Terry McKenzie
@terrymckenzie.bsky.social
Accomplice. Rust belt born and bred. Chicagoan. Former "Detroiter." Crone? Or Hag? Culture vulture. Good governance type. I cook. I read books. I have thoughts. And cats. Antisocial sometimes. Antifascist always. We keep us safe. #MutualAid
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The prosecutor appointed to replace Fani Willis in Georgia moved to dismiss the election fraud conspiracy case against Trump & others. Judge McAfee just granted that motion. Case over.
BREAKING: Judge Scott McAfee grants motion to dismiss Georgia case against Trump, others.
The Fulton County case -- which resulted in guilty pleas by Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Scott Hall, and Kenneth Chesebro -- is officially done.
The Fulton County case -- which resulted in guilty pleas by Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Scott Hall, and Kenneth Chesebro -- is officially done.
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The prosecutor appointed to replace Fani Willis in Georgia moved to dismiss the election fraud conspiracy case against Trump & others. Judge McAfee just granted that motion. Case over.
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On tonight’s episode: Pam Bondi lunges at Lindsey Halligan: "You ruined my James Comey revenge!" Halligan yells, “You were the idiot who let the statute of limitations run!” A drunk Jeanine Pirro pushes them apart. Pam snarls at Pirro: “I’m not through with you, Miss Can’t Get a Fucken Indictment!”
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
On tonight’s episode: Pam Bondi lunges at Lindsey Halligan: "You ruined my James Comey revenge!" Halligan yells, “You were the idiot who let the statute of limitations run!” A drunk Jeanine Pirro pushes them apart. Pam snarls at Pirro: “I’m not through with you, Miss Can’t Get a Fucken Indictment!”
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This Giving Tuesday, support families impacted by ICE
#chicago #noice #givingtuesday #supportimmigrants
#chicago #noice #givingtuesday #supportimmigrants
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This Giving Tuesday, support families impacted by ICE
#chicago #noice #givingtuesday #supportimmigrants
#chicago #noice #givingtuesday #supportimmigrants
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How Residents In Chicago And LA Are Building Multiracial Solidarity Against ICE blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/24/h...
How Residents In Chicago And LA Are Building Multiracial Solidarity Against ICE
Violent immigration crackdowns, looming safety-net cuts and arrests of street vendors are pushing Black and Latine residents in both cities to organize around their common ground.
blockclubchicago.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
How Residents In Chicago And LA Are Building Multiracial Solidarity Against ICE blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/24/h...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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A federal judge in Chicago issued a massive opinion on *Thursday that required the Trump admin to stop brutalizing people at the Broadview ICE facility
Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How Conservative Judges Turned a Throwaway Line Into a Free Pass For ICE Violence
For these judges, the White House not getting its way is a legal crisis that requires immediate intervention.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A federal judge in Chicago issued a massive opinion on *Thursday that required the Trump admin to stop brutalizing people at the Broadview ICE facility
Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Yet a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that order on *Wednesday 🤔
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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nightly reminder that Bovino has left Chicago, but ICE has not, and many people still need your help
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/b...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/b...
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
nightly reminder that Bovino has left Chicago, but ICE has not, and many people still need your help
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/b...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/b...
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Chicago-area businesses raise money to post bond for ICE detainees
Chicago-area businesses raise money to post bond for ICE detainees
Streaming now at https://abc7chicago.com/watch/live/11064984/.Businesses in Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods are stepping up to raise money for an organization...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Chicago-area businesses raise money to post bond for ICE detainees
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Chicago, Chicago! Now That’s Resistance!
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Chicago, Chicago! Now That’s Resistance!
A modern day reflection of that pride in place is the omnipresent and fierce opposition by regular folks of the President’s fear agenda.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Chicago, Chicago! Now That’s Resistance!
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open.substack.com/pub/dougport...
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
The "ceasefire" that was never a ceasefire.
BREAKING: Internet and mobile service have been cut across Gaza City (northern Gaza) after heavy Israeli bombardment east of the Shujaiya neighborhood.
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The "ceasefire" that was never a ceasefire.
Report from the CBP invasion of Chicagoland + a follow up from a citizen who was detained in the incident Mayor Biss reports here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ar_...
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"My Community Is Under Invasion": Evanston Mayor Decries ICE Raids in Illinois
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Report from the CBP invasion of Chicagoland + a follow up from a citizen who was detained in the incident Mayor Biss reports here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ar_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ar_...
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Guided missile warheads? For ICE operations? WTF? Asking for Chicago.
ICE Spent 700% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You. newrepublic.com/post/202031/... via @newrepublic.com
ICE Spent 700% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You. newrepublic.com/post/202031/... via @newrepublic.com
ICE Spent 700% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You.
