This is an excellent point. Zohran ran a textbook campaign that the centrists are always talking about, just talking about rent control and free buses and cost of living, and the centrist Dems tried to make it all about Israel/Palestine and other identity issues (his Muslim faith) to smear him.

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

Imagine being 17, your little brother by your side, begging to speak to your dad as he’s dragged away. You may never see him again. And this is every day. Soul shattering, nightmarish stuff, never to be forgiven.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

but at the end of the day, whether cops brutalize protesters or take a more hands-off approach, there’s still a massive, daily presence of state/county police providing security outside ice’s fortress so masked agents can continue to abduct our neighbors.

They abolished the House of Representatives ... solely to prevent the release of information about the president's best friend, the pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring.

oh so now suddenly these guys can't do phrenology

SCOOP: I obtained internal documents showing Amazon has been selling cloud computing and AI services to the state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers whose bombs and missiles have ravaged Gaza. theintercept.com/2025/10/24/a...

it’s beyond comprehension that scenes like this have become routine in chicago. masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets. this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*

ICE had a warrant for the wrong person they were trying to arrest and video ended up showing that it was the ICE agents who rammed the man they were chasing. Now right-wingers propagandists are going wild over this narrative. This is all why you don’t act as a stenographer for cops and do your job.

I cannot stop laughing. He crashed out as a mayor both due to incompetence and sheer unlikability so he’s going for *president* now?

attorneys at @loevy.com, who represent protesters, clergy, and press (including me), accused border patrol commander greg bovino in a new court filing of personally violating a federal judge’s orders by throwing tear gas at a crowd of residents. www.loevy.com/wp-content/u...

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

This whole thing is incredible, but look how his hand is shaking when he points at the guys who are being hassled. He's scared, he's angry, he's pounding with adrenaline, but he's maintaining control of himself and not backing down. He's taking a stand, whatever the cost.

Off the top of my head, in the past few weeks ICE/CBP has: - handcuffed/detained an alderwoman - pointed a gun at a state rep - threatened another alderwoman w/ arrest for watching them - abducted an alder's chief of staff & elected district councilor

“they are extremely frustrated and they’re really trying to bend every single rule possible … to fight against the really well organized resistance that Chicago, and the Chicago area, has put up" blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/22/i...

if Elon's proved anything it's that a critical mass of journalists, podcasters, and Republican officials and staffers will not ever, ever quit that fucking app no matter what he does to it. it could electrocute you and send your banking info directly to the dark web and they'd still be scrolling

DnD 4e was the only edition that actually knew what it was and that’s why it’s the best one

(getting absolutely buried in stones) ok maybe “no nazi tattoo” was a low bar for casting the first stone stOP IT OW

“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

I was just talking to someone about the anti-ICE influencer who had their car rammed & was injured by ICE while trying to film ICE for a full thirty seconds before we realized that we were talking about different people who were recently rammed & injured by ICE while trying to film ICE

You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

we're like a year away from someone not being able to flush their toilet because there were too many people sexting with Claude

A few people in colonial costumes complaining about immigrants was novel to NYT editors. Their friends don't do that. A running narrative would be exciting, especially after Obama won big. Millions rallying against Trump's authoritarian abuses? Bor-ring. NYT editors have heard that argument before.

DoD has adopted this position wholesale now and frankly every commander who has done so needs to face an Article 32 hearing when this is over with, and any JAG who has gone along with it needs to be disbarred Big boy crimes need big boy consequences, at all levels of the chain

It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.

Again, @govpritzker.illinois.gov, all your talk is fucking meaningless while YOUR state police are cracking heads on ICE's behalf.

step 1: hire an elite team of international acrobats, engineers, and hackers step 2: those guys are out of budget. find antoine and guillaume from secondary school step 3: contract a high tech surveillance package and van. buy knock-out darts for the guards step 4: too expensive. borrow a big ladder

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

LAPD and other local cops using flash bangs and horses against peaceful protesters without provocation in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, not even half a mile from City Hall. (deleted older version of this as I typed block instead of mile, sorry)

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

whatever helps you sleep at night, sympathizers

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Unpopular Opinion: People calling for ICE agents to unmask and/or wear body cams are missing the point because that still gives legitimacy to their operations. The focus needs to be on preventing kidnappings, driving them out/stopping them and dismantling the agency, not cosmetic changes.

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

“JUSTICE FOR SILVERIO VILLEGAS GONZÁLEZ MURDERED BY ICE SEPT 12, Franklin Park”

#NoKings Miami!

haha oh geez wow what a thing to ask for

ICE credits the presence of Illinois State Police with their ability to work on the weekend of October 4, during which they handcuffed an alder, shot a rapid responder, unleashed CS gas in two residential neighborhoods, & kidnapped dozens of community members. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

It has to be said - again and out loud - that it’s Republicans in Congress who’ve unshackled him.

Chicago telling trump where to go and what to do.

Grotesque corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

“They literally ushered us into the street to protest and immediately after started beating the shit out of us.”

I don't see how New York can allow a single Trump family property to remain while these Nazi mobsters are illegally starving the state of its own funds.

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