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hcrichardson.bsky.social
Doing my morning reading, and want to call out @thebulwark.com, with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social (and others) for consistently smart takes that make me think.
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
"The group rallied amid frigid conditions at the Target store on East Lake Street, alleging it allowed agents to stage raids in the parking lot.

'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...”

www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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indivisiblechicago.bsky.social
Kristi Noem came to Chicago for a Christmas propaganda video at Navy Pier. We were ready with our signs and our chants and our own special carols! 🎵❌️🧊
Protesters near a ship at Chicago's Navy Pier stand on snowy ground. On holds a sign that says The Grinch stole Christmas but Kristi Noem stole my neighbors Protesters sing in front of a ship at Navy Pier. One has a sign that says I was a stranger and you welcomed me Protesters hold signs at Navy Pier. One says Hands Off Chicago. Another says: in this season of love and warmth, Kristi Noem has a heart of ICE Protesters near a boat at Navy Pier hold signs that say hands off Chicago and de-ice our streets
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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stevash.bsky.social
Chicagoland, Kristi Noem tried to sneak into Chicago this morning to unload ONE Christmas tree for a photo op. We sang some special carols for her. CPD was all about keeping ICE Barbie in her echo chamber. @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social @indivisiblels.bsky.social @indivisiblewlc.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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bradypac.bsky.social
@philandrew-il9.bsky.social survived a mass shooting incident when he was just 20 yrs old. Phil has fought to prevent gun violence for 3 decades, working alongside our namesake leaders, Jim & Sarah Brady, and protecting our country at the FBI.🧵
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November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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athenagabriel.bsky.social
Here’s your Friday motivation to fight back and take action

Let’s make it happen
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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jackjenkins.me
For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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repbillfoster.bsky.social
Eight Senate Republicans slipped a $500,000 payout for each of themselves into the government funding bill because they were investigated for their possible involvement in January 6.

They can find money for themselves, but none for affordable health care.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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quigley.house.gov
I enjoyed spending time with folks from the Ravenswood Fellowship @umnews.bsky.social at their annual pancake breakfast recently!🥞🍴

During this time of adversity for many Chicagoans, it’s more important than ever before to come together as a community.
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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historleans.bsky.social
Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃
Black and white photograph of six-year-old Ruby Bridges, wearing a dark dress and white cardigan and carrying a School bag, accompanied by three FBI agents in dark suits.
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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blockclubchi.bsky.social
The Trump administration may be planning another major immigration crackdown in Chicago next spring — and a federal judge wants to hold a trial that could limit the tactics authorities use before then. blockclubchi.co/4oDlulf
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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housedemocrats.bsky.social
The Republican shutdown is over but the Republican health care crisis is in full swing.

Millions of Americans will see their health insurance premiums skyrocket—all because Republicans are choosing NOT to save health care.
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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tusk81.bsky.social
“I am so grateful to everyone who has advocated on my behalf, and on behalf of the countless others who have experienced similar trauma over recent months in the Chicago area,” said Santillana Galeano. “I love our community and the children I teach, and I can’t wait to see them again.”
tusk81.bsky.social Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · Nov 14
“A Chicago day care center employee who was detained by immigration agents at work as children were being dropped off last week has been released, according to her attorney.” www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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unraveledpress.com
Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center.

This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Former UVA President Jim Ryan has just released a 12-page memo of his own account of his forced resignation last summer. Here’s just a bit in which Paul Manning, a member of the Board, was told by DOJ that unless Ryan departed they would “bleed UVA white.”
“During the ten-day period before I resigned, I also reached out to a former Board member, who has extensive connections in DC, to see if there was some way to stop this from happening. We spent several days trying to understand if this was a bluff and/or if there were some way to forestall the looming threat to UVA and to me. In the meantime, Paul Manning reached out directly to the DOJ lawyers to make sure he was not missing anything, and he said that they told him that if I didn't resign. they would "bleed UVA white."”
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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joshturek4iowa.bsky.social
I was born an underdog. 21 surgeries by the age of 12 for spina bifida. A kid wearing goodwill hand-me-downs. I knew nothing would come easy, but I never doubted my right to the American dream.

Now, I'm running for the U.S. Senate to make sure all Iowans have a shot at theirs.
August 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
"We covered this city for a living and love it, and we want you to know that what’s happening here is not normal."
If you believe in due process and the rule of law, you are likely to be alarmed. If you are a person of faith or believe in the unity of family, you are likely to be appalled. None of us can do everything, but we all can do something. We urge you to support groups fighting for due process or who help immigrants during this siege. News organizations also need our financial support to continue their vital reporting. We covered this city for a living and love it, and we want you to know that what’s happening here is not normal. It’s eroding all of our rights and should be a warning to other cities that find themselves enveloped in an ICE storm.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."

Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
You know us. For years, you watched and listened to our coverage of the Chicago area. As journalists, we did our best to bring you accurate, objective information about the people, events and issues that mattered. We hope we gained your trust. So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong. The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done and what they may do in other cities. We are retired, but our colleagues who are still on the job have shown you a brutal and illegal campaign against fellow Chicagoans, mainly Latinos: violent abductions, gutting families, using tear gas around children, roughing up witnesses, ramming cars and even taking a day care teacher from her school.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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lyndab08.bsky.social
Alderman Matt Martin posted an update regarding the daycare worker taken by ICE last week. A federal judge has ruled that she was unlawfully detained. He is calling for a gathering at Giddings Plaza tonight at 6:30 to celebrate.
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
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.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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quigley.house.gov
With the #RepublicanShutdown continuing and Trump still refusing to feed families, I wanted to reshare my office's food bank guide of locations across Chicagoland.

For specific hours of operation, please call the food banks, or visit chicagosfoodbank.org.

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November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM