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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 15h

Council funding things that the mayor chooses not to implement is a theme of the strong mayor era.

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 16h

If I’m reading Kyle right, Frey admits failing to issue 100 housing vouchers *that are funded this year because he wants to kill the program next year.* (This is not Stable Schools, but for single folks.) This is unallotment Trump-style, especially since county/MPHA are in.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Mike Rollin @mikerollin2.bsky.social · 4d

Dig the world's deepest hole. Make a gigantic hill with the extracted earth. Make the hill to hole slope the most epic terrifying sledding hill. Mayoral candidates will have to survive a run down the hill to get on the ballot.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 4d

THIS ALERT IS OVER

I HAVE MORE TO REPORT BUT IT IS OVER.

I have reason to believe they are going elsewhere in MPLS but there is a car following them with bullhorns

Two unmarked SUVs, two unmarked chargers, AND TWO MPD SQUADS

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 ICE IN HOLLAND NEIGHBORHOOD 🚨 26th and Howard COME NOW

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 4d

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 8d

I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 9d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 8d

Sheriff will write herself a stern warning about violating HCSO policy by wearing her uniform in a political ad.

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 8d

Ward 7 candidates on public safety:

Katie Cashman: voted for the historic police raises and all the MPD budget increases; will hold Frey accountable for as long as he's mayor.

Elizabeth Shaffer: friends with the sheriff and the ex US attorney; ready to not cause Frey any difficulties on day one.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 8d

andy luger and elizabeth shaffer in front of the brentwood apartments in loring park, whose residents formed a tenant union in february after going without heat most of last winter. for some reason i don’t think renters being safe in their homes is what andy and elizabeth mean here?

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

organizingmythoughts.org

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DeWayne's Husband @dewayneskareem.bsky.social · 10d

Bench is up! Thanks @ehbforbet.bsky.social

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12d

In Broadview, IL this morning outside Chicago—

Federal agents have kidnapped hundreds of immigrants in recent weeks.

Outside the ICE processing center here, protesters are gathered for another Friday morning demo. Last week's ended in tear gas and arrests.

ICE vans periodically rolling in.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 12d

this is as open an admission that an entire agency is engaging in routine constitutional violations that I can imagine

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 12d

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

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Mike Rollin @mikerollin2.bsky.social · 12d

This should absolutely be part of the budget negotiations - locate and ensure safety of every single one of them now! @smith.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 12d

So no Dems or major news media are going to treat the more than a thousand people disappeared from Alligator Alcatraz as a story worthy of persistent pressure?

Got it.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

This explains a lot. For a moment, I wondered why they'd do something as ridiculous as drop agents on the roof of the apartment building from helicopters, but of course, they did it for this footage. The same reason they were marching in formation downtown and snatched a family in Millennium Park.

istanbulshiite.bsky.social @istanbulshiite.bsky.social · 12d

DHS posted a sizzle reel about it.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Mike Rollin @mikerollin2.bsky.social · 12d

The future of fossil gas is deep underground 🌞

Dan Haugen @danhaugen.bsky.social · 13d

As Minnesota curbs climate emissions, what’s the future of natural gas? www.minnpost.com/news/2025/10...

What’s the future of natural gas in Minnesota? - MinnPost

Gas utilities are pitching a wide range of ideas to state regulators, but climate and consumer advocates say a shift to electricity is needed.

www.minnpost.com

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