JediCat

This is nuts.

But also increasingly common.

Chicago's federal courthouse is already built like a fortress. It's been surrounded by this big fuck off metal fence since the start of September, & you can only get inside through security stations. US marshals inside as well.

Sending natl. guard to the courthouse too is just fall-of-Rome cosplay

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

Great show! But it's disappointing no one is bringing up the IL State Police assisting ICE and continually harassing & arresting protesters. They answer to Gov. Pritzker, and Lt. Gov. Stratton made the point he is the commander in chief of the state forces.

With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term The justice stripped the veneer of constitutional principle from the court’s latest blatant culture war.

KBJ’s blunt question today about the Supreme Court’s culture war hypocrisy kind of floored me, because it’s the kind of meta-criticism that we aren’t used to hearing from the justices.

It’s the second day of the term, and things are that dire already. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Illinois and Chicago file a suit seeking injunctive relief against the deployment of national guard units in Chicagoland that largely tracks the successful suits filed by California and Oregon. In both cases, heavy reliance is placed on Trump's bogus Truth Social posts to prove Trump's state of mind

Pro-tip: if you have video of you or others directly intervening to obstruct ICE or de-arrest someone, for god’s sake don’t post it on social media. Or at a minimum blur faces first. You’re just begging for federal charges.

Illinois State Police assist feds in Broadview protest, Chicago alderperson cuffed at hospital, rapid responders tear gassed in Logan Square • The TRiiBE A roundup of ICE activity in the Chicagoland area on Oct. 3.

NEW — A lot happened today.

• Multiple protesters were arrested outside the ICE “processing” facility in Broadview.

• Chicago Ald. Jesse Fuentes was handcuffed and detained by ICE agents inside a hospital ER.

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It was a bunch of people praying and singing. Local cops cleared a path for a fascist propaganda op and then assisted federal forces in brutalizing protesters. Those are the facts.

The best time to push back on expansion of the state surveillance apparatus was 20 years ago.

The second best time is today.

They’re trying to cut off eyes from the sky.

We need an Unraveled helicopter. If you have a helicopter, hmu on signal.

I Am on Kirk’s “Professor Watchlist.” I Know How It Destroys Civil Debate. I deeply value free speech and debate. The watchlist created by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is anathema to both.

🔥 NEW by Professor George Yancy for Truthout: "I Am on Kirk’s 'Professor Watchlist.' I Know How It Destroys Civil Debate: I deeply value free speech and debate. The watchlist created by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is anathema to both." via @truthout.org

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Update: horrifying details about last night's raid are emerging.

Organizers + electeds are reporting potentially dozens of people (at least 40 per initial estimate) were detained. Not much more confirmed at this time.

More will be shared at press conference at 5 at corner of 75th & South Shore.

In the last two weeks these feds have choked & beaten protesters, broken bones, given people concussions from munitions, pointed their sidearms at people, tear gassed a neighborhood, shot reporters in the face, destroyed neighbors' property, threatened elected officials

No National Guard necessary

Protester on car with LICK MY BUTTHOLE FEDS poster and poster that says I DIDNT SEE THE USA JOBS POSTING FOR RACIST SELLOUT

Protester in respirator facing off with feds in dark gas masks

Ice agents in gas masks in dark driveway

Feds ripping umbrella away from protesters

Broadview, Illinois yesterday

According to the New York Times, "The text exchange between Mr. Robinson and his partner was reproduced by prosecutors in the charging document."

Reproduced? So no one has seen the actual messages? No screen shots? No time stamps? Also, weren't they on Discord and not SMS? 1/

Did you know that neurodivergence is STRONGLY correlated with a highly developed sense of social justice? By which I mean to say: maybe check in with your neurodivergent peeps. We are not OK.

VIOLENT MAN DIES VIOLENT DEATH; MORE VIOLENCE FOLLOWS | Left Coast Right Watch The aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder was as violent as the rhetoric he dedicated his life to spreading, but somehow even more bizarre

NEW from LCRW: Things moved fast after Charlie Kirk was murdered. @azrww.bsky.social, the staff & I tried to encapsulate the bizarre first week after his murder in as much minutiae as we could stomach. The end of every graf felt like the most gut-punching absurd kicker I've ever written.

Gov. Pritzker calls out ICE’s lack of transparency following their killing of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez on Friday.

"operation at large is here to continue the mission we started in LA" SCREENSHOT FROM X

Social media obsessed Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino shares a video to X this morning announcing his arrival in Chicago*

*Daily reminder that we've seen little activity in the heart of the city, much of it out in far flung vulnerable disinvested burbs. CBP vehicles were in Elgin this AM.

"but"?

"As GenAI poses to be a . . ."

This shit is self-refuting.

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

Sarah Lax I am so sorry I did you the disservice of thinking you would give an anonymous quote instead of CALLING A REPORTER YOURSELF TO DEMAND CONTINUING COVERAGE TO PRESSURE THE CHURCH

great quotes in here from parents pulling their kids out and from the beloved teacher who resigned

The family of Virginia Giuffre responds to the Maxwell prison move: "President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter."

In his haste to distract from his p*doph*lia, Trump released the MLK files and, inadvertently, what was likely the real reason King was killed.

He was planning multiple city strikes across the country to demand reparations.

20 Billion a year for ten years was the demand, almost 2 Trillion today.

That’s why, to my mind, this is the worst decision from the Supreme Court of Trump’s second term so far. Not just in terms of impact—though subjecting thousands of immigrants to torture in foreign countries is ghastly. But also in terms of what signal it sends to the lower courts and the executive branch. The court has indicated that Trump and his allies can flout the law, make a huge mess, run up to the Supreme Court demanding relief when they’re restrained by a judge, and win that relief no matter how egregiously they misbehaved. What incentive remains for this administration to comply with lower court orders at all? I don’t see one.

I am not exaggerating when I say the Supreme Court’s unsigned, unexplained order yesterday is the worst thing it has done since Trump returned to office. And not just on the merits—it’s also an unfathomably dangerous green light for Trump to flout lower court orders. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Dallas turned out with at least 10,000 marching for #NoKingsDay