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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 7h

i really hate when we talk about books like they're shopping lists of tropes

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 16h

For all that I'm happy to say I love & respect @govpritzker.illinois.gov, this thread, up & down, is some real bullshit + state troopers have been doing this for a couple of wks. I'm calling JB's office today; if you're in IL, I hope you will too:

217-782-6830
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Noel B @noelbwrites.bsky.social · 9h

Nextdoor is posting I've sightings and warning people. Nextdoor! The app for your most pro-cop paranoid neighbors!

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Noel B @noelbwrites.bsky.social · 9h

My neighborhood has two FB groups because one is so conservative and right wing that people created another one to get news with less annoying comments.

Since last week, both groups are posting 80% ICE sightings and organizing rapid response.

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 15h

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

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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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

How many alleged TRO violations is that just today

Julian Dope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 1d

ICE detained a cyclist for filming them.

From the illinois community on Reddit: Chicago- dont dare record gestapo! Theyre dissapearing us citizens for doing so now

Explore this post and more from the illinois community

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 7d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 4d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

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One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 4d

🚨Join us at on Saturday for one last Bird Collision Monitor Training for fall migration season. As the temperatures drop, we’re seeing millions of birds migrate through Chicago, and they need your help! 💛

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 4d

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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Noel B @noelbwrites.bsky.social · 4d

Spoilers: it's AI data centers and climate change
Stop using generative LLMs

Chicago mag @chicagomag.com · 4d

Electricity prices have risen to their highest levels since the summer of 2022, when energy costs jumped following a winter cold snap in the South.

Who's to Blame for Your High Energy Bill

Sarah Moskowitz of the Citizens Utility Board breaks down why electricity bills are spiking.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 4d

For people who love weird short stories—Did you know the incredible Lackington's archive is still online? You should read it now while we still have an internet lackingtons.com

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 4d

it's one of America's technologies of "other people aren't real" something you have to consciously work against when driving

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

when people are in cars they arent in society

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 5d

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

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Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 5d

Roberts (unconstitutionally, voidably) gave immunity to Trump - not Miller. Miller needs total victory to escape accountability. That goes for all the fash in power not named Donald Trump

My point’s not “there will be trials!” but that these people will get more vicious to prevent the chance of one

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

New weekend project just dropped.

A box containing several orange whistles with cords next to a printed sheet of information on how to use them to warn about ICE

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

Get yours from the Pilsen Arts & Community House linktr.ee/pilsenartsco...

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 6d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 6d

Signing up for the 2026 Malarkey Book Club won’t save the publishing industry or the world but it will bring good mail to your house next year.

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2026 Book Club — Malarkey

Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...

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Scared Bootecki (but really Jared Rutecki) 🎃 @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 7d

Chicago-area journalists and protesters are suing the Trump administration, claiming ICE agents have engaged in a “pattern of extreme brutality” they say is a “concerted and ongoing effort to silence the press and civilians” outside the agency’s Broadview processing facility.

Chicago Journalists, Protesters Suing Trump Administration Over Alleged First Amendment Violations at Broadview ICE Facility

The Chicago Headline Club, Chicago Newspaper Guild Local 34071, Block Club Chicago and other media groups filed the suit alongside protesters in federal court alleging their First Amendment rights hav...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 7d

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

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