Patrick Durgin

That’s how you know he won’t.

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

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Dodgers fans feel entitled to win. Ask any Cubs fan.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

Tear gas being deployed blocks from my home this morning.

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

gonna keep banging this drum: Chicago area folks, if you sign up for Know Your Rights training with @icirr.bsky.social
it’s only 90 minutes & through the org, you can be connected with people who are trying to protect our communities. Other ideas: find local food pantries or Mutual Aid groups 💚

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.

They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

They are coming for the privileged and the apathetic, the middle of the roads, the folks who “look like us” but can be construed as terrorists…and Venezuela’s oil.

With Trump pardoning Changpeng Zhao and accusing the Biden administration of persecuting him because it hated cryptocurrency, here's a reminder of what the IRS's cybercrime investigators dug up on CZ and Binance. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

Who are the 95 Palestinian medics held captive by Israel? Israel continues to hold 80 Palestinian doctors and medical workers from Gaza and 15 from the occupied West Bank.

Israel continues to hold 80 Palestinian doctors and medical workers from Gaza and 15 from the occupied West Bank.

only the right is allowed to hate the government and wish for its downfall because when they do it it’s patriotism but when we do it, it’s terrorism. anarcho-capitalists can consult the white house, but libertarian socialists must be indicted for thoughtcrimes. it’s only fair.

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Incessant growth in a limited environment is cancer. Capitalism demands it. So even the money must be contrived. Until we die.

Today seems like a good day to remind folks that the Christian school lobby was one of the biggest opponents of the ADA. They fought hard for (and won) exemptions for religious institutions from the law. Private schools are also not required to accept or accommodate disabled students.

The Treasury Secretary is now blaming the government shutdown on the Constitutional right to protest?

Fort Worth, Texas.

#WeAreEverywhere

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

"the classroom has political relevance in creating opportunity for experience not conditioned by what Jäger calls “hyperpolitics.” Hold open this one last precious space of focused attention of careful deliberation of understanding before criticizing."

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For context, several thousand US military personnel have rotated through Israel during this genocide. Whether THAAD battery personnel or working on the JLOTS (the "pier") or helping build out Israeli Air Force bases, our boys have been involved in the day to day operation of the genocide machine

This is deliberate signalling. Posobiec isn’t just the conspiratorial Pizzagate QAnon guy. He’s the guy who used to regularly 1488-post on Twitter. Trump is having a chat with an Internet Nazi about how antifascists were a dangerous and evil group in 1930s Germany.

Fear is the foundation of Trumpism. He knows that getting people to fear for their own safety activates their most primal—and manipulable—instincts.

Most Americans have never seen pure fascism before. Pritzker and Newsom are 100% right to describe what Trump is doing and why.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Police will use violence even if protesters are nonviolent—and they know that people will therefore *believe* that protesters were violent and that police violence was necessary. State violence constructs reality.

OMG —As if libraries and all they stand for were not already in great jeopardy…

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

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