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Capitol Fax @capitolfax.bsky.social · 10h

The Illinois Press Association board of directors has made a huge mistake. What a mess localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/1...

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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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 11h

Rogers Park moon.

Just after Full Moon, over Lake Michigan, with mångata on the water. Clouds on horizon, leafy fall foliage in foreground.

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 13h

Grainy image of Freddy Fazbear looking cooked and giving a thousand yard stare to a couple of beer bottles

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thank you to everyone who's donated/subscribed to us in recent weeks. We are so behind on emails, newsletter, thank yous, DMs etc but it's all appreciated. We just bought three full face respirators* so we can assure you it goes to good use

*Things are very normal

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Robby Kalland @rkalland.bsky.social · 1d

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of wild details within that are worth reading, but this one sticks out, about the woman's abusive partner doing fucking w h a t ?

The woman “aborted/miscarried while he was outside and he came in and found blood in the bathroom with what he believed was the non-viable fetus,” it says. They “got into a verbal argument and she left and had not been back to [the house] since that day. [He] collected what he thought was the fetus and put it in the freezer. When [he] was asked why he waited so long to report the incident, his answer was he had to process the event and call his family attorney.”

“Detective [Calvin] Miller [a detective on the scene] was provided FedEx packaging the pill was sent in, photographs of what [the man] believed to be a fetus and the instructions on how to take the medication,” it adds.

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 1d

Absolute barnburner of a story that torches the narrative Flock and the Johnson County SO have been trying to spin since 404 first broke this back in May. Funny how they didn't have anything to say for this story, ain't it?

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 1d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 2d

Friendly reminder that a KY county prosecutor pressed charges against Cincinnati journalists for this kind of thing, and they apparently got a misdemeanor charge against a college intern to fucking stick: www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

CityBeat intern, UC student convicted of single misdemeanor, acquitted of other charges

Lucas Griffith, a student journalist who was working as CityBeat's intern, went on trial on Oct. 2 and was convicted of a single misdemeanor.

www.cincinnati.com

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 2d

Chat is it a bad sign when the federal government wants the right to treat all journalists covering a protest as participants in said protest for the purposes of dispersal and arrest

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

Govt. attorney wants language added to the TRO giving feds the ability to disperse an entire crowd, incl. journalists.

He cites people possibly "impersonating" journalists to cause chaos.

Plaintiff attys claim this could threaten journalistic purpose, i.e., to act as "the eyes" of a community.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

New: federal judge April Perry in Chicago *will not* issue a temporary restraining order barring members of the Texas Natl. Guard from coming to IL.

Perry will give the fed. govt. until Wednesday at midnight to respond to IL's lawsuit. Oral arguments scheduled for Thursday.

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 2d

This Evanston Roundtable article is phenomenal. The pictures are wild, but also it reports the chaotoc attack on protesters, in which IL State troopers participated, was directly ordered by Noem herself and led by Bovino who called the "Free Speech Zone" for protesters a "Free Arrest Zone." Do read.

Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 2d

Photo: Richard Cahan evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/04/b...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 3d

I can personally attest to witnessing a group of federal agents and plainclothes people (unknown affiliation) enter this building on Friday morning. Seemed sketchy then, and this would appear to explain what they were up to.

H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 3d

Hearing that the owners of the building, SG360, are saying that they aren’t affiliated with ICE — they’ve also taken their Broadview location off of their website… keep calling

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 5d

NIPAS using masks/not having ID numbers isn't even new, they did the exact same thing when they came to Evanston 5 yrs ago to contain NU police abolition protests. I have old FOIAs showing NIPAS was *very* concerned abt being ID'd, despite being, yknow, cops. That's who's in Broadview now.

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 5d

For clarity — the officers shown in the referenced photo by Paris Schutz are muni cops with the NIPAS Mobile Field Force, which wasn't in the Unified Command's initial presser and only showed up partway thru. They appear to have swapped in for ISP though... so, are they part of the UC? Who knows!

Tweet from Paris Schulz posted at 12:25 PM on Oct. 3, 2025 with a photo showing several black-clad police officers with face masks lined up against several protesters. The Tweet reads: "Governor Pritzker says in a statement that officers from the Unified Command are here to protect 1st Amendment rights, are trained in crowd control, and do not mask their faces. But many of them are indeed fully masked."

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway if anyone has any questions about this group, feel free to ask -- I am *very* familiar with them

Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 5d

Time and time and time again, my origin story in investigative journalism -- reporting on this specific organization and its specific Mobile Field Force showing up to NU student protests in fall 2020 -- keeps coming back to haunt me lolololol

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 5d

I'm gonna lose my mind

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d

A protester with a mobility aid (cane) was sitting in the road. Illinois state troopers dragged them to the grass and arrested them.

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 9d

(*8-0, 7th Ward Ald. Davis had to leave earlier in the evening)

Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 9d

In relatively quick news out of a very long meeting, Evanston's City Council just unanimously* overrode Mayor Daniel Biss' veto of the 1% grocery tax. Evanston will join many other suburban neighbors in keeping the tax, which is currently administered by the state but will be phased out at EOY.

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Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 9d

back of alex's head when there's an evanston city council meeting

meme of kylian mbappe saying "i will be there no matter what"

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isabelmiller.bsky.social @isabelmiller.bsky.social · 10d

Update x6: “ISP has reached out to the Broadview Police Department to offer assistance in the investigation of recent events” capitolfax.com/2025/09/27/m...

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 10d

Confirmed Mexican Consul General in Chicago Reyna Torres Mendivil is here, and of her staff members is holding up a sign that says “Consulado de Mexico” as a volley of pepper balls comes out of the parking lot at protesters against the fence there.

Agent back on the roof with pepper ball gun.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 10d

I’m out, I'm sore. I'll have more later, but right now I have to say a couple of things. First, walking out of there to learn about the kindness, support, and quick action from so many of you all has meant the world to me, my wife, and co-founder, Raven. Thank you.

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