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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 5h

Can’t wait for Alito to explain why you have a right to pray at midfield on public school property but should be shot in the head with “less” lethal ammo when you do it in front of an immigration detention facility

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Cat Winters / C. E. Winters @catwintersbooks.bsky.social · 37m

I'm reposting this one again as an action item for all of you writers, illustrators, translators, and anthology editors this #BannedBooksWeek.

We are stronger together through @authorsabb.bsky.social. Trainings included.

authorsagainstbookbans.com

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Cat Winters / C. E. Winters @catwintersbooks.bsky.social · Apr 17

Do not wait for your books to be banned to join @authorsabb.bsky.social. Please stand up for our colleagues, our readers, and the freedom to read and write today.

www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

Authors Against Book Bans

Our Mission Statement We are Authors Against Book Bans. We, a coalition of writers, illustrators, anthology editors and contributors, and other book creators, stand united against the deeply unconstit...

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 43m

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 32m

I swear, if the Texas National Guard started shelling Chicago City Hall (Dagon forbid!), Speaker Johnson's response would be "Uh, I don't know anything about that"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah uh there is video evidence of them shooting directly at my face as I'm on the ground checking the back of my head for blood from their last pepper round
(I am a named plaintiff in this suit)

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Ellis and defense atty now getting into whether the violence plaintiffs have suffered is incidental or targeted. Def. atty claims someone getting hit by tear gas or a pepper ball is by itself not enough to constitute a retaliation claim.

Ellis again seems skeptical of the govt's characterization.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 47m

wut...... ???? wowww

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · Nov 19

New to Bluesky? We've got you covered! ⭐

Follow Block Club's team on here to stay in the know about all things Chicago. We'll keep adding to the list as more members of our team join. go.bsky.app/BpnBAMv

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 14h

When will ICE leave Chicago? The field director says there's "no end date" for Operation Midway Blitz. blockclubchi.co/47dQfqH

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Carol Morency @cmorency.bsky.social · 3h

"We are trying to hold our ground against an intractable enemy. We are trying to out-think brute force. We are moving in opposition to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, without the infrastructure or resources that our efforts require. We are stretched. And there is no end in sight."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 18h

Oh lordy. I heard these stories from various people involved. If you want to work in TV, or just are curious about how thoroughly things can go wrong, definitely check this out.

Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 18h

How could a straight-to-series greenlight go so wrong for the first TV series I ever created?! Today, the 5AM StoryTalk Podcast brings you Part 1 of a four-part Hollywood horror story I describe as a cautionary tale for screenwriters about what can happen when all your dreams come true.

The Horror of 'Dracula': The Unbelievable True Story of the 2013 TV Series - Part 1

Podcast Episode · 5AM StoryTalk · 10/07/2025 · 15m

podcasts.apple.com

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 22h

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 2h

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Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social · 10h

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A sign on the illegal broadview fence reading "we will not rest until you are free!"

signs on the illegal broadview fence with messages of support to detainees

A sign on the illegal broadview fence reading "you become strong by doing the things that you need to become strong for" - Audre Lorde

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

We’re so thankful to everyone who is spreading the word about our work at The TRiiBE.

This moment demands more revolutionary voices in journalism. Support independent, Black-owned journalism today.

Make a monetary contribution: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...

The TRiiBE is independent, Black-owned media.

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G @monkeyes2.bsky.social · 17h

Shout out to the Chicago local news! @blockclubchi.bsky.social @thetriibe.com @southsideweekly.bsky.social
@unraveledpress.com
@borderlessmag.bsky.social

Follow the locals!

And the strong reporting hasn’t come only from legacy outlets such as the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune but also from newer independent media such as Block Club Chicago, the TRiiBE, Borderless, Unraveled, and South Side Weekly.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 4d

There are human beings inside the building w/ boarded-up windows. Human beings who are being kept in horrible conditions. People ripped from their families, their coworkers, their communities. At the resource table you could write notes they'd put on the fence. Here's mine 💚 #Broadview #ICEprotest

A white rectangle of cardboard that says in black writing You are not forgotten

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 4d

My sense is Broadview residents are pretty frustrated by everything going on at the ICE facility, understandably. It's a lot. Mayor & local officials have been trying to get ICE/feds to respect the community, just a bit. No surprise but that's going POORLY www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

'You are making war': Chicago suburb tells ICE they want them out

Life in Broadview, Illinois, has been transformed amid President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown.

www.usatoday.com

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 5d

They are knocking down doors and dragging screaming kids out into the night. I don't know what to say aside from this is it. This is the goal. They have always wanted to make an example of Chicago and it's not as if they haven't other places & other ways. All of it. This is fascism, plain & simple.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11h

Pretty much

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11h

This continues to be the federal operation that seems most egregiously and frankly performatively unlawful in myriad ways. Completely flagrant in a way that seems a lot like tire-kicking to see just how much they can get away with. So far, seems like they’re getting away with it

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 13h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY
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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 12h

every time you look again the evil has both expanded and intensified

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 19h

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11h

Please read this

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 13h

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, you mean like the person who told me that I was protesting at the ice facility the wrong way? And by doing it wrong I was putting others in danger 🤡

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