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Papa Rides A Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social · 15h

LOL
"and turn-radius-challenging concrete bump-out obstacles."

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Big Lake Connoisseur @lakebiglake.bsky.social · 4d

#BikeChi @bikegridnow.org @chicritmass.bsky.social

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Papa Rides A Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social · 16h

I just rode on it Wednesday going from Halsted to the Loop! The part of the bike lane in front of the post office going east was full of cars, naturally.

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Madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like possibly a cyclist hit at Belmont and Hamlin this morning. Bike was on ground on other side of police. #bikechi

Police and ambulance on Hamlin looking west along bike lane on Belmont.

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Papa Rides A Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social · 16h

Holy Wah!

And Streeterville folks thought there were too many kids gathering and harassing people. Goons

Michael McLean @mclean.bsky.social · 12d

“Earlier today ICE agents chase after a man in downtown Chicago after he made verbal comments but no physical or threatening contact. The man was able to get away.” - Christopher Sweat

The maga patronage chuds can’t catch #bikechi

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Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · 4d

This weekend was record breaking for our mutual aid efforts! On Friday, the team got up bright and early to send home vendors. 6 vendors supported, over $500 worth of food. Saturday, we bought 100 tamales from 2 vendors! All distributed right back into the community. We keep us safe! #BikeChi

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Papa Rides A Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social · 1d

Yow.

But over the past month, federal agents have shot at least two people, killing one; repeatedly tear-gassed protesters and first responders; shot rubber bullets at protesters; detained U.S. citizens, including children; handcuffed a Chicago alderperson in a hospital; smoke bombed and tear-gassed a Chicago street; fired a chemical weapon at a TV reporter and detained a journalist, among other incidents.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Judge’s order bars ‘federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois’ for at least 14 days.
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Federal judge hits Trump administration credibility in siding with city and state against National Guard deployment

Judge's order bars 'federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois' for at least 14 days.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 1d

I keep thinking about this detail from today’s hearing: Federal judge April Perry said she began getting threats “about 10 minutes” after she was assigned the case seeking to block Trump’s national guard deployment. This is the world we live in now.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: "I agree with you about the seriousness of threats, generally, across the United States right now. I don't think there's a single public servant, really, who is not being subject to threats.

"Mine started about 10 minutes after I got this case."

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Papa Rides A Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social · 1d

Also

Pint glass and can of Potosi Golden Ale. Cubs on TV in background in a tavern

Papa Rides A Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social · 1d

Galena at Halloweena.

A steep stone street with brick buildings on each side. A sidewalk with steps and railing on right

A patio with tables, chairs and a large tree trunk viewed from a street above

An old gray stone house with stone steps

Pumpkins on mossy stone steps. Weathered gray wood building in side of hill adjacent to steps

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

This is where you can tell the IPA board exactly what you think about their decision to pull out of one of the most important 1A lawsuits of my lifetime: www.illinoispress.org/AboutUs/Cont...

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Joining the ranks of media capitulation and cowardice is the Illinois Press Association. Under CEO Don Craven, the group joined a lawsuit against ICE’s attacks on the local press and protesters in the Chicago area. But his board ordered him to withdraw from the suit, and he resigned. 1/2

Illinois Press Association CEO Resigns After Dispute Over ICE Lawsuit

The CEO of the Illinois Press Association, who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for actions toward journalists outside a Chicago-area ICE facility, resigned this week following a ...

localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

As soon as I saw this location on the list I assumed it was just because it’s a highly visible location downtown. We all know there’s no legit security need.

Almost everything they do is to create social media content and terror.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago federal court chief judge says she has not requested National Guard for courthouse

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 1d

A University of Chicago assistant professor arrested last week during a protest outside the ICE facility in Broadview faces felony charges for allegedly spitting on an Illinois State Police trooper. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/u...

U. of C. assistant professor faces felony charges following arrest at Broadview ICE facility

The charges come following a confrontation between protestors and state troopers at the federal facility last week.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

“They’re all Antifa now”

Laura Ingraham screenshot that reads: THEY'RE ALL ANTIFA
NGL
NOW
DEMS MELT UNDER PRESSURE
THE ANGLE ALERT

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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 2d

Here at Broadview for my shift this evening. Of note a Broadview Fire Department Ambulance has arrived with lights (no sirens) to the ICE processing facility.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 2d

I also often see photos of DHS officers with stinger grenades, little black orbs thrown by hand. Those are apparently controversial even in law enforcement circles due to safety concerns. Many so-called “less lethal” munitions are really more like “potentially fatal maiming” munitions.

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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 2d

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

chicagoreader.com

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

In February, as a guest on the far-right podcast Real America’s Voice News, Chicago Ald. Ray Lopez said he met with “Border Czar” Tom Homan and offered to give him Mayor Johnson’s home address “so that if he wanted to arrest him immediately and do us all that favor.”

thetriibe.com/2025/10/trum...

Trump isn’t the first elected official to suggest jail for Mayor Brandon Johnson • The TRiiBE

Months before President Trump, Chicago Ald. Raymond Lopez suggested his administration arrests Johnson.

thetriibe.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Across Chicagoland today, more kidnappings continue. Immigration agents have taken people from Waukegan, Elgin, Glendale Heights, potentially some other suburbs. In the city proper, feds just snatched someone near Peterson and Pulaski—and earlier today, they grabbed someone from Little Village.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 2d

There are only 12 official PM2.5 monitoring sites in Cook County, none of which are in the most densely populated areas.

This is admittedly not my area of expertise, but considering how much PM2.5 concentrations can vary over short distances, that seems woefully insufficient.

A map showing the location of the 12 official PM2.5 monitoring sites in Cook County

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Papa Rides A Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social · 2d

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