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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 21h

LOCAL COMPANIES BETRAY CHICAGOLAND. Chicago-area companies have made millions in lucrative contracts supporting Operation Midway Blitz’s immigration enforcement actions in the area.

Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

The Chicago area companies making money directly off the federal immigration "blitz" in many city neighborhoods and suburbs blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/23/c...

Chicago-Area Companies Raked In Millions From Feds As Operation Midway Blitz Intensified

One Chicago-based company was awarded more than $7 million to relocate ICE employees while a suburban weapons manufacturer was paid nearly $1.5 million in two weeks to supply pepper balls and air-powe...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Threads post from julieceye

At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 3d

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 4d

The Tribune reports Elgin cop Jason Lentz posted specific addresses on Facebook for ICE to check out.

He was fired years ago after he posted that Ferguson PO Darren Wilson “Did society a favor” when he shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. Later an arbitrator put Lentz back on the job.

Elgin police officer put on leave after Facebook post about ICE immigration efforts

An Elgin police officer was put on leave after posting a Facebook message about immigration enforcement, Police Chief Ana Lalley said.

www.chicagotribune.com

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A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · 4d

Venturing a bit further afield this week: musing on speculative-adjacent ideas of irrealism, and mostly just enthusing about Barthelme's 60 STORIES with @timothymoore.bsky.social. A very fun conversation about a remarkable stylist, check it out: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/20/a...

A Meal of Thorns 35 – 60 Stories with Timothy Moore

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Timothy MooreTitle: 60 Stories by Donald BarthelmeHost: Jake Casella…

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 4d

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sidestreets.bsky.social @sidestreets.bsky.social · 4d

The Chicago flag is symmetrical and cannot be flown in distress.

Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 5d

these colors don't run 💪💪

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago coyote yawn

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Between Friday 10/17 and Saturday 10/18—just this weekend's demonstrations—Illinois State Police and Broadview PD arrested 30 people outside the ICE facility.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5d

A representative with National Lawyers Guild Chicago tells me 15 people were arrested over the course of the day at Broadview yesterday.

All 15 have reportedly been released.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5d

I'll check on protest figures/status from tonight as well tomorrow morning.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 9d

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 10d

Every day for weeks it feels there is no day gone by without an alert about the BOTY area. There is an action tomorrow led by southwest side rapid response team in which they are demanding the property owners of the Yards Plaza in BOTY stop allowing ICE to use their space as a staging area.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 10d

I'm in BotY, Brighton Park, Gage Park, or Englewood a couple times a week. ICE and CBP have been so ever-present there that I have run into multi-vehicle phalanxes of masked agents completely at random on two different occasions in the last three weeks. 47th is a ghost town compared to spring.

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 10d

i really hate when we talk about books like they're shopping lists of tropes

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 11d

For all that I'm happy to say I love & respect @govpritzker.illinois.gov, this thread, up & down, is some real bullshit + state troopers have been doing this for a couple of wks. I'm calling JB's office today; if you're in IL, I hope you will too:

217-782-6830
217-782-6831
312-814-2121
312-814-2122

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12d

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

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Noel B @noelbwrites.bsky.social · 11d

Nextdoor is posting I've sightings and warning people. Nextdoor! The app for your most pro-cop paranoid neighbors!

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Noel B @noelbwrites.bsky.social · 11d

My neighborhood has two FB groups because one is so conservative and right wing that people created another one to get news with less annoying comments.

Since last week, both groups are posting 80% ICE sightings and organizing rapid response.

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 11d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11d

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11d

How many alleged TRO violations is that just today

Julian Mope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 11d

ICE detained a cyclist for filming them.

From the illinois community on Reddit: Chicago- dont dare record gestapo! Theyre dissapearing us citizens for doing so now

Explore this post and more from the illinois community

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 11d

These guys are absolutely going to shoot more people.

They’ve already killed one man, shot a woman, and we’ve seen a pattern of pulling firearms on unarmed people doing nothing violent or illegal over the past few weeks.

Clearly they do not care at all about the temporary restraining orders.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11d

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 14d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 15d

🚨Join us at on Saturday for one last Bird Collision Monitor Training for fall migration season. As the temperatures drop, we’re seeing millions of birds migrate through Chicago, and they need your help! 💛

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 15d

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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