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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 18h

The only one in the list that made me go “huh?”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

This post was written before today's car crash and chemical attack. Was referring to the preceding car crashes and chemical attacks.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 20h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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cta @chicagocta.bsky.social · 19h

Starting October 15, six CTA buses will operate with Automated Bus Lane Enforcement systems as part of the City of Chicago’s Smart Streets pilot.

Automated bus lane, bus stop, and bike lane enforcement starts Wednesday, October 15th

Keeping bus stops clear is essential to ensuring that transit is accessible to everyone especially people with disabilities.

Bus lanes and bus stops are for buses. Bike lanes are for bikes.
Keeping them clear is essential to ensuring everyone in Chicago gets where they need to go, safely and on time.

That's why we're launching automated bus lane, bus stop, and bike lane enforcement to improve rider safety and transit efficiency.

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 1d

(Who needs to achieve policy aims when you can destroy your pension funding levels for no reason, repeatedly)

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 1d

Here in Chicago we’re pretty good at doing the former without getting the latter.

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you @royalpratt.bsky.social for continuing to follow and elevate these issues. It’s important work. Please keep it up.

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously there is more/better coverage here than elsewhere. I am most shocked by the lack of national media attention - in some cases, any attention at all - to the rapid escalation and incredible disregard for core constitutional rights.

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 2d

It is so surreal to be aware of what is happening, and then seeing that it is not the top of the fold headline in every news outlet. Even in the Chicago press.

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 2d

If this were happening in NYC I have to think it would be all caps headlines. Chicago is under attack.

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 2d

While important coverage, this also has not kept up with the pace of what has happened even over this weekend. Agents are swarming across the city, brandishing guns at people, detaining them for filming, etc. Dramatic and violent escalations.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 3d

By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy!
substack.com/home/post/p-...

Everything You Need To Know About SB 79

…but were too afraid to read about in the actual bill.

substack.com

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 2d

Everything is happening even faster than I feared. Proud of my fellow Chicagoans. Scared of what is going to happen next.

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2d

Two feelings:

This is a truly fucked up version of the US we’re living in right now

Chicagoans, as always, are standing up

juridical.bsky.social @juridical.bsky.social · 3d

Same group? Is that a pistol being pointed at the guy in blue?

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2d

Two feelings:

This is a truly fucked up version of the US we’re living in right now

Chicagoans, as always, are standing up

juridical.bsky.social @juridical.bsky.social · 3d

Same group? Is that a pistol being pointed at the guy in blue?

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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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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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Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 2d

ICE detained a cyclist for filming them.

From the illinois community on Reddit: Chicago- dont dare record gestapo! Theyre dissapearing us citizens for doing so now

Explore this post and more from the illinois community

www.reddit.com

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 3d

How about “additional SOGR cost overruns”

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Just one more lane”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 3d

“With sorrow, I dissent.”

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d

An all-time banger of a kicker www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

At the end of the interview, he turned to a public relations executive. He could be heard asking why her mouth was wide open and if he had said anything he shouldn’t have.

“What about the political questions?” he asked. “Too spicy?”

Then he hung up.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d

"Who will be viewed retrospectively to have understood the challenge correctly? The one who said, 'If you come for my people, you come through me'? Or the one who pivoted to health-care subsidies?"

This @brianbeutler.bsky.social thought experiment is illuminating:
www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

How To Reverse The Tide

It's the gap between what's needed and what we have that keeps us up at night.

www.offmessage.net

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 4d

Judge Sara Ellis' opinion in IL v. Trump is an absolute banger:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants’
declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants’ declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a
lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne
Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609
(N.D. Ill.). In addition to demonstrating a potential lack of candor by these affiants, it also calls
into question their ability to accurately assess the facts. Similar declarations were provided by
these same individuals in Chicago Headline Club et. al. v. Noem, 25-cv-12173, Doc. 35-1, Doc.
35-9 (N.D. Ill.), a case which challenged the Constitutionality of ICE’s response to protestors at
the Broadview ICE Processing Center. In issuing its TRO against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,
the court in that case found that the plaintiffs would likely be able to show that ICE’s actions
have violated protestors’ First Amendment right to be free from retaliation while engaged in
newsgathering, religious exercise, and protest, and Fourth Amendment rights to be free from
excessive force. Id. at Doc. 43. Although this Court was not asked to make any such finding, it
does note a troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of
appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning,

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 5d

To be clear the existing signage is a major help, but given how important this station is and the amount of destinations to the north, it is harder to find than it should or could be. I love the idea elsewhere in the thread of a big “M” (or other symbology à la the S for S-bahn)