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Lisa Porter, who lives a couple of blocks away from Fisher, had to take deep breaths before describing her interactions with agents. She yelled at Border Patrol agents parked near her house to leave for several minutes in the early afternoon, she said, inspired by videos she had seen of Chicago residents who had chased ICE agents out of their neighborhoods. "Just based on how I feel after this, I cannot imagine — or, I see what people are going through, and it is unspeakable," Porter said. "And I'm a white lady who's sitting in a nice suburb in Chicago."

On social media, local rapid response advocates said they had received reports of federal immigration enforcement activity in Mount Prospect, but by the time they arrived at the scene, the community "had already taken action." Only a few minutes earlier, the advocates said, neighbors and residents had interrupted the operation with honks and whistles until the agents left. A similar scene of community resistance played out in Rolling Meadows, another suburb just west of Mount Prospect, where videos shared to social media showed federal officials — including agents wearing CBP garb - outside La Michoacana ice cream shop on Algonquin Road. Against a loud backdrop of car honks, passersby filmed agents driving away in their vehicles. In one video, an agent can be seen pointing a weapon toward bystanders from the back seat of a truck with the window rolled down.

some light in all of the darkness.

mount prospect, illinois, is 63% white. the suburb’s median household income is ~$104,000.

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Shubh Deepavali! Wishing everyone a very happy Diwali.

Across our city, families are lighting diyas and celebrating the triumph of light over darkness and hope over despair.

New York shines brighter tonight because of the people who bring their light and traditions home.

Happy Diwali!

Call your reps immediately and demand they fully fund and reform transit in Illinois. This is absolutely imperative for the state’s long term economic health and quality of life. As the federal government collapses in on itself we cannot wait. Now is the time for us to define our own future.

All hands on deck, folks — we gotta pass this NEXT WEEK!

Call your state reps TODAY.

Sign up to canvass.

Sign up to phone bank. (links coming later today)

We need you to get in the fight with us!

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

Elgin police officer put on leave after Facebook post about ICE immigration efforts An Elgin police officer was put on leave after posting a Facebook message about immigration enforcement, Police Chief Ana Lalley said.

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.

What a self-report.

Editor at the NYT admits to reading the world through the lense of his X feed, which makes sense of so much that comes from the NYT and other legacy media outlets (where I assume this is also a problem).

Are we in The Troubles

it has worked for traffic violence 😞

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

This image is so French just looking at it gave me a mistress and I don't even have a girlfriend

👀 “Budget cuts — oh no they’re coming soon!”

And that’s why you need to call your reps THIS WEEK and demand they pass transit funding in veto session!

🚫 No more kicking the can down the road.

📲 call.savetransit.org

Border Patrol Arrests 11 Rideshare Drivers At O'Hare Parking Lot It is the second time federal agents arrested rideshare drivers at O'Hare Airport, targeting workers that are the "backbone of Chicago's transportation system," an advocacy group said.

Federal agents arrested 11 rideshare drivers at O'Hare Saturday, the second time agents have targeted workers who are the "backbone" of the city's transportation network, an advocacy group said.
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JARFIELD

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

People who still hang out on Twitter daily bullshitting and posting like business as usual give me the extreme ick.

Dumb thing to analyze about that video but it is funny his oxygen mask thing does not cover his nose when he is flying a plane filled with shit

Ceasefire in name only

This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing

Small fluffy orange kitten looking back at the camera, on a blue and white rug

This is my current foster Garfield, who just got adoption confirmation today by a family that has been referring to him as jarfield

Quote post from X by "OscarAI": Never do this: Passing off someone else’s work as your own. This Grok Imagine effect with the day-to-night transition was created by me — and I’m pretty sure that person knows it. To make things worse, their copy has more impressions than my original post. Not cool 👎 Quoted post: Prashant @Prashant_1722 Oct 15 Grok Imagine trick: Add "day to night transition" to your prompt. In shots like this, you’ll see a beautiful, harmonious effect as the day turns int... (AI slop animation video)

we are in a self-awareness crisis

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

the massive scale of the No Kings protests, from the organizers’ perspectives, was ALWAYS about making it easy for people to people to go and meet organizers and organizations and mutual aid:

“Let this be a springboard, not the end of your journey.”

if you went, how are you doing so?

The thing about these liberal-friendly protests - which I think are great to see! - is that the necessary next step is for all these people to be pushed to the left, and to carry out actions of the left on behalf of the left. In essence to cease being a liberal, whose only remedy is waiting to vote.

If you were at #NoKings #NoKingsChicago yesterday & are looking to get more connected to ongoing efforts, I’m gonna share a few things that I frequently recommend to people. The first is obvious & timely, given the state of our city.

(I’ve learned I need to put 🧵 lol yay I’m learning the Internet)

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

i love when people from other countries are like “does the US know how bad things are???” and it’s like YEA WE’RE AWARE

Normie protests are good. Mobilize the normies. Radicalize the normies