No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · yesterday

30,000,000 dollars

We received a firsthand report of ICE taking someone from downtown Chicago this morning during a routine immigration check-in at 101 W. Ida B Wells. In addition to street and court arrests, ICE has been taking people from immigration check-in appointments since before Operation Midway Blitz.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · last yr.

It was a frantic day for Chicagoans yesterday as ICE operations in the city escalated. Agents abducted a longtime organizer at an ICE check-in site, and separated families inside immigration court. City council members and activists tried to halt the vans. CPD was there:

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

iPhone doesn’t do justice to the rust-coloured haze over Toronto, or the stench. I was fine in an N95. Birds were having a bona fide party in an utterly deserted Home Smith Park. Thinking about my impassioned speech in elementary school arguing for the swift implementation of the Kyoto accords.

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

Something I learned a few years ago that's really salient for the heatwave that's about to hit the northeast/mid-atlantic (maybe the south IDK) is that Northeastern prisons have higher rates of heat deaths than southern prisons because of bad heat protocols.

Lots of ICE alerts in the northwest side of Chicago (Logan, Humboldt, hermosa) in the past week. Bad sign to start the summer.

rapid response groups are reporting at least two ice abductions in chicago already this morning: one in avondale at diversey/pulaski (pictured below) and one in humboldt park at kolmar/grand.

New: We've been tracking reports of ICE activity across Chicagoland for five weeks. In that time, rapid responders have seen an escalation as feds have abducted dozens, caused at least two car crashes, threatened community members with weapons and flouted state courthouse protections. Read more:

“ICE never really left:” car crashes and courthouse arrests mark spring escalation

Videos show federal agents pointing weapons at bystanders and trying to access state property as rapid response groups have reported at least 80 detainments across Chicagoland in the last five weeks.

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Federal immigration agents are still swamping Chicagoland. Sightings in multiple city neighborhoods and in the suburbs today, with reports of at least three people being taken. "ICE is everywhere," the immigrant advocacy/rapid response group Hijos de Migrantes posted in an alert earlier today.

As ICE ramps up their bullshit for the summer, a reminder that me and a whole bunch of other folks will get whistles out to you, for free, in quantities of 100 to thousands, to distribute in your communities. Just send a request here linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

This morning federal agents hit a woman’s vehicle while chasing and eventually detaining a man, later using a taser on him while pointing tasers and pepper spray at bystanders at Lawrence/Kedzie in Albany Park. Story to come via @chicago.suntimes.com

Just cross posting this horrific intel from an independent journalist who has been on the ground in NJ for the last few days: www.threads.com/@hereswhykev...

seeing reports of rubber bullets and tear gas with an absolute deluge of police forces at Delaney. for tue second night in a row, people are facing cops on charging horses. the governor said sending in state police was “deescalating” the situation.

Status Coup News@statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨BREAKING: NJ State police fire flash bang grenades at anti-ICE protesters at POINT BLANK RANGE outside Delaney Hall ICE Prison. "Poison in this f*cking wasteland!" our Jon Farina says. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️

i feel like people should maybe be more concerned about the license plate readers they strapped to every parking gate

Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lakefront parking gates have sparked concerns over access: "The lakefront should be for everyone." blockclubchi.co/4wXjXuY

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unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 8mo ago

I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

my sincere hope for this moment is that people understand that these reports apply to every detention site, and that detention in of itself is a potential death sentence for anyone in this country no one should experience these horrors regardless of what they’re accused of

Prism@prismreports.org · 2mo ago

“My biggest concern is that somebody else is going to die.” Delaney Hall detainees decry inhumane conditions & no access to medications, @alexmar.bsky.social reports. A Brazilian mother was detained during a routine ICE check-in in Newark, NJ, despite an ongoing visa request & health conditions.

Baby great blue herons at Oak Woods Cemetery

Chicagoland has seen a steady pace of ICE sighting + abduction alerts all week. After one person was taken in Waukegan yesterday, this morning feds are dispersed broadly across the burbs again. Seen in Round Lake Beach and Joliet so far. A worker was snatched at a Bolingbrook Burger King at 5:30am.

It's always cool to see amazing people get attention for their awesome books (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge

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Just my opinion, but this is starting to sound like letting the sheriff spend a million dollars AND unilaterally decide all of the county's ALPR policies

shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the only other things i have to go on are the "piggyback" contract—which despite the ccso saying multiple times was in cobb county, ga is actually in orange, ca—and whatever the sheriff's office has said publicly about it. my understanding is the ccso is negotiating its own privacy agreement.

if you take one thing away from my reporting pls let it be that *all* surveillance is bad. not just flock. not just briefcam. get rid of one and they’ll get another. companies and police have deliberately built a world where every aspect of our lives is collected and centralized and commodified.

Stephanie Kollmann@slkollmann.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I absolutely do not believe that federal authorities will not have easier access to this info *but even if that were true* we JUST SAW how easy it is to find a friendly fed judge in TX to dislodge records held in one state for medical care deemed unlawful by another

ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir

The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.

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May the 4th be with you as we are living in a crisis where the distance between what it said and what is known to be true has become an abyss Even so, you are not alone, you have friends everywhere

a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the word kepler is on the bottom right

ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the word kepler is on the bottom right

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Walgreens is closing another two locations this year in my area (SE Chicago). After they closed THREE last year. When they closed the 3 last year, my Walgreens became UNBEARABLE in terms of waiting. You’d walk in to pick up your “ready” med, & wait 45(!) minutes! Routinely!

Walgreens to close another South Side Chicago store, citing theft and ‘violent incidents’

Walgreens is planning to close another South Side location, citing theft and violent incidents — a move that’s drawing the ire of local leaders who say their communities rely on the store. The Walgree...

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There’s a Chicago Beaver Festival this afternoon in Nichols Park on the South Side. www.illinoisbeaveralliance.org/2026-chicago...

Loving the random Xena nods on Hacks lol Please can we have a Lucy Lawless/Renee O’Conner rewatch podcast??