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October 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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October 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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No idea what's going on here (tried asking about it, did not get an answer, lol). This vehicle with an ISP plate has a second license plate beneath it—a Texas one, and it reads "WILL RUN."
October 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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In addition to a drone, mobile PODs and (nonstop) choppers circling, surveillance now also includes CCSO on the roof of this business.
October 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Some clergy are begging to be allowed closer to the detention center to perform communion.

"You are preventing our religious freedom," someone in the crowd shouts.
October 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A number of masked NIPAS officers here now have relieved troopers. These are cops from other suburban departments called in for police "mutual aid." Unsure what, if any, rules these guys have to follow re: face coverings while deployed right now (they are wearing assigned numbers).
October 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
ahh yes they better get used to using down detector a lot during the work day 🙃
October 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
lemme know where to pull up it’s okay if my plate is cold
October 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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The Sun-Times *is reporting these were live rounds* fired at a vehicle.

There's been much confusion in the immediate aftermath of this about whether whether they were that or pepper balls, and whether person in vehicle was hit by them. This is the most current info we have *at this time.*
Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side
Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
🤣😭 this thread is giving me warm memories of postseasons past
October 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
When I looked back at my first story in late 2020, I realized that it was a couple Reply All episodes you did that first got me into this whole thing!!!! OG!!

Bless the Uber driver who picked me up that one day and happened to be listening to Long Distance in his car and got me hooked.
September 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM