Butterfly Affect

Our 2007 class action lawsuit found the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office engaged in widespread racially discriminatory policing practices and immigration enforcement in Arizona.

Now, a new report revealed the department has deceived the public by inflating their costs of complying with the ruling.

This is important.

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia …”

South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities • The TRiiBE Federal agent activity on Chicago’s South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.

NEW — Rod Johnson will never forget federal agents zip-tying his hands behind his back.

The night of the South Shore raid in Chicago, Johnson said he was detained for two hours.

“I’m an American citizen with no warrants,” Johnson said.

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WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

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"The thing about irrational, increasingly unfit authoritarians guarded by an even more ruthless henchman is that demands for loyalty only keep going up."

It’s clear things are going Backwards at Starbucks under Brian Niccol's leadership. But this has only motivated us more to keep organizing and doing whatever it takes—including striking if necessary—to win a fair union contract!

When this is all over, and it comes out that he is/was indeed addled and advisors were feeding him lies and ai... it's vital we don't let anyone use that information to absolve him of any responsibility for every horrific act the admin is doing.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver. Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park. Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

This is a key talking points that should be echoed everyday by Democrats and ties directly to the Epstein Files, which is Trump's Achillese Cankle.

Why aren't Republicans swearing Rep Grijalva???

A masked ICE agent pointed a gun at a US citizen because she was filming him.

Another shot a priest with a pepper spray gun because he was protesting.

The priest said “we could hear them laughing.”

Trump is using cruelty and fear to silence Americans and rob us of our rights. We won’t let him.

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

National Guard Troops Have Arrived in Illinois. What’s Their Directive and Where Might They Be Deployed? National Guard troops arrived in Illinois as part of an unprecedented deployment with a directive to protect federal immigration agents “in places where there are violent demonstrations. So where migh...

National Guard troops from Texas arrived in Illinois as part of an unprecedented deployment this week with a directive to protect federal immigration agents “in places where there are violent demonstrations.”

So where might that be? https://to.wttw.com/42ty4uG

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Guys, what are we doing here? Why bother going to these press conferences? Why give airtime to a man who refuses to say anything of substance?

I tell the Austrian radio station about the shooting of a priest by ICE. If we do another segment I’m talking about it. The world needs to know what’s happening here.

If masked ICE agents can freely board Metro buses, that’s not public transit—it’s a trap. LA Metro needs to stand up for Angelenos and slam the door on collaboration with #ICE!

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These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

There it is...Trump calls for the arrest of the mayor of Chicago and Governor Pritzker.

So, for all the incrementalists in denial...are we there yet? 🤔
- Did we cross the line into authoritarianism yet?
- Is it fascism yet?
- Is he "joking"?

He & Stephen Miller want civil war.
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really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Surge in Executions? Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech.

Something not fully appreciated in the Riyadh comedy festival discourse is that in many ways Saudi Arabia is getting *more* repressive

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HERE'S WHATS GOING ON
The Rich are conducting a "Class War" against the "have-nots" and making it look like a " Culture War " between Minorities and conservative Whites.

We must all stand up and speak out.

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers.

Invading our state with military troops.

Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night.

Arresting elected officials asking questions.

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street.

Separating children from their parents.

Creating fear.

Taking people for “how they look.”

The how they look line is a direct quote from U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino. He felt comfortable telling a white male reporter that people were being detained for "how they look"

I think we all know what he meant.