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Alex V. Hernandez @avhndz.bsky.social · 19h

“It’s a matter of not being caught off guard." | Irving Park and Albany Park neighbors are organizing to help protect students and their guardians from federal immigration agents that have Chicago’s immigrant communities on edge. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/c... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Chicago Neighbors Are Forming Watches Near Schools To Protect Students, Guardians From ICE

Increased federal immigration activity has prompted whistle-carrying neighbors in Irving Park and Albany Park to organize walking school buses and keep watch over students and guardians during school ...

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 1d

screenshot of gonzo as narrator of the muppets christmas carol (1992), being implied to have said the quoted post

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Nat (Goth Cousteau) @gothshit.com · 19h

This is a very good and concise explainer you send to someone the next time you hear “why doesn’t CPD just arrest ICE?”

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

NEW — Some TRiiBE readers, among many others on the internet, have been suggesting that the Chicago police arrest ICE agents for their misconduct.

TRiiBE publisher @morganelisej.thetriibe.com put out this explainer video, breaking down the legality for y’all.

youtube.com/shorts/WDHFe...

Can local police arrest ICE?

YouTube video by The TRiiBE

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Nat (Goth Cousteau) @gothshit.com · 1d

You’re girl-bossing too close to the sun, Michael

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I'm genuinely starting to think that the people who say they want to see American's really fight back are really saying they want a specific kind of visible, stereotypical depiction of protest, and have zero zero tolerance for the kind of groundwork it takes to make change happen.

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 2d

Surprise, surprise 🫤

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

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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Connor @waldoch.bsky.social · 2d

it's a little extra confusing because the total clear was ~$16B this year, but the $16B they attribute to datacenters is ~$9B last year and ~$7B this year.

Next year no longer has the current price cap agreement, so 🤷‍♂️

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 2d

$16 billion. That's how much the PJM market monitor estimates that electricity ratepayers will pay via increased utility bills to subsidize interconnection of data centers owned by Big Tech. A massive give-away to some of the most profitable companies in the world.

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Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

“CPD will not arrest federal agents,” Snelling said, adding that is not how the law works.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

The free speech zone.

Protester watches state troopers from behind cement barricade

State police putting protesters in sheriff's wagon

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Nat (Goth Cousteau) @gothshit.com · 3d

Sorry, just noticed you shared a post about this too earlier

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Geoffrey Cubbage @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social · 3d

Name it for what it is — because Chicago is certainly occupied territory right now; not conclusively and not always effectively, yet undeniably host to hostile armed forces — and don’t let the reality of the peaceful or the beautiful or the everyday make you deny the occupation, or vice versa.

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Geoffrey Cubbage @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social · 3d

A thing I think it’s important for USians not in currently-occupied cities to grasp is that the normal and everyday goes on alongside the violent and unprecedented.

In Chicago right now you can be forced off teargas-soaked streets in the morning and have a peaceful evening picnic on the lake.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.

They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.

Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

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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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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Nat (Goth Cousteau) @gothshit.com · 3d

I’ve been really interested in trying to understand the right angle for this, but don’t know a lot about what the municipal levers are. The building in question appears to be one owned by SG360, I also wonder if there it is worth campaigning there.

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 4d

I would laugh for days if the mandated Broadview Safety Committee Meeting for a project like this was held up by parking concerns

H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 4d

There has to be a Zoning nerd willing to make their life hell

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 4d

ICIRR, BPNC, and the southwest side rapid response team are out with a joint statement recounting what rapid response team members and neighbors observed at 40th & Kedzie, where federal agents shot somebody earlier today, repudiating DHS claims.

Full statement here: www.instagram.com/p/DPaGLCEjW5C

A graphic labeled 7 of 12 reads:

Today in the area of 4000 S. Kedzie, Rapid Response Teams and community members firsthand witnessed:
• Federal agents crashed into a civilian vehicle and caused a multi-car collision on Kedzie
• ICE fired approximately 5 shots at a car, one person was shot
• Stemming from that collision, ICE detained a US citizen who remains in custody
• Multiple uses of pepper spray and tear gas on unarmed community members, including throwing smoke bombs upon exiting the area

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Today in the area Of 4000 S. Kedzie, Rapid Response Teams and community members firsthand witnessed (continued):
• Use of militarized tactical vehicles, including a tank, and helicopters in a residential neighborhood
• ICE agents were driving recklessly in a residential area
• ICE agents showing extreme aggression and violence towards community members
• ICE agents refused to show a warrant when violently detaining multiple community members in the area
• Teams and community members did NOT witness or participate in any "boxing in" as described by DHS.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 4d

This is a theme we keep repeating too. Until you see it for yourself, I think it’s hard to really understand how completely unnecessary and disproportionately violent the federal response has been.

How much is for fun, terror, or social media, I don’t know. A mix of the three for sure.

Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 4d

I've never seen such escalation and use of force toward ends I just could not see. There was no real property destruction, no pushing into the neighborhoods to make arrests, very little obstructing of traffic. Saw chemicals and bangs deployed down streets the feds were not facing and did not travel.

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 5d

Woke up to images and friends' social media posts from all over the country of Italy's general strike for Gaza. The Right to Strike Commission declared it illegitimate last week. The unions responded, "we don't care". Over two million people participated in the rallies, blocking stations and ports.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 5d

I could easily see myself voting for someone who runs on abolishing ice and prosecuting every single one of them and the entire administration

free campaign idea to good home

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5d

U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez released statement on particularly chaotic day and chaotic week:

ICE is out of control. ICE is operating with impunity outside the confines of the law. ICE is trampling our rights. ICE is terrorizing our communities.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

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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Nat (Goth Cousteau) @gothshit.com · 5d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov Which side are you on??

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Cops and feds have successfully split up the demonstration now.

ISP standing side by side with Border Patrol.

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