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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 20m

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals PARTIALLY grants the stay sought by the Trump Administration.

The stay is GRANTED as to federalization of the National Guard.

But it is DENIED as to deployment.

So deployment still BLOCKED, but troops "do not need to return to their home states."

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 11m

It really boggles my mind how people seem to be able to willfully ignore that folks have been in the streets for Gaza for many, many years and administrations.

I shot the first photo in 2014. The 2nd in 2012.

This story is from 2008: chicago.indymedia.org/archive/news...

A photo of a group of people in a plaza in Chicago. Several are holding up lightboards with individual letters that spell the words "PEACE NOW." A person holding a Palestinian flag is on the left of the frame.

A photo shot from above of a massive amount of people marching in a protest for Gaza in the streets of Chicago. In front of the frame is a person's hand holding a flagpole, and part of another person's hand. Below is the crowd. Many are holding signs, banners, and flags. On the side are buildings.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 34m

If anyone to the left of Richard Nixon was behaving like this administration in any other natural resource-rich country the CIA would have overthrown it five times by now

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 49m

Eugenics drives so many of these decisions.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 42m

"I'm protesting the kidnapping of people,” said one person at the Broadview detention center protest. “I'm here to support humanity. I'm here to support the undocumented. I think ICE is a terrorist group. The police supporting ICE are terrorists.”

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 2h

ICE is now pulling from a pool of applicants who see televised images of sobbing children in handcuffs, or masked men in tactical gear roughing up Latino laborers, and don't recoil in horror.
The administration is also doing its best to send all the worst possible signals to existing agents, from every level of the hierarchy. The president ominously declares we are engaged in a "war within" - with domestic urban populations cast as the enemy combatants.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

The reason I say getting the troops paid is good for Trump’s brand is that I think one of the most valuable lessons of Trump 2 is that people only care about the result, not the legality of a given action.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Request denied/unanswered.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 4h

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 5h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 21h

This doesn't seem great.

“The limits to FPS's authority off federal property are the edges of the constitution on one side and necessity on the other.”

"There is simply no legal barrier to FPS taking action off federal property where a reasonable nexus to protecting that property exists."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2h

Joe Biden was elected president because he was that conservative & the democrats stay trying to be as conservative as conservatives to beat them & we were held hostage to voting for him because we could not bear the thought of Trump again, & that democratic strategy only goes so far.

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Lauren (STT) She/Her @lobo92345.bsky.social · 2h

Chicago! This org has some great resources for using whistles in neighborhoods to warn of ice activity! I'm going to be printing these fliers out and distributing them. (Under Resources for Whistle Warriors).

Pilsen Arts & Community House | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree

Providing space, resources and community engagement through arts and culture.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 3h

guards ignore—but are trained—that withdrawal is a life threatening condition, and ignoring someone in withdrawal is both deliberate and indifferent

the fact that they were *wrong* about this person’s emergency doesn’t make their conduct any less deliberate or indifferent

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2h

"[A]ll agencies are working against us."

"We are surrounded by Illinois State Police who are standing on top of the roofs of buildings, and there is no other reason to think that they are up there other than to intimidate us."
#Illinois #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

No troops in Broadview yet, but anti-ICE protestors say state and local police used intimidation tactics in crowd control • The TRiiBE

Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Broadview to continue calling out the federal government for its aggressive immigration enforcement and the treatment of detainees at the facility.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2h

masked federal agents have been on a tear through chicago neighborhoods today—enabled in no small part by the state + local cops now running security for ice in broadview.

at least 2 people abducted in cicero, 2 in humboldt park/hermosa, 3 in garfield ridge. sightings in schaumburg + hanover park.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

More vehicles with masked Border Patrol agents inside departing. It's a busy, busy morning for the secret police.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2h

the entire 2000s have been one unbroken string of elected democrats who just be saying things and their fandom doing headcanon on their behalf

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

People here have been periodically begging local police to stop them, to "do something." One protester is crying.

Another caravan (including the ICE SUV) departs. Seeing more Border Patrol inside.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 2h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns this shit, no matter what he says at his "resistance" pressers

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

While this is going on here, ICE has been spotted on foot + in vehicles across SW + NW sides of Chicago. Can't verify reports rn, but also presuming suburbs. Yesterday was brutal. It's not lost on us they have more agents free for weekend kidnappings now with their facility secured by state police.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 3h

This is a GoFundMe supporting the tamale lady taken by ICE on 21st Place and Damen in Pilsen yesterday.

“Now she’s being forced to start over in Mexico with nothing — no home, no job, and no access to the medical care she desperately needs.”

Donate to Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE, organized by marilyn perez

We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells t… marilyn perez needs your support for Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE

www.gofundme.com

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