Ed Knigge
@edknigge.bsky.social
We're told "don't escalate, they're looking for an excuse", but when the gestapo publicly celebrate their unprovoked violence (much against children) it sure seems like we're past "don't escalate"...
"While Border Patrol photographers snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
ICE/CBP have targeted Little Village for 10+ yrs. In just the last 3 wks, they've repeatedly (3x) used chemical weapons, aimed guns, & threatened residents, most recently this past weekend.
ICE/CBP have targeted Little Village for 10+ yrs. In just the last 3 wks, they've repeatedly (3x) used chemical weapons, aimed guns, & threatened residents, most recently this past weekend.
Border Patrol Agents Pose At 'The Bean' For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, Little Village!"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We're told "don't escalate, they're looking for an excuse", but when the gestapo publicly celebrate their unprovoked violence (much against children) it sure seems like we're past "don't escalate"...
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Dick Durbin just voted for a clean budget that continues to fund terrorists like this. At the maximum point of leverage, he folds.
Photos of the Feds with weapons out taken by @chicagotribune.com photographers yesterday @briancassella.bsky.social @mandophotos.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Dick Durbin just voted for a clean budget that continues to fund terrorists like this. At the maximum point of leverage, he folds.
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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And the truly craziest thing abt this cave is that someone seeing the invasion of Chicago firsthand, Dick Durbin, doesn't understand this.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
And the truly craziest thing abt this cave is that someone seeing the invasion of Chicago firsthand, Dick Durbin, doesn't understand this.
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Voters on Tuesday: We hate everything you're doing
Trump administration: OK, got it. What if we starved you and ruined air travel for Thanksgiving
Trump administration: OK, got it. What if we starved you and ruined air travel for Thanksgiving
BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.
Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Voters on Tuesday: We hate everything you're doing
Trump administration: OK, got it. What if we starved you and ruined air travel for Thanksgiving
Trump administration: OK, got it. What if we starved you and ruined air travel for Thanksgiving
Over the years my workplace has shifted gender balance back and forth, every time we had more women things were smoother, more productive, and more enjoyable.
the women in the workplace discourse is very funny because a man who can act normal in an office environment that's predominantly female is absolutely on easy street. it's maybe the best gig anyone in history has had. and yet for many guys it is utterly impossible
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Over the years my workplace has shifted gender balance back and forth, every time we had more women things were smoother, more productive, and more enjoyable.
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Bumping this devastating, essential reporting by @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social again. Rideshare workers, already treated terribly by the union-busting corps they work for, are being kidnapped from O'Hare as city-hired security guards watch.
new: federal agents have targeted rideshare drivers at o'hare on at least ten separate days since october 10.
in some cases, agents returned to abduct drivers multiple times in a single day, taking as many as ten to 20 people each time.
via @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social:
in some cases, agents returned to abduct drivers multiple times in a single day, taking as many as ten to 20 people each time.
via @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social:
‘Like shooting fish in a barrel’ - Chicago Reader
Federal agents have repeatedly terrorize rideshare drivers at O’Hare International Airport.
chicagoreader.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Bumping this devastating, essential reporting by @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social again. Rideshare workers, already treated terribly by the union-busting corps they work for, are being kidnapped from O'Hare as city-hired security guards watch.
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This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.
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*dusts this piece off* www.readtpa.com/p/want-to-kn...
Want to Know How Democrats Should Handle Trans Rights? Ask Zohran Mamdani
The 33-year-old socialist just crushed Andrew Cuomo by doing what many national Democrats won't: having convictions.
www.readtpa.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
*dusts this piece off* www.readtpa.com/p/want-to-kn...
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Without LGBT New Yorkers, Cuomo might’ve won. Mamdani’s genuine and relentless support of trans rights was not only morally correct, but an electoral necessity.
Centrist dems want buses running over LGBT people. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wants free and clear bus lanes instead. The difference won him the election.
November 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Without LGBT New Yorkers, Cuomo might’ve won. Mamdani’s genuine and relentless support of trans rights was not only morally correct, but an electoral necessity.
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Around Chicago ICE/Border Patrol are mostly just driving around looking for landscaping crews. It’s not targeted by threat or criminal background. It’s just Kavanaugh sweeps of brown men in work clothes operating landscaping equipment to hit quotas. They’re not investigating, they’re hunting
Still haven’t seen a video of neighbors cheering an abduction, still haven’t seen reports of a neighbor pointing out a hiding migrant to ICE/Border Patrol
The only people praising the ICE/Border Patrol terror patrols & kidnappings are people who live nowhere near where they’re happening.
