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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 14h

In this week's @wola-org.bsky.social Border Update:

Migrant apprehensions hit a 55-year low in 2025, but have been inching up. Tensions are high amid mass deportation operations and abuses in Chicago. Apple is removing ICE-tracking apps. Law enforcement personnel are being made to work immigration.

Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: 2025 apprehensions, Chicago tensions, federal law enforcement diverted - WOLA

Border Patrol migrant apprehensions hit a 55-year low in 2025, but have been inching up. Tensions are very high amid mass deportation operations and abuses in Chicago. Apple is removing ICE-tracking a...

www.wola.org

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Jacob Lesniewski @jplesniewski.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller feeds gremlins after midnight

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Jacob Lesniewski @jplesniewski.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller has six fingers on his right hand.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

this was really hard to read. my son is almost exactly the same age as the kid in here that Trump and Musk deliberately starved to death apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: In the weeks leading up to a massive ICE raid at a South Shore apartment building, neighbors saw drones surveilling the area, and teachers at a nearby school regularly saw agents in the neighborhood.

✍️ Jose Abonce for the Weekly and Maira Khwaja for @invisible.institute

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 4d

Trump insists on keeping national parks open during the shutdown, which might be nice for Americans who had a trip booked, but is proving to be just another way this administration is crushing the National Parks Service. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:

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Opening Parks During Shutdown Part of Plan to Ruin Them

The Trump administration is selling out America’s national parks. Keeping them open during the shutdown makes them dangerous, filthy, and easier to seize.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 4d

I'm in New York tomorrow. Come hear a great panel and say "hi" if you're around tomorrow afternoon. (365 Fifth Avenue)

The
Fentanyl Crisis
Tuesday, October 7 - 3 PM
Room 9207
The Graduate Center, CUNY RSVP at bildner@gc.cuny.edu
Speakers
Jonathan D. Rosen
New Jersey City University
Adam Isacson
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Moderator: Enrique Desmond Arias
Baruch College & The Graduate Center, CUNY

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 5d

Since August, our taxes have paid for 2 to 4 private contractor guards to keep 1 car wash employee with "severe leg injuries" from escaping his hospital bed.

On or about August 27, 2025, CBP transferred custody of Petitioner to ICE. See Pet.
¶ 48. He remains detained at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center under the supervision of ICE,
which has contracted with Spectrum Detention Services (“Spectrum”) to provide guards.
See Santiago Decl. ¶ 8; Pet. ¶ 48.
Since that date, two to four uniformed guards—either Spectrum employees or ICE
agents—have been continuously stationed in Petitioner’s hospital room, monitoring him at
all times, including while he sleeps, eats, uses the restroom, or receives medical care. See
Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 9–10.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

Use of military force is governed by law. It’s not a personal army.

The notion that the only response to illegal use of force is to let it happen, have individuals sue after, and maybe they’ll get some recourse at some point is a good example of the Lawyer Brain that helped get the country here.

Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 6d

We don’t have to carry water for dictators. Just my thought.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 6d

If the Chicago FOP were actually a union representing the interests of its members, rather than a far right political operation and a mouthpiece for the lodge president (who hasn’t even been a cop for years), they might have some words about this.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d

CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 8d

Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...

Lost Worlds

The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...

www.harpercollins.com

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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 9d

I haven't shared them yet because, well, I've been pretty jammed up with writing, but our Y! Sports NBA season previews started rolling out this week! Ben Rohrbach and I will be writing quick table-setters for all 30 teams over the next few weeks, and I'll thread 'em here.

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Jacob Lesniewski @jplesniewski.bsky.social · 7d

And a community mental health center....

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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 7d

Journalist Mario Guevara has been deported. He spent three-plus months in ICE custody after livestreaming a protest, before being flown out of the U.S. on Oct. 3.

In a recent post, he wrote: “My dedication to my work cost me my freedom.”

Spanish-language reporter arrested at Atlanta-area protest; faces deportation

Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter who covers immigration issues, was arrested at an anti-Trump protest in Chamblee, Georgia, near Atlanta, …

pressfreedomtracker.us

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Jacob Lesniewski @jplesniewski.bsky.social · 7d

Some of our best friends in the world live near here. Talking to them feels like talking to folks we've known living in war zones or occupied cities.

I've got nothing. No pithy analysis nothing more than hot anger and teeth grinding sadness.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 7d

I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety

Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 7d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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🤠 @iraqicowboy.bsky.social · 7d

I called the governors office today- and so should you. If you're working today, generating taxable revenue in the state of illinois, then you're currentlt paying for Illinois cops to protect Kristi Noem & the ICE facility in Broadview. Spend some time at work to make some calls and demand answers

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"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.'"

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 8d

“It’s a scary moment, but it’s also a moment that bears no equivocation. At this point you are either on the side of protecting our neighbors and protecting our community, or you’re on the side of this administration. There is no neutral ground. There is no center left.“
- @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social

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

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9d

hope this doesn’t sound too woke or elitist but if i was a reporter in this room, i’d ask jd vance what he thinks doctors should do if an undocumented kid gets hit by a car.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 9d

Full 23 March 1980 homily (also with original Spanish audio), is available from @romerotrust.bsky.social 👇

The Church Serves Personal, Communal, and Transcendent Liberation – The Archbishop Romero Trust

The Church Serves Personal, Communal, and Transcendent Liberation Fifth Sunday of Lent Sunday, 23 March, 1980 The Mass readings are: Isaiah 43:16-21 Philippians

www.romerotrust.org.uk

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