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Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 3h

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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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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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19h

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

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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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 20h

Y'all I just want to say how much I've appreciated the relatively boring UGA vs Auburn games of recent years because when this one gets weird it really isn't fun for fans of either team.

(Though I know the rest of y'all think it is hilarious.)

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 1d

What a fucking embarrassing thing to have to do. ICE should obviously quit their jobs, but I would quit so fast if I had to turn away a bunch of nuns trying to provide the sacraments.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. There may be some question on an apartment application form or something like that.

People without many housing options could be asked (compelled) to disclose.

But that's not a high probability.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

It does seem like data from both sources would be necessary to create a map like this.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

The building employee "wished he had" that map and building management didn't comment so I felt the need to include it as an option (even as low probability).

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

I was shocked to learn CPD & the Cook County States Attorney's office routinely treat & talk about "possessing a firearm without a FOID card" as a "gun crime" instead of a licensure issue.

(I lived most of my life in the South where "licensure" issues were..uhh.. different.)

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all i grew up in the land of Confederate monuments where over 100 years of American history were intentionally erased to keep Jim Crow the dominant foundation of society. Hollywood has been part of that propaganda since the beginning.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Hell, too many Americans are primed to think that's normal from Hollywood police procedurals that can majick up gun ownership information.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

But that database only tracks *disqualified* owners. If these tenants were legal owners, they wouldn't have any data points to put in any system...except for FOID or some local building registry.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Right? The story's lede was awful enough I almost missed this part.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Essentially, the National Instant Background Check database at the FBI is supposed to function like that in a (very) limited capacity without any larger AI inputs, and we know the outputs are often woefully incomplete.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

That's what set off all my alarm bells when I got to that part of the reporting. A "firearms map" might sound like a normal thing, but here in the USA there's a whole subset of laws, processes, & politics involved in making one.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

PS: someone brought up a 3rd possibility where the building itself maintained a list of tenants who owned firearms.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

That would depend significantly on the inputs to what data they're searching. Court records, especially firearm owners disqualifying records, are notoriously (& often tragically) never entered into the system as such.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

So I'm really hoping someone at the @chicago.suntimes.com (or any of the other outlets doing amazing work during a crisis) follow up & investigate how Feds developed a "firearms map" for the South Shore raid, and if ISP was involved.
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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

We all hear that Illinois State Police are NOT allowed to work with Federal agencies on immigration enforcement. But, we all know there are plenty of ways to do inter agency cooperation around regulations like that.
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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Second (and the most likely): Illinois State Police have a database of every Illinoisian who legally owns & possesses firearms through the FOID system. That database includes addresses.
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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

First would be court records of previous firearms convictions & assuming those individuals still possessed firearms. Actual Hollywood style police work. But that would be a lot of work I don't think this task force was willing to do.
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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like there may be two ways to create a "firearms map" of a building without Federal records:
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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

This means Federal agencies should not be able to develop a "which people in this building own guns" list or map from their own records. 3/

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

The Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 (FOPA) prohibits Federal agencies like the ATF from maintaining a list of who purchases firearms from licensed dealers. 2/

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

The agents had a map of the building, marked doorways with stickers, and even knew in advance which units had firearms.

Let's talk about that last part.

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

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