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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 7h

Sucks that our own Governor, who talks a good game for the cameras, has committed his muscle to supporting ICE.

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 9h

🧵Just got some records back today on the NIPAS deployment to Broadview last Friday, including two interesting letters dated that very same day which shed some light on the decision-making behind the "Unified Command" deployment vis-à-vis the IL TRUST Act. See below ⬇️

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

Cops with NIPAS—Northern IL Police Alarm System—just arrived to switch out with state troopers.

This is our first time seeing them out here; they're cop "mutual aid," assorted officers from other suburban departments called up specifically to assist Broadview PD.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 12h

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**

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 9h

For anyone trying to figure out where to start when it comes to getting involved with organizing and activism, this zine is a helpful tool! It aims to be, as our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social writes, "the beginning of a bridge between information and action."

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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 9h

What @govpritzker.illinois.gov is enabling:
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 9h

#FuckICE #FuckPritzker
#AbolishICE #AbolishPolice
#DismantleWhiteness
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 9h

NEW — Both Broadview police and Illinois State Police aggressively pushed demonstrators back behind the barricades during today’s demonstration.

They didn’t deploy teargas or any other chemical agents, but some carried pepper ball launchers.

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No troops in Broadview yet, but anti-ICE protestors say state and local police used intimidation tactics in crowd control • The TRiiBE

Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Broadview to continue calling out the federal government for its aggressive immigration enforcement and the treatment of detainees at the facility.

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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 9h

#DefundCPD #DefundPolice
#AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

sixty-eight chicago community, faith, + social service organizations are calling on cook county commissioners to “protect and increase social service spending” amid drastic cuts nationally from the trump admin.

they suggest freezing all law enforcement spending, which has “unjustifiably increased.”

In the last year, the Trump administration has taken unprecedented action to dismantle institutions and programs benefiting marginalized communities, cut funding for essential social services, and pull back funds allocated to states and local jurisdictions. These cuts jeopardize public safety and risk reversing the incredible progress Cook County has made in reducing community violence.

The undersigned 68 community, faith, policy, and service-providing organizations write to call on you and your fellow commissioners to protect funding for essential services like violence prevention, behavioral health, and community investment to reduce intra-community violence. You can support these services by freezing law enforcement spending, which is already far above the levels set when there were many more people in jail and many more criminal cases being processed by our court system.
Over the last decade, Cook County has made tremendous progress in reducing pretrial jailing and improving community safety. This has been a byproduct of both moving away from racist policies promoting mass incarceration and strategically investing in expansions to the social safety net and community-based violence prevention programs. With the Trump administration gutting many of the federal programs aimed at supporting the neighborhoods most at risk of community violence, it is essential that Cook County not only avoid cutting budgets for these programs but also increase investments.

We believe that Cook County can protect and increase essential health and human service spending by freezing all spending for law enforcement. Despite the nearly 40% decrease in the number of people incarcerated in the Cook County Jail, the Cook County Department of Corrections budget has not seen a reduction that coincides with that change in responsibility.
Similarly, the budget for the State's Attorney's Office grew tremendously over the last decade, even as both the number of case filings and crime rates …

… continued to decrease. It is important to note that while the federal government has cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for essential social services, law enforcement spending has unjustifiably increased.

We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge President Trump's authoritarian attacks on residents of Cook County. Over the last several weeks, there have been repeated threats to the safety of our community members through executive orders targeting people without homes or who have mental health needs. Numerous federal law enforcement agencies have been dispatched to make arrests and deport our neighbors. It is essential at this moment that Cook County expand investments to ensure adequate support of community members targeted by the actions of the Trump administration and everyone impacted by its reduced funding for resources that allow marginalized people to live safe and healthy lives. The County's investment must include increasing the budget of the Public Defender's Office, which is responsible for defending increasing numbers of Cook County residents facing both criminal charges and immigration removal proceedings.

Cook County must protect its important progress increasing community safety and reducing pretrial jailing from a federal administration that has made clear that it does not care about our most vulnerable residents. Please stand strong for community safety by freezing law enforcement spending to protect essential health and human service investments and expand support for Public Defense.

Sincerely,
The Cook County members of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and supporting organizations:
A Just Harvest
A Midwest Movement Project
Access Living
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment | AFIRE
Apna Ghar, Inc.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice ||
Chicago
Beyond Legal Aid
BlackRoots Alliance
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
Cannabis Equity IL Coalition

Chicago Alliance Against Sexual
Exploitation | CAASE
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Chicago Therapy Collective
Chicago Torture Justice Center
Chicago United for Equity
Chicago United Solidarity Project | CUSP
Chicago Urban League
Chicago Votes
Children's Best Interest Project
Circles & Ciphers
Color Of Change
Community Renewal Society
Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy
Project | FLAP
First Defense Legal Aid
HANA Center
Illinois Alliance for Reentry and Justice Illinois National Organization for Women
Illinois Prison Project
Illinois Social Justice Alliance
Impact for Equity
Indivisible Chicago-South Side
Inside Out Network
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
KAN-WIN
Legal Council for Health Justice
Liberation Library
Lucy Parsons Labs
Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition
& Solidarity | MAMAS
Muslim Civic Coalition
NAMI Cook County North Suburban
National Lawyers Guild Chicago
Nehemiah Trinity Rising
Nikkei Uprising
Northwestern University Graduate Workers
Pretrial Justice Institute
Restore Justice
Revolution Workshop
Sana Healing Collective
Saving Our Urban Leaders
Sentencing Advocacy Group of Evanston
She Votes Illinois
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
SisterReach Illinois
Southsiders Organizing for Unity and
Liberation | SOUL
Stick Talk
TASC, Inc.
The People's Lobby
The Puerto Rico Project To Defend If Necessary
Trinity United Church of Christ
Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of
Illinois
Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of
Ilinois
Uptown People's Law Center
West Town Law Office
Wolf Pack Therapy
Youth Empowerment Performance Project

