Joe DiCola

A crowd gathered on the public sidewalk outside of homes in Maywood.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office & Broadview PD have instructed protesters & press to gather on the east side of 25th Ave., which is in a different municipality, Maywood. This is after they already lined the west side with concrete barriers.

Happening now: we're at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

CCSO + Broadview police are telling protesters + press they can't stand on the west side of 25th Street for any reason.

We asked what the precise public safety issue is. They just said they're anticipating cars coming through.

For context, several thousand US military personnel have rotated through Israel during this genocide. Whether THAAD battery personnel or working on the JLOTS (the "pier") or helping build out Israeli Air Force bases, our boys have been involved in the day to day operation of the genocide machine

We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide In an emotional essay, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.

“We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide”

In an emotional essay for Zeteo, former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement, what it means for Palestinians, and what still worries her.
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Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement Data shows a stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hey so about that whole elections thing and the reality that republicans are already blocking newly elected democrats from being sworn in a full year before the midterms.

New Chicago Prosecutor Empowers Police to File More Charges Without Review In a predominantly Black area of Chicago, police can now directly file gun charges without a prosecutor’s approval. The new program rolls back a process that serves to check misconduct.

Chicago launched a program this year that lets police file felony gun charges without getting a prosecutor’s approval. Two of the police officers who have overseen many cases under this program have 59 misconduct complaints between them.

ICE & CBP were all over the Far North side of Chicago today, spotted across Edgewater, Uptown, Rogers Park, and West Ridge. At least four ppl were abducted from the Rogers Park neighborhood alone, with three sightings in a half-mile radius before 10a.

Hundreds Could Be Freed From ICE Custody After Warrantless Arrest Ruling Immigration attorneys said they have already identified more than 200 arrests that potentially violate the consent decree. However, they said those 200 arrests are likely "just the tip of the iceberg....

Hundreds of people arrested by ICE agents around Chicago over the past few months could be released, according to a new fed. ruling.

|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/

This picture is from Two Thousand and fucking Eleven

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Literally they've shot two people in Chicago alone, we're all unbelievably fortunate the woman they shot last fucking weekend survived

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

if this isn't civil war i'm not sure what is

Another ambulance arrives at the detention center. Presuming it could be the one from earlier returning, but either way, a grim reminder of what's happening behind the gates and boarded up windows.

I wrote about the Bari Weiss take over of CBS News as part of a broader trend away from the pretense of liberal institutionalism into a genuinely post-reality tabloidism, marked by AI slop, unsophisticated Trumpian-Likudite propaganda and consolidation of traditional and social media.

"I support the military occupation of my own state" is a wild wild thing to say.

Roberts (unconstitutionally, voidably) gave immunity to Trump - not Miller. Miller needs total victory to escape accountability. That goes for all the fash in power not named Donald Trump

My point’s not “there will be trials!” but that these people will get more vicious to prevent the chance of one

as distinguished from what you do how?

The judge finds that because "defendants' conduct likely violates the First Amendnent," factors weigh in favor of entering a restraining order against them.

She will not limit the order to the Broadview facility, but will limit it to the northern (court) district of Illinois.

It’s like both Pritzker and Newsom appear to believe they deserve FDR-level adulation but don’t believe in a new New Deal.

The Republicans have worked since the New Deal to destroy it. Have worked since integration to re-segregate. Centrists let them get this far and they don’t or won’t understand

people on the actual left around the world have to say.

This is a crisis that goes to the core of our society. The base of values from which you make your stand against the fascists matter. Insisting on standing to the (far) right of radical demands like feed and house everyone is a choice.

forest clearings. The New Democrats exist to suck up this energy and extort votes by being less bad. Even now, the vision for pushing back on Trump is still an elitist vision that depends on masses in the streets but does not respect them.

Triangulation will fail. Literally just listen to what

Excerpt from linked piece by Greg Sargent: “Miller plainly believes there's a latent majority out in the country that can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism. If Democrats sit this debate out, Miller has calculated, Trump's deceptions can flood public information spaces, persuading low-info, low-attention voters that his autocratic encroachments constitute a proportional response to the civic unrest he keeps propagandizing about.”

excerpt continued: “for. But in the nascent Pritzker-Newsom understanding, assuming this will all take care of itself-that voters will resist Trump-Miller agitprop without prompting-is insufficient. We've learned, hearteningly, that majorities seem to harbor a deep attachment to liberal rights and liberties, one that instinctively recoils at masked kidnappings, at hypermilitarized vehicles on urban boulevards, at the trappings of totalitarian dictatorship. But this must be activated.That takes conflict and controversy— powerful imagery and language that rivets attention. It's not clear many Democrats understand this. Some Democrats have confided to reporters that the see this topic as…”

Millions of people in 2020 demanded a stop to 1100+ murders by police every year. Millions around the world have marched and been beaten and expelled and deported for Palestine.

There are activated, organized, dedicated people who have been risking themselves to stop pipeline construction and

They still do not understand because they think they can afford to maintain the liberal firewall designed to thwart actual left demands

They call for protests but don’t take the politics of the people protesting seriously. Most people standing up to ICE also want to end the genocide of Palestinians

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

They’re in power already. They seized Congressional powers on day one and Trump is ruling by fiat. The Reichstag Fire moment is behind us. We are in post-Enabling Act gearing up to outlaw opposition parties territory.

Hi this was a month ago before the threats to Texas legislators.

I stress the procedural similarities to the Nazi enabling acts because it is transparently the inspiration for Vought, Miller, Vance et al. It’s not figurative langue or a rhetorical device. Fascism is predictable.

It won’t be too long before they outlaw anything left of John Fetterman

This is a Nazi administration. They are gutting the liberal state and seizing dictatorial power. It took the Third Reich a few months after the Enabling Act to outlaw the Social Democrats, and then they came for the centrists

We shouldn’t even know who he is. He should be in a garage converted into an evangelical coven in Shreveport and that’s where he should’ve lived out his days

The fascists got here with the complicity of New Democrats who legitimized every turn of the ratchet right in policy and discourse. Abandon instincts like: I will oppose some aspects of fascism but not others based on polling and worthiness of victims

It’s wrong and not enough. If you want to win