Em, midly
@lefttheprairie.bsky.social
Emily
Chicago, IL
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Em, midly
@lefttheprairie.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Looking for Chicagoans on Bluesky? Pin this list to your feeds to read posts from locals. Want to be added or see someone from #chicago missing? Tag me (or honestly just like this post) and I’ll get right on it. bsky.app/profile/did:...
ICE/CBP seem to be trying it everywhere at once right now. I hope everyone hollers at them real good
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
ICE/CBP seem to be trying it everywhere at once right now. I hope everyone hollers at them real good
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I would also add:
Make friends with the local Spanish language churches being targeted and ask them what they need. It may be someone to sit in the back to block the door by arguing with ice until people have time to escape from the front. It may be just walking with them in solidarity.
Make friends with the local Spanish language churches being targeted and ask them what they need. It may be someone to sit in the back to block the door by arguing with ice until people have time to escape from the front. It may be just walking with them in solidarity.
If I can give 3 pieces of unsolicited advice to people facing ICE/CBP:
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I would also add:
Make friends with the local Spanish language churches being targeted and ask them what they need. It may be someone to sit in the back to block the door by arguing with ice until people have time to escape from the front. It may be just walking with them in solidarity.
Make friends with the local Spanish language churches being targeted and ask them what they need. It may be someone to sit in the back to block the door by arguing with ice until people have time to escape from the front. It may be just walking with them in solidarity.
If I can give 3 pieces of unsolicited advice to people facing ICE/CBP:
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If I can give 3 pieces of unsolicited advice to people facing ICE/CBP:
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
1) go outside
2) meet your neighbors
3) be loud
They want you to be isolated and afraid so they can work in secret, control the narrative, and act with impunity. They lose power when we see what’s happening and to whom.
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COME GET YER WHISTLES!
Yes this includes out of town! We ship!!
Yes this includes out of town! We ship!!
Message me to request whistles, or check out links to get you started on your own whistle operation!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
COME GET YER WHISTLES!
Yes this includes out of town! We ship!!
Yes this includes out of town! We ship!!
Message me to request whistles, or check out links to get you started on your own whistle operation!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Message me to request whistles, or check out links to get you started on your own whistle operation!
linktr.ee/apwhistles
linktr.ee/apwhistles
Feeling a little burnt out but anger’s giving me a second wind. I still have about a thousand whistles that I can get into someone’s hands, in Chicago or another city
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Feeling a little burnt out but anger’s giving me a second wind. I still have about a thousand whistles that I can get into someone’s hands, in Chicago or another city
We’re going to have my 18-year-old nephew in town by himself over Thanksgiving. Trying to figure out how to show him a good time. Thinking about hosting a little game night maybe on Thanksgiving or on Friday
November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We’re going to have my 18-year-old nephew in town by himself over Thanksgiving. Trying to figure out how to show him a good time. Thinking about hosting a little game night maybe on Thanksgiving or on Friday
Cousin drama update: she actually intended to put this fully on blast and, per his mom, he made her take it down
I caught my cousin’s wife announcing their separation via an Instagram reel, which she must’ve eventually realized was not a friends-only story because it’s no longer posted
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cousin drama update: she actually intended to put this fully on blast and, per his mom, he made her take it down
I just learned about another group in my neighborhood that has distributed over 55,000 whistles. I think I’m somewhere around 35-40,000. I wonder how many whistles have hit the streets citywide since September.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I just learned about another group in my neighborhood that has distributed over 55,000 whistles. I think I’m somewhere around 35-40,000. I wonder how many whistles have hit the streets citywide since September.
Got cut off by a Tesla with a “bought it before I knew…” sticker
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Got cut off by a Tesla with a “bought it before I knew…” sticker
Picked out new glasses
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Picked out new glasses
Realizing that I’m carrying myself without guilt or embarrassment. What the fuck.
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Realizing that I’m carrying myself without guilt or embarrassment. What the fuck.
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letting my partner borrow my label maker was a mistake
April 2, 2024 at 6:33 PM
letting my partner borrow my label maker was a mistake
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But let's keep giving CPD more money! I wish these settlements were paid out of the CPD budget and pension funds. Then maybe there would be some accountability
BREAKING: The City Council voted unanimously to pay $17M to a man who spent 27 years in prison after he was convicted of a double murder he did not commit, bringing the total cost of settling 9 lawsuits naming disgraced former CPD Detective Reynaldo Guevara to $112M, records show. @wttw.bsky.social
Cost to Resolve Lawsuits Tied to Disgraced Ex-CPD Detective Tops $112M, with 44 Lawsuits Pending
Chicago taxpayers have spent at least $285.3 million to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct — including wrongful convictions and improper pursuits — ...
news.wttw.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
But let's keep giving CPD more money! I wish these settlements were paid out of the CPD budget and pension funds. Then maybe there would be some accountability
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I am so impressed with the Chicago journalists covering the invasion of their city, and this interview with @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social is inspiring. A must read. Brava! pressingissues.org/when-the-gov...
