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machine @lainmachine.bsky.social · 2h
300 children killed in the first 300 days of the US brokered “ceasefire”, where instead of ceasing fire, the international community decided to change the meaning of the word itself.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h
Protests are spreading across Japan after another woman was killed in Okinawa, allegedly by a US Marine. According to the Okinawa Police, the 20-year-old, Devin Jacob Ballard, is accused of killing the woman at a hotel in Naha and stealing her backpack and wallet.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 19h
Man, 44, shot dead by 'Israeli' fire during olive harvest in West Bank Ali Hassan Yasser al-Bazari was killed while harvesting olives when a group of 'Israeli' settlers tried to force farmers off of their land
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Man, 44, shot dead by 'Israeli' fire during olive harvest
Ali Hassan Yasser al-Bazari was killed while harvesting olives when a group of 'Israeli' settlers tried to force farmers off of their land
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h
Cunningham is making transphobia her entire personality to parlay it into being a conservative media darling. It's all she has at this point and it's pathetic. www.latimes.com/sports/story...
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Sophie Cunningham appears to troll transgender community with hat at Missouri football game
Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham appeared at Missouri’s homecoming game with a hat bearing a slogan that seemed to imply that transgender women are not actually women.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14h
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3h
My gosh. Mike Huckabee's top aide: —Covered up an embassy report on Israeli killings of 9 Americans —Fabricated Orwellian reports on Israeli settler violence & the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" to make it sound good for Israel —Questioned staff on whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas”
In late March, at the height of the Iran war, Israel quietly approved more settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank than it ever had at one time.
Staff members at the United States Embassy in Jerusalem saw the move as potentially flouting one of President Trump's explicit red lines for Israel - no annexation of the West Bank - and drafted an urgent report intended for policy makers in Washington.
That memo never reached Washington. It was quashed by David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the process.
This was no isolated incident.
Since taking up his post in April 2025, Mr. Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to a dozen people who work with or interact with Mr. Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington:
• As settler violence in the West Bank surged in the spring, for instance, he stymied embassy reporting suggesting that the Israeli government was failing to take action, according to the three officials. Instead the embassy sent a cable to Washington, viewed by The New York Times, praising Israel for "cracking down" on the attacks.
• When members of Congress pushed for accountability over the killings of nine Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces, he suppressed a detailed report that the embassy staff had written, effectively stonewalling lawmakers' efforts to gain information, according to multiple officials briefed on the matter.Mr. Milstein rewrote the cable to declare GHF's operation a success while overlooking the mass casualties, according to people who saw the cable and were briefed on the editing process.
Troubled by glaring discrepancies between news coverage and the embassy's official reports, White House and State Department officials seeking a clearer picture of events bypassed standard channels at least twice to communicate directly with embassy staff, according to two officials briefed on the outreach and an internal communication from late this summer seen by The Times.
Veteran American diplomats said that withholding or twisting the information sent to Washington should raise serious concerns.
"The embassy ought to tell Washington everything — the good, the bad and the ugly," said Dan Kurtzer, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush. "If they're not doing so, they are damaging the policy-making process and possibly undermining the president's policies."
Mr. Milstein also questioned several colleagues on whether they were "pro-Israel" or "pro-Hamas," according to four officials, who found the question inappropriate and said it made some people fearful of speaking freely.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h
Good luck to anyone trying to keep track of all the places federal forces are surging or attacking people nationwide. Life is just this now.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h
Brutal scenes coming out of Lochiel, Arizona tonight. Border Patrol is moving a truck with a land defender locked to it while firing off pepper balls and tear gas: instagram.com/reel/DeODKqCt_BS/
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3h
On Oct. 7, 2026, residents in the northern Tigrayan town of Adigrat reported seeing truckloads of Eritrean soldiers moving deep into Ethiopian territory, escalating fears of direct cross-border warfare. When the leaders of Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan, & Somalia met in Egypt on Oct. 4 to coordinate...
On October 7, 2026, residents in the northern Tigrayan town of Adigrat reported seeing truckloads of Eritrean soldiers moving deep into Ethiopian territory, escalating fears of direct cross-border warfare. 

When the leaders of Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan, and Somalia met in Egypt on October 4 to coordinate responses, they publicly denied direct intervention in Ethiopia’s internal affairs.

