It almost makes you wonder what would happen if Charlotte police treated off duty ICE agents the same way-faces covered with masks, dragging them out of their cars, breaking windows, throwing them to the ground and arresting them while they screamed “I’m a citizen”

‘They’re not chasing criminals.’ Manolo’s Bakery owner closes store to protect customers “Thank you, thank you to the community and all the people that have supported me,” Manuel “Manolo” Betancur said. “But I need to protect my community.”

"Manuel “Manolo” Betancur closed his Charlotte bakery for the first time in 28 years Saturday afternoon at the city’s arrival of U.S. Border Patrol agents, and he doesn’t know when he’ll reopen."
...
“I never close, man,” he said."

“Ever. Never.” Now, he said, he has no choice."

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building.

But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone.

With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Migrants at largest US detention camp face foul water, rotten food, congresswoman says 'Conditions at Camp East Montana are dangerous and inhumane,' Veronica Escobar wrote in a letter.

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What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

CBP Chief Leaves Chicago After Judge Says He Can’t Attack Protesters Gregory Bovino issued a dark warning for what comes next.

Gregory Bovino has finally left Chicago, after a federal judge said he’d lied about using excessive force to target protesters opposing immigration operations.

I guess being told he can't beat people up and tear gas them took all the fun out of it.🤷‍♀️

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Mark Wolf

Mark Wolf, a federal judge appointed by Reagan, is resigning after 40 years on the bench.

In an essay published by The Atlantic this week, he wrote, “The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.”

LIVE: Clergy protest at ICE facility outside Chicago YouTube video by Reuters

LIVE: Clergy protest at ICE facility outside Chicago youtube.com/live/vM-6akO...

Bovino acknowledges that his hatred extends beyond criminals and includes immigrants, regardless of whether they are criminals or individuals taking jobs from Americans.

Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵

Obviously this person is very dangerous.

This little man is out of control.

I feel like I’m saying that all the time.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

'A day without fear': Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid immigration crackdown Across Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods, fear of a federal immigration crackdown has emptied the streets

Good news! Thanks chicago cyclists

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In the long list of horrible ICE practices, this has to be one of the worst, though it takes second-worst place to seizing young children. #ProudBlue

Aurora

MY BROTHER IN CHICAGO JUST SENT THIS

A sincere thanks to @theonion.com for spotlighting a huge and growing problem with America's broken Veterans Affairs system.

My @propublica.org colleagues have been investigating the VA and could use help from those who've worked there:

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

#ICYMI: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer.

The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

By @ericumansky.bsky.social

Boycott Home Depot already.

To our nation’s Veterans and their families: Thank you. 

Thank you for answering the call to serve and for the sacrifices you have made in the name of freedom and safety for all Americans.

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

In an unforgettable Veterans Day moment, former President Barack Obama surprised dozens of Korean and Vietnam War veterans as their Honor Flight landed in Washington, D.C. The veterans, fresh off their flight from Madison, Wisconsin, were greeted by President Obama himself.

An unwrapped tamale.

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

The Chicago Abortion Fund is celebrating a milestone as the state expands reproductive health efforts.https://blockclubchi.co/4p2DTrw

UNITED 217: Trump Tower, United two-seventeen, request change runway, and clearance to land on two-niner-right.

(TRUMP
INTERNATIONAL) TOWER: United two-seventeen, Trump. That's a beautiful number, two-seventeen, really rolls off the tongue, "United two-seventeen Trump," especially that last "Tr—

Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.

Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"

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Good points and to repeat glad they did not take it up! Although some other nut will try!

Yes very glad that will continue but hypothetically if the supreme ct decision was only about lesbians or trans people and men were not part of the decision they would have taken it and overturned it.

Glad for it but not surprised as male and females involved. When it comes to women only and their rights who cares about the overturning of Roe v Wade also the law of the land until it wasn’t.