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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

We celebrate images of Tank Man as a universal symbol of nonviolent resistance. There’s no difference between Tank Man and the soft blockade these neighbors are accused of organizing.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I bring it up because presumably she would have been asked to resign or be fired once Trump assumed office had she become US Atty as originally intended. As a judge she has authority to hold the US attorney’s office accountable for their blatant behavior in a way she may not have been able before.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

the scale of weaponization in the broadview six is def unique—not trying to minimize the harm from it—but cops and prosecutors do shady shit every single day and no one finds out about it because the system is titled in their favor. there’s a reason cook county is wrongful conviction capital, usa.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Interesting fact that the only reason the judge in the case is a judge in the first place was because her nomination as US Attorney for the NDIL was blocked by JD Vance. She was then nominated for this judgeship instead.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/04/2026

“If you hate your wife, it’s a lot easier to justify exploiting her unpaid labor for your own personal gain." - my take, in this terrific piece from @amandamarcotte.bsky.social on why MAGA men want--but also loathe--"traditional" wives. www.salon.com/2026/04/08/w...

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Why MAGA men actually loathe tradwives

A new study shows submissive women aren't cherished but are held in contempt

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Are you involved with labor folks? Because they’re putting in the work. And have been.

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Andres A. Chavez @andral404.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Going to go on a rant here for a second… This is the scariest point for me, which is the normalization of ICE activity and the desensitization to these abductions as they happen more sporadically and at lower profile. Last year was a mess, it created a spectacle, but now it’s just everyday.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

That organizing is happening. Indivisible refuses to actually work with on the ground folks to see how they might actually lend their email lists to this effort. Indivisible might as well be political theater for all the missed opportunity of actual change they could have accomplished.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The goal has always been to normalize the presence of armed, militarized forces in our public spaces. Today it’s Ohare. November is the polls. The time to act is now.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

How can we have a justice system when those controlling justice are never held accountable for their miscarriages of justice? Most people can’t believe just how imbalanced things are until the wheels turn against then. And even then they can’t understand that their innocence won’t save them.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It would make sense these idiots would do that considering we already war gamed this out in 2002 and the US navy was promptly wrecked in the simulation. Not like there’s a Wikipedia page Iran could just look at to devise this exact same defense almost 25 years later.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Small children held in Trump's concentration camps. A report. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

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‘I Just Want to Get Out of Here’: ICE Is Detaining Hundreds of Children

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I’m sure it won’t be shocking to hear that the DOJ has, for years now, required indigent defendants to shoulder the cost of producing their discovery to them by similarly requiring attorneys representing them to produce hard drives to the DOJ in order to receive their discovery.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

In the early days when we discovered it, we actually were heartened that there was some political will to do something. But yeah, at this point if I hear one more “listening session” has been set up in response to them murdering us, I might lose my mind completely.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

They even set up a reporting system to document this violation of Illinois law and then surprise did nothing about it.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Because she has spent the last months tweeting about Star Trek instead of feeling the rage and guilt of a bad day when they kidnap a neighbor despite everything you and your neighbors have done to stop it, and you’re left shaking while trying to make sure his work tools aren’t left on the sidewalk.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

@erinbiba blocked me, a person with zero following, instead of confronting her own guilt for only just now waking the fuck up.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The real issue is that it took the murder of a white woman for YOU to actually stand up and care. Many of us have been standing up and pushing back for a long time because we knew the horrors that were coming for all of us. And when they came we didn’t wait for it to affect us personally.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Tell me you haven’t been doing any community ice watch without telling me.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I mean…why do you think thousands and thousands of people are doing Rapid Response? Migra Watch? Whistles? Because we’re horrified every single day that our neighbors are being abducted and killed. Why do you think Renee was there that day? Stop ignoring this moment that’s been happening since LA.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

For months 🧊watchers have seen their own children gassed or come crying from classrooms because their local schools were locked down day after day. We’ve been injured and frightened. These were traumas we endured, assuming the violence but not the death. Yesterday the risk assessment was equalized.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

My own hot take on the murder of Renee Nicole Good-it’s not that she was a white woman, it’s that she was a Migra Watcher. We activate white folks by telling them they are lower risk, and train them for possible arrest, never about risk of death. We all see now how close we’ve come to the same end.

