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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1h

RIP Tony Fitzpatrick. Taught me so much about what it means to love a place so much that you become one with it. A truly singular Chicago artist.

A vibrant collage by Tony Fitzpatrick features a peregrine falcon with architectural elements and bold text related to Chicago.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 4h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 2d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 7h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Nancy Cooper FrankenSTEEN @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 7h

Pretzel getting herself ready for amother #Caturday

Orange cat on blue blanket. She’s licking a front paw and one of her back paws juts out at an angle

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Nancy Cooper FrankenSTEEN @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 15h

I’m so sorry for your loss 💔

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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 17h

#BBCNews - 'They treated us like animals' - Inside the epicentre of deportations in New York City
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'They treated us like animals' - Inside the epicentre of deportations in New York City

Chaotic scenes have become routine in a federal immigration court in Manhattan.

www.bbc.com

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Nancy Cooper FrankenSTEEN @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 17h

Déjà vu

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Julie Felise Dubiner @jfdubiner.bsky.social · 22d

GO TO THE THEATER

Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 22d

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.

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Nancy Cooper FrankenSTEEN @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 17h

I just figured, everything‘s terrible either way.

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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 18h

Glimmers of Hope Dept.: More federal judges doing their job. Ordering incompetent ICE storm troopers to release unlawfully arrested immigrants. Demand the return of the rule of law. Oct. 18 - NO KINGS. Massive peaceful demonstrations can stop the Bozo Fascists. www.nbcbayarea.com/investigatio...

ICE ordered to release dozens of Bay Area immigrants

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests soar, federal judges in San Francisco are rebuking the agency over due process concerns.

www.nbcbayarea.com

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Nancy Cooper FrankenSTEEN @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 18h

SF

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Nancy Cooper FrankenSTEEN @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 18h

Good evening from California 🌕

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 19h

My spouse pulled data from the CDC’s MMWR team on a weekly basis for her company to include with public health reports. That entire team has just been RIFed by Trump.

No more public health reports.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

www.cdc.gov

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 22h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 1d

i have a new collection og poetry dropping in a few days, but id rather you post this, as october is also black speculative fiction month... many of these writers dont need the shine but a few are outstanding, up-and-coming folks.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 10d

16 various titles for October, Black Speculative Fiction Month

#BlackSpeculativeFictionMonth —

photo of 16 books by black authors spread across the yellow blanket on our bed in a 4 x 4 grid of books —

wizard of the crow by ngūgī wa thiong'o; unshod, cackling, and naked by tamika thompson; shigidi and the brass head of obalufon by wole talibi; none but the righteous by chantal james; the ballad of perilous graves by alex jennings; rosewater by tade thompson; out there screaming (horror anthology) edited by jordan peele; my life in the bush of ghosts by amos tutuola; skin folk by nalo hopkinson; black leopard, red wolf by marlon james; dhalgren by samuel r. delany; the ballad of black tom by victor lavalle; nigerians in space by deji bryce olukotun; how long 'til black future month? by n.k. jemisin; black sci-fi short stories (gothic fantasy) edited by tia ross; and everfair by nisi shawl.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Nancy Cooper FrankenSTEEN @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 23h

Understood😻exile from NY , lived there in the 80s, lost my fish cred

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful story by Sophie Sherry and her @chicago.suntimes.com colleague Mariah Woelfel. Their gumshoe reporting on the site of a massive raid by DHS on an apartment building reveals information that others missed.

Follow: @sophiesherry.bsky.social

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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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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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 1d

If you see ICE agents, Illinois State Police, or Chicago or suburban police engaging in immigration enforcement or misconduct, file a complaint with COPA, Cook County, or the IL Inspector General and let us know. If you have video, here's how you can share it with us:

South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 6d

Have you witnessed ICE activity in Chicagoland, or seen CPD or other local law enforcement assisting federal agents or engaging in misconduct?

LET US KNOW.

Upload video directly at tinyurl.com/chicagojourn... or email us at [email protected]

HAVE YOU SEEN ICE?
¿HAS VISTO A ICE?
We are a group of journalists across newsrooms in Chicago who
are collecting video related to use of force, stop & frisk, and
traffic stops conducted by federal agents.
Share video: tinyurl.com/chicagojournalists
Contact us: chicagojournalists@protonmail.com
We won’t share video publicly without your permission.
Share video / Enviar video
Somos un grupo de periodistas de distintos medios en Chicago
recopilando videos relacionados con el uso de la fuerza,
detenciones, controles de tráfico y retenes por agentes
federales en Chicago.
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Contacto: chicagojournalists@protonmail.com
No compartiremos video públicamente sin permiso.

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 1d

Calling these things “mistakes” is disingenuous and lazy. A 45 year old fragrance in a bottle that is scented like the fucking fragrance is not a damn drug and everyone knows that. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

www.nbcnews.com

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Nancy Cooper FrankenSTEEN @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 1d

plain with butter and sablefish (I have simple tastes)

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