Donald Trump is arming his masked immigration agents with increasingly lethal weapons.
newrepublic.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Guided missile warheads? For ICE operations? WTF? Asking for Chicago.
ICE Spent 700% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You. newrepublic.com/post/202031/... via @newrepublic.com
ICE Spent 700% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You. newrepublic.com/post/202031/... via @newrepublic.com
Chicago REPRESENTS. Est. 250,000 people and no arrests. Welcome to our Hell hole. Mostly white folks. Others are being targeted. He's a "white people problem" to solve, anyway.
Chicago's Massive No Kings March Stretches Two Miles Through Loop blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/18/t...
Chicago's Massive No Kings March Stretches Two Miles Through Loop blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/18/t...
Chicago's Massive No Kings March Stretches Two Miles Through Loop
The No Kings rally in Downtown Chicago was just one of many planned for around the Chicago area and the country. With their city caught in the country’s largest immigration enforcement operation, as m...
blockclubchicago.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Chicago REPRESENTS. Est. 250,000 people and no arrests. Welcome to our Hell hole. Mostly white folks. Others are being targeted. He's a "white people problem" to solve, anyway.
Chicago's Massive No Kings March Stretches Two Miles Through Loop blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/18/t...
Chicago's Massive No Kings March Stretches Two Miles Through Loop blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/18/t...
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Now I am hungry and want to buy a tamale by bicycle.
h/t @grumpasaurus
Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE
#BikeTooter #ICE #Fascism
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
h/t @grumpasaurus
Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE
#BikeTooter #ICE #Fascism
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE
Cycling x Solidarity's latest mutual aid effort takes cyclists on group rides through Pilsen and other neighborhoods to buy out tamale vendors so they can stay home as ICE agents swarm the city. They pass out the food to people in need.
blockclubchicago.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Now I am hungry and want to buy a tamale by bicycle.
h/t @grumpasaurus
Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE
#BikeTooter #ICE #Fascism
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
h/t @grumpasaurus
Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE
#BikeTooter #ICE #Fascism
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists
👉 Vote 'em Out!
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An immigration attorney’s recent experience at a Chicago detention center reveals an alarming trend: ICE is transferring people between detention facilities without warning, making it impossible for them to reach loved ones and lawyers and further depriving them of due process.
How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers
‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.
prospect.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
An immigration attorney’s recent experience at a Chicago detention center reveals an alarming trend: ICE is transferring people between detention facilities without warning, making it impossible for them to reach loved ones and lawyers and further depriving them of due process.
Small consolation that ICE is so incompetent that they teargassed themselves and their vehicles far more completely than they teargassed the crowd and CPD.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
What to know about PIT, the driving maneuver feds used in Southeast Side car chase
After Border Patrol agents rammed a car they were pursuing, causing it to spin and crash, on Tuesday, the Chicago community raised questions and concerns about the controversial tactic.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Small consolation that ICE is so incompetent that they teargassed themselves and their vehicles far more completely than they teargassed the crowd and CPD.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
We need an ordinance.
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chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
Chicago is choosing justice over fear, as it has in the past
In 1850, the federal government deputized local officials to enforce slavery. In 2025, it demands cooperation in deportation. Chicago resisted nearly two centuries ago, and it still is today.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We need an ordinance.
chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
The wildly unpopular SAVE Act has been re-animated in a new "Show Your Papers" scheme. The Election Assistance Commission, at the behest of the Christian Nationalist "America First Legal Fdn" is proposing a new regulation. PLS submit your comment. A quick glance tells me this is being astroturfed.
The @brennancenter.org has an important call to action for each of us. The Election Assistance Commission is trying to pull shenanigans to take away our right to vote. We can stop them, and the Brennan Center walks you through how. Link to comment is below:
www.regulations.gov/document/EAC...
www.regulations.gov/document/EAC...
October 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The wildly unpopular SAVE Act has been re-animated in a new "Show Your Papers" scheme. The Election Assistance Commission, at the behest of the Christian Nationalist "America First Legal Fdn" is proposing a new regulation. PLS submit your comment. A quick glance tells me this is being astroturfed.
In contempt of a court order:
Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today' chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today' chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'
A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
In contempt of a court order:
Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today' chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today' chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Chicago ICE defense. ONE Northside is forming a mutual aid network for community defense and aid. ICE watch, errands, groceries, supplies, school/church defense as well.
#FuckIce
www.onenorthside.org/rapidrespons...
#FuckIce
www.onenorthside.org/rapidrespons...
Rapid Response - ONE Northside
www.onenorthside.org
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Chicago ICE defense. ONE Northside is forming a mutual aid network for community defense and aid. ICE watch, errands, groceries, supplies, school/church defense as well.
#FuckIce
www.onenorthside.org/rapidrespons...
#FuckIce
www.onenorthside.org/rapidrespons...