maureen
@maureenf.bsky.social
Chicagoan in love with urban ruins, labor history, buildings, food, poems, and where I live.
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I love fresh snow days except for the fact that my landlord employs a neighborhood handyman to shovel our sidewalks who has to scream-talk to himself while he does everything so for 20 minutes he’s pacing around my windows yelling about absolutely nothing. A very southside aesthetic.
December 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I love fresh snow days except for the fact that my landlord employs a neighborhood handyman to shovel our sidewalks who has to scream-talk to himself while he does everything so for 20 minutes he’s pacing around my windows yelling about absolutely nothing. A very southside aesthetic.
Border Patrol has been shooting people, adults and children, at the border for decades.
December 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Border Patrol has been shooting people, adults and children, at the border for decades.
“In April 2020, Ferreira returned to court alleging Michael Leavitt owed her thousands of dollars in child support and was refusing to let her spend time with her son. She also wrote that Michael Leavitt "used intimidation" based on her "immigration status" to discourage her from visiting the boy.“
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“In April 2020, Ferreira returned to court alleging Michael Leavitt owed her thousands of dollars in child support and was refusing to let her spend time with her son. She also wrote that Michael Leavitt "used intimidation" based on her "immigration status" to discourage her from visiting the boy.“
dang the villain from From the television series is real.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
dang the villain from From the television series is real.
back to spraying chemical weapons out of cars I see.
PHOTOS: Feds deploy tear gas in Elgin as hourslong standoff ends in man's arrest
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
back to spraying chemical weapons out of cars I see.
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After this, federal agents tear gassed the public on their way out of Elgin, per our photographer who was present. The Feds tear gassed eight Chicago neighborhoods this fall and now a suburb.
In Elgin, ICE agents have been in a standoff with the community as they’re trying to arrest a man. Here’s an altercation between the feds and residents ending with arrest and pepper spray. Video from Sophia Peterson
December 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
After this, federal agents tear gassed the public on their way out of Elgin, per our photographer who was present. The Feds tear gassed eight Chicago neighborhoods this fall and now a suburb.
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hard to believe just two months ago feds deployed tear gas outside a grocery store and elementary school in logan square.
how many times has this scene played out since then? little village. east chicago. albany park. avondale. old irving park. lakeview.
yet it's never not jarring.
how many times has this scene played out since then? little village. east chicago. albany park. avondale. old irving park. lakeview.
yet it's never not jarring.
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
hard to believe just two months ago feds deployed tear gas outside a grocery store and elementary school in logan square.
how many times has this scene played out since then? little village. east chicago. albany park. avondale. old irving park. lakeview.
yet it's never not jarring.
how many times has this scene played out since then? little village. east chicago. albany park. avondale. old irving park. lakeview.
yet it's never not jarring.
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From the Hanover Park Rapid Response page
December 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
From the Hanover Park Rapid Response page
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Video shared to social media ~1:20 pm shows a different angle of community members and protestors facing federal immigration agents in Elgin, IL today. In the video, someone(s?) in the crowd throws snowballs at the agents as they appear to be dogpiling someone.
Seconds later, gas comes out.
Seconds later, gas comes out.
December 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Video shared to social media ~1:20 pm shows a different angle of community members and protestors facing federal immigration agents in Elgin, IL today. In the video, someone(s?) in the crowd throws snowballs at the agents as they appear to be dogpiling someone.
Seconds later, gas comes out.
Seconds later, gas comes out.
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@jtischauser.bsky.social has more on the evolving scene in Elgin, IL, where community members are facing multiple immigration agents.
Jeff's reporting that pepper spray has been deployed.
Jeff's reporting that pepper spray has been deployed.
Happening right now. Community members in Elgin, IL are in a standoff with Feds who are trying to abduct their neighbor.
ERO guy in picture on left just peppered sprayed person I screencapped.
ERO guy in picture on left just peppered sprayed person I screencapped.
December 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
@jtischauser.bsky.social has more on the evolving scene in Elgin, IL, where community members are facing multiple immigration agents.
Jeff's reporting that pepper spray has been deployed.
Jeff's reporting that pepper spray has been deployed.
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Kristi Noem came to Chicago for a Christmas propaganda video at Navy Pier. We were ready with our signs and our chants and our own special carols! 🎵❌️🧊
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Kristi Noem came to Chicago for a Christmas propaganda video at Navy Pier. We were ready with our signs and our chants and our own special carols! 🎵❌️🧊
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It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify. Another agent, accompanied by a dog, was hiding nearby and released the dog on Wilmer shortly after he stepped outside.”
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“An ICE agent lured Wilmer out of his home under false pretenses, posing as a construction worker who claimed to have hit Wilmer’s car and needed him to step outside to verify. Another agent, accompanied by a dog, was hiding nearby and released the dog on Wilmer shortly after he stepped outside.”
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Detention policy rebuff: A federal judge ruled Friday that the government has no statutory authority to hold detainees at Guantanamo Bay on their way to being deported from the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Judge Rules Trump Exceeded Authority by Holding Deportees at Guantánamo
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Detention policy rebuff: A federal judge ruled Friday that the government has no statutory authority to hold detainees at Guantanamo Bay on their way to being deported from the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
being soup sounds so nice though.
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
being soup sounds so nice though.
“We’re seeing that local government can’t protect us from the national government, and that kind of doesn’t leave you with very many options other than sort of, like banding up with people in your community,” Jonathan said. “I think the reality is we’re kind of out here on our own.”
At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“We’re seeing that local government can’t protect us from the national government, and that kind of doesn’t leave you with very many options other than sort of, like banding up with people in your community,” Jonathan said. “I think the reality is we’re kind of out here on our own.”
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This is just some petty and cruel shit. I was very proud to serve alongside Rachel Levine. She has more leadership, integrity, and expertise in her little finger than the entire RFK HHS crew does all together. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is just some petty and cruel shit. I was very proud to serve alongside Rachel Levine. She has more leadership, integrity, and expertise in her little finger than the entire RFK HHS crew does all together. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
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jesus christ
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
jesus christ
finally finished Hinterland by Phil Neel but one section seems so exact for what this moment holds it hurt to read:
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
finally finished Hinterland by Phil Neel but one section seems so exact for what this moment holds it hurt to read:
cool cool cool cool (zone)
In her dissent, Judge Pan says the emerging view of executive power by Trump and his backers in the courts "concentrates excessive power in the President and thus paves the way to autocracy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
cool cool cool cool (zone)
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!["They've hired this [she laughs] I don't know what
to call Bari Weiss. I just don't know," she said before Maury Povich argued that it is yet to be known how her leadership will affect the brand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cb6uhto6bwvcx4anaq55konv/bafkreidgzspubbtp6w3sa4yemnhiutem2bgywvxwwkvetf74trfvl4a77e@jpeg)