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I have no problem with people being put off by paywalls but I do find people tweeting "paywall" in replies as though I don't know we have one quite weird. Are they trying to warn others?

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 6h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6h

They put them into different buses is what I was told (and this reporting also says). The black American residents were held in a bus for hours but eventually let go, at something like 5am. The person I spoke to said their bus didn't go anywhere

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6h

My own story on the raid is here:

What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
www.economist.com/united-state...
From The Economist

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7h

Perfectly reasonable question. Honestly, I don't really have a good answer

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7h

I did! But only one person mentioned that specifically

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7h

Missed that!

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 9h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 9h

I have already

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 14h

This is from a video on X, showing inside the Broadview ICE facility when Noem was in town on Fri.

For context, she's in the central room with 15 workstations setup to process detained individuals, whether they were arrested by immigration enforcement or at protests.

See the orange triangles?

Kristi Noem inside the ICE facility at 1930 Beach St. in Broadview, IL. She is standing near a white man, smiling at a desk with a computer monitor and printer. Behind her is a cell door with a man looking out a narrow slit window. Next to him, three or four other men are seen through a larger window in the cell.

Behind the white man are two upside down "demo bags" taped up over the windows to another cell.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

this is such a fucking idiotic farce

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 9h

I did! I don't always because the times don't always work out but this time I did

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 9h

I am in Detroit. My hotel room is larger than the three bedroom flat I used to live in London

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h

We're now hearing threats about withholding post-shutdown pay. They first threatened widespread new firings? So why hasn't that happened. As I noted last week despite all the threats none of the firing machinery had actually been started up. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

Don’t Believe the Hype: Trump Bum-Rushing DC Reporters Edition

News comes today that Russ Vought is now threatening not to pay...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 10h

I only just worked out I could've sharpened my nail ages ago. I've beat so many bosses with the fucking basic nail

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11h

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

thanks!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah he doesn't actually mean "raised in the Church of England"

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 13h

There are some in Chicago! I go for the Christmas carols most years. Honestly in some ways their service is more English than England