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🚨 Eritrean forces crossed the border into #Tigray today at Zelambesa and moved toward the Adigrat-Idaga Hamus route, where ENDF drones targeted them at Guada as they traveled by vehicle toward Idaga Hamus. Latest updates: https://bit.ly/4z1efIM
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onion person @junlper.beer · 18h
free palestine
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machine @lainmachine.bsky.social · 19h
life will simply never return to what it was before 10/07/23.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21h
One of the reasons public opinion on trans health care is where it is is because a lot of cis people will never ever believe just how corrupt the professional medical class running our health care really is.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 19h
Massachusetts: you can join a bus “protest tour” of ICE Air operations at Hanscom Airfield near Lexington. Details below in 🧵
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 19h
“The city invited Flock to send a representative to that public forum, but the company declined, saying it wanted to protect its employees from hostile critics.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20h
We may cover this tomorrow, but I just wanted to signal boost this. After months of pushing the administration to make good on its promises for trans youth, NYC appears to be taking steps to do so. I do believe the city can be doing much more, but this is a wonderful start from Mayor Mamdani.
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NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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machine @lainmachine.bsky.social · 20h
they also committed atrocities in an illegal and unprovoked war. they are war criminals. there is no honor in killing school kids and bombing hospitals.
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machine @lainmachine.bsky.social · 20h
22 year old civil defense worker who dedicated his life to helping other genocide survivors. he began volunteering at 19 years old, and has witnessed more atrocities than most people in the western world will witness throughout their entire lives.
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machine @lainmachine.bsky.social · 20h
jon stewart is actively laundering the reputations of the Americans in the Biden administration that supported, funded and assisted the carrying out of the first year and a half of genocide in Gaza.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23h
ICE pointed at Arturo. ICE goons from Texas are here in San Diego.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h
Note: Rockford is *very* far from Chicago. Not the same metro, not the same county, a solid 90 minute drive in favorable traffic. Agents have also been seen in Kankakee yesterday and today...totally opposite side of the state, an hour or so south of Chicago.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 21h
Status Coup's @jordanchariton.bsky.social Chariton reports on a raid in Arizona, where dozens of armed Border Patrol agents moved in to end a 71-day protest saving a 200-year-old "Grandmother" cottonwood tree from border wall construction.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 21h
1 in 20 *white* adult Americans, per the article; about 1 in 7 white men under the age of 30:
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Asking Americans about white nationalism
We expected many Americans would be unfamiliar with the term “white nationalism,” so we defined it for survey respondents with a brief statement covering the movement’s major tenets: the purported need to maintain a white majority in the U.S., claims about the superiority of white culture, and calls for white people to hold more political and economic power than other groups. We measured endorsement of the movement’s ideology, not participation in the movement itself or approval of its tactics.

We randomly varied whether respondents saw the description before or after we asked whether they supported the white nationalist movement. Overall, nearly 5% of white adults – about 1 in 20 – said they did.

Those asked the question before seeing the description were less likely to express support at first, but their reported support rose after they read it. Along with several tests for possible response bias, this suggests that 5% is a reasonable lower-bound estimate of the true level of support.

Whether 1 in 20 white adults is a high or low number is a matter of interpretation. For context, it’s roughly the same as the share of American adults who identify as vegetarian or vegan.

Young white men

A number that jumped out to us was the share of white men under age 30 who support white nationalism: just over 13%, or about 1 in 7. This was more than twice the level of support for white nationalism among women in this age group: 6%. Endorsement of white nationalism among men significantly declined by age: Only 2% of white men age 65 and over registered support.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 23h
🧊✈️ ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA remains the central hub for ICE Air human trafficking flights. Future generations will learn of this place, and ask us how & why we allowed this to happen 👀
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h
Social media reports and videos from late last night also show Rockford police arresting what appears to be a minor child at a demonstration outside the Radisson where locals have seen ICE vehicles. At least one other person also arrested; the child suffered injuries.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h
We don't yet know precisely how many people ICE has snatched from the area. between yesterday and today. Sounds like at least a dozen, likely more. So far today they've also fanned out to detained someone in Freeport (25 miles west) and across the state line in Beloit, Wisconsin.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h
ICE is slamming far northern Illinois for a second day in a row. Rapid responders in Rockford say federal agents detained a group of roofing workers this morning—eight men all the way from Minnesota. Volunteers are currently trying to locate their families. From a local immigration attorney:
From Sara Dady Facebook page

