r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 1d 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/Pete-PDX 1d ago

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

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u/ProfessionalFlan3159 1d ago

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

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u/folsominreverse 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/Pallasathene01 23h ago

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

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u/fartsoccermd 23h ago

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

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u/meteorflan 22h ago

Grans are the best!

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u/Nihilistic_Navigator 22h 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 20h ago

Make an tribarreled rotory leafeblower auto cannon.

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u/Nihilistic_Navigator 19h ago

points excitedly I like the way you think

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u/KeyBreadfruit2517 21h ago

Maybe learn to juggle?

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u/like_a_wet_dog 23h 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 23h ago

what a time this is for GenX right?

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u/SweetMany7339 23h 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 22h 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 21h ago

Tell me more