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Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 4h

@apnews.com feel like this is an indicator that DJT is one of the reasons covid-19 became a global pandemic.

Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 17h

how much have property taxes gone up? Houses are insanely overvalued in the suburbs

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 20h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 1d

The misanthropy is insidious. They're doing the same with climate change. They don't care about the human species. This is the same type of short-term profit thinking that is "enshitifying" corporate America. There needs to be major economic justice reforms.

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Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 1d

oh... so they're literally starving and murdering children because they're massive 1diots and/or empty malevolent husks.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Voting isn’t the solution unto itself, but it’s critically important at the local level.

There will be 52,000 elections held next month alone, and many will be determined purely by turnout.

You know what to do.

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Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 4d

republican state senator and state rep. I'm curious if it also has something to do with recent white house statements about "Hostility to cars." oh well... too bad for them. I'm sure they can join the network.... eventually. lol

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Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 4d

lol, it's nice that Elgin, Belvidere and Rockford will get stations still. Too bad for Huntley.

Mayor and Village Board of Trustees

www.huntley.il.us

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Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 4d

they wouldn't target judges who deny them state voter info if voting wasn't extremely effective at holding them accountable.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 5d

Last month a SC judge blocked the Trump administration from accessing South Carolinan’s voter info.

Yesterday her beach house exploded in flames.

www.fitsnews.com/2025/10/04/s...

SLED Investigating Alleged Arson Incident At S.C. Judge's Home - FITSNews

Palmetto State circuit court judge Dianne Goodstein had been receiving death threats, sources say...

www.fitsnews.com

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Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 5d

also 13members of city council think what fed gov is doing to our city is okay. We need to elect better people.

Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 5d

"I think the ambition of trying to put people back in the heart of the street is fantastic"
Feel like this ethos has been laughed at by transpo professionals at CDOT and IDOT for so long that anyone who works in these places suppresses it. Obvs a small cherry-picked example but that statements BIG

London's Lambeth: Creating Mini Town Squares with Modal Filters (Low Traffic Neighborhoods)

YouTube video by Streetfilms®

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Geoffrey Cubbage @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social · 5d

Name it for what it is — because Chicago is certainly occupied territory right now; not conclusively and not always effectively, yet undeniably host to hostile armed forces — and don’t let the reality of the peaceful or the beautiful or the everyday make you deny the occupation, or vice versa.

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Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 6d

Perpetuated by people like Paul Vallas and Mary Ann Ahern. They have an entire propaganda machine because if they didn't plant the seeds of hate CONSTANTLY people wouldn't vote for their ideas. They want you to hate the other so you're distracted from their exploitation of the public good.

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Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 6d

This type of "shoot yourself in the foot and make things worse for everyone by spiting the other" that we see from right-wing federal policy isn't new. This misanthropic anti-love and humanity ideology has been a right-wing paradigm since forever. It's baked into the fabric of our cities and systems

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 7d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 7d

24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska;

270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;

4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii

--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump

projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

projects.propublica.org

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 7d

ICE all across the northwest side of Chicago with hotspots in Hermosa and Belmont Cragin. There is a recent development in Logan square as well around Central Park and armitage where videos and eyewitnesses are sharing tear gas thrown at protesters trying to intervene.

Emergency alert: Belmont Cragin stay home October 3, 2025

Icirr eyes on ice update: since approximately 11am today the rapid response network verified the presence of federal agents in Belmont Cragin, zip code 60639 at Walmart on diversey and kilPatrick, Cicero and north, Home Depot at Cicero and armitage

We recommend community members to stay home, multiple arrests have been made. Ice is still in the area.

To report any possible ice activity, or if you know someone who has been detained please call the family support hotline at 1-855-435-7693

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Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 7d

how much does maintaining a car cost? Does that hurt people too? You have a bill on your laps that will save thousands of people a lot of money if you fully fund transit... you all should be chomping at the bit to pass fully funded transit the benefits are enormous politically and economically

Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 7d

here's me thinking IL was the most progressive state @ilsendems.bsky.social @housedemsil.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov silly me. OFC they'd rather kick the can down the road with republican logic instead of doing the thing that literally everyone wants and will benefit from.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 7d

state police just arrested a person for sitting in the street.

looks like the isp swat team is onsite too.

this is protecting free speech, right?

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Alex @3eeutiful42.bsky.social · 7d

FUND TRANSIT ALREADY @ilsendems.bsky.social @housedemsil.bsky.social PEOPLE DONT MIND BEING TAXED IF THEY CAN SEE THE BENEFITS OF IT!

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 8d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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