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Boot stomping on a head. Every boot you ignore stomping someone else's neck is just breaking in the leather for yours.

A shark in a suit. They come running as fast as they can cause every girl is crazy bout a shark dressed man

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I don't know why we keep doing these studies. We've known about the correlation between heat & violence (especially inter-personal violence) since the 80s.

If you want to alleviate DV rates you need to focus on addressing deeper underlying causative factors.

#Screamingintothevoid

It's that one rando that always worries me

I'm not a fan of the way things are going, ok? I just want it on the record that I was against most of this

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What It Is to Wake Up by Carmen Maria Machado June 17, 2019 – Having marinated in the world of men for nearly two decades, Carmen Maria Machado revisits ‘The Awakening’ and feels the depth of Edna’s suffering.

I’m teaching the Awakening & found this breath-taking essay on it:

“the cruelty of what is denied her is no small thing; a reminder, perhaps, of the ways in which the dimensions of women’s existences are flattened no matter their privilege.”

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It would benefit many to watch some of the interviews of Fred Hampton that are readily available online.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Josh Hawley was today years old when he found out that if you are doing bad things and you're a Senator, the FBI can still investigate you. HEY JOSH, you're just another guy, and kind of an unimpressive one at that.

An internet of many autonomous communities Making communities a true part of the protocol will encourage others to build things for those communities, start new communities, and hopefully foster models for self-sustainability.

@rude1.blacksky.team's writing is (IMHO) the best starting point here -- it's grounded in a liberatory perspective, and also very good at highlighting the possibilities as well as acknowleding the reality. blog.rudyfraser.com/an-internet-... includes his ATmosphereConf presentation

