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Protesters Arrested, Officers Injured in Clash Outside Broadview ICE Facility The Cook County Sheriff’s Office said most faced charges of obstruction, disorderly conduct, and walking on a highway. One also faced a charge of mob action. Their ages ranged from 23 to 67.

Authorities arrested 21 protesters Friday and said four officers were injured outside a Broadview federal immigration facility that activists say functions as a de facto detention center and is plagued by inhumane conditions.

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Trump Deserves No Credit for Continued Drop in Crime in Chicago: Johnson, Pritzker Crime in Chicago has been dropping significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic began to wane in 2022, a trend that accelerated after Mayor Brandon Johnson took office in May 2023 and has continued since...

Federal agents who have carried out a series of increasingly aggressive raids in Chicago as part of President Trump’s effort to deport undocumented immigrants deserve no credit for the continuing drop in violent crime across Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker said. @wttw.bsky.social

No filters, just Maine being beautiful, dancing with the Northern Lights tonight.

And the truly craziest thing abt this cave is that someone seeing the invasion of Chicago firsthand, Dick Durbin, doesn't understand this.

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

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Families were "horrified" after a daycare teacher was pulled out of a preschool by armed federal agents. blockclubchi.co/4ooIC70

"And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."

— Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"

Keep Chicago’s name OUT OF YOUR FILTHY MOUTH and put some respect on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s name.

Maine is a different kind of place. There's a deep sense of community engagement. People will decide to just run for office. I did it 4 years ago. So if you understand Maine, you better understand how a Graham happens. I understand the desire to compare him to Fetterman, but it's doubtful.

Chicago protestors took to Downtown streets Wednesday night to protest the deployment of National Guard troops to the area. blockclubchi.co/3WvWvnA

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

one of the most shocking things i remember from middle school is having to argue to a teacher that we did in fact have photography in the civil war, and that our textbooks were not showing pencil sketches. i was right of course, even proved it with sources, and got written up for it lmao

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says Video appears to show federal immigration agents trying to coax the man out of his Massachusetts home while asking, “Is that your daughter?”

ICE agents held a man’s five year old autistic daughter and taunted him with “Is that your daughter” in an attempt to get him to come out of the house.

They were rebuffed but two days later took him from his car.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

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RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Stop romanticizing the 1990s. The data shows today is better. Nostalgia is lying to you about how good things were.

Nostalgia is lying to you about how good things were. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

5 things Free DC is teaching us In case you missed the news, Donald Trump has ordered the National Guard to head to our nation’s capital. Claiming emergency powers from the Home Rule charter due to crime, he’s taking control of the ...

“Do not obey in advance.”

“Prioritize joy.”

“Take up space.”

“Be in solidarity.”

“Organize.”

Fantastic piece on what FreeDC is teaching us with its immediate and potent resistance to the Trump attempt to take over that city.

democracy in peril?

SHINGLES DOESN'T CARE

Imagine being a billionaire, in charge of one the most powerful, influential companies in the history of world, and prostrating yourself to Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. Sheesh.

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Lawsuits from men against the doctors who provide abortions to their partners illustrate that men understand abortion bans as legal codifications of their private right to dominate and control women.

Colbert responds to Trump celebrating his cancellation:

Disrespectfully, I need anyone who has not looked for a job within the past year to shut up because shit has changed. Your advice and experience doing this in the past means nothing. You have not job hunted like people are job hunting right now, don’t give people false hope with your outdated ideas

Is it time for your right-wing family to stop snubbing the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...

It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.

do not stop harassing your senators, whatever party they vote with, just because the FIRST vote, which does not pass the bill, happened