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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Congratulations to @notnotrocketscience.com for launching the Discovery and Futures Lab at the @setiinstitute.bsky.social ! The Lab "unites experts in astrobiology, SETI, social science, ethics, law, communication research, futures studies, and more" to prepare for discovery of life beyond Earth

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 24/03/2026

HOLYMOLY YOU DID IT!! after last night's blizzard of folks giving to/entering the raffle, we are over goal to keep Raymond & his mom housed!!! www.instagram.com/p/DWRa1nWlVw...

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 24/03/2026

Thank you so much for sharing @unraveledpress.com 😭 ❤️ i am absolutely stunned by the support pouring out for Raymond and his mom, thank you so much everyone!! i'm almost never on here but i'll keep y'all posted ❤️❤️❤️

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24/03/2026

Hi hello there's a lot happening, but want to draw attention to an urgent need in the community— 78 yr old Raymond & his 95 yr old mother are facing eviction *immediately* if they don't pay back rent to the tune of $3200. Fundraiser is sitting at 27%. More info here: instagram.com/p/DWO2QUoldVX/

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Lucian Walkowicz on Instagram: "FIVE MORE DAYS to help Raymond & his mom stay housed 💜 for the next few days I'll be highlighting some of the amazing prizes (full list in the last slide). Info to ente...

21 likes, 0 comments - rockettolulu on March 23, 2026: "FIVE MORE DAYS to help Raymond & his mom stay housed 💜 for the next few days I'll be highlighting some of the amazing prizes (full list in the l...

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 12/02/2026

this is why i have been so insistent that activists here in chicago rethink "close broadview"-- broadview, the only stop before detainees get moved out of state-- as an organizing goal. it's not that i don't want it closed, it's that we must think strategically about the downstream effects

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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Legal status doesn’t matter: if you exceed ICE’s melanin threshold, you get snatched. It is ethnic cleansing. There is no other word for it. The news has shown you video of these often violent detentions. What you don’t see is what happens to these individuals after. I’ve had a front row seat. 7/

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23/01/2026

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24/01/2026

For folks asking: yes, the person shot has died. Just announced. The video circulating shows what can only be described as an execution.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24/01/2026

At 26th and Nicolett in Minneapolis this morning— Feds have just shot another person in the streets. Furious community members are gathering. State police and conservation cops here in front of ~50 federal agents.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/01/2026

Outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis tonight— Around 100 protesters are gathered across from the facility. Some vehicles with masked agents inside have been periodically arriving. DHS agents just gave another warning to stay out of the road and driveway, called out press as well.

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 11/01/2026

Zac Kinney shared this photo from the second of two ICE deportation flights at MSP today - one of the 47 deportees was still in their Amazon uniform. (I counted 127 deportees on the first flight)

A man in an Amazon uniform boards an Eastern Air Express 737

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/01/2026

ICE has everything to do with law enforcement. It's literally the same private prison contractors, running the same private prison facilities, implementing programs designed by the same government officials using the same tactics. Cops fire tear gas + rubber bullets directly at people's faces too.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 11/01/2026

Claim: These aren't cops! Cops don't fire less lethal rounds in people's faces! That's dangerous! Someone could lose an eye! Reality: Cops blinded 8 BLM protestors in one single day, by shooting multiple people in the face with tear gas cannisters, bean bag rounds, and rubber bullets.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10/01/2026

Hey Minneapolis ❄️—we're indie reporters here from Chicago. If there's anything you'd like us to know about community actions, vigils, or fed activity, please drop us a line on Signal at unraveled.66 📱

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10/01/2026

In Minneapolis this afternoon— Hundreds are streaming across the snow and ice into Powderhorn Park for a rally and march demanding ICE leave Minnesota. It is bitterly cold. There are hardcore Midwesterners out here making their way in with trekking poles.

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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps

Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.

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Raven Geary @ravengeary.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Feds encountering loudmouthed Chicago women

get stuff thrown at us.”); Axon_Body_4_Video_2025-10-14_1150_D01A4257B at 19:11–19:22
59 Despite the relative calm, multiple agents made derogatory comments about the protesters. See Axon
Body 4 Video 2025-10-14 1130 D01A41408 at 48:33 (“Yeah, these people got big mouths, don’t they?
Fuck, man.”); id. at 1:03:48–1:03:52 (“You can’t reason with these people, they’re nuts.”); Chicago
Vehicle Wreck Riot at 51:40–52:00 (“Of course the spots where all the females going crazy, that’s where
the crowds are the fucking most riled up. Like these dudes are just talking shit, but if the females came
over here, they’d get ’em all worked up.”).

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

calls to abolish ice didn't start when trump got elected in 2024 or even in 2016. ice has operated the detention center in broadview, illinois, for ~20 years. the chicago field office, which covers six states, surveilled 20,000 people on electronic monitors as of sept 2024.

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More immigrants are under surveillance by ICE's Chicago field office than ever, data analysis finds

The number of people being electronically monitored by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in six states, including Illinois, has grown from 2,921 in 2019 to 19,160 last month. No other ICE field...

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today: ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...

Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025, and October 31,
2025, has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or
at all. Plaintiffs are in the process of hiring an IT contractor. Plaintiffs’ contractor will meet with
the government’s ESI Liaison (with attorneys on the phone) to attempt to work through issues
concerning the missing video, including whether any content is able to be retrieved. While
Plaintiffs intend to explore the issue of missing footage,

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It appears Magistrate Judge Laura McNally has arrived for the morning's inspection, along with a team of attorneys. "Hold them accountable!" A protestor yells repeatedly. "They had a week to clean things up, remember that!" Another says through a megaphone.

