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When my daughter's school went into lockdown over ICE reports yesterday, another local parent told me that volunteers were immediately on scene to offer support. (lockdown was quickly lifted, with no notable activity).

It's really striking how many people in Chicago seem to be visibly engaged. As teenagers stream into school, speaking a mix of languages, I notice adults with their orange whistles strolling the neighborhood and scanning cars.

if they blow this i swear

ask yourself important questions, like "am i referring to a real place that actually exists" and "did the events i am describing happen there"

There’s a viral video reposted by a lot of news people nationally about an abduction at West Loop Elementary School, but there is no school with that name. The video seems to be of ICE detaining people near UIC yesterday. Details matter. We need to try to get them right before sharing.

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

agree

Yes! And relatedly if you’re going to cover Chicago and you’re not from here, please get geographical details right. Names of places, names of schools, names of cities and neighborhoods. Do a basic google search!

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
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like this. (h/t, @unraveledpress.com, as well as @icirr.bsky.social/SSIP)

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Video is circulating of some significant spontaneous community resistance to ICE in Aurora, IL today. (Simultaneously—another video is circulating of feds chasing and tasing a man in Bolingbrook.)

broadview, elwood and great lakes are important components to the infrastructure that allows this system of snatch-and-grab detentions to operate.

but i promise if you take a twenty minute drive down the interstate, you'll see what they're actually doing every day to people with minimal oversight

i'm watching in real time across facebook groups, texts from family and updates from SSIP as HSI posts up in my hometown and the areas where i grew up in the southwest suburbs, which have a large immigrant population. people are disappearing off the street and there is legitimately minimal coverage.

while ICE and HSI and ARNG shoot off pepper balls at protesters, countless others are being deployed throughout chicago's suburbs and pulling people from cars, jobsites and school pick up lines

if you're a national outlet zooming in to cover immigration raids in chicago and you're only in broadview or elwood you're doing it wrong, just saying

HBO streaming that game was absolute garbage! but love to see a W

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

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Of all the things we’ve seen in Chicago, can’t recall anything like these scenes, reportedly from 63rd and Kostner on the South Side

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Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

The Energy Department adds “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its restricted list.

NLG Chicago Denounces Continued Violence from Federal Law Enforcement and Attacks on Free Speech and Press in Broadview, Illinois. On Saturday, September 27, 2025, National Lawyers Guild of Chicago (NLG Chicago) witnessed alarming and violent attacks on those assembled to protest at the ICE detention facility in suburban Broadview, IL. CHICAGO - On Saturday, September 27, 2025, National Lawyers Guild of Chicago (NLG Chicago) witnessed alarming and violent attacks on those assembled to protest at the ICE detention facility in suburban Broadview, IL. The pattern of law enforcement violence and targeted attacks persisted yesterday, with agents launching chemical agents and firing munitions at members of the press and people assembled to protest.

NG Chicago has confirmed at least 11 arrests from yesterday, including one member of the press who was clearly identified as a journalist. As of Sunday morning, it appears 5 people remain in federal custody. This brings the total number of NLG confirmed arrests at the protests against the Broadview facility to twenty-eight (28), since September 19. Twenty-two (22) people from those confirmed arrests have been released. Yesterday, multiple Legal Observers were subjected to violence, as federal agents appeared to directly target Legal Observers who were actively documenting arrests and law enforcement actions. Agents used multiple chemical agents, launched kinetic grenades, and shot rubber bullets, mace, and pepper balls against those assembled. One Legal Observer was shot directly in the face with a projectile. Agents also menaced people by pointing firearms at them, including hand guns and a rifle.

The agents' attacks were notably distinct from prior days in that officers went after people who were simply gathered to support the active protesters. Officers forcibly removed people sheltering from tear gas in vehicles, resulting in the separation of a child from family members who were bringing food in support of the protest. Agents fired weapons at specific protesters in direct response to their First Amendment-protected statements and snatched protesters' signs. Officers also confiscated tents used for shade, as well as food, water and first aid supplies, and people's bike helmets and other personal property, putting them in a dumpster in the restricted area. When some of those present tried to leave in their vehicles, agents blocked them and demanded to illegally search people's bodies and vehicles.

According to Amanda Yarusso, a volunteer attorney with NLG Chicago, "Last night, our Legal Observers witnessed militarized federal agents deploy chemical weapons and fire projectiles at a crowd of people exercising their First Amendment rights. The violence was an indiscriminate, unprovoked, and illegal use of force. These unlawful actions by federal agents demonstrate this administration's complete disregard of constitutional standards." "NG Chicago will continue to provide legal support to individuals exercising their constitutional rights." said Yarusso.

five of the 11 people arrested during last night’s protest outside the ice detention center in broadview, illinois, are still in federal custody, per a statement from the national lawyers guild of chicago.

nlg details indiscriminate violence directed at legal observers, protesters, and press.

TROY210 is up. Be careful out there.

Immigration agents spotted downtown on Michigan Avenue, along Chicago River Dozens of agents, some masked, were seen on Michigan Avenue and along the Riverwalk.

"One arrest witnessed by the @chicago.suntimes.com on Sunday happened near Clark and Superior streets around 2 p.m. Agents chased down a man and asked him for his papers. About two dozen agents surrounded the man, who was handcuffed."

Border Patrol in Chicago, 500+ miles from the Canadian border and 1,400+ from the Mexican border.

I’m glad ICE released Steve Held, who they grabbed last night in Broadview.

Now, the government must stop trying to deport journalist Mario Guevara, the Atlanta journalist who ICE targeted in retaliation for his immigration coverage.

Steve (@peoplesfabric.com), @unraveledpress.com, @thetriibe.com (and others with them) have been doing some of the most phenomenal coverage of ICE ops/protests in Chicago.

They’ve had a journalist shot in the face w/ pepper balls and another detained for it.

Journalism is not a crime. Free Steve.

Federal agents detained Chicago journalist Steve Held of Unraveled Press on Saturday, September 27 outside of the Broadview Detention Facility while he was reporting on the ongoing protests. We urge his immediate release. Injustice Watch, Invisible Institute, Block Club Chicago, Lumpen Radio, Investigative Project on Race & Equity, The TRiiBE, South Side Weekly, Cicero Independiente, Reader, Borderless

ICE must release Steve and must stop targeting journalists

@unraveledpress.com wrote this yesterday after one of their journalists got popped in the face by a pepper ball.

tonight, federal agents detained the other journalist while he was doing his job.