Image of black pathfinder SUV

Sprayed plates like on this vehicle currently parked at the Radisson on Bell School Road in Rockford are illegal. FLOCK can't read ICE's sprayed plates but can read law-abiding drivers' plates.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 07/10/2026
Jaymes Black, CEO of the Trevor Project: To defeat the current climate of hate, the LGBTQ+ movement must innovate like never before www.lgbtqnation.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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To defeat the current climate of hate, the LGBTQ+ movement must innovate like never before
Let’s commit to shaking things up, not only during this election season, but long after it.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For months Gabriela Soto has relentlessly advocated for her husband Martin, unlawfully detained by ICE while buying diapers for their baby. Martin played a key role in the Delaney Hall hunger strike this summer. Last night we was RELEASED from ICE custody. ALWAYS FIGHT BACK.
Beautiful young family outside a detention center.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/10/2026
This is so damn bleak. "The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled this week the biological sex of a transgender woman fatally shot by Samuel Ward Jr. in June 2022 was not only relevant to Ward’s claim of self defense but supported it." jamiescoop.substack.com/p/court-judg...
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Court: Judge ‘misled’ jury on biological sex
Tennessee appellate court first to rule on gender identification ‘evidence’
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🧊✈️ VENEZUELA 😲⛓️ 👉 An Eastern 767 (tail: N700KW) departs El Paso Wednesday morning, trafficking chained humans to Barcelona, Venezuela 🇻🇪
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/10/2026
Looks like the Democratic candidate for US Senate in South Carolina, Annie Andrews, is pro-sports bans and pro-surgery bans for youth, which include top surgery and which have even been interpreted to include blocker and hormone implants. She's the latest anti-trans dem.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"That last night, for some reason, he left his hat and his Red Bull at the restaurant. He always drank Red Bull at work. The last thing he told me was, 'I’m gonna leave my Red Bull. I’ll drink it tomorrow.' I still have it at the restaurant. That’s what kills me."
chicagoreader.com
A year without Silverio - Chicago Reader
A Portage Park restaurant owner remembers Silverio Villegas González, the quiet, hardworking cook who was killed by an ICE agent.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🧊🛩️ HEADS UP PENNSYLVANIA‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to State College Air Wisconsin CRJ-200 Tail: N442AW – ETA 11:05am 👀
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 07/10/2026
It doesn't matter if you are a citizen or an immigrant, we are all at risk as long as the fascists in the administration continue to weaponize DHS to silence dissent and intimidate our communities.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🧊🛩️ HEADS UP MICHIGAN ‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to Willow Run Air Wisconsin CRJ-200 Tail: N468AW – ETA 10:35am
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No one gives a fuck about October 7. No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place. After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of the state of Israel, people get it now. Everyone understands. Caitlin Johnstone
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mike Rogers led the charge to flood opioids into our communities. Here's what happened.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 07/10/2026
ICE removal flight to African continent outbound
An FR24 map showing N120LW going from AEX to SJU to Dakar
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 06/10/2026
Today, Wadee Alfayoumi would’ve celebrated his 9th birthday. But anti-Palestinian hate took the life of this beloved child. In his honor, let’s realize a future of true safety and opportunities for all our children. Happy heavenly birthday, Wadee.
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𝔫𝔬𝔯𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔯 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · 07/10/2026
YOOOO LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO
gothamist.com
NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 07/10/2026
This Talon Air ICE flight has now landed in Ghana, a possible third-country removal. Migrant passengers onboard have been shackled at the ankles, wrists and waist for at least 14 hours.
An ADSBx map showing N120LW landing in Accra.
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JCMartinofBA @jcmartinofba.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Sameer Project team were pounded with Israeli bullets while they distributed water in Gaza.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 07/10/2026
🇵🇸 At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli torture prisons & military detention camps over the 3 years since the genocide began, according to a new report from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society & the Commission of Detainees' Affairs. That count covers... www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia...
🇵🇸 At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli torture prisons and military detention camps over the three years since the genocide began, according to a new report from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society and the Commission of Detainees' Affairs. 

That count covers only those whose identities have been confirmed. The fate of dozens more detainees from Gaza remains unknown due to enforced disappearance.

The report documents an escalating system of arrest, torture, starvation and denial of medical care that has led to killings inside prisons and camps. It also found:

➤ More than 26,000 arrests in the West Bank, including Jerusalem
➤ More than 800 women and 2,000 children arrested
➤ More than 3,100 Palestinians held in administrative detention without charge or trial, and 1,419 held as "unlawful combatants"
➤ Israel is holding the bodies of 100 Palestinians who died in custody

The groups also pointed to Israel's approval of a law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, and to the growing use of "incitement" charges to arrest Palestinians over their speech, which they say has created a climate of fear and self-censorship.

