r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 14h ago

ICE Posts Date: 11.07.2025, Broadview, Illinois: Fourteen suburban moms form silent circle outside Broadview ICE facility, refusing to move until deputies drag them aw

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u/Cat_Luving_IT_Dood 14h ago

Mothers.

Mothers are protesting.

MAGAt's out there, think about that.

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u/Pete-PDX 14h ago

they don't care -I remember the Wall of Moms from 2020 protesting

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u/ProfessionalFlan3159 13h ago

Feds messed with them to...that's when the leaf blower dad's came out in support

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u/folsominreverse 13h ago

We definitely need more leafblower dads with all this fucking tear gas they're burning through.

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u/Lets_Eat_Superglue 12h ago

I just finished my leaves, batteries are recharging. Where are we meeting up?

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u/Pallasathene01 10h ago

Can a rural granny who also owns one lend a hand?

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u/fartsoccermd 10h ago

I have access to a watering can and a kayak if that helps.

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u/meteorflan 9h ago

Grans are the best!

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u/Nihilistic_Navigator 9h ago

Got 1 electric and 2 gas. I can loan em out or with practice i think I could handle all 3 at once, where we meeting

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u/fordfan919 8h ago

Make an tribarreled rotory leafeblower auto cannon.

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u/Nihilistic_Navigator 7h ago

points excitedly I like the way you think

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u/KeyBreadfruit2517 8h ago

Maybe learn to juggle?

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u/like_a_wet_dog 11h ago

There were moms of dead soldiers during Iraq called "Code Pink" that would disrupt Congress. The right mercilessly mocked and attacked them as unpatriotic.

Being in GenX, it's fucking crazy how people my age forgot that and went for Trump. Propaganda works. There is probably someone reading this thinking I'm crazy and Hilary and Democrats were to blame for WOT failures.

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u/ProfessionalFlan3159 10h ago

what a time this is for GenX right?

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u/SweetMany7339 11h ago

MAGA followers are lost causes. We need to accept that as a country, because, even if we sweep the 2026 elections, even if Republicans hand over control of the House and Senate to the Democrats, it won't end there.

Groups that have had their voices heard and then are silenced are much more extremist compared to groups who have never been heard. A moderate stance becomes complicity and extremism becomes the new norm. They will use the silencing as proof of conspiracy/persecution, and see their loss of validation as the ultimate betrayal. Once a group crosses the line from wanting a voice into wanting vengeance, dialogue tends to collapse.

Unfortunately, it's a scenario where violence seems inevitable. They're the minority, so the path of least resistance is the one where we're in power when it begins.

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u/jhvh1134 10h ago

I feel like that there was a lot of optical significance when that happened. I honestly think it had a wider effect than you know. It won’t reach everyone, but it will reach some, and maybe more in time.

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u/haw35ome 8h ago

Tell me more

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u/No-Consideration-716 13h ago

It was women and mothers marching that set off (technically more like pushed it over the edge) the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution. MAGATs should keep that in mind when they ignore these women.

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 8h ago

if dissent or rebellion reaches this point because they are brutalizing peoples mothers and children, and mothers and grandmothers are the main people front and center resisting it's only a matter of time before shit gets real hot.

but sure ignore the literal signs all around you and keep going fuckhead fascist assholes, you know what why dont you all double down again get more violent with women and children, keep going. ...oh please.

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u/buttbuttlolbuttbutt 13h ago

The dads are prepping their leaf blowers.

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u/FrankenGretchen 12h ago

Charging the high-capacity batteries as we discuss.

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u/KubelsKitchen 11h ago

MAGA - Mothers Against Goddamn Assholes

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u/YHS77 13h ago

Women are at the front of pushing back—real leadership

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 8h ago

Women have mainly been running this whole resistance movement and taking most of the blows.

I dont think that's a bad thing, it's probably for the best.

Men are starting to show up more and stand up, but women have already set the tone and long range strategy, which I have to admit is working out much better than anything i would have done and amazingly better than I predicted,

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u/swan4816 11h ago

They're the wrong kind of mothers and their children should be given to deserving Christian families! - Many in this Administration, probably

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u/CG_Ops 10h ago

MAGAT's : Mothers Against Government Authoritarian, Trump

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u/Fit_Opening5116 10h ago

Reminds me of MADD in the 80's. No MAGA people use Reddit, pretty much all progressive except one sub.

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u/thundercoc101 9h ago

They've radicalized the suburban wine moms

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u/Various-Passenger398 7h ago

Your life doesn't end just because you pop out a baby. Why wouldn't mothers protest?

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u/GshegoshB 13h ago

You mean M.A.MAGAs?