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Community report: ICE is on 26th Street by (at?) El Milagro. This is the heart of Chicago’s Mexican community in Little Village

The Illinois Secretary of State has launched a hotline for folks who see ICE switching license plates. Tampering with or removing license plates is illegal in Illinois. If you see it, report it. Call 312-814-1730.

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It's also hard to convey just how much ICE is *everywhere*. The city, the suburbs, in and out in the blink of an eye. A crew doing smash and grab jobs across a massive expanse of distance. Part of the reason whistle distro is so important is because you will never know where/when you will need it.

Thou Shalt Share This Photo Because Trump Doesn’t Want You To He sure as hell wouldn’t want you liking this post or subscribing to this newsletter either.

Trump ordered Treasury employees not to share any more images of his demolition of The White House.

Close Friend of JD Vance Skirts Normal Channels to Take Over NIH Environmental Health Institute - Inside Climate News Despite a federal hiring freeze, the Trump administration just appointed a scientist who calls Vance one of his “closest friends” to head the nation’s key environmental health research arm.

The Trump administration just skirted normal channels for hiring directors of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences—during a hiring freeze—to appoint a scientist who calls JD Vance one of his “closest friends.”

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR OVER 12 HOURS!!!!!!

Back in Trump 1, somebody on Twitter said, "Wait... you mean this whole time the government has been operating on the honor system?"

To which I, a Fake Constitutional scholar, said: Yes!

Here's an explanation of why what the framers did in fact call "honor" is essential:

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Good point from @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social in this very good piece: Attacking Trump's tyranny and lawlessness breaks through and gets attention, including that of nonengaged voters:

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

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More data piling up about the shingles vaccine reducing the risk of dementia, heart attack, and stroke!

Association Between Herpes Zoster and Risk of Incident Fragility Fractures in US Veterans: A Matched Cohort Study Association between herpes zoster and risk of incident fragility fractures in US veterans: a matched cohort study.

New study showed an association between shingles (herpes zoster) and osteoporotic fractures. Cause-effect relationship not clear; does shingles make your bones weaker, or are frailer people at higher shingles risk? In any case, another reason to get the shingles vaccine

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.

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Massive #NoKings protest turnout won't mean ANYTHING unless people also VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS UP & DOWN THE BALLOT.

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Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

"An AP investigation found that the wave of legislation has cropped up in most states, pushed by people with close ties to HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. The effort would strip away protections that have been built over a century and are integral to American lives and society."

He can control the DOJ. The IRS. The FBI.
But not the foreign banks about to expose his money trail.👇

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Filmmaker James Choi says Chicago has had a big impact on how he tells stories The director's film “Before The Call,” showing at the Chicago International Film Festival, centers on a Korean American returning to Korea to enlist in the military. It explores the question: “‘Why would you or what are the reasons you would serve if you didn't have to?’”

Filmmaker James Choi sat down with the Sun-Times to talk about the impact Chicago has had on his creative process, the local scene and his film “Before The Call” main message.

ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.

"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."

Screenshot from Washington Post: ICE also reported a $2 million contract for Penlink’s Tangles and Weblocs data systems on Sept. 25, which combine social media and dark web data to build detailed portraits of individuals. Weblocs allows clients to track the mobile phone location data of targeted individuals, information that government officials would otherwise need a warrant to obtain. Penlink did not respond to a request for comment. In another project, ICE has disclosed in recent days its potential plans to set up a social media monitoring team of 16 analysts who would sift through information from social media platforms and other databases to generate leads to locate targeted individuals. An Oct. 2 “request for information,” which comes before soliciting bids for a project that could change, listed Facebook, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, WhatsApp, YouTube, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Myspace and Google+ as some of the platforms that the team would scour to find clues about the possible location of the target individual. The target’s family, friends and co-workers could also be probed.

this shit is blatantly unconstitutional and really, really, REALLY bad

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I just went to the House floor to demand that Speaker Johnson swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the GOP gaveled out without even recognizing us. 
 
We’re not going anywhere. I’m here with Leader Jeffries and Adelita Grijalva. Speaker Johnson must swear her in.

Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."

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Embattled Trump Nominee Paul Ingrassia’s Mom Tried to Meet With Lawmakers Who Criticized Her Son Donna Gallo Ingrassia demanded meetings at the Capitol Hill office of Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia in late June to defend her son.

Man, you know things are bad when your Long Island mom has to come to DC to defend you. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.