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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 5h

Rogers Park and surrounding neighborhoods were hit hard by immigration enforcement activity over the weekend.

There's no competition here, but I want to name that the same heavy, violent, fast-moving abduction pattern has invaded the southwest side about three times a week for over a month now.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10h

You know they’re worried about this weekend’s turnout at the No Kings rally when they’re already making comments about it. Who’s ready for Saturday?

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Tickling Timebomb @tickletime.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks for keeping it real. We’ve been doing this work in DC for months now. Privileged newbies want to be the heroes and think they know what vulnerable folx need.

The real work is discouraging, slow, neverending, and usually the best we can do is to bear witness.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

And more than anything else, you must be ready to lose in almost every actual interaction you may have with agents.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 5h

There is a lot of work to do, but if you find yourself doing it entirely with people who are not vulnerable to immigration detention and deportation, you may not be doing what's most needed.

There are times when relative non-vulnerability will be useful and welcome, but it can't be in isolation.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 5h

"Community" is a word that's often used to obscure divides. If you don't actually know vulnerable people in your community, your mental version of what your neighborhood is experiencing is likely centered on very different things than theirs. If you want to help, don't invent tactics from scratch.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 5h

If the regions of focus for ICE and CBP are going to shift, you're going to have to be prepared for what that means. Deep structures of trust to meet people's basic needs. An understanding that you cannot and will not know the full scope of action on a given day. Bracing for loss after loss.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 5h

I say this because the way user demographics skew on this site, it's more likely that somebody here's going to be closely connected to Rogers Park than to Gage Park or Brighton Park. I want you to know that Sunday's tactics are familiar to southwest siders and other highly targeted communities.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

To a somewhat lesser extent, the same is true of several other areas. Cicero has seen heavy ICE activity similar to Sunday in Rogers Park about twice a week lately. Same for the southeast side, same for southwest suburbs like Burbank and Bridgeview, same for Hammond and Whiting across the border.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 5h

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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve been sitting with this the last few hours. It’s really hitting me just how fucking depraved you have to be to respond to an inquiry about an abducted child with a screenshot of a post on elon musk’s hellsite smearing this kid who has no ability to defend himself. It’s unfathomable.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
S...
Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

I asked ICE why they couldn’t comment on their own arrest. The agent said to direct questions to DHS. And it appears DHS is making accusations via X to justify the abduction of a child.

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 4h

Ooooh, I thought she has blue hair!

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Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

The Rutgers teachers’ unions are standing in solidarity with History Professor Mark Bray, who has been targeted by Turning Point USA. The group has falsely claimed that Bray, the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook is “a prominent leader of the antifa movement,” and should be fired.

Rutgers Unions Call to Disband Turning Point Chapter After Colleague Targeted

Professor Mark Bray, author of “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” says he has received death threats.

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Mike Gerts @gerts-michael.bsky.social · 5h

Historians like Mark Bray have been sounding this alarm for a long time. A cornerstone of fascism is to “decapitate” the opposition’s intellectuals; historians. Exile them w/ threats. The “anti-communist/socialist” crowd that subscribes to TPUSA happily cheer for what they’ve claimed to abhor.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 5h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Rep. James Walkinshaw @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social · 3d

RIFs during a shutdown are 100% illegal.

@oversightdemocrats.house.gov Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia and I called on @USGAO to investigate Russ Vought’s illegal directive ordering agencies to fire federal workers in violation of the Antideficiency Act.

This scheme needs to be investigated.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 5h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Trek Geeks @trekgeeks.com · 7h

With heavy hearts, we share that our dear friend, sister, and fellow podcaster, Subrina Wood of the SyFy Sistas, has passed away after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year. Her laughter, light, and love for fandom will never be forgotten. 💜🖖

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 18h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5h

Warming waters cause corals to “bleach” when these organisms expel symbiotic algae that provide nutrients, oxygen & vibrant colors.

The latest global bleaching event - researchers estimate >84% of the planet's coral ecosystems have been affected since Jan 2023 - has made it clear the crisis is now.

nature

NEWS

12 October 2025

Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate
'tipping point', scientists say

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

By Jeff Tollefson

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11h

Seems kinda important

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

www.theguardian.com

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