The City of Ferndale, Michigan has ended its relationship with Flock safety.

FYI I have heard this is happening in Chicago as well. They just drove his car several blocks away & took his phone and left. I suspect it’s because he was filming ICE.

A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew. “It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet." For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Stunning report.

They're doing heinous shit and they're covering it up.

Pretty great strategy by Chuck Schumer to cave to the guy that uhh *shuffles papers*… let’s see here… ”pals around with Jeff Epstein.” Gotcha.

"Democratic-led states are inadvertently sharing drivers' data with ICE, officials say" "ICE and another Department of Homeland Security body, Homeland Security Investigations...accounted for nearly 900,000 queries against the database in the year prior to Oct. 1." www.reuters.com/world/democr...

If men are lonely they can go to the Jummah al-salat every Friday and meet new people there.

"jurisdictions proactively banning data sharing related to immigration status or abortion seeking will be excluded from national searches, as long as the local yahoo with tactical undershorts is dumb enough to put “ICE” or “abortion” in the required reason field." @anamariecox.bsky.social re: Flock

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa. Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality. In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Thousands of cities allowed cops to run racists searches through their Flock Safety license plate reader databases. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

By the way, this is a niche issue but a constant headache. Complaints are investigated by COPA not CPD and the police misapply the #FOIA statute *every time* to refuse to release information. Good on the Sun Times for pressing for it.

A giant in the investing world has just announced her retirement www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

Court hearing on the use of chemical weapons weapons, etc. by ICE / BP agents in Chicago

and the #FOIA has been filed.

“What does it mean to be the mayor of a big American city, where the police have absolutely embraced techno-solutionism as policing, as the dominant attitude toward policing?” @elizabethjoh.bsky.social says. www.wired.com/story/welcom...

NEW: NYC's mayor-elect must now grapple with the sweeping NYPD surveillance apparatus that has historically targeted Muslims and other minority groups. @awinston.bsky.social reports for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/welcom...

We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Jesus fucking Christ.

We’ve talked about “million dollar blocks” were certain parts of the city face fees or fines for jailing that effective bankrupt the community.(www.nprillinois.org/statehouse/2...) I did some quick math and getting legal representation to the people kidnapped in Chicago so far would cost ~50Million

10 Years (!!!) of @lucyparsonslabs.com. Our newest newsletter does a very brief moment of reflection, I hope you'll read it. www.canva.com/design/DAG28...

ICE is planning to offer private sector bounty hunters cash bonuses for quickly tracking down the home addresses of immigrants across the US, according to a DHS document I reviewed. ICE encourages potential contractors to use "all technology systems available.” theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...

ICE has access to a powerful facial recognition app built on top of illegally collecting your images off social media via @schuba.bsky.social for Chicago Sun-Times chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

This "multiple hop" theory was invented by the spy agencies for allowing themselves the ability to read your emails and IM history. Now the government is saying it gives them the legal authority to *kill you* if your neighbor's cousin is suspected of drug trafficking w/o evidence.

ICE is using Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition tool that Illinois law enforcement is barred from using. There’s apparently few guardrails. A DHS face recognition policy was wiped from the internet in February. Other pages were archived or disappeared tinyurl.com/yc64wcvh

The State Department knows it is illegal to classify information that prevent release of things like *evidence of human rights abuses* and they do it anyways.

"ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor in Broad Daylight. The Aftermath Left Me Reeling." by Freddy Martinez truthout.org/articles/ice...

ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor in Broad Daylight. The Aftermath Left Me Reeling. New from @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com: truthout.org/articles/ice...

Today, a jury in Peoria found Sean Grayson, a former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy, guilty of murdering Sonya Massey. thetriibe.com/2025/10/ex-c...

What is a grand jury and why would ICE bring one to Chicago? We got you covered here with a video explaining the ins and outs of it with grand jury resistors and legal scholars and Palestinian organizers. youtu.be/oxV6GSmLFsY?...

Based on this indictment and several others, we see that the government has empaneled a grand jury to look into activities that inconvenience ICE in any way in an attempt to criminalize Chicagoans. I'll link to resources from @lucyparsonslabs.com below->

Inevitable: plaintiffs in Chicago lawsuit against DHS ask why the feds can put together fashy video edits for social media but not give them any of the raw footage through discovery storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Since I started working on this article the number of people kidnapped by ICE has *tripled* truthout.org/articles/ice...

Worth mentioning too: Border Patrol is *insanely* corrupt. Here is one of the many, many, many stories about them www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

"Nearly everyone involved in this effort is a woman: the work of finding missing family members, like many other forms of labor for incarcerated people, is largely carried by women."

So far, Zohran Mamdani's campaign has said little about his plans to reign in a multi-country, multi-billion dollar and deeply corrupt police department. He's even planning keeping on as its head a billionaire heiress whose family gives big money to Cuomo and Republicans like Marsha Blackburn.

A Sunday morning read: I wrote a deeply personal essay on what it was like to see a fellow Chicagoan taken by ICE, how it connects to Latin-America's long history of desaparecidos, and how we can mobilize theory, particularly faith, into action. in @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/ice...

The forced kidnappings of our neighbors in Chicago can inflict some deep psychological pain. We must resist this urge and find waits to keep fighting. My latest on faith, solidarity, and reflections on seeing one take place in @truthout.org.

A federal judge appeared poised to order at least a portion of the thousands of people detained in “Operation Midway Blitz” released on electronic monitoring while litigation continues over whether immigration officials have violated a consent decree restricting so-called warrantless arrests.

I really can’t stress enough to people outside of Chicago how angry everyone here is at seeing actions like this or how *widespread* it is. Everyone has videos or photos of stuff like this. I woke up to friends sharing a video of BP aiming a gun at a pregnant woman who they knew.

Flock is now advertising sell drones that fly 60mph and can read license plates from 2,000 miles away. This is part of a larger push to do "drone first response" which cops are obsessed with buying. @mguariglia.bsky.social www.flocksafety.com/video/flock-...

It's also hard to convey just how much ICE is *everywhere*. The city, the suburbs, in and out in the blink of an eye. A crew doing smash and grab jobs across a massive expanse of distance. Part of the reason whistle distro is so important is because you will never know where/when you will need it.

If you are on ICE watch in the Rogers Park vicinity please have a buddy and exercise extreme caution. ICE has assaulted verifiers today and arrested at least one of our people. If you are vulnerable to ICE in this area, I recommend staying inside if possible.

youtu.be/mZXePR6tBPk?... we must continue to organize all the people who mobilize themselves today.

Our Chicago bureau chief was out for a run near Lake Michigan, when she watched a black S.U.V. make a U-turn and chase down three young men. It’s a scene now unfolding across the city every day. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

NEW: The City of Berwyn, a suburb just outside of Chicago IL has taking up votes to cancel its Flock (license plate reader tech) contract. Berwyn is a heavily Latine community and has been repeatedly targeted by ICE raids lately. www.berwyn-il.gov/home/showpub...

EARLY REPORTS: ICE crashed a car and when people came out to respond, they tear gassed the neighbors.

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

You officially live in a “show me your papers” nation, if you were wondering how far along things are now. And ICE took his unhoused friend.