This has gone on for over a month now and it seems the only response our local government has come up with is to pay private security to sit and watch the raids.

I wish I hadn't rewatched Vice so recently. Today calls for a viewing.

From an Evanston resident filming an arrest at Oakton/Asbury ~an hour ago: "He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”

If the democrats don’t run on and implement a platform of mass judicial and immigration reform, then a victory in 2028 will only ensure that we are in this same position the next time the GOP takes power.

happening now: about 50 people, including, community organizers, faith leaders and union workers, have gathered at the gary, indiana, airport to protest its complicity in trump’s mass deportations. many people abducted by ice in chicago are driven to the gary airport before being flown elsewhere.

Two buses with blacked out windows have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility in the last 10 minutes.

Two protestors arrested at Broadview ICE facility

50 or 60 protestors in Broadview at this point. About 15 minutes ago a group of 20 police officers confronted a lone protestor in the street.

Once a rogue ethnostate, always a rogue ethnostate.

As always, compare these positions to their characterization and treatment of young people of color for existing.

Peculiar incident at a South Shore preparatory school today. Security and admin were bewildered when CPD reported a 9-11 call leading the building to be locked down and fully searched. Nothing was evidently turned up. Thinking about this story today: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Noem’s assertion that the NFL doesn’t “know what they believe” by selecting Bhad Bunny for the SB halftime show is essentially true. The most conservative and wealthiest among us are trying to relate to an audience that doesn’t share their worldview.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov now collaborating with ethnic cleansing as ICE and Illinois State Police team up against protestors in Broadview.

Any government that uses the methods of empire on the domestic population is fascistic. But if your ideology supports projecting nationalism and imperialism abroad, then you own a piece of what happens when they inevitably return home.

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May)

it’s an old-fashioned standoff now. occasionally, federal agents will push forward to part the crowd + allow a vehicle driven by ice to enter the parking lot off 25th street. but for the most part, they’re just staring. there are maybe 10-15 protesters still here and probably twice as many press.

Where are the disappeared? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Major stakeholders in their segment of the donor class are interested in non-state currency as a way to undermine the state. I'm not sure the politicians who receive this funding fully understand this. But the megadonors do.

There is nothing more violent or extreme than US foreign policy, which is conducted by those we consider “centrists.” There is nothing more violent or extreme than normalizing death from exposure and lack of access to healthcare, which is the status quo perpetuated by those we consider “centrists.”

Trying to drop the talking points into reverse so quickly that the transmission falls out of the bottom of the car.

All violence is political.

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

I’m excited for the late show reboot starring Charlie Kirk

I finally read Vincent Bevins’ “If We Burn,” which I highly recommend. Crazy to have come of age during the 2010s and reflect on a decade of mass protest.

I hate reading about the supreme court

You mean, with years of warning about the capacity of U.S. bunker busters, the Iranians were able to avoid having their nuclear sites destroyed by those same weapons?

The gulf states’ water supply is *incredibly* vulnerable. The Iranians do not need advanced weapons systems to create the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.

No amount of Democrats insisting this is an unusual break from correct procedure, makes sense when you remember the last time that process happened was 1942.

Yes. If you want a constitutional order that hasn’t existed for nearly a century, then you must rewrite the constitution. But that would require a real political party with a vision for transformative change

So that they can all line up to vote for it and compete to see who can be the biggest war hawk.

While the media masturbates to aggressive war, maybe read about the base in the Indian Ocean where we launch operations like this: www.hrw.org/report/2023/...

Remember, we overthrew Mossadegh. Whatever Iran is now cannot be separated from that.

A world of sovereign, nuclear-armed nation-states cannot persist in perpetuity. It will either annihilate us all or be dismantled. The only question is what happens first.

At some point, the chickens will come home to roost.

If you work for a living, the only principled position is opposition to all nationalist opportunism. There is not a single nationalist struggle worth your blood or the blood of your children.

happening now: ice is back at chicago immigration court after protests kept them away for two days. so far this morning, i’ve seen agents kidnap six people. in at least two instances, the state dropped the case.

The American political system has never reconciled a real material division among elites without mass violence. The founders and framers designed it to create a stalemate between the wealthy and their various factions. That’s why we get stasis punctuated with bloodletting. Rinse and repeat.

The experience of the Second World War allowed people in the West to believe there’s something inherently anti-fascist about liberal nationalism. Of course, this brand of politics is the essential substrate of fascism. But the coincidence of mid century geopolitics allows obfuscation.

At about 37 minutes they launch into this dialogue about what to do with the nation states of the world. It sounds unhinged, but it’s pretty firmly bedded in the actual political theory of Silicon Valley.

Watching Mountainhead tonight and thinking about this book review I wrote: protos.com/book-review-...

I usually try to avoid posting about sports. But I’ve been watching Arsenal since I was a kid. I feel a bit ill at the prospect of today’s match if I’m honest.

on april 21, 1855, an uprising over beer ended in chicago’s first police riot. for this week’s @chicagoreader.com cover story, i wrote about the legacy of nativist mayor levi boone and how his anti-alcohol crusade ultimately changed policing in chicago as we know it.

Great day to own nothing and have nothing.

Remember, at any given moment the steady drum beat of our terror campaign in Yemen is one of the worst things happening in the world. And it has been happening for a decade and a half.

It’s not clear the president knows what Signal is.

Fascism is when imperial methods like these are used on the population living inside the borders of the metropol. From 2005: www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

Home -> garage -> parking lot -> destination -> parking lot -> garage -> home… repeat until you fundamentally fear your fellow human

It takes a true coward to be categorically fearful of a place that millions of people— women and children, mothers and fathers— live and breathe every day.

SBF pardon would be crazy. I could see it, though.

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