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cornzippers 🧀🌭

@cornzippers.bsky.social

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Chicago. Music. Learner. creating w/others + starting new projects + listening to music + hosting events + biking/hiking + coaching founders + making zines + mentoring people. wholso.me | stacysniegowski.com | unchartedlearning.org | codeyourdreams.org

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 2d

Community Tavern in Portage Park!!!! Such a gem and checks lots of your boxes. Kimchi mertz cheddar fries!

cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 2d

Yes for me

cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 2d

Me too

cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Seems so according to me, a person I know and a few others on here.

cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 2d

Didn’t realize they moved! Thanks for the heads up.

cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 2d

This means they’re snowflakes, right?

cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 4d

Point. This is the 3rd I’ve heard about this weekend. Suburb of Chicago, somewhere in MA, and now this. So gross and insanely terrorizing.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5d

One continuous scene of two separate run-ins with ICE from an alley in Rogers Park this morning, from three entirely different POVs.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 4d

Might want to add a “yet.”

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, it’s your daily reminder to get out there and do something!

Our neighbors have been terrorized more over the weekend and are pretty scared. Hearing there’s been a lot of interest in rapid response, but schools may still need help. Talk to “friends of” or parent networks at your nearest school.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. Thank you for reminder that we are not alone in feeling the weight of their terror.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, but no space. At least that’s how it was for me. Lots of biology and chemistry, very littler earth and space science in all my Catholic schools.

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Imagine @speedimart.bsky.social · 8d

I am so angry, my heart is broken. Young children are waiting at school for this mother to pick them up. What will happen to them? What will happen to her? To her car, her purse? Why does it take over 12 heavily armed men to kidnap her? Is she really "the worst of the worst" or just a human bounty?

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 9d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 11d

The laugh that resulted from this was needed. Thank you!

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 12d

Came here to say I saw one while at Foster beach in Chicago yesterday, but now I think you’re in different state, which means they’re all over the country, not just invading my city. Weird for sure.

cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 12d

Earlier this week, someone said something about the Chicago cubs being so awesome. That’s not supposed to be the case! They’re supposed be losers. I then remembered that they won the World Series in 2016, and realized, yep, we’ve been on the wrong timeline for a while.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13d

These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13d

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Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say

The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 13d

Tossed into the neighborhood as feds were departing and other times

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cornzippers 🧀🌭 @cornzippers.bsky.social · 14d

Real life clockwork orange.

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 14d

Fascism relies upon the privileged illusion of normalcy to thrive and take root.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 14d

BACKGROUND — In April, we dug into how asylum seekers from Latin America landed in Black Chicago neighborhoods like South Shore, the community rocked by a militarized federal agents raid earlier this week.

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Some see housing stock and affordability as underlying reasons why migrants landed in Black Chicago neighborhoods • The TRiiBE

As three Black neighborhoods were at the top for permanent migrant housing, residents are looking for all forms of government to put their communities first

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