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South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 1h

Chicago: Report sightings of federal agents to rapid responders and the press. Connect with your neighbors, find a community defense workshop, and post know-your-rights signs. Attend a No Kings rally on October 18.

Resist. Our democracy is at stake.

It’s Up to Us to Protect One Another

As Trump sends troops to Chicago, we will continue to investigate and report. Readers have a role to play, too.

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Cassie Creswell @cassiecreswell.bsky.social · 2h

“…That would necessarily be based on completely equal rights for all individuals and both peoples, under whatever configuration is ultimately agreed upon.” www.juancole.com/2025/10/khal...

Rashid Khalidi on the Gaza Ceasefire: The veil that has hidden the true nature of the Zionist project was shredded for good

If I must die, You must live To tell my story To sell my things To buy a piece of cloth And some strings…. - Refaat Alareer, Palestinian writer, poet, professor and activist, killed in an I...

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Cassie Creswell @cassiecreswell.bsky.social · 2h

“It is a ceasefire accord, a hostage exchange, and a temporary lifting of the blockade of Gaza, which may be followed by other steps, but which does not contain any of the elements of a real peace deal…” www.juancole.com/2025/10/khal...

Rashid Khalidi on the Gaza Ceasefire: The veil that has hidden the true nature of the Zionist project was shredded for good

If I must die, You must live To tell my story To sell my things To buy a piece of cloth And some strings…. - Refaat Alareer, Palestinian writer, poet, professor and activist, killed in an I...

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 12h

The gestapo need to be forced out of Illinois. This cannot be permitted to continue. For every inch Pritzker gives them, they're taking a mile. We need lines drawn in the sand.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Cassie Creswell @cassiecreswell.bsky.social · 10h

@blockclubchi.bsky.social with more details and video of Albany Park showing up on Sunday to protect their neighbors blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/13/f...

Federal Agents Deploy Tear Gas In Albany Park as Neighbors Block Immigration Arrest

It is the latest use of chemical irritants deployed by agents in neighborhoods. The incident was also the latest example of increased neighbor resistance to immigration enforcement in Chicago.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10h

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

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

These guys are absolutely going to shoot more people.

They’ve already killed one man, shot a woman, and we’ve seen a pattern of pulling firearms on unarmed people doing nothing violent or illegal over the past few weeks.

Clearly they do not care at all about the temporary restraining orders.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Secret Third Thing @gochujung.bsky.social · 22h

Not only does this add another layer of protest & free speech repression at Broadview but it also protects the identities & vehicles of ICE, CBP, & DHS agents who use the 25th & Harvard driveway as a primary entry / exit point for abduction operations. Local & state gov’ts continue their complicity.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

Protests at the Chicago area ICE detention center are now being limited only to Beach Street going forward, according to a new executive order that Mayor Katrina Thompson has signed in consultation with the state and county, she says at a press conference this morning.

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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 1d

Federal agents targeted a parking lot filled with rideshare drivers in an immigration raid near Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Friday that resulted in 12 arrests.

https://to.wttw.com/3WyYXcX

12 Arrested in Immigration Raid at O’Hare Airport Rideshare Parking Lot Friday

Federal immigration agents targeted Uber and Lyft drivers in a raid at a parking lot near Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Friday, according to a coalition of rideshare drivers.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

Protests at the Chicago area ICE detention center are now being limited only to Beach Street going forward, according to a new executive order that Mayor Katrina Thompson has signed in consultation with the state and county, she says at a press conference this morning.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Organizing is essential. Courage is contagious. Social proof is persuasive.
People do the thing they think people like them do.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Cassie Creswell @cassiecreswell.bsky.social · 1d

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @samay-gheewala.bsky.social and neighbors stepping up this afternoon in Albany Park!

Cassie Creswell @cassiecreswell.bsky.social · 1d

“I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent work @vimiller.bsky.social of @chicago.suntimes.com getting photographic proof of the use of tear gas in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago. Potentially significant in regard to federal restraining order now in place.

close-up canister on a residential sidewalk

stenciled lettering on its side: "TO BE USED BY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRECTIONAL OR MILITARY PERSONNEL"

Part of a tear gas canister deployed by federal agents in the 3200 block of Wilson Avenue Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025.Violet Miller/Sun-Times

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

lol liars, every one. Chicago cops threatened to quit if Brandon Johnson was elected mayor. Police union leader LITERALLY threatened "blood in the streets," saying between 800 to 1,000 would walk.

Guess what never happened.

And even if they'd made good on that threat... OK??? BYE????

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Cassie Creswell @cassiecreswell.bsky.social · 1d

“I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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dvdnvl @dvdnvl.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago flag update:

ICE GTFO Chicago flag flying by a grim reaper hung on a tree, Humboldt Park, Chicago

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 1d

Cc @prisonculture.bsky.social

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Cassie Creswell @cassiecreswell.bsky.social · 1d

Not awesome! Please let your Chicago Board of Ed member know 😱😭😵‍💫

Illinois Families for Public Schools @ilfps.bsky.social · 1d

IL-FPS learned this week that Hazel Health, a for-profit telehealth startup with a CPS contract to provide counseling services to HS students, merged with another tech startup, Little Otter, founded by a member of the “Palantir mafia”, alums of Peter Thiel’s notorious surveillance tech behemoth…😱+🧵

Illinois Families for Public Schools @ilfps.bsky.social · 2d

“Palantir is the corporate backbone of ICE that the agency is relying on for surveillance and deportations” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Feb 25

Marie Neurath is amazing, and her book on cognitive science for kids is wonderful: Machines which Seem to Think (1954). H/t @irisvanrooij.bsky.social youtu.be/XBWhdcD0r9I for this video about her. Book available for free online: www.fulltable.com/iso/mw.htm

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Secret Third Thing @gochujung.bsky.social · 2d

ISP specifically threatened chem weapons last night, where prev it had only been arrest. The # of ISP with pepper ball guns increased by 300%, one had a rubber bullet gun, & several had pepper spray cans. At one point, a tear gas canister fell on the ground but didn’t detonate.

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