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Indivisible Evanston ❌👑 @indevanston.bsky.social · 2d

I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings: Freedom To Speak” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

No Kings: Freedom to Speak is an online rally bringing together artists, experts, and movement leaders to call out President Trump’s authoritarian power grab and build momentum for the No Kings protes...

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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 19d

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One Million Rising www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Mobilize www.mobilize.us
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Call your Sens/Rep 202-224-3121

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Jeffries: "Why don't Republicans want to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Is it the Epstein files?"

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 3d

These aren't targeted immigration operations.

Agents are breaking down doors to arrest families and kids first… and asking questions later.

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 3d

Sham immigration raids now include literally busting holes into people’s walls and doors.

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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 3d

Yesterday, I stood with our South Shore and immigrant communities to tell ICE to get the hell out of our city.

President Trump is ordering 300 National Guard troops into Chicago to help ICE agents terrorize immigrant families. This is not the America I know.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

After military-style raid on South Shore apartments, Congress members rally around residents

Federal agents landed a helicopter on a building Wednesday morning, arrested 37 people and left behind cracked windows and broken doors. Lawmakers seek a halt to all federal immigration enforcement…

chicago.suntimes.com

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Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov · 4d

This is a brazen and authoritarian violation of our state sovereignty. It is an attempt to bully and intimidate Illinoisans. There is no need for military troops on the ground in Illinois.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/05/p...

President Trump calling up 300 Illinois National Guard ‘immediately’ to protect ICE, buildings for 60 days

In a memo obtained by the Tribune, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Illinois National Guard leadership up to 300 members will be called into service “effective immediately.”

www.chicagotribune.com

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Rep. Jan Schakowsky @schakowsky.house.gov · 3d

The ICE raids taking place in our communities and the deployment of the National Guard to Chicago are not at all about public safety. They are about political theater.

We will not let Trump get away with this. Not in Chicago. Not anywhere. Not now. Not ever.

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Indivisible Evanston ❌👑 @indevanston.bsky.social · 3d

While 750,000 federal workers go unpaid and moms lose WIC, Trump’s out cheating at golf—on our dime. Families are rationing formula while he’s working on his handicap.

The only thing he’s leading in is hypocrisy. ⛳️

#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

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Rep. Chuy García @chuygarcia.house.gov · 6d

What happened to Ald. Fuentes today at a Humboldt Park emergency room is unacceptable. Hospitals should be safe for all — free from fear, intimidation, and ICE. No one should have to choose between care and safety. We need the Sensitive Locations Act. This must STOP.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 6d

Ald. Jessie Fuentes: “We have constitutional rights.”
Unidentified federal agent, whose badge is not visible: "No." @wttw.bsky.social

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes Handcuffed by Federal Agents While Asking About Patient’s ICE Warrant at Hospital

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was detained by federal agents inside Humboldt Park Health, as tensions continue to rise between local residents and officials and immigration agents conducting enforcement...

news.wttw.com

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 6d

An American President is intentionally hurting Americans to score cheap political points.

This is not normal.

Russ Vought on X: $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects—specifically the Red Line Extension and the Red and Purple Modernization Project—have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing via race-based contracting. More info to come soon from @USDOT.

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Indivisible Evanston ❌👑 @indevanston.bsky.social · 3d

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 6d

Camouflaged agents with long guns raided South Shore in Chicago this week.

They ziptied women and kids and put people into unmarked vans… including US citizens.

This is way beyond mass deportations.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 5d

The @washingtonpost.com is hiring MAGA writers because reshaping of this legacy newspaper is about one thing: keeping Trump happy so Bezos can keep his fat government contracts & oval office access. (The same will happen at CBS News.)

www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-w...

Bezos’ Washington Post Hires New MAGA-Friendly Columnists

They will work for its new opinion editor who admits its readers are “overwhelmingly liberal.”

www.thedailybeast.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 5d

"Simply asking people to know their rights and speak out has already proven insufficient," says @handsoffchicago.com. "We urge our state & local elected leaders to think creatively & aggressively about the assets available to warn residents & protect peaceful protestors."

Read their press release:

Hands Off Chicago statement:

The scenes coming out of our communities in recent weeks are a stain on our nation’s history. Families snatched off the street by masked agents while hardworking immigrants with no criminal history are openly profiled and detained by sneering federal thugs. Peaceful protestors and press shot with tear gas and pepper bullets for no reason other than the nonviolent expression of their constitutional rights. Brutality and racism glamorized in pathetic social media videos posted by weak bullies desperate to feel powerful. All while the president explicitly and gleefully targets Chicago and other American cities as 'training grounds' for our armed forces.

"Now, Trump’s federalization and deployment of members of the Illinois National Guard escalates the prospect of violence in an obvious act of authoritarianism designed to intimidate and threaten. There has never been any emergency condition that justifies deploying military personnel to occupy Chicago.

"Advocacy organizations, elected leaders, faith leaders, labor, business, community groups, and more have and will continue to peacefully exercise our constitutional rights in protest of military occupation by the Trump Administration. We urge our state and local elected leaders to think creatively and aggressively about the assets available to warn residents & protect peaceful protestors. Simply asking people to know their rights and speak out has already proven insufficient.

