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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 8h

This affects you even if you do have insurance.

Hospitals are already closing thanks to existing Medicaid cuts. It's only going to get worse.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 11h

I haven’t been this anxious in a hot minute.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 1d

@jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social Would you be interested in some whistles, zines, and red cards for anyone in the community who may need them? I'll happy drop some off if so.

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 1d

If you're free, you should go! I won't be there, but a bunch of printed whistles and red cards are going in my stead.

Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d

We’re doing it again! This Friday at Nighthawk (4744 N Kimball)

www.instagram.com/p/DPffxcRjRA...

Whistle Zine Folding Party
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Nighthawk
Friday 10/10 5:30 pm

We're back for another round of folding and whistle/zine distribution. This time we have 900 whistles to warn neighbors of ICE.

What we need: volunteers to print zines.
Connections with community organizers to distribute whistles. Hands to help fold.

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Right by the National Museum of Mexican Art. 😐

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 1d

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE claims it’s going after “the worst of the worst” and good people are being hit incidentally. What’s incidental about going after tamale vendors? Where’s the “worst of the worst” there?

Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 1d

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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un bastille after another @anem0ne.net · 1d

ice is apparently moving east towards even richer ravenswood

this is an invasion by ice filth

un bastille after another @anem0ne.net · 1d

for those unfamiliar with chicago, lincoln square is a nicer, residential neighborhood with a lot of expensive houses. it used to be the center of the german community but is now mostly richer, upper middle class families

2 bedroom apartments average about $2k for rent there

fuck ice

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. WGN is aware of this situation, and we are actively gathering the facts related to it,” the station said in a statement.

@chicagotribune.com
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

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

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 1d

When I say I can make red cards in a lot of languages I mean it.

HMU if you or your neighbors
need them

A pile of tiny Manila envelopes lanes with languages - Somali, Chinese, Punjabi, polish, Russian, Urdu, etc)

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 1d

The No Kings march should be thought of as like the Women's Marches held during his first term, and not like the protests that you may have seen taking place recently at ICE facilities.

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Katy Glenn Bass @katygb.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ve never been to a big protest like No Kings before: It feels great to be part of a big gathering of people who want to change things. It sparks joy, and resolve for the long fight ahead. Sometimes there are dance parties. You could be the one who starts the dance party! Just show up!

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

If you can show up on October 18, you should. The country is shifting. The battleship is turning. And while, yes, usually mass street protests don't do much, there are exceptions.

And sometimes those exceptions go down in history.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to reiterate that everyone - even those of us who don't usually protest - should go to a No Kings March on Saturday, October 18th. Find one near you at this link. You do not have to register to participate.

www.nokings.org

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 1d

Helicopter over north Rogers Park

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 1d

This is tonight and I am fired up about it

Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d

We’re doing it again! This Friday at Nighthawk (4744 N Kimball)

www.instagram.com/p/DPffxcRjRA...

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 1d

OUTSIDE A NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERY STORE THE FRIDAY BEFORE A LONG WEEKEND

ATTENTION PLEASE!
COMMUNITY ALERT
LOCATION: W LAWRENCE N ST LOUIS;
DATE: OCTOBER 10, 2025
TIME: 10:30 AM
Volunteers confirmed Border Patrol activity on Lawrence and Saint Louis. Agents were wearing green uniforms and face masks. They were seen in a white Chrysler Pacifica.
As of 11:15 AM ICE is still in the area. Please stay home!
IF YOU SEE ICE PLEASE REPORT TO ICIRR HOTLINE
(855)-435-7693
NORTHWEST SIDE
RAPID RESPONSE

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 1d

👀👀👀👀👀

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 1d

TRUTH

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AryaOrgana @aryaorgana.bsky.social · 1d

As a runner who loves this race, as a volunteer who works this race, as a member of the endurance community who loves my people, there aren't words for the rage I feel about ICE planning to invade this iconic event packed with hard working athletes and their families
#ChicagoMarathon #RunChicago

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ICE at Chicago marathon. Good evening folks, I work for the Chicago Park District and we were informed today that ICE will be all throughout the marathon and told us not to interfere. I've worked the Chicago marathon since 2017 and every year it has been peaceful and rewarding to see those who accomplished something that they have been working on all year, just for the attention to be on these useless fucks. So please spread the word to those who don't know. Thank you and stay safe chicago.

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 1d

My dude. You are a Scorpio. Grudges are not so much in our blood as they ARE our blood.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

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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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 2d

this will be translated into other languages soon ❤️ thank you to the lovely people doing the language labor 🏵️

making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 5d

a pocket phone book zine — one way to record phone numbers you need in your pocket

12 spots to record phone numbers for different types of people you might need like people who will provide safe harbor, people who have technical expertise and people who will pour into you

we need each other 🏵️

a full page design of a 10 pointed star design based on a Muslim design combined with a henna design and gold ink

a 12 square sheet of paper that reads

Pocket Phone Book
Shelter
a person to stay short term
a person to stay medium term
a person to stay long term

Food
a person who can feed you
a person to have fun with
a person who pours into you

Technical
a person with tools
a person for medical // dental care
a lawyer

Care
someone to travel with
someone you're responsible for
someone to help care for children // elders

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 2d

Oh.

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I heard that one 😣

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