@lsvaldezkarl.bsky.social
Tattooed Garden Designer - IL Naturalist - Prairie Steward - Ex Yoga Teacher - Chingona PrairieGrrl - India Nomad - Ageless Hippie Chick - Chicago South Sider in the White Bread 'burbs ✊🏼 ❤️
Close to where I grew up. 😡
ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon.
There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified.
This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:
There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified.
This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:
Shooting involving federal agents in Brighton Park under investigation
According to the Department of Homeland Security, a woman allegedly "boxed in" federal authorities, who opened fire.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Close to where I grew up. 😡
In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look'
The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.
chicago.suntimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
As soon as I posted about Border Patrol pigs being in Chicago in MICHIGAN AVE, this appeared on my Facebook page! 🤬
September 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
As soon as I posted about Border Patrol pigs being in Chicago in MICHIGAN AVE, this appeared on my Facebook page! 🤬
🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷
Happening now: at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and other CBP/ICE agents emerge to patrol Beach Street and escort a vehicle out.
They ordered people out of the street, walked to the end of it and then back to the fence.
They ordered people out of the street, walked to the end of it and then back to the fence.
September 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷
@govpritzker.illinois.gov DO SOMETHING! 🤬
Immediately before this arrest at the Broadview ICE facility, I recorded agents talking about a guy who had told them “go kill yourselves.” They pointed towards this guy who was standing on the sidewalk and not interfering, and rushed over to arrest him.
September 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov DO SOMETHING! 🤬
September 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
SEPTEMBER
September 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
SEPTEMBER
A Tallgrass Prairie Remedy tuesdaysinthetallgrass.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/a...
A Tallgrass Prairie Remedy
“Even as the people changed the prairie, it changed them.” —John Madson **** Feeling like events in the world have spiraled out of control? Having trouble doing anything except do…
tuesdaysinthetallgrass.wordpress.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A Tallgrass Prairie Remedy tuesdaysinthetallgrass.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/a...
He’s really going full fascism now, openly threatening American citizens while attacking both the press and basic democratic freedoms. Once again, Trump tried to glorify his deployment of the National Guard in
September 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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lol
Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension
Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing.
creators.yahoo.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
lol
As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."
I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.
An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.
newrepublic.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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🚨 CDC Website Scrubbing Alert
We do not have a complete list but can report that CDC plans to delete or otherwise takedown many CDC pages about LGBTQ+ health, health equity, disabilities, hepatitis, HIV and more.
We do not have a complete list but can report that CDC plans to delete or otherwise takedown many CDC pages about LGBTQ+ health, health equity, disabilities, hepatitis, HIV and more.
September 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🚨 CDC Website Scrubbing Alert
We do not have a complete list but can report that CDC plans to delete or otherwise takedown many CDC pages about LGBTQ+ health, health equity, disabilities, hepatitis, HIV and more.
We do not have a complete list but can report that CDC plans to delete or otherwise takedown many CDC pages about LGBTQ+ health, health equity, disabilities, hepatitis, HIV and more.
YAY FOR VACCINES!
The updated Moderna for Covid and one for flu. The dude told me there are two available from Moderna. The one I got is a smaller dosage but more effective, he said. 🤷🏻♀️
BTW, THIS IS AN ANTI-VAXXER FREE ZONE. 🤡 ANY ANTI VAX COMMENTS AND YOU'RE BLOCKED.
The updated Moderna for Covid and one for flu. The dude told me there are two available from Moderna. The one I got is a smaller dosage but more effective, he said. 🤷🏻♀️
BTW, THIS IS AN ANTI-VAXXER FREE ZONE. 🤡 ANY ANTI VAX COMMENTS AND YOU'RE BLOCKED.
September 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
YAY FOR VACCINES!
The updated Moderna for Covid and one for flu. The dude told me there are two available from Moderna. The one I got is a smaller dosage but more effective, he said. 🤷🏻♀️
BTW, THIS IS AN ANTI-VAXXER FREE ZONE. 🤡 ANY ANTI VAX COMMENTS AND YOU'RE BLOCKED.
The updated Moderna for Covid and one for flu. The dude told me there are two available from Moderna. The one I got is a smaller dosage but more effective, he said. 🤷🏻♀️
BTW, THIS IS AN ANTI-VAXXER FREE ZONE. 🤡 ANY ANTI VAX COMMENTS AND YOU'RE BLOCKED.