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Jeannette Blackwell @theaterqueen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This isn't ICE's first. Silverio Villegas González was killed in Franklin Park, IL on 9/12/2025. González, 38 and father of two, had lived in Chicago 20 yrs and no criminal history. His death was the 1st fatal shooting by immigration agents of Donald Trump. The agent's name has never been released‼️

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

DHS agents murdered someone in Minneapolis today for filming them. Everything DHS did in L.A. happened in Chicago. Everything that happened in Chicago is happening right now in Minneapolis. It's coming to your city next.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

You know they killed a woman right? Where are you learning journalism with this kind of batshit reporting.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This is terrible. Please folks get yourselves trained if you’re going to do any kind of Rapid Response work. They have shown themselves to be very aggressive. We have the right to document their activity-please do so as safely as possible.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

He’s saying “that war in Russia” but he means Ukraine. We should all be worried that he intends to do this again there.

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WGN NEWS @wgntv.com · 19/12/2025

The Illinois Accountability Commission held a public hearing Thursday to investigate the use of chemical weapons by federal agents in Chicagoland, and heard testimony from witnesses and experts on the impact of the irritants used. Read more: tinyurl.com/5667e9jv

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Unsurprising that you’re not seeing the opposition to this-you’re not seeing that ICE deploys teargas in our neighborhoods when we surround them on the street and scream at them for taking our neighbors. Or how they point guns at us and push us to the ground when they come to our neighborhoods.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

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They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

A real “let them eat Big Macs” moment.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Except now he’s letting state police protect ICE and they’re helping escalate things in Broadview.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

What are you doing about our own state and local police forces being used against our citizens in Broadview today?? Please do something about this.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Are any of your colleagues writing about how none of the panel of CJA lawyers representing indigent defendants in federal court have been paid since July and now with the government shut down we won’t be paid until that’s resolved either?

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The following fucking day. Because that ensures the illusion of due process without giving any real meaning to this essential right.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It’s literally sustaining me during this madness. We’re organizing here. I’ve met more of my neighbors in the last 6 months than I have in the 20 years I’ve lived in my neighborhood because we’re all coming together to protect each other. It’s keeping my hope alive.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Looking closer at the photo it looks like she’s coming from the Pro Bono room, so I guess the answer is now. I have a suit and bar card, I’m happy to escort people to and from court if they’ll have me.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Are any of the people being detained by ICE in this manner represented by attorneys? Are they taking people who appear not to be with attorneys? I know other cities have court watchers attending hearings, but not sure if that’s happening in Chicago.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

And he’ll probably receive some sort of promotion for this, while anyone on TV even slightly suggesting that Charlie Kirk was not the free speech champion they’re trying to turn him into is summarily fired.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Ok but don’t fall into a similar bit of thinking that no one is doing anything about ICE’s activities here. There is a concerted pushback against ICE that’s BEEN happening here and is only getting stronger. Rapid Response groups around the city are only growing in size.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

When are we going to get beyond this ridiculous phase where scholars and journals argue that we’re approaching fascism and just admit that it’s already fucking here.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

No, you didn’t. It’s called an analogy. But that’s clearly too high of a concept for someone who thinks that things will be fine and justice will sort itself out if Bolton didn’t do anything wrong.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Yes, I tell this to my clients all the time “if you didn’t do anything wrong, go ahead and talk to the cops. They’ll just embarrass themselves.” Moron.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

People don’t get how much the Courts are affected by this. As of 7/15 there is no money left to pay appointed fed defense attorneys-no funds until October. How can courts function and rights be protected if the lawyers aren’t paid? We can’t afford to take every case pro bono. Most of us are solos.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This is a great lesson in showing what info the feds regularly rely on. Tracking locations through historical cell records is pretty bullshit but the court are slow to understand the limitations of the data and the FBI agents who testify re HCSL create very misleading exhibits regularly.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

You are USELESS. Someone primary this waste of space, please.

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Carpe Jugular @carpejugular.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Because Queer history from the time of the AIDS epidemic has not been effectively passed down because so many of the people who could tell those stories died.

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