I have too many and not enough words to say how much I love Todd Snider. The final track from his just-released album is another in a long line of songs just perfect to close out a funeral - at least the sort of funeral I’d want to go to. Rest in chaos, my old friend. youtu.be/i7u5lXeDT9s?...

{yakov smirnoff voice} America! What a country! Here you have everything: car on fire, no driver at wheel, street muddied with thousand lonely suicides, and machine with belly that bleed to death!

“In my view they are no different to SS Nazi troops, intimidating citizens and the people they deem to be immigrants,” the 71-year-old artist said in a statement shared with Block Club. “Cloud Gate in Chicago is a place to which citizens and visitors for 20 years now have come together.."

Of course this happens in more than just Broadview. Broadview is simply a regular, weekly glimpse into how police escalate unnecessarily to create the appearance of violent protesters, even when it’s clergy.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

It’s 2025 and you can trust a 14-year-old girl to give you better context about Megyn Kelly than the New York Times which gave her a slow-mo photo shoot

This one has more than one of my favorite lines in the show. Listen!

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NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Heads up: no Starbucks until there’s a contract. Support unions!

every woman acutely understands this face.

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Bond is the MOST continuity-defiant character in pop culture. Even if you weirdly did decide to continue the story from there, not one person would bat an eye if you pulled a Ralph Wiggum in Simpsons Bible Stories.

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Hey Illinois folks: 10 democrats voted to end the shutdown with absolutely nothing to show for it. Good thing we can depend on OUR democratic leaders t- What’s that? Dick Durbin was one of the ten? Oh.

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I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.

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Same energy.

while this is going on, the feds are on an absolute tear through little village. greg bovino is on the ground. agents have abducted multiple people and deployed at least one tear gas canister.

a few catholic deacons arrived to pray the rosary for the people imprisoned inside the broadview ice detention center. they had first tried to gather on the west side of beach street, which is currently closed to protesters, but broadview police wouldn’t let them in.

the current scene. state/local police have shut down one of the “free speech” zones and are requiring all protesters to stand on the east side of beach. the street is entirely closed to traffic yet cops arrest anyone who stands on the concrete barriers or steps into the street. so many cops.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

But JB is y'all boy right?

I need every establishment Dem to read this and take a real deep breath

Then why are the Illinois State Police protecting those who are violating those rights instead of those whose rights are being violated? And not only protecting and enabling ICE, but brutalizing protestors themselves.

In the last month at O’Hare International Airport, federal agents have repeatedly abducted rideshare drivers with legal work permits from their cars and disappeared them to immigration jails or fast-track deportation flights.

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The DOJ accuses Martinez of assulting/impeding a federal agent on Oct. 4, even after an agent shot her. An exhibit filed yesterday shows text messages discussing media coverage of the case. "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys."

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

if you see anyone expressing shock that a candidate who exudes warmth and authenticity and wants to improve the quality of life for working class people won over a rapist whose entire campaign was "that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.

what are the rules about putting this on a tshirt and selling it?

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t worry because if they’re detained, agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true.

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Another warning. Reverend Black: "We are not breaking any law."

Yet another variety of cop has arrived—NIPAS/assorted suburban Illinois cops from various departments recruited for riot control. Dogs barking. ISP just gave another warning, ordering protesters to disperse or potentially face chemical weapons or "pain compliance techniques."

State police have moved their armored vehicle forward now, and warned demonstrators they have 15 minutes to disperse. More and more Border Patrol/assorted feds arriving.

Reverend David Black has a Bible open and is preaching to the police now, inviting them to join him in standing with the persecuted inside the detention center. "Which side do you think Jesus wanted his followers to be on?"

Behind local police, some Border Patrol and Chicago ICE SRT agents have now joined the prison guards. Broadview police chief Mills looks on.

Even with shields confiscated, remaining protesters and clergy have linked arms in front of state troopers. Behind the lines of police, no one inside the soundproof and overcrowded detention center will be able to hear any of this. Chanting, "free them all!"

More pepper balls. Troopers arresting at least 2-3 protesters, ripping shields away from the crowd.

ISP just fired off some pepper balls at protesters.

One night recently, I got a Signal message Would I be interested in seeing an internal Trump admin memo? I said yes (duh). Then, I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. The memo shows how the VA is making access to health coverage header for just one group: Male vets w/ breast cancer….

This is the mockery I crave

At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

Outside Chicago— State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear. A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection. Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.

Remember: local cops are on THEIR side, not ours. They are just as culpable. Not even a little bit better. More Elmos, less cops (of any kind).