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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 19h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

www.instagram.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

We're told at least one person was arrested—and later released with a citation for disorderly—by Broadview police for simply being on the Maywood side of 25th at Harvard St outside the ICE facility this morning.

They were documenting agents coming and going as electeds have told people to do.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2d

Imagine going back in time to tell 2015-you that in 2025 armed masked secret police are driving around Chicago, asking to see papers, kidnapping dozens of people a day, and arresting citizens who record them, while launching tear gas into neighborhood streets.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Any time families come to deliver meds to the detention center now, someone shoves a camera + mic in their face. A few days ago we watched reporters do this to someone while crying. People don't realize they don't have to consent to it, so they go along with it.

These journos are not seeing Heaven

Secret Third Thing @gochujung.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday, Don Lemon interrupted patient care for a visibly sensitive situation by shoving a mic in a patient’s face then getting annoyed at me when I swatted it out of the way & told him it was inappropriate. Yes, protests should be documented but no, they are not “content” & there is a difference.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 4d

masked federal agents have been on a tear through chicago neighborhoods today—enabled in no small part by the state + local cops now running security for ice in broadview.

at least 2 people abducted in cicero, 2 in humboldt park/hermosa, 3 in garfield ridge. sightings in schaumburg + hanover park.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

More vehicles with masked Border Patrol agents inside departing. It's a busy, busy morning for the secret police.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5d

Based on all the social media reports, today may have been the busiest Friday for ICE activity that we’ve seen since this surge started.

With hundreds of police now protecting ICE’s facility for them, presumably ICE is able to deploy more agents to snatch people.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 5d

Just chipped in. Plz give to the Sameer Project if you can; they have the people and infrastructure to efficiently distribute food and water as the trucks start rolling back in.

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 5d

The Sameer Project’s donations are down 45% today but their work is unfortunately far from over. Give to the South campaign, which supplies 200,000 liters of water a day: chuffed.org/project/1132...

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water

**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

chuffed.org

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 5d

Today a street vendor I’ve seen every day for two years was abducted from our neighborhood by masked thugs too cowardly to identify themselves. Her crime? Selling Tamales. What are you doing to stand up to the Gestapo?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d

Video shows rescuers pulling a Palestinian boy from the rubble of his home in Gaza City. Israeli forces attacked the house on Thursday after the approval of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 5d

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Several Illinois state troopers out here now with pepper ball launchers of their own.

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Liz Lukehart @lizlukehart.bsky.social · 5d

“Free speech starts at 9am” peaceful protestors standing on public property in Broadview are told. Broadview police already threatening citations and arrest. Because this is America now.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 7d

NEW — A message of support has been circulating online for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes, who was temporarily detained by federal agents last week.

A few signatures were noticeably missing: 13, to be specific.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/so-a...

So, about that letter of support for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes: 13 alderpeople didn’t sign it • The TRiiBE

The letter describes what the agents did to Fuentes as an “abuse of power.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, City Clerk, Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin also signed it.

thetriibe.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

Happening right now. To us. In America.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 8d

it takes a windmill 27.7 hours to generate one transgender athlete

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8d

Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers

Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

bit.ly

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 8d

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 9d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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