Zach McDowell

Lovely to talk with these folks about the problematic ways that crawlers are breaking the Internet lately

🧊 is actual Gestapo. No ID, masks, improper labels (they're not "police"). And worse - our police (the few that wanna help) can't actually force 🧊 to show ID. Why? Because if they are 🧊 then they're "impeding a federal investigation." They are tying the hands of police to actually protect citizens.

Illinois and Chicago sue to block Trump deployment of National Guard The state of Illinois and city of Chicago are suing the Trump administration over their plans to deploy the National Guard.

Good start.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Officials restrict Chicago airspace, citing 'credible threat' of attacks on agents The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed a temporary flight restriction was put in place “at the request of the Department of Homeland Security."

I cannot express how absolutely bull this is www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

FAA restricts private drones over Chicago as feds step up immigration arrests The Federal Aviation Administration set the sweeping restrictions Wednesday at the request of the Department of Homeland Security.

Pretty soon, they're going to ban video altogether; they just haven't figured out how to. It will be labeled as a matter of "security"

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Tumblr linked to Republican John Reid engaged with Nazi porn accounts Reid denies ownership with the blog.

To be honest I’m not even surprised about this considering everything else.

americanjournalnews.com/tumblr-linke...

U.S. Department of Education, AFPI, TPUSA, Hillsdale College, and Over 40 National and State Organizations Launch America 250 Civics Coalition The U.S. Department of Education, alongside the America First Policy Institute, Turning Point USA, Hillsdale College, and more than 40 leading national and state-based organizations today announced th...

Let me get this right… the “teachers are indoctrinating our kids” group is … creating a propaganda campaign to indoctrinate kids?

www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials

I’m tired of being upset and tired of all of this. You get DOGE to cancel stuff to fund a 300M ballroom and then destroy $10M birth control? This is the point. Distract.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Exactly

Trump threatens Chicago with ‘Department of War’ and suggests ICE raids imminent ‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,’ Trump’s TruthSocial post read

What do you do when the President makes a threat of “war” to the city you live in? Asking for all of us. Can the Governor deploy the Illinois national guard to defend its residents against masked thugs?

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias into Wikipedia entries and the organization’s responses.  Chair …

The ignorance of how things work makes me facepalm constantly. WIKIPEDIA IS COMMUNITY GENERATED CONTENT! are they gonna “investigate” 4chan next? Maybe they should just read my open access book…

thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Trump’s war on free expression could plant a burning flag on the Supreme Court steps Trump is picking a fight he knows he can’t win, writes John Bowden. Does he want to provoke protests or merely rile up his supporters against liberal judges?

Yet again the party of “free speech” and “don’t tread on me”

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

I mean we are all pretty tired of yelling “it’s like Hitler” but this is pretty intense. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Church doubles down after preacher encouraged prayers for LGBTQ deaths A preacher from the Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Indianapolis said LGBTQ+ people "deserve the death penalty."

It’s funny that the administration wants to strip nonprofit status from orgs while groups like this remain fine with their tax exempt churches. www.newsweek.com/church-preac...

Unrestrained Trump flirts with Insurrection Act as Marines deploy to L.A. Trump already has broken decades of precedent by federalizing California's National Guard without the state's consent.

“If they spit we hit” - Violence as a reaction from an armed force as a response to protest is absolutely authoritarianism. www.axios.com/2025/06/10/l...

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: “The President's federal deployment of the National Guard over the official wishes of a governor is bad for all Americans concerned about freedom of speech and states rights. The governor has the authority and ability to respond to the civil disturbances with law enforcement capabilities within his state, augmented as necessary by requesting law enforcement assistance from other governors. There are over a million badged and trained members of law enforcement in this country for the governor to ask for help if he needs it. While this is presently a legal order, it tramples the governor’s rights and obligations to protect his people. This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News:

"This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

RFK Jr threatens ban on federal scientists publishing in top journals US health secretary calls leading medical journals such as Lancet ‘corrupt’ and pushes to create state-run alternatives

Nothing says freedom like state run media that publishes its own “facts”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A hidden measure in the Republican budget bill would crown Trump king | Robert Reich The bill could stop federal courts from enforcing their rulings, eliminating any restraint on Trump

Between this and the AI provision, this is a circus of nightmares. Im really not sure what stops thid outside of a full blown revolt.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

They've always been thinly veiled, but the audacity is really incredible now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

I was just about to post this. This is absolutely batty. This is from a President who ran a corrupt for profit “university” smh

This is getting perfectly Chicago?

If you don’t think people should take medical advice from you, the country’s top health official…. MAYBE YOU SHOULD STOP OFFERING IT. And also maybe stop influencing policy about it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...

Agreed. Bernie is center left compared to much of Europe. His positions are mostly “moderate” in general and becoming increasingly middle of the road for many

this is the issue - the liberals have backed away and have been cast as incompetent and also just (probably rightfully so) lining the pockets of the rich. The right sells a different story. Bernie and those crew sell this story and people buy it - but then the dems blackball em

there's no "or not" - we are gonna have flesh eating maggots everywhere because of MAMA. Make America Maggot Again!

Look what the "states rights" folks have cooked up here - sneaking in something absolutely ridiculous... again...

Trump Administration Live Updates: White South Africans Given Refugee Status Arrive in the U.S.

I honestly thought this was a joke until now. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

This alone is huge, but that the Register if Copyrights was canned right after this release is even bigger.

www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...

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