Federal immigration agents have been active on Chicago's northeast side today, according to rapid response teams. They report at least four detained so far, including two outside the Laugh Factory - a well-known stand up comedy venue - on Belmont and Broadway.

I live in America… i am stimulated (derogatory)

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worth reiterating again that “the executive can raise and spend money however he likes” has been anathema even under monarchies for centuries we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War

If you're overwhelmed by the state of the world, do something small. Cook food. Pet a dog. Take a walk. Dance. Play music. Call a friend. A small thing will push back the hopelessness. We're going to be in this a while yet. And we won't be able to fight if we're exhausted and demoralized.

Absolutely bananas

Chicago area folks: @icirr.bsky.social is holding Know Your Rights trainings all the time. I'm signed up for the virtual Nov 3 session (look for the Google doc in the middle of this page). Lots more resources & info on their site. app.smartsheet.com/b/form/a05b4...

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

My favorite type of day is when I don’t have to set an alarm, then I get out of bed around 10, eat a late breakfast, do some chores, then go help run a show in the evening

Just a few days ago, I had to explain that Lightfoot had raised the bridges and the notification about all this was hitting phones after the cutoff time. Imagine getting a “bridges raise at 7pm” alert at 7:12pm. You’re stuck using the one bridge still lowered. It was a recipe for kettling

This guy is an official pentagon propagandist now.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Our constitution has failed to protect us. It no longer binds us. When this is over, remember that in choosing how to re-establish law, order, and decent government to this country, we need not, and should not, be bound by, or even meaningfully guided by, our failed constitution.

I know that there are people outside Chicago who are paying attention and seeing these videos but there are no words for how it feels when the videos show everyday places in your neighborhood, places that are part of your routine. The sense of violation is profound.

Twist: when they get it home and look at it, somebody has gone over the whole thing and made edits with a Sharpie and added a signature that looks suspiciously like pubic hair to the last page. Articles I and III are completely blacked out and the Amendments have some interesting alterations.

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Our community is being ravaged by violent secret police with the judicial branch being our only defense and our Senior Senator is voting confirming the President’s judicial nominees. During a government shutdown. While the speaker of the house refuses to swear in a Democratic house member. Dick.

Never gets old

i am once again asking you fucking liberals to circle the wagons like this for literally anyone who has a deeper complexation than the landlord special or any faggot who's asked for help. we're really rallying behind the dude with the nazi tat that he "regrets"? really? be 6 real.

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

Nazi tattoos, nazi ideology, nazi talking points, ANYTHING FUCKING NAZI is a deal breaker and the person involved at the barest of minimums, should be barred shunned and run off. At minimum. Because they are a fucking nazi. There is no "but what if" you try adding one, you're a nazi collaborator

“well he’s better than the other candidate” i would like to invite you all to consider that rationalizing away things like nazi tattoos instead of demanding that people meet the incredibly low bar of “not having nazi tattoos” is exactly how we have gotten here.

This, like roughly a quarter of everything I say, is a Simpsons reference.

I threatened it, now I’ve realityed it.

Anyway if you have a Nazi tattoo it’s true you’re not a secret Nazi. You’re an open Nazi. You literally have a sign that you carry around in your body every day that says “I’m a Nazi.”

As most are aware by now, ICE is slamming the north side today. They've been seen in Andersonville, Rogers Park, West Ridge, Edgewater + Evanston. Several people abducted, agents still active. Shared with permission—rapid response whistle team at Bryn Mawr & Broadway this morning.

Apropos of nothing, unions used to set up their own health clinics and mutual aid centers for their members and families to use People shouldn't be falling through the cracks this fucking hard, all the fucking time, when there was at one time the infrastructure to fucking catch them

SPANAKOPITA!

I DO NOT WANT INTERNET OF THINGS I WANT INTERNET WITH THINGS AND THOSE THINGS ARE MY FRIENDS WHO MAKE INCREDIBLE ART AND JOKES AND SHARE WHAT MAKES THEM FIND BEAUTY IN THIS GODFORSAKEN WORLD. DEATH TO CONTENT LIFE TO ART DEATH TO ALGORITHMS LIFE TO SHOWING ME YOUR COOL THING.

“Hello, dept of metaphors? Yes. Super literal, please. Oh, can we do heavy-handed? That’d be fantastic!”

Of course American fascism is just consumerist slop.

I'm going to use the zombie analogy again: If you want us to survive the apocalypse - 1) we can't let people in the safe house who WANT to open the door to the zombies 2) the person who arbitrarily says we need to give up some of us to save the others also can't stay in the safehouse.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Look. This whole thing is evil, but to take a child?! The new Nuremberg Trials for these guys… I hope they get the modern John C. Woods to handle it

probably the most telling point of the hearing thus far is how they view the smallest measure of linking arms with your neighbor as “active resistance”

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

AI art undermines what you are trying to do so quickly. It doesn't matter if you are making a political statement, a parody, a creative work, or a fundraiser. As soon as I see that clearly AI art I am not interested, and I associate what you are doing with a lack of empathy

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

This sounds like insanity

Donald Trump shelled J.D. Vance's security detail.

America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves. If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.

No one should be sharing info with the US at this point. We’re a liability to everyone’s safety and security

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

okay but like it *is* insane that the literal president/whoever is running his socials posted an ai generated video of him flying a plane and carpet bombing people protesting him with shit, right? like like what the fuck are we even doing here