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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 18h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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 th...

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 1d

And renamed to Liberty Vote

Axios @axios.com · 1d

SCOOP: Dominion Voting, the voting machine behemoth that Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election, has been sold to a company run by an ex-GOP election official.

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 2d

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS www.wbez.org/arts/2025/10...

Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson among 22 winners of coveted MacArthur ‘genius grant’

The Englewood native, whose work focuses on inequity in Chicago, is among this year’s class of MacArthur Fellows. The list of international fellows receiving the $800,000 prize includes several artist...

www.wbez.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 2d

Born in California. U.S. citizen. Was not told why he was being questioned. Was threatened. Hit from behind. Detained.
His name is Frank Miranda.
And he is suing.
www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3d

chile....

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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 3d

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4d

crimes. you mean he's doing crimes.

bucking tradition is wearing a white suit after labor day.

NPR @npr.org · 4d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 4d

You haven’t had barbecue till you had Kansas City bbq!
Behold: Char Bar KC 😋

charbarbbq.com

A barbecue platter for 2 with ribs, smoked chicken wings, burnt ends, purple slaw, creamy corn and fries. 4 hot sauce bottles are in the back.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 4d

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

Snapped this pic of DHS conferring with the IL state police just before ICE attacked the crowd, while state and county police assisted them. ICE said, "This is your first and only warning" and then instantly attacked. We were not in the road at that time. They just wanted to assault us and film it.

A DHS leader confers with a state of IL cop at a protest.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 7d

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans.

Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 7d

NEW — Darius Fitzgerald, a security guard, was in the midst of a 10-hour shift at a BP gas station in Chicago’s East Garfield Park on Wednesday when he saw a Black man being chased by two federal agents.

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Security guard describes federal agents chasing Black man in East Garfield Park • The TRiiBE

Agents were also seen choking a Black man; DHS denies allegations.

thetriibe.com

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 7d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 8d

This is terrifying on so many levels

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 8d

"ICE has no regard for any human life."

"I've seen ICE agents with fingers on their trigger, using real M16s and M9s, pointing them at people."

"They're just trigger happy, and there is no trigger discipline."
#Illinois #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Veterans Speak Out Against ICE's 'Mob Tactics' In Broadview: 'Our Democracy Is Being Crushed'

Activists and Chicago aldermen, meanwhile, are asking city and state leaders to do more to thwart ICE's efforts and treatment of protesters.

blockclubchicago.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 8d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 9d

The list: University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas, Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.

And it doesn’t feel like an “ask”

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9d

Breaking News: The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.

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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 9d

“Despite a blowout, uncontested victory — and a precedent of swearing in the winners of special elections almost immediately after their elections — Grijalva still has no idea when she might become an official member of the House.”

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Dem Says Mike Johnson Is Delaying Her Swearing-In to Prevent Epstein Vote

Newly elected Arizona Rep. Adelita Grijalva says her swearing in ceremony has been delayed over her support for a petition to release Epstein files.

www.rollingstone.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9d

ICE in Chicagoland today:

CBP agents were seemingly everywhere, with arrests across several neighborhoods and the suburbs. Exact numbers are unknown.

Neighbors in Garfield Park witnessed feds choking a Black man in the street, and Border Patrol snatched people at retail strips and traffic stops.

Kidnappings across Chicago’s Northwest Side, Bronzeville, Cicero and suburbs; DHS confirms 37 arrests in South Shore apartments raid • The TRiiBE

A day after federal officers swarmed an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, agents returned to the South and West sides on Wednesday

thetriibe.com

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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 9d

?? Why then?

DL @drewblagrim.bsky.social · 9d

No AI could write a punchline this good 😂

“We have spent a ton of time making sure that the validation loop on all of these sub-agents is pretty tight.”

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 9d

"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."

Jane Goodall on Fighting Sexism and What Chimpanzees Taught Her

Jane Goodall discusses what keeps her motivated six decades into her career and how she combated sexism.

www.rollingstone.com

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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 10d

Hi #journalism type folks!
The virtual 2025 Mental Health in Journalism Summit hosted by The Self Investigation is Oct. 8-10!
There's a day of Spanish language sessions & 2 days of English. (I will be presenting on Friday).
Many ticket tiers (including $0).
theselfinvestigation.com/summit/

Mental Health in Journalism Summit 2025

Save the date and register for Mental Health in Journalism Summit 2025, a global and open online event!

theselfinvestigation.com

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 11d

In a version of the Fujiwhara effect, Hurricane Humberto is pulling Tropical Storm Imelda eastward and away from the U.S.

A Hurricane Is Saving the U.S. from a Tropical Storm

In a version of the Fujiwhara effect, Hurricane Humberto is pulling Tropical Storm Imelda eastward and away from the U.S.

www.scientificamerican.com

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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 11d

I got an emotional support rotisserie chicken tonight and made chicken corn chile soup!

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