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Patty Allen 📎

@pattybelize.bsky.social

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DC born. Army brat. Fully vaxxed. Snowbird living in Belize. Love the Island life and Chicago. Animal advocate. Political junkie. 🏳️‍🌈. I no longer recognize this country. Voted for a woman twice. Justice Matters. NO DMs unless I know you.WTF America!

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Patty Allen 📎 @pattybelize.bsky.social · 11h

Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Couple Dubbed ‘Armed Rioters’ By ICE

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 12h

Federal authorities had "less evidence than a ham sandwich" in armed protester case that was just dismissed, a lawyer says. blockclubchi.co/4hayuw4

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SW Side Organizers Demand Property Owner ‘Kick ICE Out’ Of Parking Lot
Yards Plaza has been frequently used by agents as a place to detain neighbors, transfer detained people and stage their operations.

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SW Side Organizers Demand Property Owner 'Kick ICE Out' Of Parking Lot

Neighbors and officials are calling on Friedman Real Estate to block federal agents from using the Yards Plaza’s parking lot to stage their operations.

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National Guard, FBI Director Patel en route to Chicago as troops arrive.Will they do something to provoke a response so that Trump can justify invoking the Insurrection Act? Protesters have been peaceful.

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National Guard, FBI Director Patel en route to Chicago as troops arrive from Texas | LIVE

The DOJ said Illinois National Guard troops could report for duty as soon as Tuesday.

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Patty Allen 📎 @pattybelize.bsky.social · 1d

25M Printing is providing FREE window stickers that declare your business an ICE-Free Zone. These stickers are designed for storefronts and offices, providing owners with a clear way to align with the City’s directive while reinforcing their rights to operate without federal intrusion

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Thugs-camera footage shows they ran into her. “Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged.”
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

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“CHICAGO — Federal agents will no longer be able to use city-owned property as staging areas, according to an executive order filed Monday by Mayor Brandon Johnson. The order also encourages private property owners to put up signs to deter agents from assembling on their property”

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Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said”Pritzker’s Chicago Police Department refused to assist us in securing the area.”Monday afternoon,Snelling disputed this as evidenced by Chicago officers being impacted by tear gas

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27 Police Officers Among Those Injured By Tear Gas During Weekend Protest, Chicago's Top Cop Says

Police Supt. Larry Snelling also disputed the claim pushed by federal officials that Chicago police ignored calls for help during a chaotic scene Saturday afternoon in Brighton Park.

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Patty Allen 📎 @pattybelize.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed they reported it. It was covered in detail in the Chicago media. Corporate media has sold out and sucked up to Trump. Washington Post , CBS now under Bari Weiss is gone. Oligarchs are buying up radio and television stations normalizing Trump and putting their spin on it.

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Fox is state media and now CBS is now Fox News 2.0. Media is tilting more rightward:(

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Patty Allen 📎 @pattybelize.bsky.social · 2d

A few media outlets reported it. But more news media are serving the interests of America's right-wing billionaires. They are turning CBS into state TV. As someone who remembers Murrow and Walter and other true television journalists, I can only mourn at what's lost. And the loss of more to come

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Patty Allen 📎 @pattybelize.bsky.social · 3d

Cowards with masks. An attempted kidnapping. This has nothing to do with 'law and order”. Chicagoans looking after their own.

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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Trump to Federalize Illinois National Guard. Pritzker defying the order: “I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people. Illinois,we will do everything within our power to look out for our neighbors, uphold the Constitution, and defend the rule of law

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Are they going to be orange coins?
From Occupy Democrats

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They had already been informed that they did not have permission to enter the operating room where the supposed immigrant was getting their broken leg attended to, but were intent upon entering anyway.

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