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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 8h

A federal judge ordered federal agents last week to issue two warnings before using tear gas.

Witnesses said they heard no warnings and none can be heard on videos, @chicago.suntimes.com reports

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 8h

Federal agents deployed tear gas after Albany Park residents protested to their attempts to detain a resident of the Northwest Side neighborhood, @vimiller.bsky.social reports for the @chicago.suntimes.com

Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 8h

Excellent work @vimiller.bsky.social of @chicago.suntimes.com getting photographic proof of the use of tear gas in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago. Potentially significant in regard to federal restraining order now in place.

close-up canister on a residential sidewalk

stenciled lettering on its side: "TO BE USED BY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRECTIONAL OR MILITARY PERSONNEL"

Part of a tear gas canister deployed by federal agents in the 3200 block of Wilson Avenue Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025.Violet Miller/Sun-Times

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Indivisible Baltimore County❌👑 @indivisiblebaltoco.bsky.social · 5d

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Baltimore Caravan to the Washington DC No Kings rally at Noon · Allies for Democracy

We are going to the DC Rally that begins at noon and ends at 3pm. Some people will be taking buses or driving, and we are taking the MARC train and metro. Interested in joining us? Sign up at this l...

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Indivisible Baltimore County❌👑 @indivisiblebaltoco.bsky.social · 1d

Indivisible Baltimore County announced today that the starting location for the No Kings 2.0 rally on Saturday, October 18 will move off Towson University campus grounds, following concerns raised by Towson University students and student organizations about the university’s handling of the event.

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Peta Naylor Richkus @petarichkus.bsky.social · 1d

The full press release is pictured. Because... No Crowns. No Thrones. #NoKings ❌👑
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

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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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4d

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

In a very real and practical sense, the elimination of USAID occurred because a) civil servants who followed the law were pushed out, b) unaccountable amoral people were given power, and c) SCOTUS let it all happen.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

In addition to mass firing of public servants, Musk's team executed a takeover of the Treasury payment system. David Lebryk, the civil servant who was acting Treasury Secretary, pushed back against the Musk official, Tom Krause, who demanded control over the payment system and specifically to pause USAID payments. Lebryk informed Krause that Treasury could not legally stop payments, and recommended to work through USAID instead. Krause then threatened Lebryk: “I would also recommend you consider an equal alternative liability.” By the next week Lebryk announced his retirement, and Musk announced he was shutting down the agency.

It was later revealed that the other DOGE official who had sought to take control of Treasury spending, Marko Elez, was a self-avowed racist with a record of making disparaging remarks about foreigners, including “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.” After he resigned, Musk led a successful campaign to bring Elez back into government, even as he pushed out those doing actual life-saving work.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 8h

One last time, seeing as I deleted my first, accurate post because I was given inaccurate info mistakenly saying that first post was mistaken.

It *does* appear cs tear gas was used here along with smoke, and the cs gas, at least, is definitely covered by judge Ellis' restraining order.

Text of a temporary restraining order, enjoining federal agents from a number of activities, including deploying "CS gas, CN gas, or other chemical irritants" on press, protestors or religious practitioners "who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others."

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 7h

Someone at work needs this mug. Good thing it's on sale for $10.
eatf.art/mugs

A ceramic mug featuring an illustration of a bird beside the text "big dumbass energy"

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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OverIt22 @overit22.bsky.social · 7h

Sadly, true. I’m east coast and only know what’s going on because I follow you and a few other local journalists and hear what my son tells me (who lives in the greater Chicago area)

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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OverIt22 @overit22.bsky.social · 7h

two men are sitting next to each other on a couch and smiling .

Alt: two men are sitting next to each other on a couch and smiling and pointing at someone out of frame, with the caption “Right back at you”

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1d

We are not Catholic, but this is simultaneously appalling [denying them the sacrament] and wonderful [too cowardly to appear in person].

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

How many alleged TRO violations is that just today

Julian Dope @alex.vitreous.rocks · 9h

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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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 16h

Dog peeps! Not local, but another urgent need.

It's for my friend Jen's brother. This is their family dog; he's in a bad way. He needs specialized surgery to save his life, and they're already out 4 figures just trying to get the DX.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 9h

We’re starting yet another week where House Republicans are on paid vacation instead of in Washington working with us to end this shutdown.

Our health care system is about to go off a cliff. Get back here and help us find a solution.

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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 20h

To our U.S. Colleagues,

Condolences on the loss of the CDC’s MMWR.

3 resources that may help
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 11h

A painting of a bird beside the text "i look forward to the day when i can stop giving a crap"

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OverIt22 @overit22.bsky.social · 11h

Why don’t they relax and get rid of their masks and weapons and clearly identify themselves?

Most 15 year old don’t have ID. Most adults do. Yet these adults cover their faces and don’t appear to have visible ID because they “fear for their safety” while carrying weapons?!?

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