maureen
@maureenf.bsky.social
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Chicagoan in love with urban ruins, labor history, buildings, food, poems, and underground spaces. she/her just call me mo
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meredithshiner.com
“No protest in the free speech zone”
peoplesfabric.com
No protest from 6am to 9am in the Broadview free speech zone.

Just here with a handful of press waiting to see if we can catch the Texas National Guard arriving in Broadview tonight.
NO PROTEST FROM 6PM TO 9AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.
mark-bray.bsky.social
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Ellis says she thinks "the compromise position here" is for agents to have alphanumeric IDs that don't necessarily display their names.

"What I don't want to hear is that the officers thought there was some risk and put tape over the numbers so they can't be identified," she says.
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Ellis getting into her concerns over plainclothes agents.

She says she's willing to give some leeway to "undercover" officers, but says other agents, including those doing crowd control at protests, need to have ID that "identifies them numerically and by agency."
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jackjenkins.me
Me, a guy who covers a lot of protests: Uhhhhhhhh what.
djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Some dispute over journalists "shouting" at protests.

Plaintiff attys bring up a journalist shouting "don't shoot," rather than shouting protest chants.

Govt. atty brings up the issue of presence.

"From our point of view, being at a protest can be construed" as protest activity, he says.
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tyleraking.com
The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.
premthakker.bsky.social
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
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jimdaleywrites.bsky.social
A certain legacy-media editorial board recommended capitulation in the face of Trump’s invasion, but on the South Side, we believe Chicagoans should keep standing up for one another.
southsideweekly.bsky.social
Let us be clear: The President of the United States is levying war against American cities and American citizens—and we cannot rely on the other branches of government to save us.

It’s up to us.
It’s Up to Us to Protect One Another
As Trump sends troops to Chicago, we will continue to investigate and report. Readers have a role to play, too.
southsideweekly.com
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unraveledpress.com
Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.
govpritzker.illinois.gov
If you come for my people, you come through me.
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jackjenkins.me
I spoke to another pastor after publication, Rev. David Swanson.

He's only been to the facility once (last Friday), and wasn't shot w/pepper balls.

Instead, he says senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino just walked up to him — in full clerical garb — and began shoving.

He put it this way:
I've been at many protests in our city over the years for a variety of different things, in my clergy attire, desiring to be a presence for peace in situations that can get volatile, desiring to be a person who different sides can be able to approach and talk with and have conversations with. I do think this is one of the important roles that faith leaders can play in contentious public situations.

This was the first time that I felt like there was absolutely no regard and no respect for a person who was visibly associated with the faith tradition. It did not seem like it made one iota of difference.
maureenf.bsky.social
another case dropped because the federal forces lied.
jonseidel.bsky.social
AUSA Jeffrey Snell explains to Fuentes that prosecutors recently obtained footage of Mazur's encounter with agents that "caused the United States to determine to not proceed with this case at this time."
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katieprout.bsky.social
At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...
Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community
Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.
chicagoreader.com
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michaelehayden.bsky.social
I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.
Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur
maureenf.bsky.social
via the Bloomberg story I just Rt, they’re doing this day in day out with charging at ppl to create a scene but not even the grand jury is buying the fabrication of a threat. (Even when those arrested are legally conceal-carry folks!) the people of Illinois are with us, what about our government?
maureenf.bsky.social
My full anger is at ICE but also for a gov claiming: “I will stand in the way of Tom Homan going after people who don’t deserve to be frightened in their communities, who don’t deserve to be threatened, terrorized. I would rather that he came and arrested me than do that to the people of my state.”
maureenf.bsky.social
The second photo shows one of the two possible ISP riot cops who initially shoved me down on 10/3.
maureenf.bsky.social
“You know the old saying that a good prosecutor could have a grand jury indict a ham sandwich?” Kling said. “Apparently the evidence against my client was less than a ham sandwich.”
maureenf.bsky.social
Just thinking about this again.
charliearchy.bsky.social
"It definitely keeps me up at night," Janessa Goldbeck of the Vet Voice Foundation told me, speaking about the prospect of a deadly incident. But what scares her, long term, is that this is about normalizing troops in the streets — and at polling stations — for the 2026 midterms.
charliearchy.bsky.social
With his DC troop deployments, Trump is creating the conditions for another Kent State — and potentially undermining future elections, experts told me. www.salon.com/2025/08/20/v...
maureenf.bsky.social
pew pew pew hurrdurrdurr
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alexsteed.bsky.social
“We could hear them laughing.”
jackjenkins.me
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.
maureenf.bsky.social
Reading about the paramedics tourniquetting her in the auto body shop (who is staffed with heroes for helping her) and how the bullets fell out onto their floor in puddles of blood is going to haunt me.
maureenf.bsky.social
Can’t wait for Bari Weiss to get bullied out of another media system so she’s gotta go solo again and start an even more buffoonery-based arm of carrying weight for Swiss cheese brained millionaires.