Allison Chapman
@alli.gay
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Chat. I’m starting to think we might be cooked.
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if this isn't civil war i'm not sure what is
annabower.bsky.social
U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.
U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:
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I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us
Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.
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sky.skymarchini.net
Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion
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These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.
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Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.
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esqueer.net
This is how it's done. Community resistance.
cristianfarias.com
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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andrewjweinstein.com
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.
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Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.
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erininthemorning.com
Major victory in Kansas for transgender people.

The Kansas Supreme Court declined to block a lower court ruling on gender markers on drivers license.

ACLU Kansas says trans people can get their licenses updated starting Tuesday.

The latest from S. Baum.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
Kansas Supreme Court Delivers Big Win For Driver’s License Gender Markers
“I want every transgender Kansan to be able to live their lives authentically.”
www.erininthemorning.com
alli.gay
Yet another attack on the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. This is authoritarianism.
aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · 9d
The Trump administration's broad restrictions on the public's use of drones in Chicago limit our ability to monitor federal agents' actions and make it harder to hold them accountable for wrongdoing.

This puts our communities — and our free speech rights — in danger.
FAA sets unprecedented drone restrictions over Chicago as feds step up immigration arrests
The Federal Aviation Administration set the sweeping restrictions Wednesday at the request of the Department of Homeland Security.
chicago.suntimes.com
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History has many painful lessons.
A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli
, 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto
, 1d ago) to @drmistercody
 states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."
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aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · 9d
The Trump administration's broad restrictions on the public's use of drones in Chicago limit our ability to monitor federal agents' actions and make it harder to hold them accountable for wrongdoing.

This puts our communities — and our free speech rights — in danger.
FAA sets unprecedented drone restrictions over Chicago as feds step up immigration arrests
The Federal Aviation Administration set the sweeping restrictions Wednesday at the request of the Department of Homeland Security.
chicago.suntimes.com
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aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · 9d
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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One time, I interviewed the Secretary of Agriculture. I worked for about a week to make sure that I didn’t ask a question that would violate the Hatch Act.

Meanwhile, these MFers exist…
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marisakabas.bsky.social
I’m at Foley Square for the Journalism is not a Crime rally.

A very funny dynamic is that this rally is to support us but we can’t help but be in coverage mode. (The support means the world.)
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In a rare move, members of the press have organized a rally in protest against rising repression following the arrest of *yet another* NY-based photojournalist for documenting the aftermath of a protest event.

3pm - Foley Square - 10/1

#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it? 

I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism. 

So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.
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junlper.beer
ICE is one of the most well funded military force on the planet, entirely used internally on it’s own citizens, and completely loyal to a far right fascist dictator. if democratic politicians are not on board with abolishing ICE, they must be replaced
davidjbier.bsky.social
This appears to be the full video of the Chicago delivery worker. It actually appears that an agent tries to assault him after he curses the Dear Leader Kim il Trump to their faces.
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bencollins.bsky.social
About to be the family that owns TikTok.
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Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
alli.gay
The reads to me like Trump has authorized the United States military to shoot their fellow citizens

Remember your oath!
At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, 1 am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.
I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!