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From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation

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He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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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.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
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 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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prisonjournalism.bsky.social
In a recent piece, Kelsey Dodson shares what it's like to menstruate in prison. One woman says she was forced to bleed through her underwear, her pants, and finally her white blanket during an hour-long count. This piece was co-published with @theguardian.com. Please give it a read.
What It's Like to Have Your Period in Prison
Even at a women’s prison, your menstruation care needs may not be met.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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#Türkiye: @pensweden.bsky.social member Joakim Medin faces years in prison on spurious terrorism grounds in #Türkiye. His trial in absentia will open in Istanbul on 25 September. All charges against him must be dropped.

Read our joint statement ⬇️

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Türkiye: PEN member Joakim Medin to be tried in absentia  — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
Turkish version below    By prosecuting Joakim Medin in absentia on spurious grounds and barring him from returning to Türkiye, the authorities are sending a chilling message to all journalists and...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Hong Kong Again Stifles Commemoration of Tiananmen Massacre
"On a list of commemorations worldwide, the location of the commemoration in Hong Kong is simply written as 'candlelight vigil in every Hong Konger’s heart.'”
Hong Kong Again Stifles Commemoration of Tiananmen Massacre
This Wednesday, June 4 marks the 36th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Hongkongers had for decades commemorated the date with a large-scale vigil at Victoria Park, until the 2020 National S...
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June 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Deepseek, the Chinese AI chatbot, would not tell you today's date, because it is June 4, a "sensitive date" of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, which the Chinese government has sought to erase all memory of. According to Chinese netizens, and the Taiwan press: news.ltn.com.tw/news/politic...
中國AI也怕提六四！問今天幾月幾號？DeepSeek回答笑翻網 - 政治 - 自由時報電子報
黃其豪／核稿編輯今天是6月4日，也是六四天安門事件36周年，而中國官方已經熟練地祭出各種手段在網路上封鎖關鍵字。對此，有使用者使用號稱中國最強 AI 的 DeepSeek，詢問「今天是幾月幾號？」而 DeepSeek 則回答：「你好，這個問題我暫時無法回答，讓我們換個話題再聊聊吧。」讓網友笑翻。
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June 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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peninternational.bsky.social
In the latest article by PEN/Opp, writer and PEN Afghanistan member Neelufer Suhrabie reflects on the day Kabul fell to the Taliban, and what followed for Afghanistan’s writers and poets.

Read Gloomy Sunday ➡️ penopp.org/articles/glo...
The Gloomy Sunday
It was about 7’ in the morning on Sunday the 15th of August when my eyes fluttered open.
penopp.org
June 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM