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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 4h

These costumes are driving the propagandists mad. They're struggling to demonize the protesters and their messaging garbage. They'll keep trying different angles though, because they need the propaganda content.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 4h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 5h

Document every violation whether it’s illegal overreach of power or a minor traffic violation. Send to your alder, ICIRR and/or ACLU

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 10h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 4h

Lmao we're so cooked

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 4h

The violence in Chicago has gone too far

Meatwad leading a group of people dressed in animal costumes, including a panda, a unicorn, a bee, and a fox.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4h

One last time, seeing as I deleted my first, accurate post because I was given inaccurate info mistakenly saying that first post was mistaken.

It *does* appear cs tear gas was used here along with smoke, and the cs gas, at least, is definitely covered by judge Ellis' restraining order.

Text of a temporary restraining order, enjoining federal agents from a number of activities, including deploying "CS gas, CN gas, or other chemical irritants" on press, protestors or religious practitioners "who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others."

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5h

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 · 5h

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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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 8h

i miss you dad bsky.app/profile/jtis...

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · Dec 23

my dad died yesterday at home next to my mom. it was sudden but not unexpected. here he is getting arrested at an anti-war protest in 1970 in Chicago. he was a history prof who taught me to never give up hope that a better world is possible. i love him and will miss him.

a photograph published Feb 13 1970 in the Chicago Daily News showing my dad being arrested and placed in a bus by Chicago

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 8h

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 8h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 12h

for those unfamiliar with “orange crush,” check out this piece from @bdolinar.bsky.social.

it’s legitimately wild that the state had these guys out doing crowd control.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 9h

they're perfect in every way

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like it should be a slightly larger story that amid all the administration’s screaming about “antifa” (whatever that is for them), Trump and his cronies are more aggressively and more frequently calling journalists they don’t like terrorists.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 10h

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like they should be getting stopped, ticketed, and arrested

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker cracking heads for ICE in Broadview freed them up to rampage in the city.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2d

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

A tow truck is bringing an ICE/CBP vehicle back to the facility—and its back window has been completely smashed out.

Front driver's side window is cracked, too.

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 2d

NEW from LCRW: @azrww.bsky.social covers a Phoenix-area neo-Nazi AI slop-poster obsessed with Goyim Defense League agitprop who's facing charges for threatening a local synagogue.

COURT RECORDS: GOYIM DEFENSE LEAGUE FANBOY ARRESTED FOR THREATS ON SYNAGOGUE | Left Coast Right Watch

A Phoenix area neonazi fan of the Goyim Defense League is set for a hearing next month after being arrested for threatening to target a local synagogue

leftcoastrightwatch.org

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 2d

They meant "No, more kings!" Punctuation is important.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 2d

By creating conflict, they let the steam out of the crowd one whack at a time. Folks present will leave, and others will just decide not to show up.
A fixed location protest like this is especially vulnerable to manipulation by law enforcement.

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larosalind.bsky.social @larosalind.bsky.social · 2d

Hit & Runs. Blowing red lights & stop signs. Going the wrong way on 1-way streets. Driving vehicles with no license plates. Perhaps our local police could start enforcing basic traffic laws for all our safety?

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

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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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2d

ISP really wants to get an elevated look here but they’ve been struggling to figure this out for almost ten minutes.

One protesters yells, “I’m certified if you need help.”

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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 2d

ICE wants a spectacle to immobilize people and cause them to fear resisting this fascist administration. People are responding by creating a spectacle, just not the one ICE and MAGA were aiming for.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

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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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 3d

Antifa: The One Big Polycule

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3d

In a way, aren't we all antifa's girlfriend?

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The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍🌈🌲🇸🇩 @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 3d

*launching a military coup* “oh fuck my old man balls just ripped open when I started jogging

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

An agent testified in federal court in Chicago today that Bovino needed an MRI and is on two weeks bedrest for "a groin injury" he sustained during last week's protest

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