The only people praising the ICE/Border Patrol terror patrols & kidnappings are people who live nowhere near where they’re happening.
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Around Chicago ICE/Border Patrol are mostly just driving around looking for landscaping crews. It’s not targeted by threat or criminal background. It’s just Kavanaugh sweeps of brown men in work clothes operating landscaping equipment to hit quotas. They’re not investigating, they’re hunting
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More people really need to understand/reckon with the fact that everyone working for and loyal to this administration is a mask off fascist, firmly believes any opposition to them is a "threat," and that it's their right and duty to suppress that opposition.
Overnight court filings seem to be giving us a peek at what U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino said in his deposition so far (it apparently continues today):
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
More people really need to understand/reckon with the fact that everyone working for and loyal to this administration is a mask off fascist, firmly believes any opposition to them is a "threat," and that it's their right and duty to suppress that opposition.
Lol, thanks for proving my point. Per your link inner-suburbs are outside city limits, and that place isn't. It also doesn't have the culture or resources of one. It's not zealotry to ask that people who don't live in a place defer to those who do when it writing about what is or isn't that place.
Geographical terms of art are geographical terms of art even if they don't match your limited understanding of geography.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_s...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_s...
Inner suburb - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Lol, thanks for proving my point. Per your link inner-suburbs are outside city limits, and that place isn't. It also doesn't have the culture or resources of one. It's not zealotry to ask that people who don't live in a place defer to those who do when it writing about what is or isn't that place.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🎵 why would Lockheed Martin build a ballroom..... 🎶 This is TikTok Premium ☺️
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even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim
November 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim
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What’s infuriating to me as someone who has identified as a Democrat literally longer than Spanberger has been alive is that many of the policies Mamdani supports would have comfortably fit within the Democratic Party tent before Reaganism.
Neoliberalism should NOT be the default for Democrats.
Neoliberalism should NOT be the default for Democrats.
Abigail Spanberger takes a swipe at Mamdani, saying "maybe he should be a Democrat" and that his campaign promises are dishonest.
November 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
What’s infuriating to me as someone who has identified as a Democrat literally longer than Spanberger has been alive is that many of the policies Mamdani supports would have comfortably fit within the Democratic Party tent before Reaganism.
Neoliberalism should NOT be the default for Democrats.
Neoliberalism should NOT be the default for Democrats.
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Everyday we must remind people that fascist gestapo agents and their enablers are committing atrocities. This is an ethnic cleansing. These are crimes against humanity. And they will be held accountable.
"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'"
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns
In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.
apnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Everyday we must remind people that fascist gestapo agents and their enablers are committing atrocities. This is an ethnic cleansing. These are crimes against humanity. And they will be held accountable.
Hell yeah
November 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Hell yeah
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This brings to mind how Trump administration officials see their ability to acquire housing on military bases for supposed security reasons as a status symbol.
These people get off on being hated and experience the contempt with which they’re viewed as evidence that they’re somehow correct.
These people get off on being hated and experience the contempt with which they’re viewed as evidence that they’re somehow correct.
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This brings to mind how Trump administration officials see their ability to acquire housing on military bases for supposed security reasons as a status symbol.
These people get off on being hated and experience the contempt with which they’re viewed as evidence that they’re somehow correct.
These people get off on being hated and experience the contempt with which they’re viewed as evidence that they’re somehow correct.
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can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.
Retailers Dealing With Increasing Levels of Theft and Violence
Report emphasizes importance of preventive measures, coordination with law enforcement
progressivegrocer.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.
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Appreciate this coverage but it is hard to explain to people not in the Chicago area that THESE ARE NOT PROTESTS.
This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped.
It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.
This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped.
It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.
New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.”
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters
A judge recently issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents in the state, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz.
www.bellingcat.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Appreciate this coverage but it is hard to explain to people not in the Chicago area that THESE ARE NOT PROTESTS.
This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped.
It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.
This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped.
It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.
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Florida’s decision to end vaccine mandates is 100% going to make Disney World one of the world’s biggest infectious disease reservoirs, what with the huge numbers of visitors from around the world that mix there - right?
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Florida’s decision to end vaccine mandates is 100% going to make Disney World one of the world’s biggest infectious disease reservoirs, what with the huge numbers of visitors from around the world that mix there - right?
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like if a Nazi tattoo is news, I think this, coming from a government agency, should probably be news
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
like if a Nazi tattoo is news, I think this, coming from a government agency, should probably be news
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hey guys are we ever going to talk about what's happening with DHS on social media
October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
hey guys are we ever going to talk about what's happening with DHS on social media
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Then move away, you racist little bitch.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Then move away, you racist little bitch.