It's just racism. The most horrific people are doing the most horrific things daily because they hate everyone who isn't white or they are in service of someone else who hates people who aren't white. None of this is more complicated than that unless you have an agenda to make it so.

Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2." Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...

I want to talk to you!!! If everyone in your house cries a lot (???), I want to hear about it!

As is the norm for me, I got my Covid and flu shots Saturday, within ten minutes felt drunk, stayed that way about 9 hours, felt like a had a mini-flu for a day and now am good. Why do I feel drunk every time? No freaking idea

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

Border Patrol returned to the O'Hare rideshare lot today after taking 11 people on Saturday 10/18. No official word yet on how many were detained. When we visited yesterday, drivers told us it was very empty for a Sunday. Last Friday 10/10, they took 18 people here (it's city-owned property).

“We didn’t expect them to throw tear gas right outside of our school building.” interc.pt/43q25vF

No, kidnappings have also not stopped at NYC's immigration court or in L.A. & D.C. Corporate media apparatus will continue treating this all as disparate events rather than a national emergency Children will go to bed without their parents tonight. Let's keep talking about that stupid video.

federal agents were yet again in east chicago + just across the border in hammond, indiana, this morning, per southeast side rapid response. social media videos show masked agents stopping cars and, in some cases, shackling people. at least 2 people were detained. www.instagram.com/p/DQCYFs3DEIK/

feds are also terrorizing cicero and berwyn, where abductions are pretty much a daily occurrence. per berwyn cicero rapid response, agents detained at least 8 people this morning—including a mother, her daughter, and her son (who was possibly under 18 years old). www.instagram.com/p/DQCcoIrE0LD/

They've been all over so far today. Southwest side again as well, as usual. Outside the city, they're hitting the near west and near NW burbs again: Melrose Park, Elmwood Park, Oak Park, Northlake, Des Plaines, Elk Grove Village.

Southeast/far south RR reporting feds detained two people. They were seen in East Chicago and Hammond, Indiana: instagram.com/p/DQCYFs3DEIK

Border Patrol has absolutely tormented Cicero this morning. Rapid Response is reporting six abductions so far, *possibly* one child taken as well: instagram.com/p/DQCcoIrE0LD/

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In light of the AWS server outage, open enrollment should be extended

Waking up every morning and checking the kidnapping report alongside the weather is not a thing anyone should have to do.

Now watching District Judge Sara Ellis' courtroom, where Customs and Border Protection Dept. Incident Cmdr. Kyle Harvick is testifying. Ellis asks what CBP is doing here. He says they were tasked by Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem to enforce immigration law against "illegal immigration activity."

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench for a hearing about to use tear gas during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social:

This is the feeling I’ve been having-the psychic toll of being ready to act to protect neighbors against federal agents who like to fire weapons and chemical munitions whenever they feel like it is heavy as fuck-and it’s a sliver of a fraction of what targeted communities are dealing with.

The Tribune reports Elgin cop Jason Lentz posted specific addresses on Facebook for ICE to check out. He was fired years ago after he posted that Ferguson PO Darren Wilson “Did society a favor” when he shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. Later an arbitrator put Lentz back on the job.

I have had the most Michelle Duggar-looking elderly rural Montanans be completely normal to me about being trans, “why are people being so goddamn weird about it” is an underrated winning message

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

A reminder that food banks often do not have anything for food allergies etc (ask me how I know) and aren’t always accessible (ask me how I know). Individual mutual aid matters, too. Help people. Your impulse to automatically think someone is “scamming” assists the fascists, actually.

there's zero chance this guy didnt do it

We want Audrey II costume! We have Audrey II costume at home. (Left is Marjorie's costume from Mardi Gras 2024; right is at the Rougarou Fest this last weekend.)

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

As soon as rain started clearing, Border Patrol began terrorizing Mount Prospect and Rolling Meadows

Unraveled Press and other sources are documenting violent attacks by Illinois State Troopers against protesters at the Broadview Illinois ICE facility. We ask our governor, @govpritzker.illinois.gov, to step in!

Never been more thankful for gloom and rain (ICE is quiet right now)

Australia:

Will my kids be tear gassed on the school playground. Will I have to explain to them how a classmate got kidnapped and deported.

“These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity& power…Poetry is not a luxury.” - Audre Lorde

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Bluesky is real life. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Little Rock, AR. #NoKings

“Remember this: Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction.” Andor

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

“JUSTICE FOR SILVERIO VILLEGAS GONZÁLEZ MURDERED BY ICE SEPT 12, Franklin Park”

No Kings march in full swing in downtown Chicago. Large crowds headed east toward Grant Park and the lakefront.

lolol

ICE continues their terror campaign today as people protest in mass. Border Patrol was seen in Blue Island, and at the O'Hare rideshare lot again. Sightings in southeast side. A truck with a smashed window in Villa Park. Right now, they're hunting people on the southwest side.

No SNAP benefits for November? Wicked. WICKED. Check on your people. Do what you can.

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the US government has arrived on bluesky

The DHS Twitter has been tagging and calling out a local journalist writing on immigration in Chicago. Local journalists covering what’s happening need continual support especially as they write these important stories.

#BREAKING The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in its fight with Illinois over deployment of the National Guard.

Once again, @govpritzker.illinois.gov's state police have attacked protesters while doing crowd control for ICE in Broadview. Pritzker positions himself as a Trump opponent, but he's doing ICE's dirty work in Broadview. It has to stop.