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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 12h

❌️👑 + ❌️🤚 The Oct. 18 No Kings/Hands Off Chicago protest is organized by ACLU of Illinois, @chicagolabor.bsky.social, Equality Illinois, @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social, Personal PAC,
Sierra Club Illinois.

🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽👫🏼 We'll see you at noon, Sat. Oct 18, Grant Park! (1/4)

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Indivisible Chicago-South Side @indivchisouth.bsky.social · 13h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov, Illinois State Police are aiding and abetting the vile actions of ICE agents. WHAT WILL YOU DO TO STOP THIS?

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

In Broadview, IL this morning outside the Chicago area ICE detention center—

Just rolled up, immediately saw ISP/CCSO arresting a protester w/ a guitar (he appears to be in good spirits over it).

ICE vehicles have been coming and going, including a large bus driven by a masked agent seen earlier.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 17h

Tonight, in Broadview — a suburb outside of Chicago where Illinois state troopers are doing crowd control near the ICE detention center.

Read the thread from @unraveledpress.com

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL 01) @jonathanjackson.house.gov · 5d

#BadBunny’s @SuperBowl selection is not just a cultural milestone, it's a reminder. #PuertoRicans have shaped American music, culture, and identity. Puerto Rican nationalists were active supporters of the Civil Rights movement. Yet they lack full voting rights and statehood.

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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 1d

Republicans are refusing to do their jobs.

Once again, Speaker Johnson canceled votes for Tuesday instead of fixing the health care crisis, swearing in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva, or releasing the Epstein files.

It’s clear their priorities are in service to billionaires.

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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 1d

I’m frustrated and angry by ICE raids in our communities — and I know you are, too.

The dangerous escalation of ICE raids affect all of us, as they even arrest US citizens. It’s evil and cruel. It must stop.

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 1d

WGN journalist Debbie Brockman has been released. Her violent arrest occurred *after* a federal judge barred federal agents from using force or threatening to arrest journalists.

Chicago TV journalist pushed to ground and arrested during Ice raid, later released

Witnesses call arrest of video editor Debbie Brockman, a US citizen, by masked federal agents, ‘absolutely horrifying’

www.theguardian.com

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 14h

🍺🎙️ Presented monthly by our Blue Beginning chapter, Show Up Chicago is a combo community gathering/cocktail hour/political panel show. Mon Oct 27, come to The Hideout, 7pm for Baltazar Enriquez of Little Village Community Council & Steve Held of @unraveledpress.com on ICE & Trump troops in Chicago.

Show Up Chicago: Reports From the Resistance · Indivisible Chicago

Presented monthly by the Blue Beginning chapter of Indivisible Chicago, **Show Up Chicago** is a combination community gathering, cocktail hour, and political panel show at Chicago's most highly evolv...

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 1d

An important statement from Congressman Jonathan Jackson on Trump's illegal deployment of TX National Guard. Here it is in readable format at Rep Jackson's website: jonathanjackson.house.gov/media/press-...

Congressman Jackson Denounces Trump's Illegal Deployment of Texas National Guard Troops to Chicago: "This is not governance, it is authoritarian theater"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL 01) @jonathanjackson.house.gov · 3d

CONGRESSMAN JACKSON DENOUNCES TRUMP’S ILLEGAL DEPLOYMENT OF TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO CHICAGO: “THIS IS NOT GOVERNANCE, IT IS AUTHORITARIAN THEATER”

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has sent troops + ICE to Chicagoland to terrorize immigrant families & Black citizens, attack protesters & journalists, assault elected leaders & clergy.

✋🏼✋🏾 We say #HandsOffChicago!
❌👑 We say #NoKings!
📅📍 Rally/march Sat Oct 18, noon, Grant Park
See Info here (registration not required) ⤵️

Hands Off Chicago / No Kings! Rally and March · Indivisible Chicago

Here in Chicago we know how to rise up, fight back, and support each other. It is more important than ever that we do that together on October 18th as we show the nation and the world that Chicago is ...

