Rissa Montañez

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I'm eager for the soundtrack 🎶

Brennan Lee Mulligan on Make Some Noise: "Have you ever tried to write? It's the saddest, hardest, worst thing in the world."

Sometimes I sit down and it do be like that.

Some of the comments left on this thread have me doing a double-take.

Play with Legos or yourself, don't play with me.

GOOD.

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New USCIS ‘Special Agents’ Will Be Given the Power to Arrest, Use Deadly Force Against Immigrants - American Immigration Council USCIS, the agency tasked with issuing green cards, will have “special agents" authorized to carry firearms and arrest immigrants.

I know lots of Chicagoans who haven’t slept tonight, myself included. This goes into effect today.

“Carry firearms, conduct vehicular pursuits, and use force, up to and including lethal force, when appropriate.”

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/uscis-s...

Do you work for a company that's sent out any correspondence about what to do if ICE is in the general vicinity or enters your place of employment?

Asking because the place I work at, hasn't, and I'm curious to know if anyone has and what's being suggested as any standard operating procedure.

Or the experiences of the marginalized in general and it's horrible.

And it's atrocious.

Tons of chips are stacked against trans/disabled/marginalized and us as people of color.

But people don't seem to understand that.

I recognize my privilege every single day in few things but I also realize many people also don't give a fuck about Hispanics or Latinas.

Unless your commentary comes with a set of instructions and empathy, not interested in what you have to say, because if you had any at all THAT is what you should be sharing instead of completely dismissing what the fuck I actually said.

Yeah, please go on, since you're here to try to flex on me with a scenario you've never had to consider? Or do you usually pop off with rhetorical questions because you think you're doing something cool and you think it's a clapback?

“Stop believing the lies they are putting out there. The only person that is harming you right now is the old white nepo baby that is sitting in the White House that is causing all the destruction, pain, and problems you are enduring."
- Jasmine Crockett.

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Or maybe stop victim-blaming and ask how you can be a helper.

And unless you've been living under a rock, people have been fighting back the best way they know how.

Bullies are definitely cowards and unfortunately, more make themselves known in person and on social media every day.

People have been fighting in the ways they are able to and I don't know one person who's just been sitting around hoping for the best.

Point to where I said it's impossible to get one.

Can't? Yeah. Because I didn't fucking say that. It's ONE element of being able to leave elsewhere. Go be a piece of shit somewhere else.

That isn't what I'm saying. Kindly fuck off and find someone else to troll.

I'm so tired.

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Horror is knowing major news coverage isn't happening for these situations.

Is ANYONE paying attention?

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This shit right here.

WHY.

There's no reason for this.

Trump is a clown who'd rather go after people minding their own business than actually do his job.

Thank fuck.

"Why don't you just move?!"

Do YOU have the means to start over elsewhere?

Do you have a passport?

Do you have the money to pay bills for a year?

Do you have housing and guaranteed employment??

No. OKAY. That's not what this is about so please for anyone spreading this rhetoric, STOP IT.

Updates about what's been happening in Chicago can be found mostly on Threads. If you have an account there look for independent news spots like Block Club Chicago, The Tribe, Chicago Reader, & WBEZ.

I'm told that nearly none of my friends or family outside of the city knows what's going on. Scary.

Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities in Brighton Park Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting officers to open fire, DHS said.

A woman was shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents Saturday on Chicago’s South Side, marking the second shooting since President Trump’s administration launched an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the area last month.

President Donald Trump is sending 300 National Guard troops to Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Saturday. blockclubchi.co/3KsDe3V