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While reporting this, we came across this ProPublica story from 2019 about a Border Patrol Facebook group.

Hardly any differences between this and other cop pages we've reported on. It's all the same dehumanization and racism, just different targets (w/ Chicago cops—usually it's Black people).
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Virtual Book Launch Event: I will be in conversation with Ash Williams, a fellow contributor to "Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis," on Wednesday, November 19, at 6:00 p.m. CT. Thanks to @firestorm.coop for hosting. You can sign up here:
Read This When Things Fall Apart
Join Kelly Hayes in conversation with organizer Ash Williams to discuss the launch of Read this When Things Fall Apart, a new publication of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in ca...
firestorm.coop
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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"Citing a Homeland Security official, the Sun-Times previously reported 1,000 federal agents could return to Chicago in March. About 200 Border Patrol agents had been conducting operations in the Chicago area recently, a top federal immigration enforcement official previously said."
National Guard Leaving Area As Homeland Security Shutters Local Command Center, Reports Say
Texas National Guard members sent to the Chicago area will return home, and Homeland Security has left its makeshift command center at Naval Station Great Lakes. It's the latest indication the local i...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Weekend cooking adventures - a few months ago I bought this container of Bap Rang from a local Chinese grocery store. Delicious. Fast forward to trying to think of creative ways to use the Rancho Gordo posole, I remembered a recipe I saw in some cookbook for fried giant corn.
November 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Beech tree in November, back yard in shadows, Chicago, noon.
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"The camp consists of temporary tent structures meant to house up to 5,000 detainees and relieve overcrowding at other Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities."
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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“When we enlisted in the military, we were proud to serve our country. We never imagined that, after our service, we would have to fight for our own healthcare.” @tennesseelookout.com
Clarksville veterans say care, not cuts to the Veterans Administration, are needed • Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee veterans face worsening chronic illnesses as a result of long waits for care and denial of claims from the Veterans Administration.
tennesseelookout.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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On second review, this looks to be just smoke grenades / flashbang. Bovino has been carrying around a CS gas canister in his hand though, so not ruling out that gas was deployed elsewhere this morning—it's been incredibly chaotic, with agents attacking people in multiple locations.
Federal immigration agents have deployed gas in Little Village, on 26th between Komensky and Pulaski, per videos shared online after 11 am this morning.
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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During circle time today, my daughter's class processed seeing a man get detained by ICE outside of their school.
Last week ICE pulled guns outside of my 7 y.o school. Today, it was outside of my 10 y.o's school.
Repubs want us to fear adults in drag around kids, I'm afraid of ICE agents in masks.
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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“Chicago is the future.“

@joseolivarez.bsky.social for @chicagomag.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Extremely normal behavior
Bovino places tear gas on the dash board as he leaves, a small detail and perhaps symbolizing a threat that the gassings will continue
October 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Border Patrol slammed the burbs this morning while Bovino was in court. Now they're patrolling the city. Multiple people detained in Humboldt Park. A Blackhawk has been circling the north side. Just watched a FB live from Berwyn end as an agent backed into someone behind him, then detained them.
October 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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A federal agent told a combat veteran, "You're dead, liberal," and pointed a gun at his head during an ICE encounter, a lawsuit alleges. blockclubchi.co/3LxF3Nb
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

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unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"
Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Also, just for the record, police ALWAYS threaten to quit when someone they don’t like (ie, someone who threatens anything but the most superficial of change), and they never do.

But it always gets taken at face value, not as the genuinely *political* statement it is.
CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports
The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.
www.cbsnews.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
October 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Now that you know better, don't move the goal posts.

"Per the UN, Palestinian girls in Israeli prison have suffered sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers. At least two female Palestinian detainees were raped."
www.savethechildren.net/news/palesti...
October 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM