Joe DiCola

After all the temporary-for-maybe another-2.5-news-cycles enemy of my enemy who gave my other enemy absolute immunity to murder any and everyone is my friend

I’ll tell ya my faith in the gang of republicans responsible for this crisis is restored. I had them all wrong.

Moments like these remind you why we all agreed to strike the compromise where six lawyers can force people to give birth and create dictatorships. Sweet sweet rule of law

big part of my book is detailing how whole new generation of anti-fascists were radicalized since 2015 after brushes w/ fascists in their communities

a prolific antifa researcher i talked to started doing the work while consoling a friend who lost a family member in the El Paso Walmart massacre

KABAS: So many comparisons have made between the current state of US immigration terror and Nazi Germany in the 1930s, and I've seen some say that kind of seeks to absolve this country of its own history of racial terror and genocide. In the hearings this week with ICE and CBP and USCIS, you said you have “no respect for inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol.” How did it feel to publicly and explicitly draw that connection? REP. RAMIREZ: I knew that I was going to make them very uncomfortable. I'm not talking about just the DHS directors there—I meant my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. And I say this often, ‘Courage is not the absence of fear. It’s the willingness to act despite the fear.’ I'm a little scared [in that moment], because if I'm being blunt with you, every time I speak there's a death threat. And yet I thought it was so important, as a daughter of immigrants, as a proud representative of Illinois-3, as someone who has been calling out what they do, to be able to look evil in the eye and call them what they are.

Delia Ramirez is a real one

www.thehandbasket.co/p/rep-delia-...

but what if we just had politics that accurately described our situation and the system actively rendering the planet uninhabitable. Not “it’s bad but American democracy is beautiful dream we can dream!” But just “it’s bad and we we have to stop them from building camps and burning the world down”

distribution are literally the intended structure of the system, a system that is definitionally rightwing. The bourgeois democracies delivered for the capitalists and continue to do so.

If there is a path to liberation by way of duly center-izing all analysis, then we’re in good hands I guess

“Wealth inequality” has done a service to the 99% but at a certain point it becomes reactionary to talk about this structurally fundamental feature of a world ruled by capitalists without just saying capitalism. I just think we can retire it. Unequal protection of the law and unequal wealth

Who’s impeaching Trump for killing millions by ripping away aid? No one.

The opposite of all this would be running society in a way that we all get to be alive and enjoy our lives, as opposed to running it like a concentration camp for the benefit of white supremacist billionaires.

There’s the cruelty of this regime and then the cruelty of every prison, jail, detention center in Blue and Red states and cities across the country. The cruelty of this particular regime and the cruelty of the turnkey mass death machine assembled over decades, waiting for them.

politicians dispense with Black and brown and literally anyone’s lives, we can’t dig ourselves out

They were wrong about the GWOT, wrong about Gaza, wrong about USAID. Being nonchalant about killing lots of people is essentially a prerequisite to be a member of Congress. It’s why it does Matter Who

Conventional Demcoratic party wisdom was that this did not matter, or to the extent it did, the courts can sort it out. Axelrod and the jagoff who would be king went on record that they wouldn’t die on this hill. 9.4 other million will, though.

If we can’t ever politicize the casual way all

Black, Hispanic Drivers Get Majority Of Chicago's Traffic Tickets — Including In Mostly White Areas The study comes as the Police Department negotiates a new policy around traffic stops, which reform advocates say has been widely abused by officers fishing for evidence of more serious crimes, leadin...

Why no respectable Chicago transit activist should support enforcement for traffic safety.

All of my group chats are responding to Homan’s announcement by asking everyone to double down because:

1. ICE is still out there and abducting people today. We can’t trust the occupation is over until we actually see it.

2. People are going to be in an economic crisis for a very long time.

Agent investigated in Chicago woman’s shooting, her lawyer says The attorney for Marimar Martinez says prosecutors told him the agent who shot her five times is facing a criminal probe.

NEW @ms.now: The lawyer representing the woman who was shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago in Oct says the agent is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Attorneys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that started w/ the gov’t trying to prosecute the woman he shot ⬇️

It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished.

I have neighbors everywhere.

Bondi was SHOOK. We did it, Joe

My theory of change is a fan reel of Democrats absolutely OWNING various fascist murderers in a way that leaves them free to keep murdering

I don't care which politicians do the most viral cussing out of ICE and CBP directors for the cameras. I get that hearings are a way to signal and draw attention to things but frankly we need more. Go cuss out your own party leaders.

The jury delivering a verdict of guilty on the absurd charge of assault and battery leveled against @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social for her bravery in facing down ICE goons trying to rip a family apart should be shamed for the rest of their lives for their complicity in this tyrannical bullshit.

What shakes me to my core is that the opposition has yet to give her or any of her co-conspirators reason to think otherwise.

And that as the opposition gets more upset, they remain incapable of reflection on their own ideology, past actions, and various and sundry contributions to this crisis.

How much power would Reilly have in this job to get Vallas (or someone worse) elected in 2027?

Border Patrol agents say 'time to get aggressive' in footage that contradicts claims against Marimar Martinez Martinez is expected to announce a new lawsuit stemming from her Oct. 4 shooting by a Border Patrol agent at a press conference Wednesday. Her attorneys say newly released evidence will show an agent ...

She was rammed, shot, and defamed by the Feds. But she’s determined to expose the truth. She makes me proud to be a South Sider.

US media rushes to defend police departments from liberal backlash against ICE Appealing to imagined reforms, center-left media tastemakers assure their audiences DHS violence exists outside the otherwise progressive status quo.

US media rushes to defend police departments from liberal backlash against ICE therealnews.com/us-media-def...

The ICE killings in Minneapolis were intended to send the message that
*no-one* is safe.

When Jeffrey Epstein was the world’s leading expert on getting away with it The convicted sex-criminal was obsessed with other high profile abuse cases, offering commentary, advice, and even financial help.

I wrote about all the men who flocked to Jeffrey Epstein's inbox to talk about sexual abuse allegations with an expert. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Marimar Martinez is incredibly brave, hard to even wrap your head around it

Dave has been *relentless* in his federal courthouse coverage of the fallout of DHS cases against Chicagoans. Much of his reporting is done at great personal cost. Please support him today:

I asked DHS if they plan to recant labeling Martinez a domestic terrorist (despite the dismissal of her case), or offer her an apology, in light of Judge Alexakis' ruling today.

I received this response:

“DHS stands by our press releases and statements. The facts of what happened did not change.”

A Kavanagh Stop while doing mutual aid—kidnapped for no reason except he’s Brown.

This is torture. He will die without his anti-rejection medication. It is as simple as that.

Worth noting that any time a cop is accused of potentially criminal misconduct, it is usually BIA who conducts the investigation.

The police superintendent is acknowledging they lack trust to handle this case, but why then are they entrusted to conduct investigations into, say, domestic abuse?