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 2d

Friday, October 10 - Chicago Marathon Visibility Brigade Sunday / Spread the Word for No Kings / Virginia 2025: Phonebank

Friday, October 10 - Chicago Marathon Visibility Brigade Sunday / Spread the Word for No Kings / Virginia 2025: Phonebank — Indivisible Chicago Alliance

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 2d

Our city is under siege. Not from foreign forces [but] from... confederate apologists and antebellum fanboys. It is our responsibility to speak with moral clarity and a spiritual rooting... Faith over fear! ~ Pastor Otis Moss, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago www.facebook.com/share/r/1BBW...

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Indivisible Chicago-South Side @indivchisouth.bsky.social · 2d

“It’s not only just a brown struggle, it’s a Black struggle. And if we think that it’s not going to impact us, where do you think they’re going to send the National Guard? They’re going to send it to the African American community” ~Pastor Phelps, Concord MB Church, Woodlawn

Read @thetriibe.com:

South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities • The TRiiBE

Federal agent activity on Chicago’s South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 4d

NEW — Some TRiiBE readers, among many others on the internet, have been suggesting that the Chicago police arrest ICE agents for their misconduct.

TRiiBE publisher @morganelisej.thetriibe.com put out this explainer video, breaking down the legality for y’all.

youtube.com/shorts/WDHFe...

Can local police arrest ICE?

YouTube video by The TRiiBE

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Jimmy (not one of those) Rothschild(s) @alsomuchcattle.bsky.social · 2d

Following along this hearing is wild. The federal government has literally no argument other than repeated illegal demands for deference from a coequal branch of government.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Perry: "Are you aware that a federal judge found that ICE violated the First and Fourth Amendments rights of peaceful protestors at Broadview?"
She says that will inform her conclusion about the need for National Guard troops.
Hamilton: You must defer to the president

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 2d

Shorter DOJ (Deputy Asst AG Hamilton): The president is a dictator and can declare any peaceful protest to be a rebellion.

[See Heather Cherone's full thread live-posting today's hearing at Dirksen Fed Courthouse in Chicago]

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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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 3d

With the Cook County Board elections coming up, we ought to press all candidates, including incumbents, on whether they agree on this.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 3d

sixty-eight chicago community, faith, + social service organizations are calling on cook county commissioners to “protect and increase social service spending” amid drastic cuts nationally from the trump admin.

they suggest freezing all law enforcement spending, which has “unjustifiably increased.”

In the last year, the Trump administration has taken unprecedented action to dismantle institutions and programs benefiting marginalized communities, cut funding for essential social services, and pull back funds allocated to states and local jurisdictions. These cuts jeopardize public safety and risk reversing the incredible progress Cook County has made in reducing community violence.

The undersigned 68 community, faith, policy, and service-providing organizations write to call on you and your fellow commissioners to protect funding for essential services like violence prevention, behavioral health, and community investment to reduce intra-community violence. You can support these services by freezing law enforcement spending, which is already far above the levels set when there were many more people in jail and many more criminal cases being processed by our court system.
Over the last decade, Cook County has made tremendous progress in reducing pretrial jailing and improving community safety. This has been a byproduct of both moving away from racist policies promoting mass incarceration and strategically investing in expansions to the social safety net and community-based violence prevention programs. With the Trump administration gutting many of the federal programs aimed at supporting the neighborhoods most at risk of community violence, it is essential that Cook County not only avoid cutting budgets for these programs but also increase investments.

We believe that Cook County can protect and increase essential health and human service spending by freezing all spending for law enforcement. Despite the nearly 40% decrease in the number of people incarcerated in the Cook County Jail, the Cook County Department of Corrections budget has not seen a reduction that coincides with that change in responsibility.
Similarly, the budget for the State's Attorney's Office grew tremendously over the last decade, even as both the number of case filings and crime rates …

… continued to decrease. It is important to note that while the federal government has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for essential social services, law enforcement spending has unjustifiably increased.

We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge President Trump's authoritarian attacks on residents of Cook County. Over the last several weeks, there have been repeated threats to the safety of our community members through executive orders targeting people without homes or who have mental health needs. Numerous federal law enforcement agencies have been dispatched to make arrests and deport our neighbors. It is essential at this moment that Cook County expand investments to ensure adequate support of community members targeted by the actions of the Trump administration and everyone impacted by its reduced funding for resources that allow marginalized people to live safe and healthy lives. The County's investment must include increasing the budget of the Public Defender's Office, which is responsible for defending increasing numbers of Cook County residents facing both criminal charges and immigration removal proceedings.

