Katherine 😷
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Learning to tend the earth in SE Chicago.
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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.
At the time, we were in the 5th COVlD wave. We're now in the 13th.
September 19, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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.
At the time, we were in the 5th COVlD wave. We're now in the 13th.
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We’ve reached the “buying electric shock gloves for the secret police” stage of our dystopia.
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’
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2026 at 12:47 AM
We’ve reached the “buying electric shock gloves for the secret police” stage of our dystopia.
We need sooo much rain garden (and earthwork) in this city. Immediately.
August 11, 2026 at 7:32 PM
We need sooo much rain garden (and earthwork) in this city. Immediately.
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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.
In addition to street and court arrests, ICE has been taking people from immigration check-in appointments since before Operation Midway Blitz.
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:
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:
Chicago police, suburban departments seen assisting ICE during chaotic immigration enforcement blitz
Despite official claims to the contrary, federal agents separated families with crowd control support from local police.
unraveledpress.com
July 27, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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.
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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Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
July 17, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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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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.
July 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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.
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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.
But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.
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.
Keep a watch.
ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week)
Do you have your whistle with you?
Do you have your whistle with you?
July 9, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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.
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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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.
June 28, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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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Lots of ICE alerts in the northwest side of Chicago (Logan, Humboldt, hermosa) in the past week. Bad sign to start the summer.
June 21, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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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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.
June 18, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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.
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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:
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.
unraveledpress.com
June 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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:
Read more:
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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.
"ICE is everywhere," the immigrant advocacy/rapid response group Hijos de Migrantes posted in an alert earlier today.
June 4, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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.
"ICE is everywhere," the immigrant advocacy/rapid response group Hijos de Migrantes posted in an alert earlier today.
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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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June 4, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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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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
Story to come via @chicago.suntimes.com
June 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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
Story to come via @chicago.suntimes.com
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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...
www.threads.com/@hereswhykev...
May 31, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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...
www.threads.com/@hereswhykev...
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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.
🚨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 ⬇️
"Poison in this f*cking wasteland!" our Jon Farina says. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️
May 31, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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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i feel like people should maybe be more concerned about the license plate readers they strapped to every parking gate
Lakefront parking gates have sparked concerns over access: "The lakefront should be for everyone." blockclubchi.co/4wXjXuY
May 29, 2026 at 3:21 PM
i feel like people should maybe be more concerned about the license plate readers they strapped to every parking gate
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May 26, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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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.
May 26, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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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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
no one should experience these horrors regardless of what they’re accused of
“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.
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.
Delaney Hall detainees decry conditions, no access to medications
A Brazilian mother was detained during a routine ICE check-in in Newark, New Jersey, despite an ongoing visa request and health conditions
prismreports.org
May 25, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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
no one should experience these horrors regardless of what they’re accused of
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Baby great blue herons at Oak Woods Cemetery
May 23, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Baby great blue herons at Oak Woods Cemetery
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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.
May 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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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It's always cool to see amazing people get attention for their awesome books
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A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2026 at 12:55 AM
It's always cool to see amazing people get attention for their awesome books
(gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...
(gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...
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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
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.
my understanding is the ccso is negotiating its own privacy agreement.
AGR-7668 - INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR INC - ALPR FLOCK SAFETY CAMERAS AND SOLUTION SERVICES FOR ORANGE POLICE DEPARTMENT - MARCH 26, 2024
www.documentcloud.org
May 13, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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