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Mary M
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I sew a lot. She/her. Chicago.
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Mary M @maryvvmahon.bsky.social · Oct 7
Chicago says get the fuck out

#abolishice #chingalamigra #mayorbrandonjohnson #govpritzker #weprotectus #yearningtobreathefree
Letterboard reading "CHINGA LA MIGRA" hands from the neck of a mannequin wearing a vintage wedding gown with a full shirt and lace sleeves. Mannequin stands on a platform in a window framed by drapes, with a light overhead.
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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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melissjpeltier.bsky.social
This is their circular “bootstrap eugenics” ethos: if you’re poor, you’re lazy. If you’re poor & working 3 jobs, you’re stupid. If you’re sick, you didn’t take care of yourself. If you took care of yourself & got sick, you’re weak & expendable. And on & on.
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
The Onion is the only legacy media I trust
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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misterjayem.bsky.social
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
maryvvmahon.bsky.social
I don't trust these bitches.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Mannequin in a shop window, wearing bridal gown, and a letterboard around its neck reading CHINGA LA MIGRA
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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unknownstonedfruit.bsky.social
we all started thinking better things are possible and they had to nip that in the bud immediately
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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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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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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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.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago:
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
Yesterday we had a meeting on the block. We had to. The state of the government and its affect on the community was the topic. We discussed the best way to proceed in all of the uncertainty. The other day there was no SNAP in November. Then it was half. Then it was none again. Then it was half again. Then 65%. Then 35% in the exact same day. So you can see what I mean when I say, uncertainty. The hokey pokey of this administration had us wondering should we keep doing dinner everyday and lean in, or stop because people are getting a percentage (I think? ) of their SNAP benefits? Now, preparing meals outside on a street corner in the summer is hard. But, outdoors in a Chicago fall/ winter is brutal. We've done pop ups before in the winter but never everyday... BUT, knowing how difficult it could be and will be, every single volunteer who cooks and shows up to serve everyday STILL voted that we can't stop. The kids need us. Even with a fraction of the benefits. Even with the indecisiveness of the government. Even in the cold, wet, ick, that is sure to come. Even without funding. They all voted to still show up. And then people in the neighborhood started dropping whatever they had in their pockets on the table. Because we're all in this together. 🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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lyndab08.bsky.social
Chicagoans never stop. I was just watching a live stream of a press conference held by community members in front of FBI headquarters. In the rain in the dark. Umbrellas at hand they are calling for the release of 6 people taken by ICE, 3 also arrested by CPD. They never stop fighting.
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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linneaharts.bsky.social
Man. Trump's crimes against taste are the least of his crimes but they are still terrible
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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jamellebouie.net
one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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cmclay.bsky.social
what do the popularists do when their voters say "bring us the heads of republicans"
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Klein is right that Dems have to win in red states and that the party should be engaging in some soul-searching right now.

But the soul-searching should begin with basic facts. Moderation *is* the current strategy and Dems are losing despite having a popular agenda. More of the same won't fix it.
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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unraveledpress.com
ICE/CBP is rampaging through the burbs again this morning. Sightings and kidnappings reported across Bolingbrook, Summit, Addison, Bensenville, Melrose Park, Brookfield.
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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blufruit.bsky.social
“You can’t just call a guy a nazi simply because he’s friends with nazis, defends nazis, says being anti nazi is bad, and is working to create a fascist America” - The Atlantic and NYT
November 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
to the press, online spaces are somehow both the medium through which political actors and citizens form their views about the world, useful for gauging the temperature, and also, simultaneously, not “real” in the sense that certain trends or things that happen there are newsworthy
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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jamestiv.bsky.social
Pope Leo smiling while holding a black baseball bat.
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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mthrjo.bsky.social
Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
Furthermore public transit teaches you how to live with temporary minor annoyances and cars teach you that you're god's most special baby and your moment-to-moment comfort is the only important thing in the world
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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dlknowles.bsky.social
She has now ordered Bovino to appear personally at the court every day to report back what has happened and to list everyone arrested who is not being arrested for immigration enforcement reasons. This is the most insane court session I've ever been in. Feels like a headteacher bollocking
October 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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rachelernst.myatproto.social
I also feel like we need to revise the art of actual curses. Not profanity, curses.
May everything you eat turn to dust in your mouth.
May each night crawl by with no sleep.

My favorite from Saeed Jones: "You sound lonely and so you will die lonely. May the groundskeeper forget your grave."
October 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM