The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

AFSCME is actively complicit in this by parroting the lie that illicit substances in mail endangers COs (the COs are the ones who introduce contraband, so it’s not in the mail in the first place)

but the anti-police bias!!!!

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Just cuz they put his post on letterhead and called it an executive order doesn't mean they are suddenly overwhelmed with the funding and technical capacity to fulfill it

If one cop can get people wrongly caged for TWO HUNDRED YEARS just imagine how many thousands more years all American cops have cost us in the last 249 years of this cursed nation

Please note that all the outlets now correcting their narrative re: ICE killing Silverio Villegas González since FPPD body cams have been released initially published the DHS statement now proven to be mostly false. There's never any understanding/admission of harm done. They'll just do it again.

thinking about the footnote in the Nancy Goldstone book about Maria Theresa/her daughters where she talks about sending a description of Louis XVI’s symptoms to an autism specialist without identifying him and the doctor is like “the person you’re describing is almost certainly autistic”

Officer Joseph Treacy was named in four lawsuits in the past six years that cost taxpayers $524,000, according to a recent analysis by WTTW News. He was one of 272 Chicago Police officers named in multiple misconduct cases since 2019. Here’s some background. 🧵 1/13 news.wttw.com/2025/09/23/r...

but the trib editorial board will still whine about MBJ not speaking respectfully enough about CPD…

Hmm, this looks like municipal law enforcement closing off a street and setting up a perimeter in aid of civil immigration enforcement

NEW: Chicago taxpayers paid $295M between 2019 & 2024 to resolve lawsuits naming 272 officers whose alleged misconduct led more than once to payouts, according to an analysis of city data, I report with @jaredrutecki.bsky.social for @wttw.bsky.social

Elias Cipida, with Pilsen Community Access, calls on pols to do more and prosecute agents who leave kids behind during detainments. “We need those with power to start doing something and stop being content having a national reputation as a progressive because they clap back at press conferences.”

some more fair and balanced reporting (not hard to do): www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Being so serious, why the fuck are our tax dollars paying for a cop podcast

The policing of "tone" and "civility" and "incitement" is always completely one-sided.

I learned not long ago that the Jon Burge case cost $200M; including legal fees, settlement payments, and the pensions that were still paid out to the former commander and officers that operated a citywide torture ring. Taxpayers paid for this.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Just a reminder that the p*lice are defunding YOU

WSJ report is propaganda don't believe it there is no evidence behind it and it says exactly what they admin would want it to

"political violence is never the answer" coming from a ton of politicians who openly fund genocide with our tax money and encourage violence against various minority communities, all of these people have more blood on their hands frankly

speaking ill of the dead is cool and good when they’re an evil fascist, I just don’t want any of you sweet angels to get a door knock

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

The Dems can “condemn” violence all they want. The right-wing establishment is still going to target them any opportunity they get. Any liberal condemnations just expedite the process of justifying their own destruction.

I encourage everyone to look out for their safety and practice good internet hygiene, of course. But some of the scolding posts I've read suggest we can change the awful aftermath of a fateful event by just holding our tongues and being quiet little mice, and that isn't my experience.

It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time: 1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society 2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth

it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up

four people were executed while they slept on a train in chicago last night and i just keep thinking about the photo op gavin newsom did where he personally threw away the belongings of people experiencing homelessness

Said it before and I'll say it again: I do not think a legal profession that venerates the Supreme Court has a clear way of dealing with a Supreme Court justice as dumb as Brett Kavanaugh. This is the jurisprudential equivalent of him writing his name at the top in crayon with the "E" backwards.

to be clear this is because the *city of chicago* is setting up checkpoints again: trump does not need to take over if the city enacts his policies willingly

this garbage framing really needs to stop. it's not about crime. we know this. asking people how they feel about crime pretends that it is about crime. pretending it's about crime is supporting trump's framing. stop it.

We simply do not have to live this way.

This was always going to be the pivot because we have a bipartisan, cross-ideological commitment to policing over everything.

One thing that being in the USA is teaching us, perhaps more than anything else, is how easy it is to break down a society when people don't think about collectivity. Selfishness and hubris are contributing to this country's descent into deeper destruction every day.

Widespread contempt defines the USA these days. The most heartbreaking and tragic situations often seem to get less sympathy than they once did. Instead, many responses center on unflinching callousness and despicable scapegoating, pushing the country further into its spiraling downfall.

Have to keep pointing this out, but the unifying throughline in both stances is the idea that the danger to be guarded against is Black people, either in the person of the state looking to promote their wellbeing or as a response to “crime” and disorder in which we’re imagined as marauders.

the way this week has been CPD posting hell and it’s only Wednesday!!!!

"CPD, don't shoot anybody the day our podcast drops" challenge (impossible) abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

I’m just gonna leave this here: www.bettergov.org/2022/10/18/a...

You know what a nation governed by fascist podcasters really needs? Another fascist podcast.

Some might say that a police dept with the time and resources to produce its own podcast series should have its resources reallocated to *literally anything beneficial* the City of Chicago does. But those people are haters, so let's support our local law enforcement by generating episode titles: +

why would most americans see crime as a major problem in large cities

"crackdown" --> occupation "deployment" --> invasion "declaration of emergency" --> assertion of extraordinary powers "anti-crime agenda" --> anti-democracy agenda "crime" --> state and local matters "send in troops" --> remove your right to be governed by your elected city/state officials

I don't want to log back into Twitter to verify a murder.

Pritzker is correct. Unfortunately the MSM will absolutely NOT tell anything like it is.

give me a fucking breakkkkkkkkkk

The DOJ releases Maxwell audio and transcripts. I have a suggestion: listen to the number of times she says, "...I believe..." It's one of the primary perjury busting tools around. Right up there with, "I can't recall," or "To the best of my memory."

Joy. Cops get a tickle in their nethers when a half-dozen of them can brutalize a single minority eating food bsky.app/profile/skis...