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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 8h

A lot of people don't think this is injustice, which is astonishing. I'm not sure how much longer I can cope.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 9h

Agree 100%. I fear that the media will focus on this for a while now, however.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 9h

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 9h

the humor is wonderful and surprising

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 9h

Isn't the book good? I teared up reading it because it's something I've needed for a long time.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 9h

If it was up to me, every story that mentions the botched implosion in 2020 would also mention that the city employees responsible for it **were subsequently promoted**

Marlene Hopkins is now the Buildings commissioner
Dave Graham now oversees environmental inspections

Chicago’s Damen Silos demolition resumes—activists demand more robust oversight - Chicago Reader

For months, activists have been surveilling the Damen Silos demolition to ensure that environmental protection measures are in place and enforced.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 9h

This is not worse because it happened to a white person. Just want to make that clear.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC's Jacob Soboroff talks with a Chicagoan whose mother had been missing since earlier in the week. Soboroff happened to have video of her being taken away by ICE.

"Based of that facial expression, she looks ready to cry ... She just wanted to go to the store."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 10h

670 Score Radio seems to have disappeared.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 11h

"Once Brockman was handcuffed and placed in the van, the agents pulled out, clipping the rear bumper off of a stopped car partially blocking their path and speeding away past an approaching elongated CTA bus and through the busy intersection."

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 11h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 11h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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