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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1h

I've only seen communities self organize together like this on the Gulf Coast after a hurricane or flood.

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago neighbors are forming watches near schools to protect students and guardians from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42v94TN

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1h

Too many folks think "it could never happen to me" because they've paid all their taxes & followed all the rules...or at least they think they have.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 2h

I should have already known about several of those ways, growing up where I did, but that wasn't something the locals of my demographic liked to talk about.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 2h

Can't wait for him to try and show the Bahamian government his credentials.

(From his debate with Rev. Warnock.)

Herschel Walker holding up an "honorary" badge.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 2h

Every protest should have a brass band:

Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 2d

Photo: Richard Cahan evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/04/b...

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 2h

I used to think this was tin foil hat stuff from the left, but then I lived in New Orleans for 16 years and learned how many "legal" ways there are to steal people's homes from them.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

this was really hard to read. my son is almost exactly the same age as the kid in here that Trump and Musk deliberately starved to death apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 9h

Our American Staatssicherheit.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 3h

One of the most important things we can do as citizens is ensure the police & state have followed the law & have the appropriate justification whenever they try to incarcerate someone.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 13h

One small thing I try to do everyday is post news stories about Chicago (like this one) over on Facebook. Most of my conservative family only get their news from that platform and TV.

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 13h

Serve on juries, if you're able to do so. Serve on juries.

Feds dropping charges against couple who lawfully carried guns outside ICE facility

A defense attorney says a grand jury refused to indict in the high-profile case.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 15h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re particularly despairing tonight, remember that you can always choose to show up tomorrow and help people. Narrow your capacity for concern to a specific person or place through volunteering. It feels good. Call your local school or aldercritter’s office to ask about opportunities.

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 1d

A three panel meme from The Simpsons. First panel is Bart's classmates and teacher all looking at him expectantly, second panel is Bart looking defeated saying "we really needed this rain", third panel is the classroom rejoicing

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Do you live in Chicago's Far Northside & want to learn about the Chicago Police Department's budget?

Come hear @geoffreycubbage.bsky.social explain the details on October 29.

Public meeting notice. Chicago Police Department Budget Engagement is Wednesday October 29 at 6PM. Swedish Hospital - Anderson Pavilion, 5145 N. California Ave. Hosted by District Councils for CPD districts 17, 19, 20, & 24.

Meeting will also be on zoom url: http://bit.ly/2025NSCPDbudget

RSVP at: http://bit.ly/19thDCMeeting

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 2d

My CTA bus just had some weird issue, so the bus driver turned it off & turned it back on like an old Nintendo.

Worked just the same.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2d

“Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b----,” before pulling over & shooting the woman five times.”

DHS has lied, a lot, about every act of violence.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Em, spookily 👻 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 2d

This is bad, our electeds are not going to use anything other than media appearances and strongly worded letters to stop it, and we need to protect each other.

Please 1) go outside, 2) find someone watching a corner during school drop off, 3) ask them how you can help.

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

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.

Every single one.

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 3d

"As a center of unity to offer us citizenship in the heavens." Amen.

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 3d

We went to the Spanish language Lutheran church that our church has been supporting during the ICE raids this year this morning and they're doing a really lovely version of the Apostles Creed about immigrants.

(Translated with Google so forgive mistakes! Spanish in 1st image alt text, English 2nd)

Unidos en un mismo espíritu, confesemos nuestra fe con un credo para los inmigrantes. Creo en Dios todopoderoso, quien dio a su pueblo en el exilio y durante el Éxodo, el Dios de José de Egipto y Daniel de Babilonia. El Dios de los extranjeros y los inmigrantes. Creo en Jesucristo, el rey desclasado, que nació lejos de su casa y de su gente, que tuvo que huir de un país con sus padres porque su vida corría peligro, y cuando regresó del exilio, tuvo que sufrir la opresión del tirano Poncio Pilatos, servidor de un imperio extranjero, que fue perseguido, injuriado, torturado, que fue acusado y condenado a muerte en un juicio injusto. Jesús, el que murió solo y abandonado. Sin embargo, al tercer día el despreciado resucitó de la muerte. No como extranjero, sino como centro de unidad para ofrecernos la ciudadanía de los cielos. Creo en el Espíritu Santo, el eterno inmigrante del reino de Dios entre nosotros y nosotras, quien habla todas las lenguas. Habita en todos los países y reúne a todas las razas. Creo que la iglesia es un lugar seguro para todas las personas extranjeras y para todos los creyentes que la forman, quienes hablan el mismo idioma, la sonrisa y tienen el mismo propósito, amor. Creo que la comunión de los santos y santos. Las comienza cuando aceptamos la diversidad de los santos y santas. Creo que el perdón nos hace a las personas iguales y que la reconciliación nos identifica mucho más que la raza, el idioma o la nacionalidad. Creo que en la resurrección Dios nos recibe a todos y a todas, como un solo pueblo, en el cual todos y todas somos distintos e iguales al mismo tiempo. Creo en la vida eterna más allá de este mundo. Una vida en la cual nadie será inmigrante ni extranjero, sino Y todos y todas seremos ciudadanos y ciudadanas del reino de Dios en donde no tendrá fin. Amén.

I believe in God Almighty, who gave to his people in exile and during the Exodus, the God of Joseph of Egypt and Daniel of Babylon. The God of foreigners and immigrants.

I believe in Jesus Christ, the displaced king, who was born far from his home and his people, who had to flee a country with his parents because his life was in danger, and when he returned from exile, he had to suffer the oppression of the tyrant Pontius Pilate, servant of a foreign empire, who was persecuted, insulted, tortured, who was accused and condemned to death in an unjust trial. Jesus, who died alone and abandoned. However, on the third day, the despised one rose from the dead. Not as a foreigner, but as a center of unity to offer us citizenship in the heavens.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the eternal immigrant of the kingdom of God among us, who speaks all languages. He lives in all countries and brings together all races.

I believe that the church is a safe place for all foreign people and for all believers who make it up, who speak the same language, the smile, and have the same purpose, love.

I believe that the communion of the saints and saints. It begins when we accept the diversity of saints.

I believe that forgiveness makes us equal people and that reconciliation identifies us much more than race, language, or nationality.

I believe that in the resurrection God welcomes us all, as a single people, in which we are all different and equal at the same time.

I believe in eternal life beyond this world. A life in which no one will be an immigrant or a foreigner, but And we will all be citizens of the kingdom of God where it will never end. Amen.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 3d

🧵You know how men who commit mass shootings have almost always practiced violence on women first?

Agents of the state have been practicing this on Black communities for dec- ever. Forever. Babies in the car & etc. Remember Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI, shot in the back repeatedly w/ kids in the car?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 3d

Statement on Abuse of Power of ICE and Other Federal Agents in Chicago

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