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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 1h

This added activity and kidnappings is on you, @govpritzker.illinois.gov. Call off the state police and either pull them out or reassign them to watch ICE and arrest them if they break the law or defy court orders.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Lots of fed traffic leaving Broadview this morning.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Find Me A Therapist

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1h

A Black man was left to die in his own urine after suffering a stroke while Eagan, MN police failed to follow procedure to detect medical distress, perform any wellness checks, and brushed off his obviously dire medical condition. What a sick, sad display from police.

www.kare11.com/article/news...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 1h

Again, if @govpritzker.illinois.gov really cared about stopping Trump and his fascist thugs, he’d be using the ISP to curb ICE criminality instead of repressing legal protests.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

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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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 1h

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 20h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 15h

just randomly looking around and found a place that sells these outfits in multiple sizes, if anyone's interested

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Inflatable frog costume in kid and adult sizes, $54

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 14h

Even if he gives in, every erratic move from the orange menace heightens uncertainty, hurting everyone.

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14h

US stocks fall after Trump threatens ‘massive’ tariffs on China

How many more days of this before Trump gives in? www.ft.com/content/328e...

Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 14h

“An estimated 1.73 million vehicles were repossessed last year, the highest total since 2009, according to data from Cox Automotive, an industry-research firm.” apple.news/A3lkG-xqcRcq...

Americans Are Falling Behind on Their Car Payments — The Wall Street Journal

Delinquency rates on subprime auto loans are at records

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 17h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 15h

Wow

Just.... wow

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 16h

If the police are going to be there, they should be there to stop ICE, not the protestors. ICE are the ones consistently breaking laws and defying court orders. @govpritzker.illinois.gov

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 21h

It’s a complicated dynamic. Without police at Broadview, the feds escalated at-will, deploying chemical munitions & physical force without provocation. The police presence has provided an argument against deploying the National Guard & ppl haven’t gotten gassed. But it frees ICE agents to grab ppl.

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 16h

This is on you, @govpritzker.illinois.gov. You can’t be positioning yourself against Trump while instructing your pigs to be protecting these lawless fascist goons brutalizing and kidnapping people.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 22h

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 21h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 16h

Horror movie recommendation of the day www.criterion.com/films/629-kw...

Kwaidan

After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of g...

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 17h

“Public expression activity”?!? What a tortured, ugly phrase.

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 21h

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

Folks playing some thematic standoff music now.

Really just cannot express how non-threatening this small group of neighbors appears at the moment, and how absurd this massive police presence appears in comparison.

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 19h

Judging by his history in the business world, he must have gotten dementia a pretty long time ago then.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 19h

the Israeli method

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 19h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 22h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21h

She actually thanked Donald Trump in her acceptance statement.
The Nobel Committee is full of cowards and careerists.

West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · 22h

Honestly, the Nobel Peace prize is bullshit.
.
Maria Machado is a right wing fascist that supports Donald Trump, and a whole list of bad policies.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h

Let's go @govpritzker.illinois.gov Where you at buddy? It's time to put your money where your mouth is

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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