SERIOUSLY! 😡
September 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
SERIOUSLY! 😡
The Rural Lie: How Trump 2.0 Turned America’s Heartland into a Sacrifice Zone
They don’t want rural America to die. They want it to kneel.
www.blueamp.co/p/the-rural-...
They don’t want rural America to die. They want it to kneel.
www.blueamp.co/p/the-rural-...
The Rural Lie: How Trump 2.0 Turned America’s Heartland into a Sacrifice Zone
They don’t want rural America to die. They want it to kneel.
www.blueamp.co
September 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Ain't that serendipity?
Planted 10 pints of #newenglandaster in new #prairiebed and a white #Aster turned up. Thanks @midwestgroundcovers ! 😝 Am not an Aster expert so don't know which it is. 🤷🏻♀️
#nativeplantsforfall
Planted 10 pints of #newenglandaster in new #prairiebed and a white #Aster turned up. Thanks @midwestgroundcovers ! 😝 Am not an Aster expert so don't know which it is. 🤷🏻♀️
#nativeplantsforfall
September 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Ain't that serendipity?
Planted 10 pints of #newenglandaster in new #prairiebed and a white #Aster turned up. Thanks @midwestgroundcovers ! 😝 Am not an Aster expert so don't know which it is. 🤷🏻♀️
#nativeplantsforfall
Planted 10 pints of #newenglandaster in new #prairiebed and a white #Aster turned up. Thanks @midwestgroundcovers ! 😝 Am not an Aster expert so don't know which it is. 🤷🏻♀️
#nativeplantsforfall
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Uh huh. Because young kids don't get measles. 🙄 I ALMOST DIED FROM MEASLES IN THE 1960s BEFORE THE VAXX WAS INVENTED! THE ONLY THING I REMEMBER WAS BEING TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. 🤬
RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.
RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children
New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.
www.wsj.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Uh huh. Because young kids don't get measles. 🙄 I ALMOST DIED FROM MEASLES IN THE 1960s BEFORE THE VAXX WAS INVENTED! THE ONLY THING I REMEMBER WAS BEING TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. 🤬
x.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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There's been a lot of uproar about reactions to Charlie Kirk's death in the media but nothing has attacked free speech as much as ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's show. I react to the news and call for Americans to resist censorship.
Watch here: youtu.be/qorFVxY5UUI
Watch here: youtu.be/qorFVxY5UUI
REACTION: ABC Suspends Jimmy Kimmel "Indefinitely" Over Kirk Comments
YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt
youtu.be
September 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There's been a lot of uproar about reactions to Charlie Kirk's death in the media but nothing has attacked free speech as much as ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's show. I react to the news and call for Americans to resist censorship.
Watch here: youtu.be/qorFVxY5UUI
Watch here: youtu.be/qorFVxY5UUI
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Jimmy Kimmel wasn't suspended because of what he said. He was suspended because the FCC threatened his employer.
That's state-sanctioned censorship and it is a GIANT RED FLAG 🚩🚩🚩 that authoritarianism isn’t *coming* it’s ALREADY HERE. Today it's Jimmy. Tomorrow it's the rest of us.
That's state-sanctioned censorship and it is a GIANT RED FLAG 🚩🚩🚩 that authoritarianism isn’t *coming* it’s ALREADY HERE. Today it's Jimmy. Tomorrow it's the rest of us.
September 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Jimmy Kimmel wasn't suspended because of what he said. He was suspended because the FCC threatened his employer.
That's state-sanctioned censorship and it is a GIANT RED FLAG 🚩🚩🚩 that authoritarianism isn’t *coming* it’s ALREADY HERE. Today it's Jimmy. Tomorrow it's the rest of us.
That's state-sanctioned censorship and it is a GIANT RED FLAG 🚩🚩🚩 that authoritarianism isn’t *coming* it’s ALREADY HERE. Today it's Jimmy. Tomorrow it's the rest of us.
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“Every American should understand that there is a tyrant and a deviant in the White House, surrounded by people who are advising him to kill millions of Americans because justice requires the massacre so that we can be “great again.”"
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/never-bow-...
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/never-bow-...
Never bow to these people
The reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk from the highest levels of the Trump regime ranks among the greatest disgraces in American history.
steveschmidt.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“Every American should understand that there is a tyrant and a deviant in the White House, surrounded by people who are advising him to kill millions of Americans because justice requires the massacre so that we can be “great again.”"
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/never-bow-...
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/never-bow-...