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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 9h

It's also unclear to me how IL and Chicago plan to enforce the order, other than expecting the Trump admin to abide by it in good faith.

Other reporters and I asked IL Attorney General Kwame Raoul about enforcement after the court hearing, and he mostly sidestepped giving a substantive answer.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

U.S. District Judge April Perry's temporary restraining order is in:

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10h

“Instead of demeaning antifa by focusing on questions of organization or the technical feasibility of a domestic designation, liberals should rally around it — by putting the very values they espouse into action.”

The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 11h

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea — instead of acting to defend the activists, researchers, and organizers facing persecution. theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

Woman kidnapped in Kenilworth, IL 10/8/25

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

when i saw marsha fucking blackburn was being honored by journalists i thought i was having a neurological episode

Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 22h

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology."

October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award."

Just shameless.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 12h

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 12h

Are there any nation states in the world that aren't brutalising their own people for protesting injustice and evil at this point.

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 14h

"5,000 demonstrators marched through Athens' city center to the Israeli Embassy."

"Police attacked the crowd, using flashbang grenades, pepper spray, and tear gas."

"[D]ozens of indiscriminate arrests and [..] limbs were broken."
#Greece #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Incarceration #Genocide

Demonstrators Protest in Front of the Israeli Embassy in Greece, Police Violently Attack Crowd - UNICORN RIOT

Around 5,000 demonstrators marched through Athens' city center to the Israeli Embassy in solidarity with the Palestinian people on Oct. 7, 2025.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11h

Below, people are replying with suggestions to Mark Bray about how he and his family can flee the U.S. if they can't leave in a normal way by taking a commercial flight.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 17h

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 12h

Back at Broadview where there are at least a dozen broadcast cameras and an enormous amount of crews.

Easily as many members of the media as protesters, if not more.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h

If Trump invoked the Insurrection Act in these circumstances, it would be an unmistakable declaration that he's canceling our democracy and intends to rule as a dictator.
Everyone needs to understand that this would give us a sad but crystal-clear choice between resistance and submission.

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End The Genocides @wfwhuman.bsky.social · 12h

Ray Lopez and Brendan Reilly think this is okay.

Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 13h

Signs of the times in Chicago today: My daughter's school went on soft lockdown because of reports of ICE. Volunteers showed up at the nearby H.S. to escort people who didn't feel safe. Walking around, I saw lots of orange whistles around people's necks.

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 12h

Creating Content in Broadview
www.turtlediaries.net/p/creating-c...

Creating Content in Broadview

Tear gas looks cool as hell on camera

www.turtlediaries.net

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 13h

"I didn't know anything about Johnny Cash's immense well of counterculture cred, so I assume nobody else did"

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 16h

wtaf are you talking about

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Hank Scorpio III @hankscorpio.bsky.social · 13h

I’m interested in seeing where this line is drawn considering she said up top something about granting for the plaintiffs “in part”.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 13h

She says deploying national guard members untrained in de-escalation would "add fuel to the fire the defendants themselves have started."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13h

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 13h

DOJ lawyer Eric Hamilton this morning: “The president’s judgement is unreviewable.”

Perry: Federal law permits the federalization of guard troops in three instances, "not whenever (the president) determines when one of them is met."

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h

Perry: "I have seen no credible evidence that there is danger of rebellion in the state of Illinois."

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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 13h

lol. Lmfao.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 13h

Perry cites other fed prosecutions/lawsuits in Chicago and says "in the last 48 hours, in four separate unrelated legal decision from different neutral parties, they all cast significant doubt on DHS' credibility and assessment of what is happening on the streets of Chicago."

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 13h

At issue is what is actually happening at Broadview, Perry says.
Local law enforcement agencies say the protests are under control, while federal officials say they present an urgent threat.
Perry: "DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 1d

Hi I'm the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa - my name is Ann Tifa and my boyfriend named it after me

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 15h

they are really just rolling up on random landscapers and street vendors and kidnapping them

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 15h

There’s a viral video reposted by a lot of news people nationally about an abduction at West Loop Elementary School, but there is no school with that name. The video seems to be of ICE detaining people near UIC yesterday. Details matter. We need to try to get them right before sharing.

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