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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
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As you listen to DHS and ICE offer their excuses and justifications for murdering an American mother in cold blood, a quickly-forgotten reminder from Chicago:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
January 8, 2026 at 1:25 AM
As you listen to DHS and ICE offer their excuses and justifications for murdering an American mother in cold blood, a quickly-forgotten reminder from Chicago:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Prosecutors have dropped charges against all five people charged in connection with Sept. 27 protests at the immigration holding facility in west suburban Broadview.
‘Unusual and possibly unprecedented’: Judge calls out Chicago feds as Midway Blitz cases fall apart
www.wbez.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Prosecutors have dropped charges against all five people charged in connection with Sept. 27 protests at the immigration holding facility in west suburban Broadview.
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From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
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A bond fund for people detained by federal immigration agents is seeking donations. blockclubchi.co/4r1ZFxu
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A bond fund for people detained by federal immigration agents is seeking donations. blockclubchi.co/4r1ZFxu
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Illinois defendants who have been found unfit for trial – and are in need of inpatient fitness restoration – are waiting nearly twice as long for a state hospital bed as they did five years ago.
In many cases, it’s more than three months.
illinoisanswers.org/2025/11/11/t...
In many cases, it’s more than three months.
illinoisanswers.org/2025/11/11/t...
Too mentally ill for trial, she spent months in an Illinois jail as the state looked for a hospital bed. She died waiting.
Many defendants declared unfit for trial have often waited three months or longer to be transferred to a hospital – regularly exceeding the state’s deadline, an Illinois Answers Project investigation ...
illinoisanswers.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Illinois defendants who have been found unfit for trial – and are in need of inpatient fitness restoration – are waiting nearly twice as long for a state hospital bed as they did five years ago.
In many cases, it’s more than three months.
illinoisanswers.org/2025/11/11/t...
In many cases, it’s more than three months.
illinoisanswers.org/2025/11/11/t...
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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NYC hits 2 million votes, breaking the 1989 record (1.9M) and taking us back to records set in the 1960s!
(1969: 2.4M; 1965: 2.6M)
(1969: 2.4M; 1965: 2.6M)
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
NYC hits 2 million votes, breaking the 1989 record (1.9M) and taking us back to records set in the 1960s!
(1969: 2.4M; 1965: 2.6M)
(1969: 2.4M; 1965: 2.6M)
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A federal judge on ICE's Broadview facility, which the feds call a processing center:
"It has really become a prison."
"It has really become a prison."
U.S. Robert Gettleman is now giving his thoughts. He says, "I think the evidence has been pretty strong that this facility is no longer just a temporary holding facility. …
"It has really become a prison."
"It has really become a prison."
DOJ's Jana Brady steps up next but says she'll largely "rest on our brief that we filed."
She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
She wants any TRO to not "interfere with the executive branch."
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A federal judge on ICE's Broadview facility, which the feds call a processing center:
"It has really become a prison."
"It has really become a prison."
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Witness testimony now beginning with Pablo Moreno González, a Mexican national and one of the class rep plaintiffs. He says he's lived in Chicago 35 years.
Gettleman comments that the alleged conditions in Broadview are "in [his] words, disgusting."
If they're true, he says, "Every day that goes by would be irreparably harming the putative class."
If they're true, he says, "Every day that goes by would be irreparably harming the putative class."
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Witness testimony now beginning with Pablo Moreno González, a Mexican national and one of the class rep plaintiffs. He says he's lived in Chicago 35 years.
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Gettleman comments that the alleged conditions in Broadview are "in [his] words, disgusting."
If they're true, he says, "Every day that goes by would be irreparably harming the putative class."
If they're true, he says, "Every day that goes by would be irreparably harming the putative class."
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Gettleman comments that the alleged conditions in Broadview are "in [his] words, disgusting."
If they're true, he says, "Every day that goes by would be irreparably harming the putative class."
If they're true, he says, "Every day that goes by would be irreparably harming the putative class."
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Now in Judge Gettleman's courtroom in Chicago, waiting for the morning hearing on this case - which alleges the Broadview, IL ICE facility is a "black hole" where detainees are deprived of legal counsel and subject to inhumane treatment - to begin.
Update: District Judge Robert Gettleman told the govt to return the immigration detainee plaintiffs in this lawsuit to IL by 4pm yesterday, as they had already been moved out of state.
I finally got word the plaintiffs were back in IL at ~7:45 am. A hearing in the case is set for 9:30 am today.
I finally got word the plaintiffs were back in IL at ~7:45 am. A hearing in the case is set for 9:30 am today.
"You have no rights in here."
Read the harrowing testimony given by people held at ICE's Broadview detention center. ✍️ @djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Read the harrowing testimony given by people held at ICE's Broadview detention center. ✍️ @djbyrnes1.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Now in Judge Gettleman's courtroom in Chicago, waiting for the morning hearing on this case - which alleges the Broadview, IL ICE facility is a "black hole" where detainees are deprived of legal counsel and subject to inhumane treatment - to begin.
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I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
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No small percentage of documented and undocumented immigrants here are Catholic
NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."
October 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
No small percentage of documented and undocumented immigrants here are Catholic
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Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."
October 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."
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If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc
30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.
October 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc
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🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!
#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.
"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
October 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
July 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
@mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
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Judge hauling ICE official into court as aggressive tactics continue despite her order: 'I'm not blind'
NEW from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
NEW from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Judge hauling ICE official into court as aggressive tactics continue despite her order: 'I'm not blind'
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wants the ICE official to explain "why I am seeing images of tear gas … and reading reports that there were no warnings given." A Trump lawyer says the reports are inacc...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Judge hauling ICE official into court as aggressive tactics continue despite her order: 'I'm not blind'
NEW from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
NEW from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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"Every morning that I have breath, I stay rooted in possibility and I choose to act. And I remember that doing so doesn't preclude feeling burdened or needing relief."
- @prisonculture.bsky.social
- @prisonculture.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"Every morning that I have breath, I stay rooted in possibility and I choose to act. And I remember that doing so doesn't preclude feeling burdened or needing relief."
- @prisonculture.bsky.social
- @prisonculture.bsky.social
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Hundreds of people arrested by ICE agents around Chicago over the past few months could be released, according to a new fed. ruling.
|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/
|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/
Hundreds Could Be Freed From ICE Custody After Warrantless Arrest Ruling
Immigration attorneys said they have already identified more than 200 arrests that potentially violate the consent decree. However, they said those 200 arrests are likely "just the tip of the iceberg....
blockclubchicago.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Hundreds of people arrested by ICE agents around Chicago over the past few months could be released, according to a new fed. ruling.
|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/
|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/