Nearly 300 federal agents and officers descended upon a five-story apartment complex in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood.

… Trump shut down the govt in his first term over funding for his border wall. But I suppose that was around the time Vance was calling Trump ‘America’s Hitler’.

Oregon AG Dan Rayfield: "California, DC, Memphis, potentially Illinois, now Oregon - this normalization that you can use the US military in our cities. That is un-American & every place that it happens, you will see Democratic attorneys general standing up, drawing a line in the sand & saying, 'No'"

Greg Bovino, the chief U.S. Border Patrol agent, told the Sun-Times/WBEZ that people were being targeted based on how they look. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/a...

ICE Fires Chemical Weapon At TV Reporter In Broadview; 'Unprovoked' Attack Under Investigation blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/29/i...

More video of that assault:

Fascist shit.

Assisted by ATF agents here, CBP just rushed out of the gate and immediately into the crowd to seize safety gear (umbrellas, shields) from protesters. Loaded them into this truck. Saw feds tackle and arrest one person between parked cars.

Chaos again, feds tackling protesters at random. They just detained @peoplesfabric.com.

At the start of a high-profile meeting at the United Nations, France, Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta and Monaco formally recognized a Palestinian state, following similar moves by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Portugal earlier this week.

Broadview mayor says ICE is ‘making war on my community’ after latest protests at immigration facility chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

TOMORROW ON HITTING LEFT... COLIN KRAMER, an environmental scientist with the EPA’s Region 5 office in Chicago. He’s also an active member of AFGE Local 704, which has been disbanded by Trump. TUNE IN FRIDAY, 2/26 11-NOON CT AT WLPN 105.5 FM AND STREAMING LIVE AT lumpenradio.com

U.S. District Judge William E. Smith in Rhode Island issued a sweeping ruling against the Trump administration’s attempt to withhold disaster relief funds from states that refused to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. Thank you Judge Smith. msn.com/en-us/politi...

“CNN identified more than 100 US citizen children, from newborns to teenagers, who have been left stranded without parents because of immigration actions this year …” www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p... #FamiliesBelongTogether

Mike Klonsky on Substack: China’s Alt Energy Blitz Exposes Trump’s Fossil Fantasy. ALSO, TRUMP AT THE UN: ALSO, COMING UP AT HITTING LEFT...

Ooops, no Peace Prize for you. apnews.com/article/trum...

EPA scientist Colin Kramer will be my guest Friday, on #HittingLeft radio. Live, 11-noon CT, at lumpenradio.com blog.ucs.org/derrick-jack...

ICE pulling out of Broadview... Bullies thrive on fear, silence, and the illusion of invincibility. But the moment they’re confronted—whether by truth, resistance, or a well-placed jab—they stumble. Broadview was that moment. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

Mike Klonsky on Substack -- Trump's war profiteering in Ukraine. Europe is a tinderbox of war and fascism... There’s no clearer example of authoritarian escalation than what happened in Broadview yesterday.

Thousands of protesters flooded central London today, rallying against President Trump’s second state visit to the UK. The main demonstration, organized by the Stop Trump Coalition, marched from Portland Place to Parliament Square, with slogans like “Go Away, Trump” and “No to racism, no to Trump.”

Robert Redford was one of the most outspoken critics of Donald Trump among Hollywood figures, especially during Trump’s first term and reelection campaign. Redford published multiple op-eds condemning Trump’s leadership and rhetoric. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

New silkscreen poster by Justseeds artist Nicolas Lampert, celebrating the legendary organizers of SNCC! justseeds.org/product/sncc/

Arizona sports outlets PHNX Sports has fired lead Phoenix Suns reporter Gerald Bourguet after he questioned why outrage over right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s killing was louder than outrage over school shootings, mass deportations, or the horrific murders in Gaza (which Kirk cheered on).”

“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” which CBS canceled over the summer, won the Emmy for best talk show for the first time. It was the second of two standing ovations that Colbert received at the ceremony. nyti.ms/4n7hh8W

Flotillas Highlight Urgency to Lift Israel’s Blockade of Gaza www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

ICYMI -- Here's my Hitting Left show with Indivisible Chicago open.substack.com/pub/klonsky/...

Radicals in the Ranks or Just Another Loyalty Purge? open.substack.com/pub/klonsky/...

An evil spiteful man.

The UN vote that never happened open.substack.com/pub/klonsky/...

Qatar condemns the “cowardly” Israeli attack, calls it a flagrant violation of international law. aje.io/71g9lr

Military Times reports: Trump’s push for more troops in US cities at odds with crime stats. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

The U.S. and Israel isolated as UN votes to move the next General Assembly to Geneva open.substack.com/pub/klonsky/...

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries aren’t just undercutting a rising star. They’re throwing the city to Trump’s wolves. newrepublic.com/article/2000... via @newrepublic.com

Are Democrats cutting a deal with Trump to ice Mamdani? open.substack.com/pub/michaelk...

Labor Day Protests Denounce Trump While Supporting Workers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

On this Labor Day, change is in the air. This year’s labor landscape is a testament to labor’s growing muscle. From coast to coast, workers are striking not just for wages, but for dignity, democracy, and a future beyond Trumpism and oligarchic control.

On August 23, 1968, just days before the Democratic National Convention, 43 Black soldiers stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, staged a sit-in to protest their deployment to Chicago for riot-control duty.

Trump then exploded about Pritzker’s impudence, calling the governor names and instructing him to bow down and beg for his “HELP” in fighting crime. newrepublic.com/article/1997... via @newrepublic.com

My latest at Substack.

More than 180 FEMA employees accuse the administration of putting “uninformed cost-cutting” above protecting people during natural disasters. The letter states that some FEMA staff have been reassigned to work at ICE, with anyone who refuses to transfer being "threatened with termination."

The lawsuit triggered a blanket court order that automatically pauses deportation efforts for two days. The order applies to immigrants in Maryland who are challenging their detention.

25 Artists in Gaza Stage Exhibition of New Works Expressing Grief Amid Genocide truthout.org/articles/25-...

White House Clashes With Jack White, Whose Song They Used to Promote Deportation truthout.org/articles/whi...

Will Hegseth send Marines to Minnesota? open.substack.com/pub/klonsky/...

Weekend Quotables: Even within Israel, the war has become so odious that mass protests are tearing apart the nationalist consensus. open.substack.com/pub/michaelk...

Video shows the family fleeing after masked and unidentified men attempted to detain them and firing three gun shots at the passenger side door behind where the son was sitting. lataco.com/agents-shoot... By @afroxander.bsky.social Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social