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50 Protests. 50 States. 1 Movement. Uniting Chicago for bold, coordinated action in solidarity with our nation. ✊🔥 Join the movement. https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ #50501Chicago #Chicago #USpolitics #protests #peacefulprotests

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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50501 Supporters @50501supporters.bsky.social · 17h

GM of the Day.
No Kings October 18th.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

Image shows a stick figure with the head of Trump using a stick to poke the American flag. Text says: C'MON, DO
A CIVIL WAR I NEED TO
DISTRACT FROM EPSTEIN FILES

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 15h

US District Judge Sara Ellis barred Dept of Homeland Security officials from using riot control weapons “on members of the press, protestors, or religious practitioners who are not posing an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer or others.”

Common sense. But it took a judge.

Federal Judge Sides With Journalists, Protesters in Chicago Over Violent Tactics of Trump's Federal Agents | Common Dreams

Federal judge restricts use of force by federal agents on protesters and journalists in Chicago. Ruling bars riot control weapons unless immediate threat.

www.commondreams.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 1d

🏆 Just sharing this article. No special reason.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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50501 Chicago @50501chicago.bsky.social · 1d

Attention Chicago Veterans! @vetsaboutface.bsky.social is holding a meeting on Zoom Today at 6:30pm:
Building a United Response to the Attacks on Our Community & the VA. Use QR code to register.

Veteran city-wide call
Building a united veterans response to the attacks on our community & the VA 10/09 at 6:30 on Zoom. Use QR code to register.
Sponsored by About Face Veterans Against the War.

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago Police were ordered to not help ICE Gestapo! 🤣😂✊🏼 #iceout #chicago

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago. Pretty cool town

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

Way to go, Chicago, more of this! Kristi Noem is upset that ICE agents in Chicago are being “denied entry” to restrooms and lunch spots.

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Do Not Turn On Us @donotturnonus.bsky.social · 2d

Important Resources!

So the National Guard is (or might be) coming to your city? - Freedom Trainers

Don’t freak out. Don’t panic. Here’s a compendium of some resources. (1) Understand the legal situation State governors usually control their own National Guard. They’re deployed for things like natur...

freedomtrainers.net

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 1d

With the MLB playoffs on Fox Sports 1 and promos being run for Tubi it’s a good to remind folks that #Tubi is Lachlan & Rupert Murdoch's/FOX's streaming media platform.

#TubiFundsFox

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tiny.cc/TubiFundsFOX

WARNING: Watching Tubi funds Fox News

Tubi is Rupert Murdoch's latest scheme to use entertainment — and especially the Super Bowl — to fund his right-wing agenda and assault on American minds.

tiny.cc

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50501 Chicago @50501chicago.bsky.social · 1d

Ham sandwich?

50501 Chicago @50501chicago.bsky.social · 1d

Completely bonkers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How will you decide which workers get backpay and which do not?

TRUMP: Most of them are gonna get backpay. Some of them are being hurt very badly by the Democrats and they therefore won't qualify

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 2d

Wednesday, October 8 - Emergency Protest TODAY / Tell Dems to Keep Holding the Line / IL Candidate Forums

Wednesday, October 8 - Emergency Protest TODAY / Tell Dems to Keep Holding the Line / IL Candidate Forums — Indivisible Chicago Alliance

indivisiblechicago.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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50501 Chicago @50501chicago.bsky.social · 2d

The Guard is coming to support ICE as they continue to wreak havoc & terrorize our neighborhoods because our communities are organized & resisting. That's exactly why we must show up in massive numbers to make it clear: they will never break us down!

Wed, Oct. 8
5:30 PM
Ida B. Wells & Michigan Ave.

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50501 Chicago @50501chicago.bsky.social · 4d

Sending soldiers into Chicago's streets echoes a long, racist history of using state power to suppress, punish & intimidate Black, Brown, immigrant, disabled & poor communities. Chicago has seen what occupation looks like & we firmly reject it.

10/18 Chicago unites to loudly declare "No Kings!"

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50501 Chicago @50501chicago.bsky.social · 5d

50501 Chicago is not supporting any candidates. We are nonpartisan.

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ocadchicago.bsky.social @ocadchicago.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Community Alert 🚨

ICE may be targeting “unaccompanied” immigrant children in operation called “Freaky Friday”

⚠️ Very important: This is not a raid in schools and not aimed at all children. The operation is said to focus only on unaccompanied immigrant children.

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Community Alert
ICE may be targeting “unaccompanied” immigrant children in operation called “Freaky Friday”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6d

"He rushes to his car. He opens the hatch and packs in five-gallon buckets, drumsticks to pound on them, and bullhorns..."

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Standing up to ICE in the suburbs, the People’s Patrol puts its faith in resistance

Cristóbal Cavazos leads a rapid-response effort to document ICE activity. Meet the man confronting Trump’s deportation blitz.

chicago.suntimes.com

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