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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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BREAKING: U.S. Senate rejects Democratic government funding bill.

ICE spends millions on ads to recruit police for mass deportation efforts U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforcement.

The campaign — airing in more than a dozen cities, including Chicago, Seattle and Atlanta — is part of ICE’s $30 billion initiative to hire 10,000 more deportation officers by the end of the year to supercharge deportations. https://to.pbs.org/3Ixu2L1

Political cartoon titled, "Crocodile Tears." A crocodile in a Trump Administration bib opens its mouth to eat a turtle labeled "federal workers." The crocodile says “It’s just so sad! While negotiating the government shutdown, those nasty Democrats refused to let me eat them for breakfast, so, now, I must eat you for lunch!”

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

Here’s my message to the thousands of federal workers here in our Capital Region and beyond who have been furloughed, fired, or forced to work without pay thanks to this reckless GOP shutdown: I support you, and I’ll always keep fighting for you.

Mr. Trump said "We could have much better health care than we have right now."

No kidding.

20+ million will see their premiums double. 15 million thrown off health care entirely.

Pres. Trump, in case you didn’t know, this is what the shutdown is about.

End your health care cuts.

I guess they’ve moved on from Cracker Barrel.

Donald Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy troops Warning to use 19th century law comes as president faces legal setbacks in efforts to put soldiers on streets of US cities

Donald Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy troops on.ft.com/47dKZn2

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Excellent synopsis of the Epstein/Trump connection to the RELEASE OF THE EPSTEIN FILES. Make this go viral.

ICYMI — A July 17th post from Miller’s cousin disavowing him is making the rounds again. www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...

We covered this on today's @dailybeanspod.com. Extremely dangerous and these ICE agents should be charged with felonies.

We Found the ‘Enemy from Within’ He’s in the White House

We Found the ‘Enemy from Within’--He’s in the White House

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He is going to use our military to come for American citizens. He already has his private army with iCE. Now he will take control of the regular military and turn them again us.

"Has a single ICE agent been disciplined, so far as we know, in the months this has been going on?....There's none of the normal 'we hope we don't have to use force,' they don't even pretend that anymore."

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Podcast:

Q: Should people expect the National Guard and the military in their streets over the next 3.5 years?

STEPHEN MILLER: *changes topic*

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Sorry Donald. We don’t want to fund your anti-democratic administration. We blame you and your tariffs and your pardons and your ICE depravity, and your politicization of the military and your anti-DEI racism and your sexism and your felonies and your other crimes.

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

Being "Homeless" IS NOT A CRIME SEX TRAFFICKING IS RELEASE the EPSTEIN FILES

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”

Edward R. Murrow

YouTube video by Netflix A Message From Dr. Jane Goodall | Famous Last Words | Netflix

"Every single day you live, you make a difference in the world, and you get to choose the difference that you make...
Even today, where the planet is dark, there still is hope." -
Dr. Jane Goodall, March 2025
Choose well, my friends.

So Trump is floating a pardon for Maxwell. He’ll speak to the DOJ. He doesn’t know anything about it. He’ll have to take a look. (CNN)

There is no acceptable excuse for zip-tying children! None.

This shouldn’t even have to be said.

🚨 Rep. Jim McGovern attempted to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Rep Elect AZ-07, but they would NOT recognize him in the House. He has a candid reason as to why he thinks this happened. 1/2

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

We'll say it too: Fuck authoritarianism

Last year they claimed “illegals” were voting, without any evidence.

They used fear mongering to push for voter suppression laws.

Now they claim “illegals” are getting free healthcare, again without any evidence.

So they can make healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans.

Enough.