Cook County must protect its important progress increasing community safety and reducing pretrial jailing from a federal administration that has made clear that it does not care about our most vulnerable residents. Please stand strong for community safety by freezing law enforcement spending to protect essential health and human service investments and expand support for Public Defense.

Sincerely,
The Cook County members of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and supporting organizations:
A Just Harvest
A Midwest Movement Project
Access Living
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment | AFIRE
Apna Ghar, Inc.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice ||
Chicago
Beyond Legal Aid
BlackRoots Alliance
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
Cannabis Equity IL Coalition

Chicago Alliance Against Sexual
Exploitation | CAASE
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Chicago Therapy Collective
Chicago Torture Justice Center
Chicago United for Equity
Chicago United Solidarity Project | CUSP
Chicago Urban League
Chicago Votes
Children's Best Interest Project
Circles & Ciphers
Color Of Change
Community Renewal Society
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy
Project | FLAP
First Defense Legal Aid
HANA Center
Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice Illinois National Organization for Women
Illinois Prison Project
Illinois Social Justice Alliance
Impact for Equity
Indivisible Chicago-South Side
Inside Out Network
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
KAN-WIN
Legal Council for Health Justice
Liberation Library
Lucy Parsons Labs
Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition
& Solidarity | MAMAS
Muslim Civic Coalition
NAMI Cook County North Suburban
National Lawyers Guild Chicago
Nehemiah Trinity Rising
Nikkei Uprising
Northwestern University Graduate Workers
Pretrial Justice Institute
Restore Justice
Revolution Workshop
Sana Healing Collective
Saving Our Urban Leaders
Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston
She Votes Illinois
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
SisterReach Illinois
Southsiders Organizing for Unity and
Liberation | SOUL
Stick Talk
TASC, Inc.
The People's Lobby
The Puerto Rico Project To Defend If Necessary
Trinity United Church of Christ
Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of
Illinois
Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of
Ilinois
Uptown People's Law Center
West Town Law Office
Wolf Pack Therapy
Youth Empowerment Performance Project

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 3d

Thursday, October 9 - Swear in Rep Grijalva / Weekend Phone Banks / Protect our Right to Protest Pipelines

Thursday, October 9 - Swear in Rep Grijalva / Weekend Phone Banks / Protect our Right to Protest Pipelines — Indivisible Chicago Alliance

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Indivisible Chicago-South Side @indivchisouth.bsky.social · 3d

University of Chicago professor arrested at Oct 3 protest at Broadview IL ICE facility. We hope #UChicago stands behind her!

University of Chicago Professor Arrested at Anti-ICE Protest

Assistant professor Eman Abdelhadi was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, a class 3 felony, and two counts of resisting and obstructing peace, a class A misdemeanor, af...

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Crosby’s mom, Happy’s servant. @stevash.bsky.social · 3d

Chicagoland, thanks for the many honks, thumbs ups, hearts, solidarity fists and waves! We see you and love you, too! Now, each of you do your part and bring 5 friends to Grant Park at noon on Oct 18th. #NoKings
@indivisiblechicago.bsky.social @indivchisouth.bsky.social @indivisiblels.bsky.social

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 4d

📢 Today, 5:30 pm! Join the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda @chicago-cata.bsky.social at Ida B Wells & Michigan

Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 4d

CHICAGO: When our communities are under attack, what do we do? STAND UP, FIGHT BACK! As the National Guard comes to occupy our city & suburbs, we stand united to say HELL NO!

@chicago-cata.bsky.social puts out this call for all to rally:
📆 Wed, Oct 8th
🕠 5:30 PM
📍 Ida B. Wells Dr. & Michigan Ave.

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 4d

Wednesday, October 8 - Emergency Protest TODAY / Tell Dems to Keep Holding the Line / IL Candidate Forums

Wednesday, October 8 - Emergency Protest TODAY / Tell Dems to Keep Holding the Line / IL Candidate Forums — Indivisible Chicago Alliance

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