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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CHICAGO — Federal immigration agents illegally arrested nearly two dozen people earlier this year without warrants in violation of a 2022 consent decree, a federal judge in Chicago ruled late Tuesday. Immigration and civil liberties advocates based in Chicago sued federal authorities in March over the arrests of 26 people in the Midwest — including one U.S. citizen — during the opening days of President Donald Trump’s second term in January. They claimed that such arrests violated a three-year consent decree banning warrantless arrests unless agents have probable cause to believe someone is in the United States unlawfully and is a flight risk. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings concluded that attorneys for the National Immigration Justice Center and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois provided enough evidence to show that ICE arrested 22 people without a warrant in violation of the consent decree and federal law. Cummings also extended the settlement agreement to Feb. 2 and ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to begin making monthly disclosures of how many warrantless arrests agents make each month until the agreement’s new expiration date. The original 2018 lawsuit that led to the consent decree — referred to as the Castañon Nava consent decree — stemmed from a large-scale ICE enforcement operation in the Chicago area that led to 156 arrests during a weeklong period. Of those arrests, more than 100 were made without a warrant. According to the lawsuit, ICE instructed its agents to circumvent federal law on warrantless arrests by having them create “post-hoc” warrants in the field for people who were already under arrest. ICE officials previously denied that its agents violated the agreement, which it asserted expired earlier this year. It asserted that agents had probable cause to believe that the people it arrested without warrants would likely escape before they could get a warrant for their arrest. In other cases, warrants were prepared while people were detained for questioning, ICE officials said. Cummings wrote Tuesday that issuing warrants to arrest people in the field was a “new policy that has never been implemented by ICE” prior to the consent decree. In 12 cases from Missouri that were cited in the lawsuit, the judge wrote, ICE later prepared post-arrest forms that Cummings said did not include any facts that would provide probable cause that any of the detainees were likely to escape before arrest warrants could be obtained. Subsequent forms provided a month later reflected details ICE agents did not know at the time they made the arrests, Cummings added. According to Cummings’ order, the 22 people subject to illegal warrantless arrests have since been released on bond and are no longer in the custody of ICE. But Cummings ordered ICE to reimburse all bond payments and lift any imposed conditions of release. ICE began violating the agreement with the January operation and completely ceased compliance in June, when its principal legal adviser sent an email to all ICE employees stating that the agreement was terminated despite pending litigation. On Tuesday, Cummings ordered ICE to reissue a broadcast that the agreement is again in effect “to all ICE officers nationwide.” The judge also ordered ICE to, within 10 days, produce a tally of all foreign nationals subjected to warrantless arrest in the Northern District of Illinois from June 11-Oct. 7. It must continue to produce that data on the first day of each month between Oct. 22 and when the agreement expires. ## Attorneys: Family’s Millennium Park Detention Was Also A Violation Prior to Cummings’ ruling, attorneys also filed multiple notices to the court of additional consent decree violations in which they alleged that ICE had “dramatically escalated” its enforcement in Chicago. One high-profile case cited was the recent arrests of a family in Millennium Park. Federal agents detained Noemi Chavez; her husband, Jaime Ramirez; their 8-year-old daughter, Dasha Ramirez; and their 3-year-old son at Millennium Park during a family outing on Sept. 28. Chavez told the Tribune that federal agents surrounded her and her husband as her children played in the Crown Fountain and asked if they had their “documents.” Chavez said that when she asked to see a warrant, her request was ignored. In a Sept. 30 court filing, attorneys with the National Immigrant Justice Center wrote that the arrest was among many made this year “without warrants or any flight risk determinations.” The Chavez-Ramirez family was detained as large groups of border patrol agents marched through Downtown. During the Sept. 28 patrol, Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino told WBEZ some of the people his agents are arresting are chosen based partly on “how they look.” More than 1,000 people have been arrested in the Chicago area since the Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Midways Blitz at the start of September. The National Immigration Justice Center has identified more than 30 recent examples of warrantless arrests “lacking sufficient probable cause,” according to court documents. The Castañon Nava consent decree was supposed to sunset in May. However, in March, the National Immigration Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois filed a motion to enforce the consent decree and extend it for three more years. At a hearing in June, Cummings stated that the consent decree remained in effect while the motions were pending. Last week, attorney Keren Zwick with the National Immigration Justice Center filed a habeas corpus petition with the U.S. District Court on behalf of the Chavez-Ramirez family. Originally from Guatemala, the family came to the United States in 2023 “in search of protection,” Zwick said. She said the family has an asylum hearing date set for October 2027. During a Monday status hearing, Zwick told U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis she believed the family was “stopped because of their skin color.” “I know I have no jurisdiction as to how ICE operates its enforcement procedures, but I will just say as an aside, I find it extremely troubling that there is no other indication that this family was not here legally and clearly they were stopped based on their appearance which, absent any other factors, is unconstitutional,” the judge said Monday. After their detainment, the Chavez-Ramirez family was taken to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview before Chavez and the children were moved to O’Hare’s immigration-customs enforcement area at Terminal 5, according to the Tribune. Chavez and the children were released Wednesday. But Jaime Ramirez was transferred from Broadview to the Port Isabel Immigration Processing Center in Texas and then to a facility in Clay County, Indiana, according to Zwick. Jaime Ramirez originally came to the United States in the early 2000s, but he was deported. He returned in 2014 and was convicted of illegal entry and was served an order of removal, Zwick said. Jaime Ramirez returned with his family in 2023. On Monday, attorney Craig Oswald, who is representing Bovino on behalf of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, said he believed federal agents discovered Jaime Ramirez’s past entries after the family was detained. Mark Fleming, associate director of the National Immigrant Justice Center’s federal litigation project, speaks in a press conference on March 17, 2025. Credit: Francia Garcia Hernandez/Block Club Chicago Marcos Charles, acting head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, said last month that about 50-60 percent of arrests in ICE’s ongoing Chicago operation were targeted arrests. Yet in a recent filing in the Castañon Nava case, the National Immigration Justice Center wrote the remaining 50-60 percent of arrests are collateral arrests “which means they were warrantless and likely failed to comply” with the consent decree. Filings from the National Immigration Justice Center describe cases where people were arrested on their way to and from work and church, an early morning raid in Elgin where two U.S. citizens were detained and an incident where a 5-year-old girl and her parents were arrested as they loaded groceries into their car. “Together, the violations we describe in our court filing paint a picture of increasingly violent and dangerous arrests by [Department of Homeland Security] and other federal officers who show no regard for people’s safety or constitutional rights,” Mark Fleming, associate director of litigation at the National Immigration Justice Center, said in a recent news release. “We urgently need the court to hold the Trump administration accountable for the fear, family separation and physical harm these arrests are causing.” * * * **Support Local News!** **Subscribe to Block Club Chicago, **an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. 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ICE Violated Consent Decree With Warrantless Arrests, Federal Judge In Chicago Says https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/07/ice-violated-consent-decree-with-warrantless-arrests-federal-judge-in-chicago-says/

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

“To capture a democratic nation, authoritarians must control three sources of power: the intelligence agencies, the justice system, and the military.”
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photo of masked thug wearing shirt that reads: anti-antifa response: now reduce your fraction

That's just fascism with extra steps

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

Despite strong objections from Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and the people of Chicago, the Trump regime is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago today.

If you are in Chicago and need guidance on how to interact with the Guard, here’s a helpful guide:
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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, ...

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Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

I'm sorry you are dealing with all of this.❤️

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Disaster Communications in a Changing Media World. Haddow & Haddow

Media Consolidation

Really stoked that the Third Editon- from my boy George- hammers home that media consolidation is a problem for disaster communication