“It sidesteps the Federal Register, avoids legislative debate, and shields itself from Freedom of Information Act scrutiny by classifying the directive as an internal management document. Congress never voted on it. No inspector general monitors its enforcement.“

Heute war ein wieder so ein Tag:Hubschrauber über unseren Köpfen. Autos ohne Nummernschilder in den Straßen. Berichte von Personen, die in der Nähe verhaftet wurden. Ob sie wieder freigelassen werden, weiß man nicht. Gärtner, Reinigungskräfte: sie alle sind nicht mehr sicher. Mitten in meiner Stadt.

Hallo Deutschland: so sieht es aus, wenn das Stadtbild „verschönert“ wird. Seht es euch genau an. Federal Agents Stage Raid on Canal Street in New York City www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/n...

Lieber Herr Merz, Spanien und Frankreich fordern an der Klimagesetzgebung für Autos festzuhalten. 2035 ist zu schaffen! Seien Sie europäisch! Stehen Sie zur gemeinsamen europäischen Verabredung!

While nobody in the GOP dares to say that the emperor has no clothes, more than 7 million Americans (and many millions more around the world) want this madness to stop. Here is just one reason why it must: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

#gr3tetag #BlueHartedFamily #FDT #POS47 #censorship #dictatorship #freespeech #freepress #removetrump #GovernmentShutDown #GovNewsom @hopeful66.bsky.social @abbarsha.bsky.social @schultziepie.bsky.social @57kev.bsky.social @mlipsitt.bsky.social @grampabill56.bsky.social @moberzan.bsky.social

“Es gab viele Russlandversteher, aber zu wenige, die etwas von Russland verstanden” (Karl Schlögel)

Dear Europeans - please don’t be fooled. Donate. Ukrainians need our support. The two guys below - they couldn’t care less. open.substack.com/pub/levremem...

Ich schäme mich dafür, dass Sasha Marianna Salzmann diesen Text schreiben muss. Und zugleich bin ich erleichtert über die Klarheit der Worte. Mensch noch mal, seht ihr denn nicht, was in Deutschland gerade passiert? Steht auf, geht auf dir Straßen. Wir tun es hier (USA) doch auch. Wir brauchen uns.

250.000 people were at the protest yesterday in Chicago alone. @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social To all ICE agents, “Get the hell out of Chicago!” Why? Because your boss may be, but YOU are NOT immune. And you will be held accountable. You already are: morally and publicly. That’s a beginning.

Diarrhea jet. We can say this. Another way would be “shitting jet.” But well. We are people who do things with words - i.e. humans rather than AI. (No. I’m not sharing the official WH video. Nobody should. We don’t hate the country enough).

My pc tells me that cnn interviewed the guy that resembles DJT in lying and cheating and ridiculing any rule (you know him - his name is fittingly George the saint). Why in the world does he get a platform? Well: “Making America dumb” is a media program. Culture industry. Interview migrants.

Angela Merkel verstand die Macht der Worte. Friedrich Merz zeigt eindrucksvoll, warum sie so recht hatte. Merz ist Jurist. Nennt mir eine/n Juristen/in, der NICHT die Macht der Worte und Formulierungen versteht & anwendet?! Er weiß ganz genau, was er wie sagt und welche Wirkung das zur Folge hat.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

'No Kings' protest in Denver, Colorado . #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

@indevanston.bsky.social shoutout to you for a wonderful organization of the Evanston protest. Very large crowd.

Evanston assembles …

It's already No Kings Day in some parts of the world!

Why is Israel declaring "victory" in Gaza when many of its aims were not met? @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes that the real goal is the same as it has been for decades: maximum land, minimum Palestinians. Trump's ceasefire plan is another step in that direction. jewishcurrents.org/what-israeli...

Every day we hear the helicopters over our heads. ICE agents doing their ugly illegal business. I don’t think you can imagine how it gets under one’s skin - I couldn’t. That is only one reason why I will join the rally on Saturday. @indevanston.bsky.social @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social

Please join us on October 18 at 10:30 in downtown Evanston to show the regime that there are NO KINGS in America! Sign up here: mobilize.us/s/utNQiw

Mike Johnson is covering up for pedophiles. I won't stop saying it.

The Vice President deliberately normalizes real and literal Nazi talk by adult men. If only he could see their color. Maybe these citizens would then also be snatched by ICE from their homes for saying the wrong things. For being un-American. If only the color”white” were treated as a color, too.

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

Federal agents deployed multiple canisters of tear gas in a residential block of the East Side neighborhood Tuesday to quell a clash with residents who demanded the enforcement officers leave the neighborhood.

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

Chicago IS a welcoming city. Except when you bring violence to our doors. We don’t want you, don’t need you, and yes: shame needs to change sides.

“She didn’t look like a Greeley.” We hear the helicopters over Evanston and Chicago. ICE agents stand with their unmarked cars and their masked faces, waiting for the people they want to snatch, like crocodiles in a swamp. They can take anyone. They aren’t being held accountable. Who can stop them?

We must now expect the worst. The cruelty box is open, and the sadism will know no end. Some of us knew and saw it coming (83% of Black voters cast their vote for Kamala Harris, only 15% for the other guy). It’s too late to complain. We need to get back democracy. Oct 18: Non-violence is crucial.

Vielen Dank für das Gespräch, Anne Preckel: Vatican News, www.vaticannews.va/de/welt/news...

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Remember? Immigrants were eating pets. Now, Democrats are eating the clock. So much unhealthy food in the USA. And Speaker Johnson cannot do anything. He was so sure 12 out of 79 days of congressional work in Washington would be enough to bend the Democrats’ opposition. Now he is really angry.

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

In Broadview at the detention center this morning. We wanted to be let in so that the people held there illegally would be able to celebrate the Communion with us. Our priests and Sisters were not let in. A clear violation of the First Amendment. A case for the Commission on Religious Liberty?!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Nice try , Mr Thiel.

The Department of Health and Human Services also saw major cutbacks, with roughly 1,100 to 1,200 employees affected, the filing states.

Ein Professor der über die Antifa forschte, hat nach Morddrohungen die USA fluchtartig mit seiner Familie verlassen.

May she rest in peace.

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago

Yet again, Trump is grossly abusing the criminal justice system by directing an unqualified political lackey to indict his adversary. Let’s be clear: this kind of corruption is how authoritarians become dictators. And this is also on every Republican who doesn’t speak up.

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

Every day it's just helicopters all day long now and people are somehow still unsure whether to call this an occupation

This is from September - worthwhile reading. And a lesson to all international journalists. www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

People of good will: listen. This is crazy, yet it is real. October 18. Coming. Everywhere. @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social @indevanston.bsky.social