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I am so impressed with the Chicago journalists covering the invasion of their city, and this interview with @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social is inspiring. A must read. Brava! pressingissues.org/when-the-gov...
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The Sun-Times has been doing great work too. I've also been absolutely wowed by local coverage from Block Club, the Triibe, unraveled and WTTW (PBS), all of whom are doing a ton of original investigative work.
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The Sun-Times has been doing great work too. I've also been absolutely wowed by local coverage from Block Club, the Triibe, unraveled and WTTW (PBS), all of whom are doing a ton of original investigative work.
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Just because Bovino and his goons ran away from the winter (or from accountability in the courts) doesn't mean we are out of the woods. Stop by Nighthawk again on this lovely November evening for another night of whistle packing.
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Just because Bovino and his goons ran away from the winter (or from accountability in the courts) doesn't mean we are out of the woods. Stop by Nighthawk again on this lovely November evening for another night of whistle packing.
Today’s state violence and copaganda out of Broadview show that we can’t expect material conditions to improve much with the removal of CBP from the city.
If you’re also mad, come make and distribute some whistle kits about it
If you’re also mad, come make and distribute some whistle kits about it
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Today’s state violence and copaganda out of Broadview show that we can’t expect material conditions to improve much with the removal of CBP from the city.
If you’re also mad, come make and distribute some whistle kits about it
If you’re also mad, come make and distribute some whistle kits about it
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also by “out-of-towners” thompson means clergy from multiple faiths who sang, prayed, and tried to deliver religious services to the people imprisoned inside the broadview ice jail.
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
also by “out-of-towners” thompson means clergy from multiple faiths who sang, prayed, and tried to deliver religious services to the people imprisoned inside the broadview ice jail.
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broadview mayor katrina thompson blames today’s brutality on “out-of-town protesters” who’ve “chosen their fists” over their voices.
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
broadview mayor katrina thompson blames today’s brutality on “out-of-town protesters” who’ve “chosen their fists” over their voices.
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
does this look like cops “protecting [protesters’] free speech”?
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Broadview's mayor keeps calling the protesters "out of towners." Every time we are there, we talk to people from the town on the front lines.
(Also this is a tiny town y'all, it's reasonable for someone in like...Brookfield or Melrose Park to feel like this is their community as well!)
(Also this is a tiny town y'all, it's reasonable for someone in like...Brookfield or Melrose Park to feel like this is their community as well!)
Twenty-one people were arrested Friday morning during a protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview following a skirmish in which several police officers were injured.
21 arrested, police officers injured at protest outside ICE processing center in Broadview
A scuffle between police and protesters broke out outside the ICE processing center in Broadview.
trib.al
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Broadview's mayor keeps calling the protesters "out of towners." Every time we are there, we talk to people from the town on the front lines.
(Also this is a tiny town y'all, it's reasonable for someone in like...Brookfield or Melrose Park to feel like this is their community as well!)
(Also this is a tiny town y'all, it's reasonable for someone in like...Brookfield or Melrose Park to feel like this is their community as well!)
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"May runs one of the daily walking routes for an elementary school in Albany Park — stepping in to help parents who are afraid to leave their home to take their kids to school.
May estimated that 80 to 100 kids get picked up each day."
Such a great idea.
May estimated that 80 to 100 kids get picked up each day."
Such a great idea.
Volunteers Help Immigrant Parents Get Their Kids to School With the ‘Walking School Bus’
“The moment that the raids started happening and people started getting pulled off the street, you could just see it,” volunteer Alyssa May said. “You could see less students, less families, less vend...
news.wttw.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"May runs one of the daily walking routes for an elementary school in Albany Park — stepping in to help parents who are afraid to leave their home to take their kids to school.
May estimated that 80 to 100 kids get picked up each day."
Such a great idea.
May estimated that 80 to 100 kids get picked up each day."
Such a great idea.
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here is felix's gofundme page. there is a 10k retainer for his attorney. he avoided a transfer that meant sure-fire deportation and they're working as hard as they can to keep him here. thanks everybody for your generosity it means a lot to me. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
here is felix's gofundme page. there is a 10k retainer for his attorney. he avoided a transfer that meant sure-fire deportation and they're working as hard as they can to keep him here. thanks everybody for your generosity it means a lot to me. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
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Oh my god “cOpS iNjUrEd.”
Like ICE, if these guys get a hangnail while bashing you with a baton, they were the victim and seriously injured.
Like ICE, if these guys get a hangnail while bashing you with a baton, they were the victim and seriously injured.
Twenty-one people were arrested Friday morning during a protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview following a skirmish in which several police officers were injured.
21 arrested, police officers injured at protest outside ICE processing center in Broadview
A scuffle between police and protesters broke out outside the ICE processing center in Broadview.
trib.al
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Oh my god “cOpS iNjUrEd.”
Like ICE, if these guys get a hangnail while bashing you with a baton, they were the victim and seriously injured.
Like ICE, if these guys get a hangnail while bashing you with a baton, they were the victim and seriously injured.
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Well well well if it isnt the Blowjob Brothers
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Well well well if it isnt the Blowjob Brothers