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Love people, drink good coffee, and bike everywhere. I care a lot about cities (and 🎢s) | HIV+ | fighting for better streets @betterstreetschicago.org | My posts are mine

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 5d

The real tea is that there is nothing stopping Brandon Johnson from implementing #PlowTheSidewalks other than himself.

We did not need to pass an ordinance today for the city to be allowed to do it. We just needed to pass one for him to agree to do it.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 5h

Driving is exhausting.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz.

Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.

They’ve been disappeared.

People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 2d

There will always be purists who find what you’re doing to not be enough but you’ll often find those to be the same people who are simply mad because you have dared to do *something.*

Your choice to do *something* now matters.

Because all our little somethings can add up to big things.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 2d

OR you could immediately issue a restraining order, you weak coward!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Perry: "If I were the government, I might strongly consider taking a pause on this until Thursday, so that we are not in a position where we are doing a full-fledged hearing with whatever has happened."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 2d

Bumping again--I'm back full time starting today. Am especially interested in hearing from unhoused people and advocates in Chicago who have been impacted by ICE and the now-looming National Guard deployment in our city. Signal is katie.507.

Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · Aug 21

After taking some time away to have a dang baby, I'm back to work at the Chicago Reader. Have a question or tip about the state of harm reduction, homelessness, and/or drugs in Chicago? Send me a line at [email protected]. I also cover: cultural lore, ghosts of all kinds, & city characters.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 3d

like……

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Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com · 3d

FINALLY signed my 75-year-old uncle up for @thetriibe.com. He got a welcome email and cussed me out because
1) The email didn’t address him as “Uncle Johnny.”
2) A physical paper doesn’t come with the membership

Anyway…this is a huge win for me 😂

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paul goyette @pgoyette.bsky.social · 3d

Community advocates in Cicero tried to join the annual Houbyfest parade today with a banner that read “ICE Out of Cicero: Silencio es complicidad. Solo el pueblo salva el pueblo.” They were intercepted and moved off the parade route by Cicero Police, one of whom was armed with an assault rifle.

Community advocates in high visibility vests March along an empty parade route with a banner reading “ICE out of Cicero“

Community advocates address the public on an empty parade route using a bullhorn. Protest signs igns read “Fuck ICE” and “Chinga la Migra. Fuera de Cicero.”

Cicero event staff grabs a banner from community advocates on an empty parade route as a police SUV approaches with its illuminated.

True police SUVs, two police 4x4 vehicles, and two police on foot – including one who is holding a long gun – approach community advocates along an empty parade route.

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

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

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Oswego Willy @oswegowilly.bsky.social · 3d

It is literally about an authoritarian regime forcing their will for everyone to “Yield, man!”

This is how you lose a democratic republic, you fold to untruths that the dictator wants to be true to take away your rights and government

It’s not about lawless or law enforcement, it’s a soft coup

Bossy Louhan @scar-lette.bsky.social · 3d

This is how Chicago really is - River Walk yesterday. Chicagoan’s are peaceful and calm.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 3d

Don’t fuck with Chicago.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 3d

Noem said ICE agents are in need of some bathroom and lunch breaks.

ICE Barbie Moans About Agents’ Lunch Options in Chicago

Noem said ICE agents are in need of some bathroom and lunch breaks.

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Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 3d

No, tensions are rising becuase ICE keeps shooting people and popping off tear gas in neighborhoods

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 3d

Tensions are escalating in Illinois over Trump's plan to deploy National Guard troops to the Chicago area. NBC News' Maggie Vespa reports.

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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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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 3d

And it will recognize the fecklessness that you and your colleagues had in response.

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 3d

History will recognize President Trump’s mobilization of our nation’s military in American cities for what it is—a vile abuse of power by a cruel President pushing us toward authoritarianism.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 4d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4d

This is Brighton Park, the neighborhood where a U.S. Border Patrol agent also shot a woman earlier today. It is a predominantly Latine community on the southwest side.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

ICE is going into Illinois and assaulting citizens while wantonly deploying tear gas everywhere while the Illinois state police is helping them.

Gov. Pritzker: "guess there's nothing we can do."

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Francesca Hong 홍윤정 @francescahongwi.bsky.social · 4d

About $25 billion annually could end child hunger in the US.

About $20 billion could house folks with housing vouchers.

We gave $170 billion to ICE in the big ugly bill.

Instead of feeding children and housing families, our tax dollars are going to terrorize communities.

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 4d

Gov. Pritzker: we need you in the streets protesting fascism

Also @govpritzker.illinois.gov: we will tackle, beat, and arrest you if you protest fascism in the streets

Actions speak louder than words!

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The administration has determined that if you describe this accurately for what it is, you are also an enemy of the state

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

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.

www.cnn.com

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 4d

There are some themes here.

Witnesses and police report a car crash the day federal agents put a Black man in a chokehold on Chicago’s West Side.

Still unclear what/who caused the crash and what led to them temporarily detaining the man.

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

Based on the latest reporting about the Border Patrol shooting in Brighton Park this morning:

A Chicago woman was shot by CBP and is in fair condition.

DHS claims CBP vehicles were rammed & boxed in. Other parties involved say CBP’s vehicle hit a car, possibly crashing that car into another.

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