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 9h

#DismantleWhiteness
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 9h

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 9h

That Pritzker may be doing this partly to help prove in court that National Guard aren't needed to protect the alphabet soup agents of fascism only underscores the fact that PRITZKER IS HELPING PROTECT & ENABLE THE FASCIST VIOLENCE.
#AbolishICE #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness

Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 18h

Don't let the mainstream narrative fool you:
Gov. Pritzker is supporting the MAGA goons squads invading Chicago.
#AbolishICE #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 18h

moments ago, state + local charged the crowd outside the broadview ice detention center and detained three people.

it happened after someone tried to cross a street that isp has blocked off.

after the arrests, a state trooper warned the crowd that anyone in the street would be arrested.

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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 10h

#FuckICE🎀 #FuckPritzker
#AbolishICE #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness
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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 12h

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.

Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 10h

#FuckICE #FuckPritzker
#AbolishICE #AbolishPolice
#DismantleWhiteness
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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 13h

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.

Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 10h

Don't forget the joys 🥰

Sgebengu & the Special Queens, "Hamba Uyelaph'uthanda Khona" (1980)
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 11h

Pritzker cracking heads for ICE in Broadview freed them up to rampage in the city.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 13h

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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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · Apr 15

again:
Dems don't want to actually DO anything to help protect those being kidnapped by fascist ICE forces bc it might call into question the legitimacy of ALL policing (as it should) & that's the last thing they want to do.
#AbolishICE #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · Apr 14

Trump is Quietly Building a Deportation Army out of State and Local Agencies

Enrollment in the 287(g) program, which deputizes local police to do federal immigration enforcement, has exploded in recent weeks.

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Trump is Quietly Building a Deportation Army out of State and Local Agencies

Enrollment in the 287(g) program, which deputizes local police to do federal immigration enforcement, has exploded in recent weeks—but the administration has been surprisingly silent.

austinkocher.substack.com

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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · Jul 1

again:
Dems don't want to actually DO anything to help protect those being kidnapped by fascist ICE forces bc it might call into question the legitimacy of ALL policing (as it should) & that's the last thing they want to do.
#AbolishICE #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness
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Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · Jul 1

The deportation machine relies heavily on the assistance of local police in Dem controlled cities.

It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · Jul 1

"Armed federal immigration agents raided a home on the west side of #Detroit Monday and arrested an undocumented immigrant from Honduras while Detroit police assisted, using pepper spray against nearby protesters and arresting two." www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 28d

again:
Dems don't want to actually DO anything to help protect those being targeted by fascist ICE forces bc it might call into question the legitimacy of ALL policing (as it should) & that's the last thing they want to do.
#AbolishICE #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness
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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 28d

Trump's ICE goons have now killed one of your people, @govpritzker.illinois.gov.
Now what?
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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 25d

again:
Dems don't want to actually DO anything to help protect those being kidnapped by fascist ICE forces bc it might call into question the legitimacy of ALL policing (as it should) & that's the last thing they want to do.
#AbolishICE #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 9

The police in Illinois work closely with the ATF to get guns off our streets, with the FBI to arrest gang members, and with the DEA to destroy the fentanyl trade.

So why is Trump sabotaging our ongoing work with federal law enforcement partners?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 13h

What you’re saying is the federal government is ignoring the temporary restraining order that was issued yesterday?

Wonder who’s going to actually do anything about this considering there’s no real mechanism in place to stop this now that the federal government is ignoring the courts openly

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 14h

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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

This is truly BONKERS.

Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 12h

The NYC Department of Correction is extremely serious about projecting an image of reform, lawfulness, and considered, sober judgment these days, so it has decided to rename its Lower Manhattan jail complex after... multiply disgraced criminal Bernie Kerik.

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Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 12h

an example of some of the revisions/corrections made for the new edition:
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A page from TRI-AXIUM WRITINGS 2 (1st edition) by Anthony Braxton, including the sentence, "Certainly a group like Colemac is an example of creative French music from a composite basis, but this ensemble is not the norm." [p. 247]

A page from my revision notes for TRI-AXIUM WRITINGS 2 by Anthony Braxton, including a question mark next to the highlighted word "Colemac".
Funny story: One day I was browsing the Chicago record store Dusty Groove and saw a reissue of an LP by the Cohelmec Ensemble. This is how I discovered, after weeks of searches and inquiries, the actual group name that Anthony was referring to. Thank you, SouffleContinu Records!

A page from TRI-AXIUM WRITINGS 2 (2nd edition) by Anthony Braxton, including the sentence, "Certainly a group like the Cohelmec Ensemble is an example of creative French music from a composite basis, but this ensemble is not the norm." [p. 254]

Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · 13h

#FuckICE🎀 #FuckPritzker
#AbolishICE #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness
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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 14h

ICIRR reporting ICE activity throughout the north side of Chicago today, including outside of Ravenswood Elementary School.

ICIRR Eyes on ICE Update: Throughout the day on Friday 10/10, the Rapid Response Network verified the presence of federal agents at multiple locations in Uptown, Edgewater, and Ravenswood including 5400 N. Sheridan, 4700 N. Magnolia, and 4300 N. Paulina (outside Ravenswood School). Teams are following up on additional tips from the surrounding areas. The enforcement operation is ongoing.

Multiple people have been detained today on the north side. If you witness any possible ICE activity, or know someone who has been detained, call the Family Support Hotline at 1-855-435-7693

Remember: you have the right to film police activity, the right to remain silent, the right to speak to an attorney, and the right to refuse to sign anything. For a digital download of our KYR card visit: bit.ly/ICIRRCards

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