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Learning to tend the earth in SE Chicago.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Four years ago today, President Biden said, "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID." At the time, we were in the 5th COVlD wave. We're now in the 13th.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We’ve reached the “buying electric shock gloves for the secret police” stage of our dystopia.
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ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
According to manufacturer, shock ‘is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds’
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Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We need sooo much rain garden (and earthwork) in this city. Immediately.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28/07/2026
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.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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genna @genna.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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.
N95 wearing genna with yellow haze over the river Dark yellow haze over Humber river Cormorants in the river with sickly yellow tinge reflected Haze over river park
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026
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.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/06/2026
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.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Lots of ICE alerts in the northwest side of Chicago (Logan, Humboldt, hermosa) in the past week. Bad sign to start the summer.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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.
two agents in green pants, black t shirts, and green vests that say “police” stand in the street at the driver’s side of a grey suv. two black suvs with flashing lights have boxed in the grey suv.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16/06/2026
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:
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“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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/06/2026
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.
A list of reported ICE sightings and detainments from across the Chicago area, per Hijos de Migrantes. 

Link: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122149140015079202&set=a.122102031921079202
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 04/06/2026
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
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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree
We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.
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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026
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...
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DELANEY HALL UPDATE: New Jersey State Police blocked Associated Press and NYT journalists from leaving to go to the hospital despite a severe and noticeable injury. The journalist shattered her knee and could not walk but police refused.
Video: @statuscoup
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 31/05/2026
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.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
i feel like people should maybe be more concerned about the license plate readers they strapped to every parking gate
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
www.instagram.com/p/DYz3rqkGkrn/
SIGHTING

Immigration Agents Spotted
26 May 2026 - 10:15AM to 11:20AM
Dan Ryan Expressway at 71st

On Tuesday, May 26th, a black Ford Explorer that has participated in recent immigration abductions was involved in a minor crash with a civilian vehicle on the Dan Ryan Expressway. Rapid responders do not believe that the crash was related to immigration enforcement. The agency vehicle and the civilian stayed on the side of the highway near the 71st Street exit for about an hour until Illinois State Police arrived to process the crash. The damaged Explorer left the scene at 11:20AM, traveling west on 71st to an unknown destination.

If you see immigration enforcement activity, please call the FSN hotline at (855) 435-7693 with details about what you saw, when it took place, and where it happened. Rapid response volunteers will be dispatched to verify and document reported activity.

@chicagofarsouthrapidresponse
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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.
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data center NIMBY @thedahater.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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
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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Baby great blue herons at Oak Woods Cemetery
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/05/2026
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.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/05/2026
It's always cool to see amazing people get attention for their awesome books (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...
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A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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...
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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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Nicholas Meletio @nicholasmeletio.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
#books #read #write #authorlife #blueskywriters #booksky
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自由と正義のRainbow Cleric 🏳️‍🌈🇯🇵 @reinbowcleric.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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
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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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Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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!
yahoo.com
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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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
There’s a Chicago Beaver Festival this afternoon in Nichols Park on the South Side. www.illinoisbeaveralliance.org/2026-chicago...
Celebrate Our Favorite Ecosystem Engineer 
SATURDAY. MAY 2. 2026
Chicago Beaver Pestival
BEAVERS & YOUTH: STREAM KEEPERS OF TOMORROW 1 to 4 p.m.
Nichols Park in Hyde Park
(enter the festival on Kenwood Avenue north of 55t Street)
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Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Loving the random Xena nods on Hacks lol Please can we have a Lucy Lawless/Renee O’Conner rewatch podcast??
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights is reporting an uptick in ICE activity across the Chicago area over the last week, incl. reported abductions at Cook County courthouses and immigration check ins. Chicago neighborhoods of reported activity include Rogers Park, Austin and Pilsen.
An ICIRR alert warning people to stay vigilant amid an uptick of ICE activity in Chicagoland communities. Full release: https://www.instagram.com/icirr_il/p/DW7bZOblH_Y/?img_index=2An ICIRR alert warning people to stay vigilant amid an uptick of ICE activity in Chicagoland communities. Full release: https://www.instagram.com/icirr_il/p/DW7bZOblH_Y/?img_index=2An ICIRR alert warning people to stay vigilant amid an uptick of ICE activity in Chicagoland communities. Full release: https://www.instagram.com/icirr_il/p/DW7bZOblH_Y/?img_index=2
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This could be your child, in your home. It's paid for by your taxes. Beirut, Lebanon.
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Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Spending this rainy, thunderous spring day writing up my process for our edible ground cover planting method, because chaos planting and polycultures make things so much easier.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.
Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic.

The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please.

You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.
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Michael Tristano Jr. 🔻 @mtrist2.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Occupation is strongest when it is normalized. They are not trying to terrorize you (unless you’re a target) at the airport because the point is to normalize their presence and occupation.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/03/2026
The photos in this story were made by local freelance photographer @mkaplanphoto.bsky.social, who risked his own health and safety in the face of chemical weapons to document that day:
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Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Come on, Chicago, get the de-Flock bug, too!
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This week has seen anti-trans legislation and policies advance or pass in Portugal, India, Ghana, Senegal, the US and the Olympics. It’s an an-all global assault on transgender people. It was begun by rich white ppl in England and the US. Being trans is good. We will never abandon trans people.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The final words of Alice’s memorial came from Alice herself
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 25/03/2026
Oh
euronews.com
Helium supply crunch puts MRI services at risk amid Qatar disruptions
Iran's strikes on Qatar's Ras Laffan gas hub have disrupted helium production, showing how the conflict is rippling beyond energy markets to hit industries from technology to healthcare.
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Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
All this shit is a menace.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Hossam Shabqt was assassinated one year ago today. I felt an affinity for him because he was supposed to be finishing journalism school when the war began, was the same age as my students, and we corresponded. He was unbearably sweet and kind.
Photo of Hosaam in a blue press vest
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 23/03/2026
I know breaking news is hard but I've several articles about the crash at LGA yesterday/today and none mentioned the persistent understaffing of air traffic control, and the absolute chaos the trump administration added to the system in the past year.
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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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Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · 18/03/2026
ICE locks tens of thousands of detainees nationwide in a network of 170 "hold rooms" spread across 49 states, which are forbidden from containing beds. Today, we are publishing location and detainee information about all 170 facilities. coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/03/excl...
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EXCLUSIVE: ICE Locks Thousands, Including Kids, in 170 'Hold Rooms’ Nationwide. Here's Where They Are.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency operates a network of 170 unofficial detention sites around the country, called “hold rooms,” according to agency data obtained via the Freedom of....
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22/03/2026
If you believe you see ICE at any Chicago area airports this week (🚬), please message us anonymously on Signal at unraveled.66
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