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33rd Ward Working Families @33rdwardworking.bsky.social · 1h

Wanna go to Indivisible Chicago’s #NoKings protest with a friend? Then join the protest with us! #WeKeepUsSafe

10:00AM - meet at our office, 3248 W Montrose

10:45AM - walk together to Kedzie Brown Line

12:00PM - Arrive at Butler Field at Grant Park

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 1h

Senator Hale, 1851, dropping truth bombs about the Fugitive Slave Act that apply just as well to Trump's efforts to send troops do "mass deportation" against the will of the people (Cong. Globe, 31st Congress, session 2, p. 598)

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 4h

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.

thetriibe.com

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 5h

This is at least 3 if not 4 TRO violations now?

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 5h

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

tear gas billows from canisters in a residential intersection, at 105th street and south avenue north, on chicago's southeast side.

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 4h

So this means that the AG is in the process of filing a lawsuit over the feds disregarding the judge’s ruling against using chemical weapons, right?
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 5h

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 11h

“The flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose...” ⠀
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From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634), a book that is said to have spurred a young Isaac Newton onto the scientific path — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... twitter.com/PublicDomainRev/status/1450880306207240194/photo/1...

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 20h

Stories of failed arrests due to community response are inspiring. There's been great legal work to free people, too. But this stuff is mostly a brief flash of unmarked cars, and then somebody's gone. Over and over again. No matter how many people are eager to help and want better than this.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 20h

That does horrible things to a community, to people's ability to function. There are families who haven't left their homes in weeks, relying on networks of trust to bring them essentials. Kids staying home from school, fear about every unknown car on the block. And those fears are not unfounded.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 20h

I'm in BotY, Brighton Park, Gage Park, or Englewood a couple times a week. ICE and CBP have been so ever-present there that I have run into multi-vehicle phalanxes of masked agents completely at random on two different occasions in the last three weeks. 47th is a ghost town compared to spring.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 22h

This will be a great zoom meeting to join tomorrow. I've attended a couple of their previous meetings, and they were really great for the insights and helped point toward a focus (or another one, anyway) in this fight.
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Register now – Solidarity Against Sadism: An Emergency Town Hall – YouTube

Solidarity Against Sadism: An Emergency Town Hall – YouTube, Tue Oct 14, 2025 - Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the Trump...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

We’re seeing a lot of pop-up protests against ICE in the Chicago area, such as this one outside a Home Depot in Evanston, IL, where 2 of our neighbors were taken yesterday.

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 1d

I forgot to post this pic of a gorgeous giant Katrina I saw on Michigan Ave a couple of weeks ago.

Photo of a large statue of a skeleton dressed in a beautiful long red dress and wearing a large red hat. She is fanning herself with a hand fan. She’s standing in a bed of pink flowers and greenery under a tree that sits between the sidewalk and the street.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

As @rns.org documented in August, apparent ICE/federal immigration agents have conducted operations near or even *on the grounds* of churches at least 10 times this year so far.

One LA pastor personally confronted agents on her church property, demanding they leave. religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

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✨pb✨ gag on it @pbthankyou.bsky.social · 1d

Free whistles on Clark just north of Lawrence out front of the funeral care by Village Discount

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

*10/13/2025 noncooperation thread*

This is so important.

The regime is trying to terrify us into quiescence by grabbing people in broad daylight & then disappearing them into the void.

Refuse to accept the disappearance of your neighbors. Talk about it. Call electeds about it. Hang signs.

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CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 3d

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend.

Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 1d

++ people in DC. Still. It’s still happening here I had feds in the alley behind my house 3 days ago. 7 people (that I know of) have been taken from my block alone.

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 2d

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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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 1d

And this graph does not even include the increase in violent crime committed by the state in D.C.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: Reuters took a closer look at violent crime in D.C. after President Trump began a show of force here. Despite the big investment of federal resources, it's really hard at this point to see any dramatic changes.

www.reuters.com/world/us/did...

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

NEW — The House and Senate passed a resolution marking Oct. 14 as a “National Day of Remembrance” for Charlie Kirk.

A coalition of Chicago churches and community leaders instead will spend Oct. 14 honoring George Floyd and others whose lives are at risk of erasure.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/char...

Charlie Kirk gets a ‘Day of Remembrance;’ Chicago organizers will spend it remembering the forgotten • The TRiiBE

A coalition of Chicago churches and community leaders will spend Oct. 14 honoring George Floyd, Wadee Alfayoumi, and others.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

look at this absolute robber baron

Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 2d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 2d

@emilylhauser.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen, I have yet another zine out! It was commissioned to be distributed during the No Kings 2 protests. It’s called “We Marched! Now What?” and is filled with stuff people can do. drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...

Hand holding black and white illustrated zine of two people holding up signs saying “We Marched! Now What?”

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

They arrested people on the job, so it’s not about being unemployed. They arrested people in court seeking legal status, so it’s not about legality. They used the IRS to track the undocumented, so it’s not about taxes. This is about punishment, not justice. #crueltyIStheONLYpoint

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 1d

Greatest city on this goddamn planet. ✊

Chicago is officially one of the top 10 happiest cities in the world

The Windy City is all smiles in 2025

www.timeout.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

Ok so he can definitely see the reaper in the rearview mirror, right? And knows nothing good is waiting for him on the other side? That's the takeaway here, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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