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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8m

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4h

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 1h

Not loving the sound of a helicopter circling above our neighborhood.

#FuckICE

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 2h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

apnews.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 2h

Hundreds could be freed from ICE custody after a warrantless arrest ruling. blockclubchi.co/42sGDWA

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 3h

Back at Broadview where there are at least a dozen broadcast cameras and an enormous amount of crews.

Easily as many members of the media as protesters, if not more.

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Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social · 2h

Once again, The Onion nails it

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

Here’s the temporary restraining order against President Trump and Homeland Security in the Chicago National Guard lawsuit

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 3h

Hope local mayors instruct their police to arrest these agents who are clearly breaking the law

Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 3h

God damn right

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3h

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 3h

Stay the fuck out of our city you fascist garbage

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3h

President Donald Trump’s administration is buying more property in Chicago to carry out immigration enforcement, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday.

Trump administration buying Chicago property for more ICE operations, Noem says

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told President Donald Trump "we’re gonna be in more parts of Chicago" to expand ICE operations.

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 3h

Good to know. My instinct was it was going to be bad.

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cam rodriguez 🔎 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 6h

if you're a national outlet zooming in to cover immigration raids in chicago and you're only in broadview or elwood you're doing it wrong, just saying

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11h

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

trump was prosecuted for real crimes and now he's punishing the people who prosecuted him with fake crimes

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 5h

Spare me Trump being celebrated as a peacemaker. The war on Gaza could have been ended at any time in the last two years with a US president telling Netanyahu to "stop the holocaust," as Reagan ordered Begin in 1982.

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 5h

I would argue we’ve been a flawed democracy, at best, all along.

Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 6h

Citizens United has had catastrophic impacts on American democracy.

Unlimited spending is entrenched, but @rfunkfordham.bsky.social offers a suite of reforms that can get concentrated wealth out of our political system.

Line graph titled 'The US Is Now a Flawed, Not Full, Democracy' showing a decline in the US democracy index from 2006 to 2024, with a significant drop marked at the 2010 Citizens United ruling. Data sourced from the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index. The index value decreases from above 8.2 in 2006 to below 8.0 after 2016, entering the flawed democracy category.

Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 5h

Honest question:

How will this be enforced?

Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 9h

VICTORY: Today, together with our partners, we won an emergency order stopping federal agents from using violent force against protestors in Illinois. Federal ICE/DHS agents are now blocked from using tactics like tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse lawful assembly. protdem.org/474KWsA

Court Halts Unlawful Suppression of Speech by ICE

DHS ordered to stop violating First Amendment rights of press, clergy, and protesters in Illinois

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jan 4

I’ve long assumed Trump will declare we are under “invasion”, and democrats and immigrants will become the targets of unlawful emergency powers.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jan 3

An important message from U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT):

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Kevin White @kevinwhitejr.bsky.social · 6h

“They were eventually let go after showing their documents” should chill you to your core.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 7h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 5h

Another one to send to any trump supporters you know who still think ICE is targeting criminals.

FUCK THESE FASCISTS

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 7h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 5h

The “law and order” party 🙄

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 6h

About a quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing to upward of 40% in the largest FBI field offices, according to The Washington Post. Agents have been pulled from investigations into cybercrime, drug trafficking, terrorism, counterintelligence and more.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 5h

Israeli cabinet has postponed the session to approve Trump's plan for Gaza that includes withdrawal of Israeli troops. Israeli National Security Ministe Ben-Gvir said he will not vote to approve the peace plan because of the provision calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8h

There has been a lot of ICE activity in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago today. There has also been a lot of ICE watch and rapid response activity. We love our community, and we are showing up for each other.

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