With no independent oversight and the Red Cross still barred from visiting prisoners, the report says what is happening inside Israel's prisons "cannot be separated from the genocide."

🔗 Palestinian journalist Mujahed Al-Saadi documented his harrowing experience in Israeli detention two years after being arrested from his home in Jenin for Drop Site. Read our latest: "Cruelty, Deprivation, Indignity: My 22 Months in Israeli Prison" below.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 07/10/2026
⭕️ Jenin journalist Mujahed Al-Saadi, held for 22 months in admin. detention w/o charge, wrote for Drop Site about life inside Israel's Megiddo prison, where he lost nearly a 3rd of his body weight: “Megiddo prison consists of 10 sections. Each section contains 16 cells, with 10 prisoners held in...
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rapid responders reported ICE vehicles were seen last night at the Radisson Hotel in Rockford, where locals staged a noise protest. Per video posted online, local police responded to the protest. I saw at least 1 person detained, but idk full arrest figures. Waiting to hear back from Rockford PD.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For the second day in a row, it appears ICE is heavily active in Rockford, IL this morning. Rapid response groups report activity in the area since at least 7 a.m. Not yet seeing any reports of detainments.
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🚨10/07/2026 – ROCKFORD, IL🚨
📍 Exxon – 1909 11th St., Rockford, IL 61104
⏰ 7:00 a.m.
🧊 REPORTADO: CONFIRMADO actividad de ICE observado en el área.
🚗 Vehículo Observado:
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🚨10/07/2026 – ROCKFORD, IL🚨
🧊 ALERTA COMUNITARIA: Los siguientes vehículos han sido reportados en el área de Rockford, pero en este momento no se conoce su ubicación exacta.
🚗 Vehículos Reportados:
• Nissan Armada Negra – Placa Illinois: FA33272
• Nissan Pathfinder Negra – Placa Illinois: FZ63978
• Ford Edge Negra – Placa Illinois: ED72163
• Jeep Grand Cherokee Negra – Placa Illinois: GC12018
• Nissan Pathfinder Negra – sin placa reportada
• Ford Explorer Negra – Placa Illinois: GC12067
• Nissan Pathfinder Negra – Placa Illinois: GC12085
• Ford Explorer Negra – Placa Illinois: GC12057
• Ford Explorer Gris – Placa Illinois: 918341
• Ford Explorer Azul – Placa Illinois: E407928Image text:
🚨 ALERTA COMUNITARIA – ROCKFORD, IL 🚨
📅 Hoy - 10/07/2026
🕥 8:15 a.m.
🧊 CONFIRMADO : Presencia de ICE en el área. Todos estos vehículos están activos. Esté alerta y envíenos un mensaje si ve algo sospechoso
🚗 Vehículos Observados: 
Ford Explorer Negra GC12067
Jeep Grand Cherokee Blanca GC12018
Ford Explorer Azul E407928
Nissan Pathfinder Negra GC12085
Ford Explorer Gris 918341
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ICE is getting an early start in Rockford today. Reports of White Jeep and Black Nissan Pathfinder in the area of 20th and 9th. Remember your rights and record everything.
El ICE ha comenzado sus operaciones temprano hoy en Rockford. Se ha informado de la presencia de un Jeep blanco y una Nissan Pathfinder negra en la zona de las calles 20 y 9. Recuerde sus derechos y grábelo todo.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026
All of them have connections with Epstein.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Probably preaching to the choir on bluesky but it really is an indictment of the entire American people and project that the most politically salient point against the Iran war isn't our rank imperialism or that we started it by bombing children, but that it's driving up gas prices
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Rockford city govt. is claiming they "had no prior notice of [ICE's] arrival or further communication or contact with ICE."
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ICE IN ROCKFORD: We are aware of reports and videos indicating that ICE was present in our community today. Based on the information available to us, we believe these reports are accurate.
We want to be clear that the City and the Rockford Police Department had no prior notice of their arrival or further communication or contact with ICE. The Rockford Police Department complies with the Illinois Trust Act and will not participate in or assist with any immigration detention related activities.

Source: City of Rockford Government; https://www.facebook.com/CityofRockford/posts/pfbid02ZbHtz7StmatWytrHWL4GLdGsc32txwS8oKMdD85URZoePxhpiru4pufvwKSxUJBLl
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