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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Extremely funny that people think this is now a Pritzker hate account when all we've been doing is documenting the same police violence we've been documenting well before this ICE surge

Sorry for disrupting your worldview. Welcome to what cops are!!!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 23h

every time we’re out here we see new types of cops.

looks like the illinois department of correction’s tactical team is also here on site.

background: www.chicagoreporter.com/new-uniforms...

two cops in dark blue uniforms stand next to another cop wearing a blue polo

a close-up of one officer’s patch. it reads “tactical dept corrections. illinois sort.”

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

btw i both called and wrote pritzker’s office to register my displeasure with state and county cops’ behavior at broadview and the answer i got back was practically nonsensical. i didn’t save it but it did not address any of my concerns directly

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals PARTIALLY grants the stay sought by the Trump Administration.

The stay is GRANTED as to federalization of the National Guard.

But it is DENIED as to deployment.

So deployment still BLOCKED, but troops "do not need to return to their home states."

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Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 1d

“If you hurt my people…” what? So will you?

Stop attacking protesters, stop facilitating DHS, FBI, ATF and DEA in this kidnapping and terror campaign, and stop gaslighting the people you want to make you president,
@govpritzker.illinois.gov @jbpritzker.bsky.social

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

State troopers carrying one of the protesters they just tackled.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

State troopers carrying one of the protesters they just tackled.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

"I'm protesting the kidnapping of people,” said one person at the Broadview detention center protest. “I'm here to support humanity. I'm here to support the undocumented. I think ICE is a terrorist group. The police supporting ICE are terrorists.”

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is now pulling from a pool of applicants who see televised images of sobbing children in handcuffs, or masked men in tactical gear roughing up Latino laborers, and don't recoil in horror.
The administration is also doing its best to send all the worst possible signals to existing agents, from every level of the hierarchy. The president ominously declares we are engaged in a "war within" - with domestic urban populations cast as the enemy combatants.

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Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 1d

they went to Broadview

The DHS helicopter flew west to Broadview and is circling the ICE detention facility - and the protesters - there

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Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 1d

I keep being reminded of the drone buzz in the background of every video from Gaza

Screen shot of a DHS helicopter’s path through Chicago so far today hovering over Humboldt Park, Logan Square, Lincoln Square..

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

A van with visible captives inside just returned.

"Those are people!" someone shouts.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

This one includes a sheriff's van from Indiana—not uncommon to see sheriff's departments from Indiana and Wisconsin assisting with transport here.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

In Broadview, IL this morning outside the Chicago area ICE detention center—

Just rolled up, immediately saw ISP/CCSO arresting a protester w/ a guitar (he appears to be in good spirits over it).

ICE vehicles have been coming and going, including a large bus driven by a masked agent seen earlier.

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Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 1d

The Democrats’ response to ICE is tempered by the race and ethnicity of most of the victims. Immigration enforcement is a critical function! The border must be strong!

Co-signing the infrastructure of a white ethnostate means your disagreement with Miller isn’t categorical, just a matter of degree.

Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 1d

Police hold colonies together, not societies. You cannot have the white supremacist legal system without police terror. No prison slavery without the police. Artificial scarcity makes survival for all impossible, and it’s the police who capture the racialized, marginalized, and vulnerable.

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Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 1d

They believe police hold society together. So this is an anomalous aberration, not a live demonstration that a police state is the opposite of society

The crux of authoritarianism isn’t MAGA v. Blue. The question is do you believe our mutual survival comes from police violence or human solidarity?

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Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 1d

The reflex to respect cops uber alles leads to treating deputized oathkeepers and pardoned insurrectionists with 30 days of “training” the same as all Reasonable Peace Officers

They may not like the masks. But they don’t regard this as an essentially criminal operation. They respect ICE’s authority

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Lots of fed traffic leaving Broadview this morning.

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 1d

The ICE terror campaign is so much more efficient with state and local law enforcement greasing the skids for them.

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Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 1d

The Democrats’ response to mass violent kidnappings is still modulated to account for the fact that they are targeting non-white people. This isn’t what we’d see if ICE raided a Lincoln Park apartment. They are still applying a white supremacist definition of when it’s really truly fascism.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

The agents had a map of the building, marked doorways with stickers, and even knew in advance which units had firearms.

Let's talk about that last part.

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

chicago.suntimes.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Broadview police chief Mills and ISP were examining some documents last night before targeting one protester in a small, completely non-disruptive crowd for a bag search. Looks like they're brushing up on ~policy~

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Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 1d

IL police “May not otherwise render collateral assistance to federal immigration agents, including by coordinating an arrest in a courthouse or other public facility, transporting any individuals, establishing a security or traffic perimeter, or
providing other on-site support."

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Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 1d

Compare this with AG Kwame Raoul’s January 2025 Trust Act guidance for law enforcement: illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/Page-Attachm...

Screenshot of linked memo:

…individuals held by local authorities must be viewed as requests, not obligations. ® State law dictates whether local law enforcement can comply with those requests. It is important to note, however, that the TRUST Act does not prohibit any state or local law enforcement official from "otherwise executing that official's duties in investigating violations of criminal law," including by cooperating in such criminal investigations with federal law enforcement partners in order to ensure public safety.'
In Illinois, local law enforcement generally cannot assist in the enforcement of federal
civil immigration law. The Illinois TRUST Act states that a "law enforcement agency or official may not participate, support, or assist in any capacity with an immigration agent's enforcemen operations."Iº It further specifies that local law enforcement:
• May not transfer any person into an immigration agent's custody;
• May not give any immigration agent access, including by telephone, to any individual who is in the law enforcement agency's custody;
• May not permit immigration agents' use of agency facilities or equipment, including the use of electronic databases not available to the public, for any investigative or immigration enforcement purpose; and
• May not otherwise render collateral assistance to federal immigration agents, including by coordinating an arrest in a courthouse or other public facility, transporting any individuals, establishing a security or traffic perimeter, or
providing other on-site support."

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