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I've been at many protests in our city over the years for a variety of different things, in my clergy attire, desiring to be a presence for peace in situations that can get volatile, desiring to be a person who different sides can be able to approach and talk with and have conversations with. I do think this is one of the important roles that faith leaders can play in contentious public situations. This was the first time that I felt like there was absolutely no regard and no respect for a person who was visibly associated with the faith tradition. It did not seem like it made one iota of difference.

I spoke to another pastor after publication, Rev. David Swanson.

He's only been to the facility once (last Friday), and wasn't shot w/pepper balls.

Instead, he says senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino just walked up to him — in full clerical garb — and began shoving.

He put it this way:

Yeah I do think he is smart enough to know that getting confrontational with the ISP is not going to work, but most people don't know that or don't care and want him to anyway. People are pissed so I hope he gets a bit more ACTIVE

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

Congressional Democrats Find That Taking a Stand is Popular

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere “It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

whenever people not from here try to tell me our whole city gov is made of super lefty democrats I always have to correct them.

Shame.

god I love my city so much. We will get through this together.

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

This is why, despite frustrations, I do think that Johnson (especially) and Pritzker are genuinely showing courage.

Details from Reuters, which explicitly makes the link to the prosecution of Comey:

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“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

Kristi Noem inside the ICE facility at 1930 Beach St. in Broadview, IL. She is standing near a white man, smiling at a desk with a computer monitor and printer. Behind her is a cell door with a man looking out a narrow slit window. Next to him, three or four other men are seen through a larger window in the cell. Behind the white man are two upside down "demo bags" taped up over the windows to another cell.

This is from a video on X, showing inside the Broadview ICE facility when Noem was in town on Fri.

For context, she's in the central room with 15 workstations setup to process detained individuals, whether they were arrested by immigration enforcement or at protests.

See the orange triangles?

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

[haunted by the looming threat of fascism] we needed this rain

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

Def. atty continues his argument, says "violent terrorist organizations" are trying to doxx agents.

This prompts open laughter in the courtroom.

"Well, I think we have a different idea of what's going on in Chicago," Ellis tells the def. atty, who is appearing remotely.

They come to city council meetings, I know that much.

uh oh

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yeah I have to agree.

I believe the IL AG is planning to file suit. They have been saying that they can't actually sue until the troops have been activated. It seems like today is the day, so hopefully we will see the lawsuit happen now.

our chicago community is coming together like never before to fight back against the unprecedented abuses of power hitting our city. there are so many ways you can get involved. we got this. see you out there ✊ JOIN A SCHOOL PATROL help fight🧊 targeting immigrant children at schools by visiting local schools during pickup/dropoff times ASK @GOVPRITZKER WHY STATE P0LICE ARE HELPING 🧊 while you’re calling, ask him to visit the facility to support pr0testers ATTEND A KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TEXT BANK equip over 500,000 Chicagoans with KYR resources from your cozy couch with @chicagocares TELL @BUDGET & @UHAUL: NO RENTALS FOR 🧊 Boycott, get loud on social and their their team to stop supporting 🧊

You are not helpless. There is so much you can do to fight against what's happening to our city and country.

The only question is: will you?

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I'm scared for my city.

This is the thing - D mayors and governors can't control their law enforcement. We've seen cops refuse to work in cities that elected Black men as mayors - Cleveland and Chicago for instance. They are not afraid to assert their independence when they don't like the person elected. Massive problem.