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terrible loss.

You’d think the part of Serenity that aged worst is Joss Whedon getting to make a movie but it’s actually that broadcasting proof of an atrocity is the undoing of the people who committed it

columbus was your median startup founder

A poster on a pole next to a street says: “ICE YOU ARE NOT INVISIBLE !RECORD! !RECORD! !RECORD! NAZI RATS LEAVE OUR CITY”

A stack of posters featuring a hammer-wielding figure with the stars of the Chicago wrapped around his torso. It says: “I PREFER MY ICE CRUSHED. END IMMIGRATION ARRESTS, DEFEND OUR SANCTUARY”

A sign in a store window says: “WE DON’T [SERVE is crossed out] FEED ICE OR PIGS! even if you steal this sign”

The words “ICE OUT” are written in chalk on a sidewalk.

A few messages seen today in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood

A timeline I have put together to document key monents in the attack on Chicago: 6/16/2025 : Limited but heavily militarized and anonymized ICE activity  9/19/2025 : Broadview Escalation: 9/22/2025: Broadview: More chemical irritant use:   9/23/2025: Silverio Villegas González Murdered  9/26/2025: Broadview Scrum 1: Vehicular Violence and indiscriminate chemical irritants  9/30/2025: South Shore Raid  10/3/2025: Logan Square Tear Gassed  10/3/2025: Broadview Scrum 2: ISP+ crowd control; Deliberate attack on protesters by ICE while filming for content, Dan Bovino  10/3/2025: Arrested Alderman  10/4/2025: Brighton Park Stand Off  10/10/2025: WGN Producer Aggressively Arrested under suspicious reasons, no charge 10/12/2025: Albany Park Standoff 

The Federal government has attacked Chicago but Chicagoans are doing a great job documenting what is happening. However, I do not feel that there is a solid timeline of key events forming, and so I put one together

Here is a 🧵with details on each, including sourcing and videos. AMA

Not only does this add another layer of protest & free speech repression at Broadview but it also protects the identities & vehicles of ICE, CBP, & DHS agents who use the 25th & Harvard driveway as a primary entry / exit point for abduction operations. Local & state gov’ts continue their complicity.

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

In ‘One Golden Summer,’ director Kevin Shaw probes the Jackie Robinson West Little League controversy The documentary, which will open the Chicago International Film Festival this week, features revealing interviews with the now-adult athletes who won the Little League U.S. Baseball Championship befor...

This doc is gonna have a Mark Konkol jump scare isn’t it

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

the foreign policy of the united states during the gaza war should have been to cause the collapse of netanyahu's government by any means which were expedient

The Ricketts family milks the Cubs dry, and uses their wealth to elect fascists to the federal government. It’s a heinous state of affairs.

Worth emphasizing that Trump's singular trick for facilitating a deal in Israel was just...being publicly frustrated with Netanyahu and threatening to walk. That's not a unique talent, it's just a thing Biden personally and ideologically was unwilling to do. Lowest bar cleared to great relief.

Finally got something out of my head that's been there a while: A capsule history of the mid-density Chicago apartment building daniel-kay-hertz.ghost.io/the-life-dea...

….is that

Hey Portland friends, is ICE snatching people in your neighborhoods or is all the action just costumes at the main facility?

So many people i talk to mention that their out-of-state friends or family have heard little to nothing about what’s going on in Chicago.

Some viral stories like the South Shore apartments raid or Rev. Black getting shot break through but the persistent Fed violence in the streets in lost.

Clinton CTA station at 540 West Lake Street, opened 1909 and renovated 1994-1996 by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

Clinton CTA station at 540 West Lake Street, opened 1909 and renovated 1994-1996 by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

These guys are absolutely going to shoot more people.

They’ve already killed one man, shot a woman, and we’ve seen a pattern of pulling firearms on unarmed people doing nothing violent or illegal over the past few weeks.

Clearly they do not care at all about the temporary restraining orders.

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

Chicago brings a Monstrance. Protests at the Broadview detention center began 19 years ago. Demoralized by our mistreatment of migrants, a Catholic immigration lawyer I know started praying there on Fridays. A month later he was joined by some Sisters of Mercy. They’ve been holding it down since.

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Allowing fascists to control the narrative and continually shift the Overton window by saying "no we want to fund the cops MORE than you, we'll give ICE even MORE money, etc" to appease them and try to win them over helped land us here. They enjoy watching people get brutalized on the news.

For decades lawmakers have funded and outfitted cops with military gear who are trained to unload on anyone for any reason they see fit, and now getting indiscriminately beaten and arrested by them is apparently the only defense from the actual military doing worse.

Telling the federal court that IL police can handle Broadview was part of the state's legal strategy against national guard being deployed here.

But it's hard to square that as for the good of protestors or Illinoisans as a whole, when IL police are perfectly willing to drag and beat them anyway.

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’ The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

Some messages are printed on 18-by-24-inch yard signs or smaller placards; others are drawn ornately by hand on paper or written in chalk. The few who will talk about the signs they created say the urgency of the moment compelled them to act.

(🎁link below)

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While this is going on here, ICE has been spotted on foot + in vehicles across SW + NW sides of Chicago. Can't verify reports rn, but also presuming suburbs. Yesterday was brutal. It's not lost on us they have more agents free for weekend kidnappings now with their facility secured by state police.