nobody needs to hear this more than people who aren’t on here but: wait for a suspect and a motive

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You shouldn’t have to walk around with papers in the United States of America to prove that you belong. All I can say is that this administration should understand Chicago is a place that’s going to protect its people.

A huge problem in the Jewish community is not just the generational divide on Israel/Palestine, but that the older generation (like Jerry) keep telling those of us under 40, in so many words, "You have to choose between Jewish community and supporting Palestine."

GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually

One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.

This shouldn’t be read as Panglossian, this is just as likely to be enough elites deciding they’d rather Vance give them the corruption and racism in measured and regular doses, as it is to be some kind of grand refutation. But I genuinely do think that this eventually ends him.

eventually people need to know that you’re going to react in a predicable way to certain things and that your word is not worthless. Trump’s word is dogshit and he’s increasingly unpredictable.

more seriously this is what is going to eventually end him and his regime, either in boring political terms or spicier ones. you can be a lot of awful things in politics but you cannot be an unreliable and unpredictable counterparty forever, for everyone.

Israel has been a rogue state for a long time but this is the most Rogue State thing they have done... I think in my lifetime? The potential damage for their, and America's diplomatic position in the Middle East is staggering.

The Qur'an is one of the top 3 most influential and important texts in human history. Islam is enormously important and influential and will be until the end of time. You cannot have a well-rounded education on the world without reading at least some of it. Period!

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Donald Trump admitted on Howard Stern's show in 1999 that he wanted to "date" 16-year-olds.

/4 SCOTUS has lost the presumption of regularity -- the mandate of the legal heavens -- through its shadow docket actions, which by invoking SCOTUS' equitable discretionary powers have obliterated the pretext that SCOTUS is merely calling balls and strikes, merely calling lines where they see them.

Oh, whew! Thank goodness, they had me worried for a bit there

“Don’t kill diplomats you have summoned to negotiate” is, by far, the most ancient principle of international law. At times it was probably the only principle of international law.

There's cope temptation to make jokes about it, I get that and have done it too, but it is profoundly dark that the president of the United States is a guy who sent explicit jokes to his good buddy, the world's most notorious pedophile, very obviously about how much they both enjoy raping children.

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted

My most American libertarian coded trait (and I know, Germans and other Euros will insist I’m being ridiculous) is that I don’t want to live in a country where you have to carry proof of citizenship everywhere

A surprising amount of immigration law boils down to "This clearly violates due process, equal protection, and several other constitutional principles, but making ICE follow the law would make their job harder, so it's fine."

These days, it takes a lot to get my jaw to literally drop open, but this did it.

Absolutely absurd and wrong

Some thoughts about the Great Khan heading into Chicagoland's big Reverse Fort Sumter weekend.

Important for people to understand that the DC occupation's *primary focus* is on rounding up undocumented immigrants. The whole "crime" stuff is, IMHO, mostly for the cameras and to provide justification for the immigration aspect. The same thing is coming to Chicago just as it did in Los Angeles.

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

I don't think it's actually possible to have a coherent abundance movement that includes both people who want to reinvigorate American cities and people who want to militarily occupy them and disappear large numbers of their residents into camps.

The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.

The President is begging me to call him to bring in the National Guard. I’m not going to beg him for something we don’t want.

Please remember that you - yes, you - have a right to remain silent if ICE is questioning you. You do not have to answer any questions about your nationality or anyone else's. If you see anything happening, note who, what, where, and when, and call the ICIRR hotline at 855.435.7693 to report it.

The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.

1. Fuck this racist nonsense. 2. Thomas Jefferson owned and studied the Qur'an and explicitly said that Muslims should be welcomed as equal citizens. 3. These people never really think Jews should be part of the polity. The moment we don't act the way they think we should, their tone changes.

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

Mark your calendars, next big No Kings protest is October 18

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."

BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social

I am begging the Bluesky Commentariat to remember that a) enormous, determinative numbers of Americans fetishize "bipartisan governance" and hate "politics", and b) sometimes politicians say things as theater, and not because they really believe it.

The Trump admin is now moving to effectively double the number of immigration judges by citing flimsy legal authority to deputize hundreds of totally inexperienced military lawyers to take these jobs. Notably, immigration law is infamously complex, often described as second only to tax law.

Oops! All Brewers

Childbearing is physically dangerous & painful for women; childrearing is an exhausting, degraded, isolating, and impoverishing endeavor that annihilates women’s other opportunities & goals. When women are free, they choose fewer children. There is no way to make them have more that is not violent.

The common denominator in every place where birth rates are dropping is women’s increased access to education.

HUGE: "Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. ... In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act." Working link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

People are probably eager to do business with a country that may or may not hit them with a massive extra tax bill of an unpredictable size, with or without notice.

"Sanctuary cities" got recast as altruism to immigrants, when the main reason is that city police dealing with murder, rape, and other serious crimes don't have time to deal with federal violations or misdemeanors, and their job gets a lot harder when would-be informants go silent out of fear.

Any left-wing or liberal project worth its salt must stand with women, must stand with gay and trans people, and must stand with immigrants. This is not negotiable, sorry.