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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

Going to title this era of resistance The Frog and The Priests

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

This is the problem with Pritzker’s strategy. It can help prevent the deployment of national guard but frees up 🧊 to terrorize the city

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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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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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

Used to the normal amount of lies about Chicago. Feels like they are in overdrive currently. 5% of the city is gang members? The city is loosing 50k people a year. It’s just ridiculous

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

King of monsters yessss

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

what conservatives in red state towns with a population of 50k think is going on because of how fox news describes it

image of the game from the '90s King of the monsters showing four monsters grappling like pro wrestlers around destroyed buildings from an isometric view.

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 1d

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 2d

This was revealed as a lie but is still being used to justify the invasion of our city

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Federal agents have been confronted with by “coordinated, complex violence,” Hamilton says.

Hamilton specifically mentions the Saturday incident where he says federal agents were “rammed by 10 vehicles.”

That claim is highly contested — only two people have been charged in connection with that.

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 2d

These DOJ lawyers just assert over and over that basically Trump is king and all must defer to him

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 2d

This is just Baseball Simulator 1000

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 2d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Alex V. Hernandez @avhndz.bsky.social · 2d

by @themelodymercado.bsky.social. From lawsuits to rapid response networks, Chicago and Illinois are using every lever of power to push back against Trump’s escalating immigration campaign. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/09/o... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social

One Month Into Trump’s Immigration Blitz, Chicago Escalates Its Fight Back

From lawsuits to rapid response networks, Chicago and Illinois are using every lever of power to push back against Trump’s escalating immigration campaign.

blockclubchicago.org

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

This is where you can tell the IPA board exactly what you think about their decision to pull out of one of the most important 1A lawsuits of my lifetime: www.illinoispress.org/AboutUs/Cont...

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Joining the ranks of media capitulation and cowardice is the Illinois Press Association. Under CEO Don Craven, the group joined a lawsuit against ICE’s attacks on the local press and protesters in the Chicago area. But his board ordered him to withdraw from the suit, and he resigned. 1/2

Illinois Press Association CEO Resigns After Dispute Over ICE Lawsuit

The CEO of the Illinois Press Association, who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for actions toward journalists outside a Chicago-area ICE facility, resigned this week following a ...

localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 2d

Hundreds of people arrested by ICE agents around Chicago over the past few months could be released, according to a new fed. ruling.

|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/

Hundreds Could Be Freed From ICE Custody After Warrantless Arrest Ruling

Immigration attorneys said they have already identified more than 200 arrests that potentially violate the consent decree. However, they said those 200 arrests are likely "just the tip of the iceberg....

blockclubchicago.org

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 3d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

DropSite receives confirmation that Hamas has agreed to a finalized version of the ceasefire framework and is prepared to sign it tonight

BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 3d

Ran into ICE watch patrol at the corner of my kid’s school. She just found this in a little library on our walk home. Chicagoans are showing up

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 3d

When both-sides objective framing leads you down the infinite rabbit warren of fascist lies

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 3d

as one party has become more and more untethered from the truth, the news media has become more and more circumspect in never admitting that truth exists.

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 3d

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 3d

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3d

Ellis highlights the attacks Reverend David Black has suffered at the Broadview facility, finding plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged that the feds' use of force against praying people "substantially burdens their excercise of religion."

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 3d

Extremely noticeable who talks about politics without ever talking about politics

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d

"When you utter words aloud but then act in opposition to the intent of those words, you are not, in fact, running or standing on anything. "

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 3d

“Let Republicans have the literal blood of American citizens on their hands—and make that the central issue of the shutdown. Otherwise, enjoy having your health care subsidy debate in the gulags these people would happily send us all to. I hear that poll-tests great.”

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 4d

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 4d

From here www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/fait...

Faithfulness amid the Culture War

‘Make disciples’ is the central thing Jesus commanded the church to be about, the verb around which all our other activities are organized.

www.thegospelcoalition.org

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 4d

Genuinely exactly what many conservatives and Christian
Centrists get wrong here

change of politics is
downstream from discipleship; it shouldn't be the gateway to it.
One Important
Caveat
One of the questions I often ask myself is what exceptions there might be-instances where we should connect biblical values to specific candidates or parties.
If you lived in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860, for example, it seems faithfulness would require us to do more than simply say slavery was wrong; it would mean refusing

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Dark Bedroom Enjoyer 7’4” 520 lb @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly if you’re a parent to a first approximation traffic injury is the *only* external threat you should be worried about.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 4d

this is the thing that worries me as a parent

rampant lawbreaking by motorists everywhere - enabled by feckless politicians who don't want to change a dangerous status quo, on roads engineered *explicitly to facilitate lawbreaking* (looking at you, SDOT) and leaving zero room for error.

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