Just because you think your better than Americans doesn’t excuse you from not tipping

A thing that genuinely makes me angry is Europeans who don’t tip when they visit America even though they know about tips in America and then are just like “oh well we don’t have a tipping culture because we pay our servers so well” First- do you?? And Second- rude and exploitative

More sightings are rolling in. They are highly active as is usual for a Wednesday since this surge began. Reports of vehicles seen at yet another NWS Home Depot. And at 31st and Cicero again, masked Border Patrol is seen alongside a propaganda officer filming an arrest:

Witness video shared to Facebook shows feds swiftly grabbing someone off the street at Lawrence and Kedzie this morning and putting them in an unmarked car. Locals know this is a busy intersection, the beating heart of Albany Park:

i love how the vast majority of the internet is owned by monsters. so cool man.

Man is really on the good shit. He woke up and was like “these tunnels are unconstitutional under the 14th amendment because they’re black”

This is a response from a nazi eulogizing pig in regards to a man sited in a supreme court decision meant to abuse children

what a fuckin website we have here.

DHS is claiming the South Shore apartment raid was on a "Tren de Aragua hideout." Feds will use whatever personal property they find to bolster this narrative. Those FBI and ATF agents you see in the videos are part of manufacturing that.

Earlier this month, Governor Pritzker welcomed non-ICE federal agencies to the state to help "fight crime." So it goes.

For folks asking why we keep seeing FBI/ATF at these operations: they're needed at larger raids (see also, mass arrest situation like we saw Saturday). ICE/CBP doesn't have capacity or training to process large amounts of evidence, write affidavits.

Matter of fact please don't Google anything, at any time, for any reason.

Remember, right wing terror violence is always upheld against marginalized groups by the state as a form of discipline, does anyone even *know* what has happened to that misguided vigilante we came to learn was Elias Rodriguez?

Love to enter a courtroom to hear an attorney doing a summation on the case ahead of us loudly condemning trans rights, calling us mentally ill, and inveighing that we are destroying gay marriage rights and thus their client should not be held liable for violence against trans people, very cool 🫤🙃

Conscription is fundamentally at odds with the firmly held conservative principle of never being inconvenienced in the slightest way

People seem convinced that there is a plan to reinstitute the draft and I think they should take a minute and think of how the entire country went batshit insane over being asked to wear little fabric masks in public for a while

A high-rise building in the Bronx has partially collapsed, fire officials say. It's not immediately known if there are any injuries. https://cnn.it/475giAg

The democrats have a *written* spending bill. There are no tax subsidies for undocumented people to get healthcare. Republicans said there are. Which speaks to my ongoing point of you might as well do the right thing because your haters are going to lie anyway.

OH AND DONT EVER USE BIOMETRICS FOR UNLOCKING YOUR PHONE USE A PIN NUMBER. legally, as far as that still matters, in order to make you unlock your phone they need a warrant *IF YOU USE A PIN* they can just force your finger onto your phones screen to unlock it which is completely legal.

I believe Maia touches on that point in this podcast episode from earlier in the year that generally is useful for an overview of data privacy and op sec stuff you can do.

Even better option, if practical, have a friend who's doing something else during the protest time hold onto your phone so your phone is showing up actively in a different area, rather than potentially conspicuously disconnected or stationary at your house during the protest

september 30 ... october 1

government's shut down quick, build renewables

When I was a kid the CPD would show up to schools and give this speech about how the police were the biggest gang in town and then like 3 years later we found out basically the entire CPD had been complicit in a massive drug syndicate run out of the department Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

If you go to a protest and absolutely have to bring a phone, put it in a faraday bag (a good one, make sure its quality before you buy) until you are far enough away from the protests location both coming and going. Best practice is to just not bring a phone but thats not always feasable.

New from 404 Media: ICE to buy tool that tracks locations of hundreds of millions of phones every day. Billions of pieces of location data. ICE previously stopped using data remotely harvested from smartphones. Now it's buying it again. Usually used w/o warrant www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

The shutdown needs to last as long as possible. Just bring the entire regime screeching to a halt

Hundreds of thousands of stasi agents won’t even get paid. Are you happy now libs? Not so funny when the secret police have to work for free

“More than 200,000 of these patriots will go without pay.”

To review: there are only two paths forward for a lot of US farmers, and "grow something else" is anathema to a lot of them, that means a whole lot of US farmers are banking on the other option. Get bailouts forever.

Ok farm facts are back! China is so much of the global soybean market, you can't make up losing them by selling to other countries. There isn't enough soybean demand in the world to fill that dent. And farmers... know that.

FAA restricted airspace over South and Southwest Portland through Oct. 17 for "special security reasons."

John Fetterman had to give up his dream of becoming a magician when he couldn’t stop eating the rabbits he pulled out of his hat

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God bless the Sumud Flotilla. They are braver than most and God willing the flotillas will continue until the blockade on Gaza which has been in place almost my entire life is finally, permanently lifted.

a democratically elected congresswoman is being denied her seat because the speaker simply does not want to seat her and leadership is as unconcerned about this as they seem to be about everything else

So fuckin rad. What a great governor we have here in Maryland. Thanks for fucking nothing @govwesmoore.bsky.social

I think I manifested this

Yes, this includes capscacin and tear gas. Be mindful that these chemicals adhere to moist surfaces. While this will protect your skin from having a reaction to these chemicals, you will carry them outside the protective barrier. Once home, wash mindfully and carefully dispose of the towels used.

Pro-tip for those dealing with chemical agents: Rubbing a thin layer of petroleum jelly over your face and exposed skin will create a protective layer of non-reactive gel between you and the agent. It’s slippery when grabbed and will provide a better air-tight seal for your goggles.

Read a small amount of the transcript for one (1) congressional hearing and felt my blood pressure skyrocket. Absolutely fucking absurd and infuriating what these dumb fucks get up to.

I wasn't planning on showing up Sat night until I saw this video. Fuck these out of town motherfuckers coming into Chicagoland terrorizing us. They will charge at you, throw you to the ground, then charge you with a felony *for talking.* It's the highest risk protest environment I've ever seen but

Update: horrifying details about last night's raid are emerging. Organizers + electeds are reporting potentially dozens of people (at least 40 per initial estimate) were detained. Not much more confirmed at this time. More will be shared at press conference at 5 at corner of 75th & South Shore.

ADL *AGAIN* bends over backwards for Nazis, erasing a resource and database to appease antisemitic scum:

SESTA/FOSTA backfired miserably. The UK's age verification law backfired miserably. The TikTok ban is backfiring miserably. So of course @blumenthal.senate.gov has decided now is a great time to revive the terribly written Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which will ... spoiler... backfire miserably

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community. thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

Flotilla livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...