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Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

2025 has been the most miserable AP World History class

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

"well then you can't complain" I can complain whenever I want actually. and I will

this is your fucking job that you're being paid to do. Imagine asking your plumber to stop your dishwasher from flooding your apartment and he's like "well what exactly do you want me to do?" The specifics are your part dog idk!

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

A community altar by a Shell gas station on the south east corner of Belmont and Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago. Signs read: "Stop Ice Abductions" and "Stop Terrorizing our Communities. Abolish ICE!" There are also candles, and various offerings, as well as sidewalk chalk.

A detail of altar offerings - dolls, a stuffed frog holding a "Send ICE Home!" sign, and candles - some lit.

A pair of flyers inspired by those used by Chicago contractors who are often undocumented - both insulting ICE in various ways.

Memorial candles and a sign reading "We remember our neighbors, kidnapped by ICE at this gas station on Wednesday, October 8, 2025" hand written in black marker on blue paper.

Chicago: Avondale! 60618! A neighbor has created a community altar at the Shell station on the south east corner of Belmont and Milwaukee - a memorial to human rights and victims of ICE. I added to it and you should too. Let's make it massive and impossible to miss. Bring your offerings.

Looks so serene and post-apocalyptic at the same time. Chicago, IL Taken from Indiana Dunes State Park

Looks so serene and post-apocalyptic at the same time.

Chicago, IL

Taken from Indiana Dunes State Park

Chicago

Latine brown immigrants can’t be seen in public, can’t be at a train station, can’t walk around without being targets rn. That’s just the truth rn.

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Shit’s all fucked so here’s some premium #Caturday content: Misty purrs.

Jesus fucking Christ, it’s like a villain’s playbook.

I don't think people are being alarmist when they say the current regime is setting up the legal rhetoric to kill you if they want to. The fact that Antifa isn't really an organization means that they can label anyone as Antifa. Declaring Antifa as terrorists means they can call anyone a terrorist.

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

TIL that ICE tried to detain a colleague’s teenaged son, asked him about his “color,” held a gun on him as he produced ID

Why Can't Trump's Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy? Three keys to his success on the world stage could be applied at home. By ROSS DOUTHAT

"Why can't Trump murder civilians indiscriminately at home like he does abroad" - Ross Douthat

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

No matter how many hit clips you see from @govpritzker.illinois.gov, the fact remains that the Illinois State Police are actively protecting and aiding ICE in their terrorizing of our communities.

For decades lawmakers have funded and outfitted cops with military gear who are trained to unload on anyone for any reason they see fit, and now getting indiscriminately beaten and arrested by them is apparently the only defense from the actual military doing worse.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

The SDP, of course, famously refused to ally with the right-wing parties against the KPD, and certainly never sent right-wing paramilitaries to murder communists and anarchists.

National Statistics on Child Abuse - National Children's Alliance A look at the scope of the problem of child abuse, including how it impacts kids, where and how it happens, and how CACs help.

One of the nastiest things from these nasty pieces of work has been the lie that kidlit creatives, teachers & librarians are somehow grooming kids.

Statistically, a parent, guardian, or other relative is more likely to be the perpetrator: www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/n...

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches." As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork. Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

The people who were part of the Underground Railroad had similar fears of being discovered.

So anyway, this is how the governor of a blue state who is supposedly against what’s going on deploys his state police to support it. Don’t let his posts fool you.

Line of state police

Police cars pushing forward behind the line of state police

The protesters are now unable to get to their vehicles to exit the area, having been pushed repeatedly in the opposite direction by the state police, who appear to be setting up to mass arrest people.