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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 1d

NIPAS officers have long tried to remain anonymous and go by their numbers (whatever that means). Journalists at northwestern have written extensively about this tactic including “waking up “itching”” to use weapons on unarmed protestors dailynorthwestern.com/2020/12/18/c...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

“The truth is that antifa groups have been responsible for some of the most prescient & impactful organizing countering the far-right during the last decade”

Amazing corrective to liberal punditry abt antifa from Matthew Whitley (& basically the thesis of my book) 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.

theintercept.com

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 1d

Translation: Judge saw Trump trying to sidestep the Oregon TRO and made her order broader because of the WH's playing stupid games with the plain language of another judge.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 3d

The ICE kidnappings are continuing across Chicago

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 3d

I met a woman today who described to me a kid’s father being separated taken in of the child. The kid was playing in a fountain in millennium park and was taken into ICE custody without even shoes on. Truly horrific stuff.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 4d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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404 Media @404media.co · 4d

NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety.

Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 4d

Big “clubhouse rules” energy in this paperwork

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 4d

Someone should tell the Pentagon: Disclosing CUI (a term made up by the government that has nothing to do with classification) is not against the law when government employees do it.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4d

News: The Pentagon has sent out its revised rules to reporters who wish to have building access. The new rules say that even soliciting tips on social media is grounds for losing badge access, per a copy I've obtained. More in tonight's edition of @status.news. Subscribe: www.status.news/subscribe

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 4d

Folks we are in very dangerous territory when masked up ICE agents are randomly opening fire on the people resisting them and then smearing them in the public. We need to recognize how much and how rapidly conditions on the grounds are shifting.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 5d

This is a remarkable document. here is a mayor restricting her constituents’ first amendment rights to (checks notes) protect them from (checks notes) the federal (really?) government.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 5d

Case assigned and first hearing is scheduled before Judge Ellis at 2:30 today. Courtroom 1403.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

* ILLINOIS FILES LAWSUIT SEEKING TO BLOCK PRESIDENT TRUMP'S DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL GUARD TO CHICAGO

@reuters.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 5d

The DHS PAOa are clothed the same way in Chicago.

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 5d

lol yeah forgot about the text messages

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 6d

WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "ICE are raging through the streets of Chicago trying to intimidate everyday ordinary citizens trying to go to school and work. That's not what America is about. It's shameful that the president has instigated this."

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 6d

This two man team of BP officers can’t even cuff the guy because they’re so poorly trained and organized. Engaging in a 5 min+ long street struggle with a very hostile crowd surrounding them. They’re going to get themselves hurt or killed.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com · 6d

it’s challenging being a Black-owned newsroom during this time of anti-DEI and political attacks, but we persevere. that’s what our ancestors did.

if you can, consider making a contribution — big or small — to fuel our reporting on Chicago.

if you know a $$$ person in your life, spread the word.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 6d

We’re so thankful to everyone who is spreading the word about our work at The TRiiBE.

This moment demands more revolutionary voices in journalism. Support independent, Black-owned journalism today.

Make a monetary contribution: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...

The TRiiBE is independent, Black-owned media.

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 7d

Just yesterday we saw ICE tear gas a neighborhood because they got stuck in traffic.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

WHOA: DHS says that their officers were “rammed and blocked in” in Chicago and got out of their cars and shot an U.S. citizen who reportedly also had a gun and who had been tracking ICE raids. They are blaming the shooting on her, and say they were already tracking her socials. More details to come.

Tricia McLaughlin • @TriciaOhio
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This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.
Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.
The armed woman was named in a @CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents and posting online 'Hey to all my gang let's fuck those mother fuckers up, don't let them take anyone.'

Thankfully, no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in this attack.
Pritzker's Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a growing crowd and we are deploying special operations to control the scene.
This is an evolving situation and we will give more information as soon as it becomes available.
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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 7d

The answer is yes, order it because once you do you will immediately find the other one. Problem solved.

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 8d

Eman is a wonderful person and we are very angry she has been arrested. Free Eman. Free them all.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

These fascists have taken my friend, Palestinian scholar and feminist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social into custody.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 8d

I cannot express enough how this is what has been happening for some time in Broadview. Federal agents assault, shoot chemical munitions at, and arrest protesters completely unprovoked.

And state police are now helping border patrol to combat and arrest protesters.

Great work everyone.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 8d

moments ago: pandemonium.

a huge mass of border patrol agents, led by greg bovino, pushed the crowd of protesters and started grabbing people at random.

leading up to this, folks were just calmly standing in the grass, following isp’s orders.

multiple people detained. no clue how many.

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 8d

You see the state law makes it illegal for the police to collaborate with ICE for “traffic management” but really what ISL is doing is *independently* … uhhh… moving people into “free speech zones” to make traffic manageable.

Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 8d

This is particularly disturbing when read in conjunction with USAG Bondi's recent memo.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 8d

the cook county sheriff’s office and illinois state police announce they’re setting up a “temporary unified command” to “coordinate public safety efforts” outside the broadview ice detention center.

this includes “designated areas” for protest along the sidewalk “to allow emergency vehicle access.”

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Spooky action @ distance 🎃 @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 9d

Btw every day, hundreds of times a day, OEMC and CPD send alerts for every single minor traffic crash, planned protest, public event like a Bears game etc to DHS for “monitoring” and “situational awareness”.

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