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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth

@leniann.bsky.social

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She/her. Personal account. 🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈💃🏻💙 For official aldermanic services and response go to the48thward.org

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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · Nov 13

Good morning and hello🌞
I’m the freshman Alderwoman of the 48th ward in Chicago, Edgewater and Uptown. This is my personal account. For official response and service please head to the48thward.org

The 48th Ward

The official website of Alderwoman Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth of Chicago's 48th ward.

the48thward.org

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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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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 9h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 9h

Please also send an email to [email protected] with this photo and address/intersection

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 10h

At least a thousand but most likely more folks marching in Chicago to protest the deployment of the National Guard and continued ICE raids. Chanting "whose city our city!"

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 11h

Now: Hundreds assembling in the Chicago Loop for a march and rally to demand the National Guard leave town. Folks chanting "Donald Trump you racist clown! You're not welcome in this town!"

A photo of a large group of protesters gathering in downtown Chicago near Michigan Ave. Skyscrapers are behind the crowd in the background.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 1d

If you worked on something today, congratulate yourself: Childcare, answering emails, physical therapy, writing, watering plants.

Anything you did, go ‘head & remind yourself you survived another day & that’s a gracious plenty, given what’s happening.

Let’s not take our survival for granted.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 1d

suspending my generalized agnosticism to pray for Dolly Parton

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago restaurants are going European in that they don’t serve ICE

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 1d

She was also hilarious. I wrote about her, and I promise it will make your day better if you take a minute to learn how driving a bus led to decades of activism and charity.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/we-needed-...

"We needed to do SOMETHING"

in memoriam, Lori Cannon

rebeccamakkai.substack.com

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 1d

In early August, the indomitable Chicago AIDS activist Lori Cannon passed away. She was an irreplaceable resource while I was writing The Great Believers, and inspiration, angel, and friend to thousands. 🧵

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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 18h

Happening now: CDOT annual update on traffic crashes www.chicityclerk.com/committee-tr...

Presenters sit in front of presents on a screen

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

pen.org/report/the-n...

Read Banned Books under a shelf of books.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 1d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

There’s just not enough attention being paid to how unqualified, psychologically unfit, and dangerous so many of these new ICE hires potentially are.

If we had a Congress, there’d be investigations & oversight into this.

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago is not laying down for ICE!
This is what community looks like!

“MAKE THEIR LIVES A LIVING HELL”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Someone should do a FOIA request for the raw footage of the videos they took of that Chicago raid and then edited into a fascist ad for ICE.

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 4d

ice has brought far more violence to chicago than was there prior

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson issues an executive order
prohibiting ICE from using any city-owned property

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

27 police officers were among those injured by tear gas during a weekend protest, Chicago’s top cop says. blockclubchi.co/4nGOb0m

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Cymbalta Zaddy @geraldfarinas.bsky.social · 2d

Meet Chicago's first Filipino Chicago City Council member @leniann.bsky.social and listen to a reading of a new book about Filipino nurses by Angel Abcede this Saturday, October 11 at Sulzer Regional Library

#filipinoamericanhistorymonth #filam #filamhistory #lgbtqchicago #filipinochicago

Halo-Halo Project features queer Filipino voices in Chicago

This Saturday, the Halo-Halo Project Day at Conrad Sulzer Library shines a spotlight on Filipino American pride. Featuring Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth—the first queer Filipina on Chicago’s City Counci...

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 3d

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

dansinker.com/posts/202…

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

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