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

#PPOD: When a meteoroid shook the edge of Apollinaris Mons on Mars, it triggered streaks that carved a hundred new scratches on the surface. The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured these dust avalanches on the slopes the night before Christmas in 2023. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS 🧪

Photo taken from space of a cliff on Mars that runs from the upper left to the lower right. All along the cliff are perpendicular dark streaks of fine dust that were shaken loose by a meteroid impact. At the base of the slope can also be seen some small impact craters.

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 13/11/2025

You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org

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Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

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Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/11/2025

Same guy has a WSJ column which he has occasionally used to criticize me, personally I always find out via the hate mail that starts rolling in

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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Good morning from Judge Jeffrey Cumming's courtroom, where he's considering a motion to release 100s of "Midway Blitz" arrestees on EM who were subjected to "warrantless" arrest. ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...

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Federal judge appears poised to order release of at least some ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees

A Chicago federal judge appeared poised Friday to order at least a portion of the thousands of people detained in “Operation Midway Blitz” released on electronic monitoring while litiga…

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Jason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

For years I've reported on the tech and tools that bounty hunters have access to. I think people would be shocked it is often essentially what cops can have too, w/ less accountability - license plate reader databases - credit header data - smartphone location data www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

As I’ve reported for years, bounty hunters, private investigators, and skip tracers all have access to powerful surveillance technology and tools. That ranges from automatic license plate reader (ALPR) databases that can easily reveal a car’s movements (and by extension, a person’s movements); the personal data related to someone’s credit report which can reveal their address; and location data harvested from smartphones. In 2019 I reported that bounty hunters were able to pay a few hundred dollars for the realtime location of someone’s phone, via location data T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T were selling. A private investigator source with access previously demoed the ALPR tracking tool to me and I bought the telecom location data myself.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/11/2025

Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We were looking north-northwest but they appeared to stretch over a good part of the sky. 🔭 🧪

Another photo of red and green curtain aurora in the sky to the north of Chicago.

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jotato @njvz.co · 08/11/2025

Look at this fucking coward pointing a gun at someone just for witnessing this

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Raven Geary @ravengeary.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Hardly a day goes by now without seeing video/photos of federal agents in Chicago casually pointing actual firearms or pepper ball dispensers right at people's heads. They've already killed one person and injured another by gunfire. We are on the verge of another tragedy without real intervention.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 08/11/2025

CBP/ICE was supported by the FBI this morning in Little Village, with reports of plainclothes feds seen in vehicles across the area. This also included using Chicago FBI HQ for staging. Bovino is seen here doing rock paper scissors with another agent for the DHS cameras, as people yell insults:

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 08/11/2025

This is the most comprehensive reporting released on the DHS-alleged shooting so far. Read the entire story (reminder: reporters don't usually choose headlines). For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.

Border Patrol and FBI didn't immediately respond when asked which agency is investigating the alleged shooting incident. Border Patrol also didn't respond when asked whether the incident was captured by dashboard or body cameras.

The Department of Homeland Security claimed in a statement that agents were conducting operations near 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue when a man in a black Jeep fired shots at them and fled the scene.

The shooter remained at large, according to DHS.

No injuries, damage from gunfire, ballistic evidence was reported and no weapon was recovered.

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

NOW: U.S. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino agrees to meet with a federal judge every evening until a preliminary injunction hearing, which is set for 11/5.

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Front Range Antifascists @frontrangeantifa.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club. Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter. Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/

Three photos of Patriot Front member Nathaniel Ellis

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Credit for breaking this story here goes to @unraveledpress.com; last night they posted out Sakiyama's Facebook statement about his detainment. bsky.app/profile/unra...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19/10/2025

Rapid response now reporting ICE took two people from Bolingbrook this morning: instagram.com/p/DP_0sVNCdTn/

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Roger Peet @toosphexy.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

In the speech Trump complains that whoever is making the signs isn't making them "in the basement out of love" but actually they're being made in Portland's volunteer-run nonprofit print studio Flight 64!

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This is a tweet by the assistant secretary of DHS. Constant reposting about the tribune and Laura’s reporting.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The DHS Twitter has been tagging and calling out a local journalist writing on immigration in Chicago. Local journalists covering what’s happening need continual support especially as they write these important stories.

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 29/09/2025

well this looks like a banger: "The Destruction of NASA's Mission: Whistleblowers Reveal OMB's Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency" www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Probably 40+ border patrol some holding automatic weapons on South Michigan Avenue just now 12:20 pm. Fully masked. #NoIceInChicago. @icirr.bsky.social @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social

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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I’m out, I'm sore. I'll have more later, but right now I have to say a couple of things. First, walking out of there to learn about the kindness, support, and quick action from so many of you all has meant the world to me, my wife, and co-founder, Raven. Thank you.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28/09/2025

Steve is fine/uninjured. Some neck pain from being tackled. His biggest concern while in custody was what was happening to people outside the facility since he couldn't hear any of the munitions from inside. In typical Steve fashion, he also made a number of new friends while detained.

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Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com · 28/09/2025

ALL EYES ON CHICAGO: not only is ICE kidnapping our neighbors they are targeting the journalists documenting it! this is an emergency and we demand the immediate release of @peoplesfabric.com and *everyone* detained at Broadview!!! HANDS OFF OUR PEOPLE

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