"The broader goal is the militarization of major cities before 2026 elections... Next year, I fear that what they're gonna do is deploy these folks to polling places & say they're protecting the vote. Trump knows without these breaches of the Constitution, he's gonna lose Congress." - Gov. Pritzker

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

The Speaker of the House has sent Congress home for the past two weeks.

If Speaker Johnson was really interested in ending the shutdown, he’d bring Congress back so we can negotiate a bipartisan resolution that funds the government and saves millions of Americans’ health care.

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.

I do not understand why television stations are not showing live coverage of how there is literally nothing happening in Portland and Chicago. I mean, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw would each be sitting on a set in those cities telling everyone the white house is lying.

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

🎁🔗 “Trump has unleashed new weaponry in his war against Democrats, liberals and the left. He has initiated what amounts to a unique form of partisan civil war designed to amass power in a nominal democracy and defang, decimate and defund the opposition” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

🎁🔗 Six former U.S. surgeons general sound the alarm. “The actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans”
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ICYMI: NYC Bar Association “the recent attacks on Venezuelan vessels and their crews were unauthorized by U.S. law and in violation of binding international law, they were illegal summary executions – murders.”

You need to fix this @cnn.com.

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

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If you ever wondered what Republican “governance” looks like, this is it.

A government shutdown.
Federal workers who don’t get paid.
A President who golfs during a shutdown.
National guards and ICE deployed to attack and arrest Americans.
Millions of Americans losing their healthcare.

Another broken promise “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican, and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Trump declared in 2015. “

Jane Fonda Relaunches Committee for the First Amendment With Support of 550 Celebrities Including Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and More Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment with the support of Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and more.

“Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a McCarthy-era initiative founded in the 1940s by her father, Henry Fonda, to protect against attacks on free speech.”

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

ICE Agents in #Chicago
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

It’s the most egregious abuse of our basic rights as Americans I've seen in a long time, maybe in my lifetime,” says Chris Hayes.

Again, this is what the SCOTUS has sanctioned. On Sept. 10th @chrislhayes.bsky.social and I talked about Justice Kavanaugh’s opinion white-washing ICE raids in Noem v. Vazquez Perdomo. His fact-free opinion was either naive, lazy, or sinister. The Trump Admin read it as a green light.

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

Trump news at a glance: Funding for Democratic states frozen as president uses shutdown to punish opponents The vice-president said the administration would be forced to resort to layoffs if the shutdown lasts more than a few days. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 1 October at a glance

Trump taking advantage of the shutdown to punish Democrats by freezing $26bn for Democratic-leaning states.
$18bn for transit projects in NY, home to Congress’s top two Democrats, and $8bn for green-energy projects in 16 Democratic-run states, including CA and IL www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Federal agent “F__k them kids” #Chicago 1 AM: Federal agents without warrants descend on 5-story apartment building in blackhawk helicopter and vans. Separating and zip tying children. Destroying property and detaining US citizens for hours.

The national conversation should not be us reacting to his batshit crazy every day.

The national conversation should be that we have a batshit crazy person in the White House.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

“Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked. U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours” #Chicago chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

gift link - no paywall.

very much worth reading:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

THE PURGE

Polls show that Project 2025 didn’t resonate. Voters thought it wasn’t real. Well, now we’re living it and it’s already 47% implemented after only 9 months.

Trump’s shutdown is a shortcut: gut the federal workforce, fire career experts, replace them with loyalists. Laid out in P2025.
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The timing is perfect. Super excited about this! 👏🏽👏🏽
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🚨 Forcing members of the military to separate because of a shaving waiver. Where I come from it’s called racism. 1/2

It can’t be said enough: the last three times the government has shut down, Donald Trump was president of the United States, and Republicans controlled the House and the Senate. They cannot govern.