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Bill Grueskin

@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM

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allison / collage, zines, mail art

@allisonanne.com

spotted in uptown mpls 💥

packing tape sticker with a whistle drawing — “ICE! warn your neighbors”

November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM

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mspwhistles.bsky.social

@mspwhistles.bsky.social

Learn the code, teach your community.

Organize your neighbors, and make sure everyone has and carries a whistle.

If you’re in the Twin Cities area, program the Monarca 🧊 reporting number into your phone 612-441-2881.

November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM

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mspwhistles.bsky.social

@mspwhistles.bsky.social

Our whistle packing event folded hundreds of zines and packaged over 1000 whistles today.

Whistle packets in a pile.

Front of zines say
Form a crowd
Stay loud

Protegernos unos a otros

Purple 3d printed whistles with monarch design in each packet.

November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM

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Aleesa

@akuzee.bsky.social

Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.

November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM

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Mara

@mauratwit.bsky.social

Read this!

You are now whistle trained.

Go forth and multiply.

mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · Nov 26

Neighbors - you do not need anyone's permission to sound your whistle when you spot ICE. Nor do you need to attend a whistle training first. Here's everything you need to know.

Card with text
Noise=Visibility

Code 1: ICE Nearby
Blow in a broken rhythm
Pre-Pre-Pre-Pre
Alerts the community ICE is in the area.

Code 2: CODE RED
Blow in a continuous steady rhythm
ICE is detaining someone
Form a crowd, stay loud

Stay nonviolent
Don’t stay silent

November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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mspwhistles.bsky.social

@mspwhistles.bsky.social

A widely circulated clip of this interaction yesterday is missing this crucial angle- where you can clearly see that this neighbor didn’t trip on the curb, they were callously thrown to the ground by an officer after being pepper sprayed in the face.

Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · Nov 26

Riddle me this, how in the fuck is this making our communities any safer? This ICE agent sprays this disabled woman directly in the face in St Paul, Minnesota with pepper spray and then throws her to the ground. I hope she sues the hell out of ICE for this‼️#Abolish 🧊🧊🧊

November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM

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mspwhistles.bsky.social

@mspwhistles.bsky.social

The # of journalists hit with "less lethal" munitions yesterday by SPPD is up to three, including one hit in the HEAD with a pepper ball while clearly identified as working press.

@mayorcarter.bsky.social and @mayorher.bsky.social, SPPD's violence against protesters and press is unacceptable.

Becky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social · Nov 26

MNSPJ strongly condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists. www.mnspj.org/2025/11/26/m...

MNSPJ condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists – Minnesota SPJ

www.mnspj.org

November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM

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Jamie Schwesnedl

@schwesbomb.bsky.social

It's wild, but whistles that cost less than a dollar have been an effective tool in Chicago and other places for alerting people to the presence of ICE/Nazis. Want to help distribute, purchase or 3-D print whistles in Minneapolis? Here's the info you need!

mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · Dec 1

MSP Whistle Hubs, rolling out this week!

Do you want to host a whistle hub for your neighborhood? Or are you a 3D printer hobbyist who wants to donate whistles to hubs?

Find out more and sign up here:

Encrypted Document

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

cryptpad.fr

December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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Jamie Schwesnedl

@schwesbomb.bsky.social

Brutal day in Minneapolis, but there were some shining moments of neighbors stopping some abductions, kicking Nazis out of some spaces, chasing them out of others. And there were about 1,000 ppl on an excellent ICE WATCH training zoom led by States At The Center and Protect Rogers Park in Chicago.

December 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM

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mspwhistles.bsky.social

@mspwhistles.bsky.social

Neighbors - you do not need anyone's permission to sound your whistle when you spot ICE. Nor do you need to attend a whistle training first. Here's everything you need to know.

November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM

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mspwhistles.bsky.social

@mspwhistles.bsky.social

Also a reminder that this account isn’t a Rapid Response account!

If you witness ICE activity, call Monarca 612-441-2881. The number can also accept texts.

Here’s a guide to reporting:

1st Person Encounter
1 "I am witnessing a raid"
Size & Strength
I "2 to 3 vehicles."'ICE and local police."
Actions & Activity
I "They just picked up someone."
Locations & Directions
| "Brooklyn Park, corner of 36th and Lowry."
Uniform & Clothing
| "Plain clothes with bulletproof vests."
Time & Date
| "4:45 PM, Monday, February 17"
Equipment & Weapons
I "Body armor, K9 unit, armed officers."

Avoid Vague:
"Ice Spotted." "Something's up."

December 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM

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Fight for the Future

@fightforthefuture.org

‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.