Liam T.A. Ford

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

04.10.2025 13:10 — 👍 174    🔁 97    💬 34    📌 21

The @blockclubchi.bsky.social newsroom continues to report on today’s federal immigration activity across Chicago. If you have footage of agent activity you filmed, please reach out via this website:

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03.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 20    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

03.10.2025 19:18 — 👍 9828    🔁 4713    💬 851    📌 946

Temporary Restraining Order – #17 in Leonel Navarrete Hernandez v. Todd Lyons (C.D. Cal., 2:25-cv-05376) – CourtListener.com MINUTES (IN CHAMBERS) ORDER GRANTING PETITIONER'S EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AS TO STAY OF REMOVAL AND RELEASE FROM DETENTION 4 by Judge Fred W. Slaughter. The Application is...

Full filing here: Waiting for a kind, generous person to upload the rest from Pacer.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/70533...

21.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 111    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 0

2. At 9:56 PM on June 15, 2025 I spoke with Petitioner's partner Evelyn Marcela Palacios Flores. She told me that Leonel (Petitioner) called her at around 1:30 PM on June 15th and said he was in El Paso, Texas. He told her he was in a detention facility for deporting people. 3. He said he was taken from Los Angeles to Phoenix, then Colorado, then Texas. He was on a plane for ten hours before arriving in Texas because the plane had broken down. 4. He told her that officers at the El Paso detention facility told the detainees in El Paso something like ''it didn't matter if they signed, they were going to be taken out of the country.'' 5. Petitioner told Marcela that it was hard for him to call anyone because he is only allowed three minutes on the phone. He told her that he may not be able to speak to her again. 6. He told her to say goodbye to his children for him.

He was taken from Los Angeles, to Phoenix, then Colorado, and ended up in El Paso, TX. There officers told them it didn't matter if they signed deportation papers, they were being deported anyway. In a 3 min phone call he told his partner to say goodbye to his children for him

21.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 213    🔁 63    💬 6    📌 1

3. Leonel called me and told me that he was arrested. He said immigration officers went up to him at his ISAP check-in and told him he was under arrest. Leonel said he asked the officers why and informed them he had an order from the judge. The officers said something like ''judges' orders don't matter, only the president." 4. Leonel told me that he told the officers he had an attorney, but the officers said, ''that doesn't matter either.'' 5. Leonel later called me from jail in Santa Ana. He said that it was a small space, and he heard people there were being taken to San Diego or Texas. Then he had to hang up.

In a habeas corpus suit against DHS, Lionel Flores was arrested at his ISAP check-in. When he ask ICE agents why he was being arrested they, said "judges orders don't matter, only the President." After telling them he had a lawyer, they replied "that doesn't matter either."

21.07.2025 16:37 — 👍 1292    🔁 654    💬 25    📌 78

And it's only because I love bees

05.06.2025 19:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's cool. Thanks. This is cooler.

05.06.2025 19:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And yes, I should have noticed that before. But I'm no longer running a Chicago-centric breaking news social account or commuting every day.

18.01.2025 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@chicagocta.bsky.social So this account doesn't do any real-time alerts and you did away with doing that on Twitter? Too bad.

18.01.2025 14:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Fear Is the Point The administration won’t have time, money or resources to enact mass deportations right away. But they can scare the hell out of everybody.

Trump doesn't have the resources to deport everyone he wants to deport.

So his goal is "self-deportation," making people "so scared... they will choose to leave."

@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social is all over this story. Check out his newsletter in @thebulwark.bsky.social. lnk.thebulwark.com/40ds72I

17.01.2025 16:00 — 👍 51    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 5

So far it seems much more like Twitter Light than a replacement for Facebook.

13.01.2025 21:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ok, this is odd. I don't think this could possibly be an original Italian brand. Time to poke around and see.

12.01.2025 16:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Madame DeFayke, Hoofist. Illustration from the Road to Oz (1907) by L. Frank Baum

09.12.2024 01:31 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The Syrian Regime Collapsed Gradually—And Then Suddenly Assad’s fall offers the possibility of change.

The Syrian regime collapsed slowly -- and then suddenly www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

08.12.2024 20:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"This project is moving at quantum speed with minimal community engagement or public scrutiny," Friends of the Parks wrote in an e-mail alert last night. "Community concerns, protections, and benefits related to issues such as displacement, environmental hazards, and access to Park 566 and Steelworkers Park need to be addressed before the project gets another green light."

Friends of the Parks takes aim at South Works quantum plan (gift link to Crain’s Chicago Business article) www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/fri...

19.11.2024 14:59 — 👍 25    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 3

If this site allows me to find news stories and opinions and cute cat photos without having to scroll through 5 million AI-generated schlock pictures a day, it will have done its job.

19.11.2024 04:48 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Global infant mortality rate with and without vaccines Infant mortality rates measure the share of newborns who die before reaching their first birthday. They are shown here as the actual observed change in the global rate (in blue), and a hypothetical sc...

Global infant mortality rate, with and without vaccines, 1974-2024, via Our World in Data Data. Source: Shattock et al. (2024). Contribution of vaccination to improved child survival: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization. ourworldindata.org/grapher/infa...

19.11.2024 04:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A small round rusty cover with the words, “WATER” and “KEISEM VAN LEER CO” on it.

Round iron utility cover with a smattering of round holes in it and a crosshatch pattern, plus the letters C U T C O

Round iron utility cover with a pattern of round raised bumps and the words “H.W. CLARK Co. MATTOON, ILL, U.S.A. 55”

Round iron utility cover with a pattern of round raised bumps and the words “LINCOLN FOUNDRY. LINCOLN, ILL”

A collection of covers from Bloomington, Illinois, for #ManholeCoverMonday
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18.11.2024 20:04 — 👍 29    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0