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Brian Straw
@brianstraw.bsky.social
Lawyer, dad, Oak Park Village Trustee.
We have similarly progressed from data collection to data analysis.

There is a lot of data, and it appears to be particularly chocolatey.
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I joined the protests at the Broadview ICE detention facility because of what is happening to our immigrant neighbors: children zip-tied and shoved into vans, mothers pulled from cars on the way to school, neighbors afraid to go to church or work.
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The woman that you see thrown to the ground and arrested in this video is the pastor who baptized my daughter.

A week ago, she attempted to take communion to the people held in the ICE detention facility in Broadview, IL. ICE has refused to allow pastors access to minister to those in detention.
October 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
To be clear, Chicago is only a war zone in that the Federal government has declared war on Chicago and its residents.

Three weeks ago, I watched Federal agents march more than 100 yards to attack me and other peaceful protestors.
October 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
ICE admits to using more that $100,000 in "less lethal" munitions in the two weeks leading up to September 20, 2025. Given what we've seen the last couple weeks, it is probably a multiple of that now.
October 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
ICE admitted today that it "used more than $100,000 of less lethal munitions and chemicals in the two weeks spanning from September 6, 2025, to September 20, 2025."

Declaration of Russel Hott (Chicago Headline Club, et al., v. Noem, et al., Case No. 1:25-cv-12173.)
October 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"If congressional Democrats believe in government, they should never vote to fund this one. . . . Let Republicans have the literal blood of American citizens on their hands—and make that the central issue of the shutdown."
October 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It is amazing how DHS feels free to blatantly lie about what we saw with our own eyes...
September 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM