you enter the crosswalk and you don't have to make Dominant Predator eye contact with motorists the entire time as they rev their engines threateningly and inch their cars slowly toward you if you don't scurry deferently enough for their liking
29.10.2025 23:13 β π 76 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
people keep asking me what the biggest cultural difference between poland and the US was in my experience and i can always see their confusion and upset when i say "in poland nobody tries to hit you with their car"
29.10.2025 23:11 β π 87 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
29.10.2025 16:49 β π 13130 π 3729 π¬ 11 π 190
Hey y'all Matilda is a dear friend, comrade and fellow @avlblade.bsky.social journalist. She really needs a vehicle, soon, to make it through the winter. Please share and support as you can.
29.10.2025 22:56 β π 19 π 29 π¬ 1 π 0
Disabled immigrants detained at Adelanto report abuse and neglect
Disability Rights California found inhumane conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, where a 39-year-old man died last month
President Trumpβs immigration crackdown has led to increased ICE raids, resulting in human rights abuses in detention centersβincl. the abuse & neglect of disabled immigrants, Reina Sultan reports. A monitoring visit at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center has exposed inhumane & unlawful conditions.
26.10.2025 15:53 β π 102 π 75 π¬ 2 π 0
Rogers Park Immigrant Families Need Your Support
Please give as you are able AND share this page! If you have friends and family asking how they can support Chicago in this difficult time, this is a way to directly support families. Go FundMe Link...
If you would like to support some of the families of people who have been abducted by ICE in my area during the recent federal attacks on our community that I've written about, local organizers have put together this trusted list of crowd funds.
23.10.2025 16:13 β π 459 π 333 π¬ 3 π 4
Cook County Board Reapproves Contract with ICE-Linked Data Firm as Raids Sweep Chicago
Four years after first being warned that a contract risked exposing immigrant data to ICE, Cook County approved another renewalβthis time with advocates commissioners voicing frustration that stronger...
Iβve been tracking this contract since 2023, and last week, Cook County quietly renewed it. As ICE raids continue across Chicago, the board approved another $1M deal with a data broker tied to ICE. My latest for @southsideweekly.bsky.social
28.10.2025 19:03 β π 384 π 242 π¬ 11 π 10
Support Jamaica
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
28.10.2025 17:08 β π 2715 π 2092 π¬ 20 π 53
This Isnβt the First Time Chicagoβs Been Used as a Laboratory for Policing
IlΔ Ravichandran says the current anti-immigrant policing in Chicago builds on attacks on Black Lives Matter protesters.
βChicago has long been a laboratory for policing. From the repression of labor movements in the early 20th century, to COINTELPRO surveillance, to Jon Burgeβs torture regime... the city has been central to testing and refining state violence.β
-IlΔ Ravichandran
truthout.org/articles/thi...
28.10.2025 18:50 β π 506 π 222 π¬ 12 π 5
New: mutual aid fund supporting immigrant families impacted
All donations support families in Chicago IL who have been directly impacted by detention, deportation, and ICE raids
Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids
Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
25.10.2025 17:45 β π 206 π 152 π¬ 2 π 9
Judge Lets Nebraska Move Forward With Plan to Convert Prison Into Migrant Jail
State and federal officials have said they expect to house the first detainees by the end of this week.
A judge has cleared Nebraska to move ahead with converting a state prison into a migrant detention center, with officials expecting to house the first detainees by weekβs end.
27.10.2025 21:00 β π 48 π 53 π¬ 2 π 7
it is simply nobody's business why someone on SNAP is doing literally anything short of murder
27.10.2025 19:25 β π 699 π 139 π¬ 8 π 1
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hi, axolotl lovely / frog K here, internet transfem illuminatus, writer, etc. my steadily declining income is too little for groceries, i have like $20, and my household is losing SNAP. help me get to winco already
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27.10.2025 19:19 β π 22 π 35 π¬ 0 π 1
[to the TMNT theme] πΆjebaΔ kurwa zmianΔ czasuπΆ
27.10.2025 18:58 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Timmy Has a Collective of Centrally-Dispersed (...Disbursed?) Childcare Workers
26.10.2025 19:23 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
They're gassing one of the richest neighborhoods in Chicago today
24.10.2025 17:56 β π 1267 π 450 π¬ 28 π 11
In Earnings Calls, Private Prison Executives Revel in Profiting Off ICE Arrests
βOur business is perfectly aligned with the demands of this moment,β CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger said on the call.
CoreCivic and other private prison CEOs boasted on investor calls about surging profits from ICE arrests, with CEO Damon Hininger touting that their business model now βperfectly alignsβ with government detention priorities under Trump.
24.10.2025 20:50 β π 47 π 36 π¬ 2 π 5
how will the students who stay home receive food
schools are major distributors of food and that cannot be ignored
24.10.2025 02:39 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
ICE Agents Are Using Family Separation Tactics Central to US State Violence
The USβs family policing system honed many of the tactics now being used by ICE agents in Chicago.
"ICE agents utilize key tactics honed through the family policing system."
"To build long-term sustainable challenges to ICE and to family policing, we must see them as intertwined and part of [..] the same carceral state."
#Illinois #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
23.10.2025 22:13 β π 117 π 53 π¬ 1 π 4
tear gas used by border patrol on a residential street in chicago's little village neighborhood
tear gas as residents scream "go home!" and blow whisltes at 10-15 militarized border patrol agents wearing gas masks.
greg bovino is there. people are calling him "bombino" and asking him about his fall.
alder byron sigcho-lopez is also at the front of the crowd, per a facebook live feed.
23.10.2025 15:17 β π 290 π 105 π¬ 4 π 10
i grasp how desperate things are in general but i am pretty skint and have kinda been skating by malnourished for a bit, have two mouths to feed and am sickly and ignorant like a runt dog. here is a qr code if that helps, i know cashapp's been fussy
22.10.2025 18:06 β π 22 π 35 π¬ 0 π 2
please itβs urgent iβm really worried
21.10.2025 16:45 β π 50 π 79 π¬ 0 π 0
Federal agents were also active on Chicago's northwest side this morning, per rapid response teams.
They report multiple people "questioned and detained" near a Burger King in Humboldt Park, near North & Mozart, and at least one person detained at a gas station in Hermosa, near Armitage & Pulaski.
22.10.2025 17:31 β π 54 π 30 π¬ 2 π 1
Today they even had hats, gloves, scarves, and insulated socks available. It's going to be a long winter for a lot of people so figured I would share one place that helped me out
22.10.2025 16:04 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
PSA if you are in the 60618 or 60641 ZIP codes and want to register with your neighborhood food bank before SNAP gets cut, your last chance in October after today will be on the 29th between 9 am and 12 pm. BYOB (bring your own bags), everyone is very helpful :)
22.10.2025 16:00 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
here we can see transparency and accountability wielded by the State in order to expand policing and its administrative functions
21.10.2025 16:42 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
reunited with my lawfully wedded wife (prednisone)
21.10.2025 09:44 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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