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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 14h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 16h

Judge orders controversial fence around ICE facility in Broadview to be removed by Friday www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/j...

Judge orders controversial fence around ICE facility in Broadview to be removed by Friday

A federal judge ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the ICE detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to access its own land and ordered its remo…

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Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

I just really fucking love Chicago.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats! I loved it.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

Judge to Decide Whether to Block National Guard Deployment as Trump Sends California Troops to Illinois

Lawyers for the Department of Justice told U.S. District Court Judge April Perry the president deployed the National Guard because “levels of violence against federal law enforcement executing their l...

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2d

Fools. You cannot conquer a city under the protection of a thrusting frog.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 1d

This man is a partially deflated Mylar balloon.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 2d

No one suspects me.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe if the Cubs go all the way, another passage will open in the wormhole we fell into back in 2016.

James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2d

Cubs win! Cubs win! Holy cow, Cubs win!

a close up of a blue letter w on a white surface .

ALT: a close up of a blue letter w on a white surface .

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 2d

I said this to my husband last week. I remember celebrating in 2016 and then the bottom dropped out of the country.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 2d

This does give me the chance to tell everyone again that Lee Greenwood once kicked me and my friends out of an elevator in a cheap hotel in Evansville, Indiana, in the 80s.

Because we were 7th graders at a basketball tourney and he was such a big star. 🤡

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 2d

Lee Greenwood?! At least try to be plausible, my dude.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 2d

They are big mad that they don’t influence the pop culture and never have.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. Using state violence against a Black man from 33 years ago to justify state violence against Black and brown men today.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 3d

At least the location would be accurate.

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 3d

When and where is that photo from? You don’t think that context is relevant?

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

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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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 4d

Ha!

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