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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 6h

Thinking back to sillier times 🙃

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · Sep 5

BREAKING: Speaker of the House announces Trump was an FBI informant tasked with taking down Epstein.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 12h

FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS www.wbez.org/arts/2025/10...

Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson among 22 winners of coveted MacArthur ‘genius grant’

The Englewood native, whose work focuses on inequity in Chicago, is among this year’s class of MacArthur Fellows. The list of international fellows receiving the $800,000 prize includes several artist...

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

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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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 1d

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 2d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 2d

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago Architecture Biennial outtakes. Read my review! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is snatching up our neighbors, federal troops are headed into town to back them up, the city is depressed and angry. Architecture. . . is not sure which way to go. My latet Biennial dispatch in @bloomberg.com, on the flight-or-flight biennial. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

In Chicago, a Soft Architecture Biennial for Hard Times

Inflatables and fabrics dominate at the sixth edition of North America’s largest design exhibition, but gentle materials mask hard questions for architects and organizers.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

Ten years and five months apart

Greg Abbott & @GregAbbott_TX
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I've ordered the Texas State Guard to monitor Jade Helm 15 to safeguard Texans' constitutional rights, private property & civil liberties
2:21 PM • 4/28/15

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 3d

Not a creature was stirring EXCEPT everyone who was busy working hard to disguise the relationship between market capitalism and the American consumer by concealing it inside a living model of preindustrial craftsmanship, baked goods, and Victoriana 🎄

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An illustration of Santa Claus, wearing blue pants, black boots and a red vest and cap working at his carpentry bench

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 5d

We’re in such a profoundly post-political moment that politics has been reduced to punishing communities that exist in opposition to the state, and then posting about it. There is no agenda beyond public sadism, in part b/c the right has already won so much.

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 5d

A fundamental purpose of reactionary government is to use state power to weaken the infrastructural resilience and capacity of opposition communities.

Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 5d

Infrastructure week at last! Unless you're Black. Then you're prob doing crime. No $ for you. www.wbez.org/transportati...

Trump freezes $2.1B for Chicago projects, Red Line extension in shutdown fight with Dems

Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday accused President Donald Trump of "holding bipartisan funding hostage" and hurting hardworking people.

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 5d

Infrastructure week at last! Unless you're Black. Then you're prob doing crime. No $ for you. www.wbez.org/transportati...

Trump freezes $2.1B for Chicago projects, Red Line extension in shutdown fight with Dems

Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday accused President Donald Trump of "holding bipartisan funding hostage" and hurting hardworking people.

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 6d

U know I love a freaky adaptive reuse.
Chopo Museum, Enrique Norten

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 6d

federal zoning codes when? (germany also)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

Petite bourgeoisie = owns the means of production but is less than 6 ft for men / 5'7 for women / 5'10 for enbies. I don't make the rules, Lenin did

Doubtful Ghost 👻 @doubtful-guest.bsky.social · 6d

Petite bourgeoisie?

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 6d

-and ultimately, outside of "vote harder", there is literally nothing we can do right now to bring legal and moral accountability for this to those that deserve it, from Trump to the building's landlord.

It's shocking. Read all the articles. Get angry if you weren't already. The war is here.

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 6d

-the absolute fascist insanity of 300 armed agents, some descending from HELICOPTERS, at 1am
-the fact that they rounded up everyone in the building, busted down doors, detained everyone, held them for hours
-that there was no warrant for this

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 6d

I've shared multiple articles about the ICE raid at 75th & South Shore Drive because no one of them captures everything important:
-simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago
-prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 6d

Just an incredible statement on the durability of arts and culture in a place that is not recognized for its contributions nearly enough

Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 6d

My fav building power rankings are getting ROCKED by this indestructible battleship of a community arts center in Iztapalapa. Fábrica de Artes y Oficios Oriente by Alberto Kallach (2000).

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Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social · 6d

👌 ally-oop addition by Marcio Rocha

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