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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 6h

It feels like floor level standards to support your colleague as they demand their civil liberties be protected. All Ald. Fuentes did was ask for a warrant when federal agents were arresting a man.

Dave Stieber @dstieber.bsky.social · 8h

Pro-ICE Alders? Pro attacks on Govt official Alders?
“Alder Mitchell (7th), Beale (9th), Quinn (13th), Ray Lopez (15th), Coleman (16th), O’Shea (19th), Tabares (23rd), Scott (24th), Sposato (38th), Napolitano (41st),Reilly (42nd), Gardiner (45th), Silverstein (50th)”
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So, about that letter of support for Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes: 13 alderpeople didn’t sign it • The TRiiBE

The letter describes what the agents did to Fuentes as an “abuse of power.” Mayor Brandon Johnson, City Clerk, Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin also signed it.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 6h

These ICE agents in Chicagoland are exactly the kind of people who go door to door and massacre thousands of families like we saw in Rwanda or we are seeing still now in Gaza. There is no limit to the violence they will perpetrate when provided an opportunity.

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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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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7h

White-supremacist fascists sending Latinos to hunt Latinos. Friends, just refuse.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7h

ICE arresting nannies while they’re caring for kids in Chicagoland parks is quite a scene. Once again, fuck ICE.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 15h

Anxiety around large-scale political dynamics one has little capacity to control or directly affect is common, and often serves as a psychic screen with which to deflect attention from more proximate concerns. But sometimes it’s also just extremely anxiety-inducing to live under fascist violence.

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CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

Military refusal and revolt does not seem likely to me, but it seems infinitely more likely than any sign of principle from the Republican Party as Trump seeks to install a fully fascist regime.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: rioters attacked ICE
Truth: ICE rushed at unarmed protesters standing on a patch of grass

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

With the landing in Illinois tonight of Trump’s invading troops from Texas to join his assault on Chicago, fascism isn’t just a specter; it has arrived. What would you have done during the rise of Nazism? Whatever it is you’re doing now.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

As the NYTimes reported today, restaurants in Chicago are closing or reducing hours due to ICE threats to their employees and customers. Restaurant and bar workers are already living paycheck to paycheck. They need your support. Here's an excellent group to which to donate:
givebutter.com/EZQTZV

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 1d

What’s the word to describe when a criminal fraud rises to power to lead the government by saying you cannot trust government and once in power of the government does everything he can to decimate any and all trust in government?

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

As the NYTimes reported today, restaurants in Chicago are closing or reducing hours due to ICE threats to their employees and customers. Restaurant and bar workers are already living paycheck to paycheck. They need your support. Here's an excellent group to which to donate:
givebutter.com/EZQTZV

The CHAAD Project

By The CHAAD Project

givebutter.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

My story is now up: www.economist.com/united-state...

What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism

The worst excesses seem designed to produce content

www.economist.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

This is state-sponsored terrorism, carried out by fascistic goons, enabled by the authoritarian regime in power to go on a lawless rampage across the country.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d

Military invasion of Democratic states. Trump is trying to start a civil war.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 4d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 2d

Carceral control/confinement without due process. Expands the carceral state and ensures a indefinite, even lifetime confinement. Shame on the Dems who are supporting this.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5d

Fact-check: Most of the goons in Trump's deportation army aren't even ICE agents.

Only about 13% of the personnel carrying out Trump’s deportation agenda are employed by ICE’s primary deportation unit; the rest are pulled from other jobs.

Check out the full report: tinyurl.com/yvavwh4f

$A pie chart entitled "ICE, ICE, Maybe?" with a dek that says "a fraction of deportation personnel are employed by ICE's primary deportation unit." 13% percent of the graph is shaded in orange, with ICE ERO written in white, while the remaining 87% of the graph is shaded in gray and labelled Other$

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