Along with the horrific nature of his detention, this is a colossal waste of money: “Two to four uniformed guards have been continuously stationed in Petitioner's hospital room, monitoring him at all times .. while he sleeps, eats, uses the bathroom.”

This is a theme we keep repeating too. Until you see it for yourself, I think it’s hard to really understand how completely unnecessary and disproportionately violent the federal response has been. How much is for fun, terror, or social media, I don’t know. A mix of the three for sure.

genuinely impossible to overstate what the secret police are doing. It is state hooliganism. It is gangsterism as policy. It is the jouissance of the original klan nightriders that followed the civil war. they terrorize minority communities while intentionally paralyzing local governments.

And they’re hiring. Every reel of terror that is released—every video of slamming a woman on concrete, blowing the doors off of the house of a screaming family—is an advertisement to get in on the terror while it’s good. bsky.app/profile/utop...

The “but that’s illegal” crowd is going to find out soon what those of us on the academic and research side have been saying for months is true in that you cannot “legally” fight a legal fascist framework when countering fascism is seen as terrorism and illegal

anyway the reason to 'hate' chatGPT isn't because it's a robot and it's funny to be racist against robots. it's because it's a giant scam by capitalists to destroy the environment and the economy while making a lot of our jobs disappear or get worse. it's time to bring back luddism.

oh & btw, let's take note: state troopers make $208k per year(?!) but any schoolteacher coming close to cracking six figures gets the yobbos het about "greedy unions" and "waste"

Some folks here are calling out ISP troopers by name, looking up their salaries, and roasting them.

So many people start from the assumption that they are God’s perfect lil angel and so anyone who dislikes anything they enjoy (even if it’s the truth-killing pollution machine) must be a moral failure

Few things funnier than pretending that it’s somehow racist/classist/transphobic to be against AI as every tech company rushes to turn their models into mechahitler while dumping toxic waste into communities of color

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

Again these are the officers under JB’s authority. Don’t need name patches “with this uniform.” At least five of the protesters arrested yesterday were arrested by ISP or CCSO.

the fed brownshirts are cops and All Cops Are Bad

Absolutely fascinating exchange on X between MAGA who support cops illegally brutalizing protesters and a self-described Christian conservative who objects.

If Democrats were smart (laughsob) they would be publicly drawing up plans to prosecute anyone who acts on Trump’s illegal orders. He may have immunity, but they don’t. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

God help us all, really

Based on the latest reporting about the Border Patrol shooting in Brighton Park this morning: A Chicago woman was shot by CBP and is in fair condition. DHS claims CBP vehicles were rammed & boxed in. Other parties involved say CBP’s vehicle hit a car, possibly crashing that car into another.

I've never seen such escalation and use of force toward ends I just could not see. There was no real property destruction, no pushing into the neighborhoods to make arrests, very little obstructing of traffic. Saw chemicals and bangs deployed down streets the feds were not facing and did not travel.

CPD has 20+ injured on duty this afternoon, most/all from federal use of gas. Related: no arrests by CPD, no documented uses of force by CPD. (I wasn't everywhere / didn't see every skirmish. And possibly some late-entry TRR forms to come.) Saw two federal arrests, saw one on video didn't witness.

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

JD VANCE: "My mother got the drugs that almost killed her from Mexicans." REALITY: JD's mother got the drugs that almost killed her from her hospital patients, whom she stole from.

For every horrific act of fascist abuse you’ve seen video of in recent months, there are hundreds that you’ll never even hear about.

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

This explains why Bezos was so keen to hire you he likes his employees not peeing

lady youre an astronaut you can't even pee without help at your job

drug war?

Good thing Trump is taking on antisemitism can’t wait for him to come after these guys!

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3 Oct 2025 -- CBS, long known as the Tiffany Network for its new excellence, is bringing in anti-trans lesbian Bari Weiss as head. Weiss resigned from NYT, citing its “illiberal environment, to start the Free Press, which frequently features transphobic pieces. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

NEW — NLG Chicago reports that legal observers documented four arrests today in Brighton Park. • NLG Chicago also confirmed 18 total arrested — 13 by federal agents and five by state or local police — in Broadview on Friday. thetriibe.com/2025/10/trum...

god, this maps so perfectly onto the gun-nut brownshirts who've signed up to "save America" from immigrants today

enslavers also understood that slavery was bad. the founding fathers in particular compared their own relationship to britain as being as bad as being enslaved, which was so brazenly hypocritcal that the british made jokes about it

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military. They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Solidarity with Chicago. Thank you to the people standing up to these horrors. Abolish ICE. Then prosecute. Goodnight, everyone.

that’s why running “fuck da man” candidates works Obama was a “fuck da man” progressive, running against a political establishment that had led the US into Iraq and destroyed the economy but since then, all of democratic national candidates have been dyed-in-the-wool establishmentarians

even beyond "not prosecuting presidents" and "look forward not backwards" and "drones and mass surveillance are good now," maybe nothing indicates "maybe we don't deserve a country" more than "in 2000 the SCOTUS declared it is not bound by law, the constitution, or precedent" and we did nothing

I can’t say torturing Greta is an escalation given they are already murdering children but that is extremely disturbing they feel they can do that to a globally recognized activist.

Genuinely crazy how much we went from debates about body cams to "is the camera rolling? good. now watch me assault this dude."

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity. msf.org/msf-denounce...

someday we're gonna go thru the internal documents of this federal brownshirt bureau & find out they were just a bunch of incompetent gearheads egging each other on with racist revenge fantasies based on too many viewings of Sicario 2

Chaos in Brighton Park. This is representative of the amount / direction of pepper and smoke sent into the neighborhood, in this case, for no reason I can discern other than because they were leaving. Feds had a clear path out in a different direction, and residents were vocal but not violent here.

A lot of comedians are just horrible assholes but I also wonder if the rush to embrace the Riyadh Comedy Festival money says something about how bad the internal economy of the comedy podcaster sphere is doing

At the Broadview, IL ICE detention center— IL state troopers are already pushing non-violent demonstrators out of the street and away from the ICE facility. One arrest so far.

Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.

I’m a proud Canadian, so some will say this is “none of my business” (they’re wrong), but the entire world badly needs a hell of a lot better USA than this.

Going to be disastrous if it comes out that CPD was instrumental to DHS cleaning up one of their own crime scenes

We, in Chicago, Cook Country, and Illinois, need to change this

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

i never really understood why people complained about leaf blowers until i moved out of NYC. what in gods name are these infernal machines and how are they legal

If this were true, there would be a wall of riot shields preventing ICE agents from brutalizing your citizens. These platitudes mean nothing to your constituents and less to the fascist administration that happily violates constitutional law