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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 8h

I think I have that person muted as one of the Blue Annoyances

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 8h

It’s almost like they don’t care about laws!

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 10h

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 10h

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

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 8h

I do not follow the sportsball but sounds good to me!

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 8h

Patrolled Albany Park by bike for a bit—a lot of people hanging out by churches holding evening services for Latino congregations, plus just monitoring street corners. Let’s keep it up.

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 8h

I mean you rooting for the Brewers 😉

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 8h

Eh, we can take it.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 12h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 8h

Super easy. It has one of those launch slide things.

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 8h

Only in March ☘️

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"soft wood" bitch mahogany™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 10h

im not patriotic for America at large because like, look at it, but you'd better fucking believe I'm jingoistic as fuck about chicago, the cold weeds out the people who don't deserve it

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 10h

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 · 10h

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

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 in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 10h

A cousin asked me if this was river water and I think she was serious

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 11h

“Journalist and entrepreneur” kinda encapsulates the whole problem

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 11h

Not to mention peering at every big SUV/truck suspiciously to see if there are people in tactical gear inside

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 13h

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 15h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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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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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

We had green bubbling mimosas

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

We ran into a pirate and a fairy

Photo of a woman dressed as a pirate and another woman dressed as a fairy on SUPs

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Heather in Chicago @heatherk.bsky.social · 1d

It’s important to have continue to fun and spend time with loved ones. Today friends and I did a witches’ paddle on the North Branch—with some anti-ICE signs of course.

Me dressed as a witch on the dock with my kayak and a sign: “putting a hex on ICE”

My friend on a SUP in witch hat, cape, and green gloves

Me in my kayak on the water with another sign on the front: “witches against fascism”

Another friend in a kayak dressed as a witch

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Anthony J. Rivera @anthonyjrivera.bsky.social · 1d

Some messages are printed on 18-by-24-inch yard signs or smaller placards; others are drawn ornately by hand on paper or written in chalk. The few who will talk about the signs they created say the urgency of the moment compelled them to act.

(🎁link below)

wapo.st/4nJqjZQ

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

wapo.st

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

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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