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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 1d

Used to live not far from where this happened

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 3d

A federal judge in Chicago says ICE violated a consent decree with warrantless arrests. blockclubchi.co/4nGUOQ8

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Mitchell Armentrout @mitchtrout.bsky.social · 5d

Illinois sues Trump over National Guard deployment chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

Illinois sues Trump over National Guard deployment

The lawsuit comes hours after a federal judge in Oregon barred Trump from deploying federalized members of the any National Guard troops under Trump's command to Oregon.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 7d

“In the coming hours, the Trump Administration intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard,” Gov. JB Pritzker said in the statement Saturday.

Trump seeks to call up 300 Illinois National Guard troops, Pritzker says

The request to the Illinois National Guard comes after Pritzker said earlier this week the Department of Homeland Security requested deployment of 100 military troops to Illinois “for the protection of ICE personnel and facilities.”

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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 7d

A woman was shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents Saturday morning on Chicago’s South Side, marking the second shooting since President Donald Trump’s administration launched an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the area last month. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side

Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...

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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 8d

“This is tyranny, this is absolute tyranny,” David Beale, 39, said. He said he and other onlookers were tear gassed. “My eyes are burning, my skin is burning, but more than that I’m just mad.”
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Masked federal agent throws chemical irritants outside Logan Square grocery store: 'My eyes are burning'

Video taken by several witnesses captured the moments where the agent can be seen dropping a canister from a white SUV.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 10d

We want to hear from federal workers and contractors about the shutdown's impact on your work and home life.

Fill out our survey to share your experience—your responses will help shape our reporting.

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 11d

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 11d

Broadview’s mayor and police chief announced three criminal investigations the Chicago suburb has initiated involving ICE agents, and called on the agency to stop using chemical agents on protesters, saying: “We are experiencing an immediate health safety crisis.”

Broadview officials announce 3 criminal investigations against federal agents, urge ICE to stop its antics

The suburb's mayor and police chief called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop using chemical agents on protesters at a Tuesday news conference and appealed for the agency to respond to several requests

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 12d

Pritzker said the Illinois National Guard obtained a memo that DHS sent to the Defense Department which sought to request 100 military personnel for Illinois. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Trump administration plans to send 100 National Guard troops to Illinois, Gov. Pritzker says

Pritzker said the Illinois National Guard obtained a memo that DHS sent to the Defense Department which sought to request 100 military personnel for Illinois.

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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 13d

Agents fired pepper balls into a crowd of about 75 protesters Saturday evening and made several arrests. Steve Held, a Chicago journalist, was one of those arrested. A Chicago Sun-Times reporter was struck by rubber projectiles and tear-gassed. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

Broadview officials say ICE agents warned that mayor's comments would bring consequences

Village officials said Saturday that federal agents warned Broadview police there would be “a s--- show” in response to Mayor Katrina Thompson's comments that ICE is “making war on my community.”

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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money

apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 15d

Apropos of nothing — this remains one of the finest pieces of writing about one of the single greatest comic book creations in existence defector.com/the-judgment...

The Judgment Of Magneto | Defector

Somewhere beyond death, in a realm of judgment and pain, a concrete labyrinth filled by countless names, a man walks. He is Jewish, and has been made hard and cruel by his experiences in the Nazi deat...

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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 15d

Immigration agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls at protesters, reporters and photographers at the ICE processing facility in suburban Broadview chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Rooftop agents fire rubber pellets, tear gas, pepper balls at crowd outside Broadview ICE facility

At least one person was hit by rubber pellets fired by ICE agents at the facility, 1930 Beach St., who were also shooting tear gas into the crowd of protesters.

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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 15d

Uhhh www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist

This is a real thing Peter Thiel told a group of tech professionals recently.

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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 17d

Hilarious

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 17d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 17d

I thought the pilot captured the decline almost too well. I've had trouble picking the show back up since.

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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 17d

The president has said his “blitz” here is meant to make the city safer for its residents. But the rush of federal immigration agents into the area has stoked fears and upended routines. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

What to know about Trump's immigration enforcement campaign in Chicago

The president has said his “blitz” here is meant to make the city safer for its residents. But the rush of federal immigration agents into the area has stoked fears and upended routines — and the resu...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17d

One thing we've learned in the last 12 hours: The Sinclair-Nexstar ban on Kimmel, in terms of his reach, means nothing in an era when late-night shows have an afterlife or simultaneous life on streaming. Kimmel's average audience is 1.6M. On YouTube, last night's monologue is already at 8.4M views.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 18d

The Illinois Democratic congressional delegation sent questions to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday about deportation operations in Illinois, which they say included arbitrary arrests and detentions without due process.

Illinois Democrats want answers from DHS Secretary Noem about ICE operations

The letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem questions the "military-style tactics" of ICE agents and asks for a definitive answer into how many Illinois arrests have been made since federal authorities announced the launch of "Operation Midway Blitz" on Sept. 8.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18d

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UN chief warns world leaders that humanity has entered 'an age of reckless disruption and relentless human suffering.'

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18d

“Since President Trump took office, 15 people have died in immigration detention, 10 of those deaths occurred between January and June … The senators say that is the highest rate in the first six months of any year publicly available.”

NPR @npr.org · 18d

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 18d

If you live in the Chicago area and know someone who was *checks notes* raptured, let me know

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Kwame Opam @kwameopam.bsky.social · 18d

Speaking over a radio, the federal agent who told police that Villegas González tried to use his car as a weapon said his partner had suffered “a left knee injury and some lacerations to his hands.”

“Nothing major,” the injured agent said.
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ICE officer said his injuries were 'nothing major' after deadly shooting near Chicago, video shows

The immigration agent’s partner said he suffered a “knee injury" and "some lacerations to his hands,” according to police body camera footage obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. But the feds reported h...

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