Sophia Kalakailo (she/they)

🧐From the #Newswire: How you can get involved amid ICE crackdowns. Plus, Know Your Rights trainings, rapid response teams and more ⬇️
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...

ICE Arrests Chicago Day Laborer who Sued Off-Duty Cops — City Bureau Willian Alberto Gimenez Gonzalez was detained Sept. 12. Advocates believe he was targeted because of an ongoing lawsuit alleging he and four other day laborers were assaulted outside a Chicago Home De...

I visited his church last night for a vigil held in solidarity with Willian and immigrant communities. Congregation members have visited him at North Lake. Dozens of people came to the service and called for his release.
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we updated our resource guide with the latest headlines and more ways to protect yourself and others— like how to get updates from your local rapid response teams, how you can run errands for your neighbors afraid to leave their homes and more 👇🏻👇🏻

CPD has 20+ injured on duty this afternoon, most/all from federal use of gas. Related: no arrests by CPD, no documented uses of force by CPD. (I wasn't everywhere / didn't see every skirmish. And possibly some late-entry TRR forms to come.) Saw two federal arrests, saw one on video didn't witness.

Protesters have decorated this parking lot fence on Beach with flyers for Silverio Villegas González. Two ICE agents shot and killed him in his car in neighboring Franklin Park three weeks ago. He leaves behind two sons he was caring for.

Words and actions, compare and contrast

this video is so obviously AI lmao. like he’s one of my favorite artists and this isn’t even remotely how he talks 💀

Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations…

Eileen O'Neill Burke made it harder for people to have their innocence claims investigated by the Cook County Conviction Integrity Unit — one of several ways her office is weakening review of wrongful convictions. Read the latest from us and @boltsmag.org:

come thru!!

Mother, children detained by ICE at Millennium Park Sunday held at O’Hare with other families: ‘We never imagined’ The mother said she felt her family was targeted because of their appearance. “There were a lot more people there, but the agents came directly to us because of how we look,” she said.

“Noemi Chavez and her two children are now confined to a room at O’Hare International Airport, awaiting transfer to a detention facility in Texas before deportation to Guatemala,“ reports the @chicagotribune.com

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I'm constantly reminded that most people are completely disinterested in genuinely listening to gun violence survivors and are more interested in winning an imaginary debate competition. like wow, you really owned MAGA by plastering a mass murderer's photo everywhere. good job guys.

Heading: “Cool bug Fact’s” Text: “The highest honor in journalism is being murdered by the ClA” The text appears next to a crudely illustrated computer-generated image of a caterpillar in red shoes and boxing gloves.

u know i had to bring this one back

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

very casual brag

BREAKING: Body camera footage obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times shows the scene after an ICE agent fatally shot Silverio Villegas González. The ICE agent said his injuries were "nothing major," video shows, but DHS reported the agent was “seriously injured.” trib.al/6UcvUU7

come to our next public newsroom in bronzeville! it's free and there will be food + beverages :D

And it seems like the survivors & victims at Evergreen High School — or any other recent victims of gun violence for that matter — couldn’t hold our attention for even a moment.

School-shooting survivors won’t remember your think-pieces but they will remember being forgotten. I remember how quickly news media and the public turned their backs on my university after a mass shooting in my senior year.

video from west chicago posted to facebook this morning shows agents breaking a person’s rear driver’s side window, forcing them from their car, and handcuffing them.

one day the masses will understand the monumental value of my online ramblings, but until that day i will bide my time and continue my screaming into the void

Cómo obtener ayuda — y ayudar a otros — en medio de las redadas de ICE en Chicago — City Bureau Ante las supuestas redadas de inmigración, aquí hay consejos de grupos comunitarios de Chicago.

Las redadas de ICE podrían comenzar en Chicago tan pronto como este fin de semana. Aquí hay recursos con líneas directas de apoyo, enlaces a servicios legales y materiales multilingües sobre Conozca sus Derechos. www.citybureau.org/newswire/2025/9/5/como-obtener-ayuda-redadas-de-ice-en-chicago

How Chicagoans Can Get Help and Help Others During ICE Raids — City Bureau Local community groups are providing hotlines, trainings, legal support, community canvassing and other resources to keep people informed.

Officials warn that ICE raids could begin in Chicago as soon as this weekend. We created a resource list with support hotlines, links to legal services, & multilingual Know Your Rights materials to help inform our communities. Access the guide in English: www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...

El Grito Chicago has been called off as ICE agents are sent to Chicago: "We need to keep our community safe." blockclubchi.co/4m2nUrQ

Cómo obtener ayuda — y ayudar a otros — en medio de las redadas de ICE en Chicago — City Bureau Ante las supuestas redadas de inmigración, aquí hay consejos de grupos comunitarios de Chicago.

Lo último de City Bureau: Consejos de grupos comunitarios de Chicago, cómo actuar y otros recursos (versión en español)
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How Chicagoans Can Get Help and Help Others During ICE Raids — City Bureau Local community groups are providing hotlines, trainings, legal support, community canvassing and other resources to keep people informed.

latest from @citybureau.bsky.social: tips from Chicago community groups, Know Your Rights trainings, how you can take action and other resources:
www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...

president snow from the hunger games (an older man, with white hair and a white beard) saying "They're holding hands. I want them dead".

homophobes

Lead pipes are everywhere in Chicago. Here’s how to protect yourself. How to test your water, get free filters and find other help.

If you live in an old Chicago house like me, you probably have lead pipes. From @citybureau.bsky.social in collaboration with WBEZ, The Sun Times, Grist & Inside Climate News, a guide to protecting yourself from lead-contaminated drinking water:
www.wbez.org/environment/...

each day i watch journalists and academics slowly turn this app into their own twisted version of linkedin

Detection of a Fast Radio Burst at Cosmic Noon Today's paper reports the detection of a Fast Radio Burst just 3 billion years after the Big Bang!

From Drew Lapeer @giantmolecular.cloud : Today’s paper reports the detection of a Fast Radio Burst just 3 billion years after the Big Bang! 🔭✨☄️
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