had a very respectful chat about theology tonight
monica 🍉🌞
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chapbook CIGUANABA out now: monicainesgarza.itch.io/ciguanaba she/ella former spanish teacher, currently communications at chicago women's health center. views my own
HOW IT WORKS: Community defenders stop an out of state vehicle at the filter blockade, run the plate through a database, and confirm whether the vehicle is affiliated with abductors before letting it through.
And honestly (speaking from Chicago) it's good that a lot of this stuff stays invisible because it keeps us and our neighbors SAFER. Just don't assume nothing is happening when you don't see it in posts and videos.
Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 9mo agoThe majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
at this point if you're saying "more training" you are complicit
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9mo agoOnce again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.
Several Chicago newsrooms spent two months collecting and analyzing evidence of ICE & Border Patrol's use of tear gas and pepper spray in Chicago. They found that agents deployed chemical agents nearly 50 times. Most uses occurred after a judge ordered federal agents to restrict their use.
Feds Used Chemical Agents Dozens of Times in Chicago
An investigation by reporters from six newsrooms found that agents used chemical irritants nearly 50 times during Operation Midway Blitz.
southsideweekly.com
This chipmunk came up to me and said “Chicago will outlive the federal government” what did he mean by this
Wait they chased off an ICE raid in WHEATON?????????? WHAT???????????????????????????? For people who don't know Chicago imagine like Brigham Young or Liberty University chasing off an ICE raid this is fucking WILD Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · last yr.in wheaton, illinois, this morning— it appears bystanders helped chase off this crew of ice agents, who had boxed in a person's car outside a convenience store. multiple people showed up and recorded the interaction. after a brief back-and-forth with agents, the feds got in their cars and left.
Northwest Side rapid response confirms federal agents present this morning in the Belmont Cragin and Logan Square neighborhoods of Chicago.
in wheaton, illinois, this morning— it appears bystanders helped chase off this crew of ice agents, who had boxed in a person's car outside a convenience store. multiple people showed up and recorded the interaction. after a brief back-and-forth with agents, the feds got in their cars and left.
New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:
What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.
unraveledpress.com
Here is a list of OTG accounts that I recommend following for useful live or near live on the ground reporting in Chicago bsky.app/profile/did:...
We got a real fucky week ahead of us, rest as much as you can, stay hydrated when you're not resting, do both if you can figure it out! operate locally, win globally <3 #birds
No reports of ICE arrests yet so far today in Chicago, but rapid response is reporting feds are active and have been spotted on the Southwest Side again. Community alert: instagram.com/p/DOWAj-bjQGB/
Somebody has now made this into a graphic that's circulating widely. It's still false. There are many trustworthy orgs monitoring the situation on the ground, like ICIRR and OCAD and CAARPR and NLG Chicago and TRP. Listen to them, not random unsourced, undated stuff reshared onto your timeline.
Soren Spicknall@sorenspicknall.bsky.social · last yr.There's a video going viral in Chicago right now by a guy claiming large scale raids will start around 2AM in specific neighborhoods. It's BS. The person who posted it has a checkered history of false claims to try to gain followers and drum up business for a private security company he runs.
We've heard a lot of gossip about residents + tenants complaining to management—not about protesters, but about the ICE activity that brought them. If it's true the feds have been cut off, that means Chicagoans have shut off a pipeline that was easily providing a dozen or more detainees a day.
the moment i knew zohran mamdani was the real deal was that video he did in spanish. his pronounciation + fluency was so good, people said it was ai, so he dropped the behind-the-scenes of him struggling to say "permanentamente" www.youtube.com/watch?v=mazE...
Un ciudad para todos neoyorquinos: Zohran Mamdani para Alcalde de NYC
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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imagine what Mr Casaubon could have done on a diet of Diet Coke, ketamine and journalistic admiration
I really liked this essay!
Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · last yr."Apparently, my nerves can’t be trusted. So their distress signals are blocked by paralyzed muscle: They’re sent out over and over but never received." Explore chronic pain and the unreality in Ella Harrigan's memoir MAL À La TÊTE from our JUNE ISSUE: buff.ly/hjo7CDE
The noise demo has grown, in terms people, variety of instruments, and barricades. So far no ICE sightings. Yesterday they arrived before 9am.
A lot has happened this week. While the big rallies dominate headlines, we'll most remember this one brave protester who singlehandedly stopped a kidnapping van from returning to immigration court. Just a profoundly important thing to witness in all the noise.
unraveled@unraveledpress.com · last yr.Masked ICE agents just returned to 55 Monroe in a Dodge Caravan to attempt more pickups. A woman immediately sat in front of their van at the parking garage entrance. The van backed up and turned around. A building security rep emerged and told ICE watchers he's called Chicago Police.