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Mike Isely

@mcisely.bsky.social

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Happily married software engineer and windmill tilter. Pro-Democracy, -civil rights, -science, -choice, and -vaccine... Anti-moron.

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MAGA folks can just **** right off.

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Mike Isely @mcisely.bsky.social · Nov 30

I want follow back anyone who follows me. However:
1. I will ignore anyone obviously selling something.
2. If you have no bio nor posts how can I know who you are?
3. Don't expect a follow if you are using a fake / stolen photo. Seriously, google image searches are an easy check!

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Pete Buttigieg

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM

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November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM

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Juju Bee

@notbeforenoon.bsky.social

Cartoon, Calvin to Hobbes: IT'S HARD TO BE RELIGIOUS WHEN CERTAIN PEOPLE ARE NEVER INCINERATED BY BOLTS OF LIGHTNING.

November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM

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Alt National Park Service

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November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM

Mike Isely

@mcisely.bsky.social

They have broken shards for a moral compass

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.

Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op

The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"

blockclubchicago.org

November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM

Mike Isely

@mcisely.bsky.social

About right

Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 3d

Sen Dems: OK, we'll vote to open the government if all promise to give us a vote on health-care in the future.
Sen Repubs: (to each other "omg this is like taking candy from a baby") Yes deal!!!
Sen Dems: You guys promise? We are trusting you
Sen Repubs: Would we ever lie to you 😉

November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM

Mike Isely

@mcisely.bsky.social

WTAF????

Sharon Clark 🦋 @sharonclark.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump administration, in a late-night memo published on Saturday, demanded that any states working to provide full food stamp benefits via SNAP stop any steps they were taking to do so. $350 million ballroom. $40 billion to Argentina. Let my people starve, be kidnapped and disappeared.

November 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM

Mike Isely

@mcisely.bsky.social

This Cecot brought to Chicago. How many laws are being violated here? Must be dozens.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 6d

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

November 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM

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CCscott

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November 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM

Mike Isely

@mcisely.bsky.social

How do we know this is even ICE and not just another assault?

Could be both, come to think of it.

Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 6d

According to the video, this woman was reporting sexual abuse in Riverside Court House & was accosted by ICE.

What if she were your daughter, sister, mother or wife?

How does this #ICELawlessness make us safer?

Share this video &
Call your Congressional rep at 202-224-3121
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November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM

Mike Isely

@mcisely.bsky.social

Fuck ICE, and everyone who let this happen.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It

A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.