Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

the fact that antifascism has been allowed no institutional expression in this country as fascism has simultaneously been ushered closer and closer to the mainstream is itself the cause of this moment. The misdrawn boundaries around what institutional politics can hold are how we got here

What left? The left has no institutional power or organization here. And it certainly has nothing to do with the fact that majorities of white Americans have been voting Republican since the Civil Rights Act. The fascism has been latent here for decades, when the left said so they got blacklisted

We lost the Republic because the Yglesiases have cushy lives and a lot of money and couldn’t imagine anything interrupting this that they couldn’t forestall with their own obsequiousness

I do know there’s a special place in hell for all the white guys who have spent a decade farming clout off accusing PoC and women of overreacting

I do know there’s a special place in hell for all the white guys who have spent a decade farming clout off accusing PoC and women of overreacting

I don’t know what to tell you guys any more. We’re in the long tail

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Again: it’s occupation

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Brandon Johnson is a good man

Reporting today from warzone Chicago, where a procession of chattering toddlers in raincoats and rainboots hooked up to their preschool teachers by a cord just tramped past the window beside my desk

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

hate us cause they ain’t us

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area Texas National Guard members have arrived in Illinois. City and state officials say Donald Trump is using them as “political props” in Chicago.

The word for this is "occupation"

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/n...

Report: Kentucky jails contracting with ICE have 659% increase in detainees this year Data from the study shows one county jail in Kentucky had contracted with ICE to hold roughly 120 detainees in January. By August, nine county jails held more than 900.

Data from the @kypolicy.bsky.social study shows one county jail in Kentucky had contracted with ICE to hold roughly 120 detainees in January. By August, nine county jails held more than 900.

There it is

It is the same undercurrent and I would argue that this is the urbanized mirror to what ranchers and farmers have been doing to latino workers for generations. Simply call in la migra when you don’t want to deal with the labor anymore. This time it’s anyone with a complaint about their tenant.

Reporting today from warzone Chicago, where a procession of chattering toddlers in raincoats and rainboots hooked up to their preschool teachers by a cord just tramped past the window beside my desk

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

"Organizers say that the crackdown has created a climate of fear and intimidation that is not only directly harming workers and their families, but is also stifling ongoing worker efforts to improve conditions on the job, and organize to protect themselves from raids."

Me too, that was hell

My God what an ordeal 😭😭😭

He’s home 😭😭😭😭

He’s home 😭😭😭😭

Anyway, reminds me of that Arendt quote “Under conditions of terror most people will comply but **some people will not**”

wonder which category Tom will be in

Famously, nobody ever dared anything under fascism 🤷🏻‍♀️

ICE in Chicago is a big f*cking story. Get the details from local Chicago journalists:

(this is a list in progress so please send me more suggestions to add. Also note that many of the reporters/ news outlets on this story are not on bluesky.)

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Anyway, reminds me of that Arendt quote “Under conditions of terror most people will comply but **some people will not**”

wonder which category Tom will be in