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Bettina
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Border Patrol returned to the O'Hare rideshare lot today after taking 11 people on Saturday 10/18. No official word yet on how many were detained.

When we visited yesterday, drivers told us it was very empty for a Sunday.

Last Friday 10/10, they took 18 people here (it's city-owned property).
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Of course American fascism is just consumerist slop.
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“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Folks I know there’s a lot going on, but if you’re free tmrw in Chicago plz support NU students been banned from classes for refusing to watch Israeli propaganda. Their lawyer (& mine), Rima Kapita, has filed an emergency order demanding the courts intervene. I filed an affidavit of support. 🙏🏾
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Among the 35 jail births identified in the news over 10 years, jail staff ignored repeated cries for help or medical assistance in at least 24 cases.

The carceral system is no place for pregnant people.

www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/07...
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Trump: "Don't forget I can use the Insurrection Act. 50% of the presidents almost have used that. And that's unquestioned power."
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“No public criminal charges have been filed against anyone in connection with the raid … The @chicagotribune.com has been able to confirm the identity of only one immigrant taken into custody by federal agents that night: a 41-year-old pizza delivery man … who has no apparent criminal history.”
They were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.
In what appears to have been a warrantless operation, the federal government will not say how many people were detained, who remains in custody and what happened to the children.
www.chicagotribune.com
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Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23
…was on the otherside of this a few months ago and the response to a very short lived posting was the largest we could remember AND so many qualified and way overqualified ppl in the pool. 😐
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...
This may be what white supremacists and billionaires think they’re doing… “restoring the republic” via a tyrant to MAGA by reestablishing an unambiguous white supremacist State (eg where only landowner/megarich m white men vote). 😬
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New from me: The notion that Charlie Kirk represented speech “done right” is a smokescreen manufactured specifically to distract from the single greatest attack on free speech in the 21st century. Kirk wasn’t simply offering an opinion, he was right-wing power personified.
Charlie Kirk and the Free Speech Hoax
The Right doesn't really care about free speech, and their reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk proves it.
inthesetimes.com
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“Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls and dinners with Matthew Menchel — the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office chief criminal prosecutor who spearheaded Epstein’s sweetheart deal in 2007, newly released documents show.”
Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show
Matthew Menchel, who spearheaded Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 criminal prosecution, left the DOJ in 2008 to take a job as a trial lawyer at Kobre & Kim. Epstein’s calendars show Menchel met with Epstein in ...
www.miamiherald.com
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Among George Santos’ many scams was a “pet charity” where he swindled people out of money who needed it for medical care for their pets. This is who Trump just pardoned www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/n...
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Less than three months of a seven year sentence.
If folks have suggestions on brands of mace or pepper spray and other defensive things to get for the car and for an individual pls lmk.

Things are getting worse and I know there’s actual grounded community here to ride this out.
I believe in making racists afraid again.

These fascists live in Chicago and there should be consequences for their racism…

I was able to act in alignment with my values—I just followed the dbag for a bit with my loud mouth repeating what he said to me while pointing him out — then kept it moving.
Yesterday was an unusually bad day… ICE bs is daily, couldn’t sleep after a shooting near my bldg (becoming less usual but still sucks), and then I was called the n-word by an ugly skinhead-looking coward driving a white jeep on Montrose & Ravenswood… but that man ended up scared of me so… lol.