text says: C'MON, DO
A CIVIL WAR I NEED TO
DISTRACT FROM EPSTEIN FILES

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 2d

US District Judge Sara Ellis barred Dept of Homeland Security officials from using riot control weapons “on members of the press, protestors, or religious practitioners who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others.”

Common sense. But it took a judge.

Federal Judge Sides With Journalists, Protesters in Chicago Over Violent Tactics of Trump's Federal Agents | Common Dreams

Federal judge restricts use of force by federal agents on protesters and journalists in Chicago. Ruling bars riot control weapons unless immediate threat.

www.commondreams.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 3d

🏆 Just sharing this article. No special reason.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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50501 Chicago @50501chicago.bsky.social · 3d

Attention Chicago Veterans! @vetsaboutface.bsky.social is holding a meeting on Zoom Today at 6:30pm:
Building a United Response to the Attacks on Our Community & the VA. Use QR code to register.

Veteran city-wide call
Building a united veterans response to the attacks on our community & the VA 10/09 at 6:30 on Zoom. Use QR code to register.
Sponsored by About Face Veterans Against the War.

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago Police were ordered to not help ICE Gestapo! 🤣😂✊🏼 #iceout #chicago

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago. Pretty cool town

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 5d

Way to go, Chicago, more of this! Kristi Noem is upset that ICE agents in Chicago are being “denied entry” to restrooms and lunch spots.

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Do Not Turn On Us @donotturnonus.bsky.social · 4d

Important Resources!

So the National Guard is (or might be) coming to your city? - Freedom Trainers

Don’t freak out. Don’t panic. Here’s a compendium of some resources. (1) Understand the legal situation State governors usually control their own National Guard. They’re deployed for things like natur...

freedomtrainers.net

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 3d

With the MLB playoffs on Fox Sports 1 and promos being run for Tubi it’s a good to remind folks that #Tubi is Lachlan & Rupert Murdoch's/FOX's streaming media platform.

#TubiFundsFox

blog post
tiny.cc/TubiFundsFOX

WARNING: Watching Tubi funds Fox News

Tubi is Rupert Murdoch's latest scheme to use entertainment — and especially the Super Bowl — to fund his right-wing agenda and assault on American minds.

tiny.cc

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50501 Chicago @50501chicago.bsky.social · 3d

Ham sandwich?

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50501 Chicago @50501chicago.bsky.social · 3d

Completely bonkers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: How will you decide which workers get backpay and which do not?

TRUMP: Most of them are gonna get backpay. Some of them are being hurt very badly by the Democrats and they therefore won't qualify

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 4d

Wednesday, October 8 - Emergency Protest TODAY / Tell Dems to Keep Holding the Line / IL Candidate Forums

Wednesday, October 8 - Emergency Protest TODAY / Tell Dems to Keep Holding the Line / IL Candidate Forums — Indivisible Chicago Alliance

indivisiblechicago.com

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