"Chicago does not want and does not need troops or ICE in our region. Recent polling shows nearly two-thirds of Chicagoans oppose the deployment of federal troops to Chicago & more than 70% of residents think Trump’s actions are more about politics than safety. But clearly, Chicago’s opposition to Trump is exactly the reason why he is attempting to break our spirit through violence and intimidation. He will fail. Chicago is united & in that solidarity we will find the strength to fight back defeat the Trump regime.

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Indivisible Greater West Loop @indivisiblegwlchi.org · 5d

From @handsoffchicago.bsky.social: Chicago is united, and in that solidarity we will find the strength to fight back and defeat the Trump regime. Our statement on the federalization and deployment of the IL National Guard.
#handsoffchicago

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 5d

ICIRR, BPNC, and the southwest side rapid response team are out with a joint statement recounting what rapid response team members and neighbors observed at 40th & Kedzie, where federal agents shot somebody earlier today, repudiating DHS claims.

Full statement here: www.instagram.com/p/DPaGLCEjW5C

A graphic labeled 7 of 12 reads:

Today in the area of 4000 S. Kedzie, Rapid Response Teams and community members firsthand witnessed:
• Federal agents crashed into a civilian vehicle and caused a multi-car collision on Kedzie
• ICE fired approximately 5 shots at a car, one person was shot
• Stemming from that collision, ICE detained a US citizen who remains in custody
• Multiple uses of pepper spray and tear gas on unarmed community members, including throwing smoke bombs upon exiting the area

A graphic labeled 8 of 12 reads:

Today in the area Of 4000 S. Kedzie, Rapid Response Teams and community members firsthand witnessed (continued):
• Use of militarized tactical vehicles, including a tank, and helicopters in a residential neighborhood
• ICE agents were driving recklessly in a residential area
• ICE agents showing extreme aggression and violence towards community members
• ICE agents refused to show a warrant when violently detaining multiple community members in the area
• Teams and community members did NOT witness or participate in any "boxing in" as described by DHS.

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 6d

Trump is targeting cities like Chicago, terrorizing immigrant families & Black citizens, attacking protesters & journalists, assaulting elected leaders & political candidates

✋🏼✋🏾 We say #HandsOffChicago!
❌👑 We say #NoKings!
📅📍 Rally/march Sat Oct 18, noon, Grant Park
ℹ️ Info: bit.ly/HandsOffChiOct18

Hands Off Chicago / No Kings! Rally and March · Indivisible Chicago

Here in Chicago we know how to rise up, fight back, and support each other. It is more important than ever that we do that together on October 18th as we show the nation and the world that Chicago is ...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7d

Our social media toolkit makes it easy to let your friends and relatives know who caused the Trump Shutdown: app.sosha.ai/toolkit/trum...

(above images of Trump, Mike Johnson, and Mark Zuckerberg) Republicans, in July: Pay for billionaires’ tax cuts by cutting Medicaid

Also Republicans, in Sept: Cut health care or we’ll shut down the government!

It’s clear that they work for billionaires—not for us.

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 9d

❌️👑 Tell Trump NO KINGS!
🗓📍Oct 18th, noon, Grant Park

Indivisible Chicago's visibility brigade over the Kennedy with an alert to the upcoming #HandsOffChicago #NoKings rally and march--see you on the 18th!

People holding a large sign saying Tell Trump no kings. Grant Park. October 28. Grant Park.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 7d

No words.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 6d

The third largest company in the world capitulating without a fight in a move that assists the most brutal part of the Trump regime. I hope employees rise up over this.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Apple removes ICEBlock app after criticism from Trump administration

Apple said Thursday it is removing an app that allows users to share information about sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, which the head of ICE had criticized

www.yahoo.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 6d

If a high-ranking elected official can be detained in broad daylight, no one is immune from this regime’s authoritarian overreach.

Let’s stand together against the abuses of power, cruelty, and corruption — and remind Trump and his enablers that there are NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Chicago alderwoman arrested by ICE agents while checking on detainee at hospital in Humboldt Park

A Chicago alderwoman was arrested by ICE agents on Friday afternoon inside a hospital in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.

www.cbsnews.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 6d

MONDAY: We’ll discuss the Trump Shutdown, the stakes for working families, and fighting back against the regime’s healthcare cuts and chaos. Join @repcasar.bsky.social, @delauro.house.gov, @ezralevin.bsky.social, and many more special guests. RSVP now to submit questions: bit.ly/shutdownstak...

THE SHUTDOWN STAKES
FIGHTING TRUMP’S HEALTHCARE CUTS & CHAOS

VIRTUAL BRIEFING
OCT. 6 AT 3:30PM ET

Hosted by Progressive Caucus Action Fund, Groundwork Action, and Indivisible

Ezra Levin, Indivisible

Julia Tilley, United Home Care Workers of PA & SEIU Healthcare PA

Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen

Matt Hayward, Groundwork Action

Catherine Rowland, PCAF

FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS REP. ROSA DELAURO CD-CT) RANKING MEMBER, HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE & REP. GREG CASAR (D-TX), CHAIR OF THE CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 5d

The American people aren’t buying Republicans’ bullsh*t about the Trump Shutdown.

Your Democratic senators need to hear from you — encourage them to keep fighting to protect healthcare for millions and stop health insurance costs from doubling this winter: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

Aaron Rupar on Bluesky: “Harry Enten: "Who do Americans blame more for the shutdown? They blame Republicans. The New York Times -- by 7 points they blame Republicans. Marist -- blame Trump and Republicans by 12 points. How about Washington Post? By a 17 point margin."”

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