Bob Libal

Great piece Chris

Good piece for understanding Abbott and our political moment

This is a very strong reason to vote FOR Prop. Q

My kid’s beloved school is shutting down. Abbott’s sending millions to send unwanted troops to Chicago.

Maybe keep the schools open instead?

Abbott egged on the Jade Helm conspiracists, who claimed that a military training operation was actually Obama invading the state of Texas.

Now a U.S. president is deploying Texas troops to other states to dominate and intimidate those states, and Abbott is complicit.

Border Patrol agent talks about how he knows that the people he's arresting at this nutrition bar factory in NY are "literal street rats" who would "eat our kids"

Officials Said They Busted a Tren de Aragua Party. Attendees Beg to Differ. A highly publicized multi-agency raid in Hays County resulted in dozens of arrests on low-level immigration charges and left an Austin mother's life in tatters. It also fit a pattern of unproven…

Out today: Some friends had rented the Airbnb for 3 days to celebrate a pair of birthdays. There were beers, arepas, and a birthday cake. They were planning to blow out candles and sing the following day.

But first there was a massive, militarized multi-agency ICE raid.

I was the first member of Congress to take paternity leave. There’s no substitute for time spent.

As a someone currently on parental leave, I really like appreciate @colinallredtx.bsky.social talking about this

Extremely good news for Austin

Jury finds LA protester not guilty of assaulting border patrol agent Brayan Ramos-Brito acquitted after US immigration officials were accused in court of lying about the incident

A good lesson here:

DHS agents regularly lie to community members, employers, and in court.

In this case, the jury didn’t believe Gregory Bovino, the BP chief who has become a figurehead of the admin’s abuses in LA.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Sentencing Project Condemns House Passage of Bills Threatening D.C.’s Autonomy and Youth – The Sentencing Project

The Sentencing Project Condemns House Passage of Bills Threatening D.C.’s Autonomy and Youth.

Yesterday, U.S. House of Representatives passed a set of bills that rolls back progress and poses a serious threat to the District of Columbia, endangering our communities and targeting youth.

Catholic bishops call immigration crackdown a 'category 4 storm' WASHINGTON (RNS) — Before the Georgetown roundtable, El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz told RNS he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE.

A significant thing here: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee on migration, tells @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE. religionnews.com/2025/09/12/c...

Image of kids and teens at an outdoor basketball court/park with a call to action that urges Congress to Protect Kids!

TAKE ACTION: Congress is about to vote on dangerous legislation that would roll back hard-won reforms, harm youth, deepen racial disparities, and undermine democracy in the District.

Urge your lawmakers to protect kids: secure.sentencingproject.org/a/take-action-protect-dc-kids

Over 40% of arrests in Trump's DC law enforcement surge relate to immigration, AP analysis finds President Donald Trump has portrayed his federal law enforcement surge in Washington as a crime-fighting effort.

The occupation of DC isn’t about tackling serious crime. It’s a dragnet targeting immigrants and people of color, the data shows

On Chicago's first full day of 'Operation Midway Blitz,' fear, tension and a 'reality show' On an anxiety-filled day for the city, there were sporadic reports of arrests in Chicago’s Latino community as hundreds of federal agents move in — and many residents hunker down.

3 different phenomena:
1) Deployment of National Guard* to city.
2) Takeover of city's local police to force cooperation.
3) Surging federal law enforcement to city for immigration arrests.

LA got 1 and 3. DC got all 3. Chicago may avoid 1 but it ALREADY HAS 3. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

About that meritocracy….

I’m anti-carceral but you at least gotta sit in the uncomfortable chair at the end of the patio…

Dude, you sat down next to me!

Putting in your headphones doesn’t mean I can’t hear you!

Proud of my colleagues in DC standing up for what truly makes us safe. And it isn’t authoritarian take overs…

Call me old fashioned… but if you sit next to someone at a shared coffee shop table, you should not then get on a work zoom

uggh....

Creating undocumented people to juice deportation numbers...

My wife is also a US Citizen who is 9 months pregnant.

If ICE violently detained and shackled her sending her into premature labor, I would lose my fucking shit.

To say this admin glorifies cruelty is a cliche now, but someday there must be direct accountability for these crimes.

Is Partying Dead, or Are You Just Old?

Yes.

I see the NFL season is kicking off with the requisite class….

The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.

Contextualizing Chicago's Enormous Drop in Shootings When was the last time Chicago had this few shootings?

Chicago has likely "seen fewer shootings victims so far this year than any year since the mid-1960s."

@jeffasher.bsky.social has some great context here on the historic declines in Chicago.

This morning, I tried to explain a what a mass shooting drill is to my four year old because his pre-K class is having one today.

And now the news out of Minneapolis of children killed while sitting in their pews before school started is almost too much to bear

Flyer for a free community forum on "Protecting Democracy," held Saturday, September 6 at Pilgrim Congregational UCC in Cleveland, featuring Prof. Ayesha Bell Hardaway, with breakfast, networking, and breakout sessions.

I'm sharing this as an example of something any community might do. Substitute 'Protecting Democracy' with anything that you care about, pull together some community groups, have some food available and call people together...

I like that they have a networking time incorporated.

one thing i've taken away from surveys asking the public to evaluate trump's most authoritarian moves is that the ordinary americans have a much clearer sense of what's happening than most professional political observers