Pragmatic Optimists RI State Senator Tiara Mack and Rachel Cohen discuss Trump’s plan to designate anyone on the left as a member of “Antifa”, though it not an organization that exists or has any known members.

Please note that all the outlets now correcting their narrative re: ICE killing Silverio Villegas González since FPPD body cams have been released initially published the DHS statement now proven to be mostly false. There's never any understanding/admission of harm done. They'll just do it again.

I assume that we won't get Surgeon General reports about the epidemic of white men shooting people and sociological studies about where their fathers are?

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corporate media’s unwillingness to question Trump admin narratives is getting people killed. open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

In a photo posted to Facebook, someone spotted ICE in the Wal-Mart parking lot at Diversey and Cicero this morning. SW Rapid Response also confirms several fed sightings across their area. A video shared to social media shows an arrest at 48th & Racine.

Nexstar made a deal to acquire broadcast conglomerate Tegna in a $6.2 billion deal, which will require government approval. They’re continuing to refuse to air Kimmel.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

These are the real ones out in the tear gas making sure protesters aren't disappeared. Please support today:

The Northwest Side Rapid Response Team posted this community alert a short while ago. It describes how a resident in Albany Park was lured by a phone call that indicated they had won a prize. Another was lured to an address to pick up scrap metal. Both were detained by ICE upon arrival.

I cannot believe we’re not only still entertaining pivoting center but seeing it as the main strategy coming out of the party open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...

tear gas and more pepper balls deployed outside the broadview ice facility. agents detained two more people. protesters were blocking the driveway so agents, including border patrol’s bortac team, violently pushed protesters and allowed one vehicle to leave and another to enter.

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois: a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work. a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

This post made me think to look up who represents Nexstar. If you've followed big law deals with the admin at all, you're guaranteed to get it in nine. cohen489.substack.com/p/elites-con...

The TRiiBE is helping everyone understand what's going on with ICE in Chicago and the surrounding areas. Every day, they gather video from journalists and rapid response groups to show us the latest. If you can, throw them a few bucks?

It's important to realize what precipitated this was Nexstar announcing they pulled showing Kimmel on their affiliates. They're currently waiting for the FCC to loosen restrictions to enable their massive merger. This was as much pay to play by a corporation as it was censorship.

Wherever you are, please attend an ICE Watch training. Then link up with a rapid response network, if you're able to do so. In Chicago, trainings are happening regularly. Once you manage to attend one, you can contact OCAD about getting plugged into a rapid response network.

the only path to effective resistance is liberation for all, and when democrats fail to articulate that, they fail to resist. open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...

right now, we have no clue how many people ice has kidnapped in chicagoland under "operation midway blitz." masked feds are snatching people from their cars, from gas stations, from sidewalks. loved ones don't hear anything—sometimes for days. this is what it means to "disappear" people.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

Looks like the ICE presence in Chicagoland—and I emphasize the “land” part—is purposefully operating in a way as to avoid media coverage. By grabbing people here and there on city edges, outskirts & random suburbs, they don’t attract activity that generates coverage, let alone protest.

as gently as possible—before you send me your thoughts about what action needs to be done to slow ICE down, particularly if we have never interacted irl, consider asking yourself if you might be just as well situated (if not better) to take that action on your own, and then doing so

Ah, Sunday morning in Chicago. ICE wakes up and stretches. @unraveledpress.com has been doing tremendous and important reporting from the streets. Please consider kicking these independent journalists some bucks. unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Chicago rn

at a peaceful protest at Broadview ICE processing facility (used for detention), ICE fired chemical weapons directly into a disabled protestor hours after they killed someone in Chicago trying to kidnap them. who’s ACTUALLY making our cities unsafe? it’s not my undocumented neighbors

the Charlie Kirk doxxing website is the Canary Mission playbook and it’s not I told you so behavior to point out that you should only be taking strategy advice from the people who said over and over years ago that letting people be punished for condemning genocide would lead to shit like this

ICE is acting as Trump’s secret police to torment and destroy our communities. But we aren’t helpless. Join me and hundreds of committed activists at ICE’s main Chicago-area facility Friday morning at 7 am.

BROADVIEW—we are so back

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

This was a police state long before Trump. boingboing.net/2021/04/20/u...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it." On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.

There is no acceptable number of people to sacrifice for the sake of an NRA-lobbied interpretation of the Second Amendment.

there is no acceptable number of people to sacrifice for the sake of an NRA-lobbied interpretation of the Second Amendment.

This is important, but we still have a whole lot of federal agents here terrorizing our communities. In D.C., it's the feds who are doing the real damage as well. If we've backed off the troops for now, that's great, but please don't look away from the havoc federal agents are bringing to Chicago.

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

another win for "fuck you; make me," the winningest strategy against fascists

if this holds it is one of the greatest organizing victories of this administration and a clear, loud, beautiful reminder that proactive organizing WORKS

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

the SCOTUS stay is even worse than it looks when considered together with the BIA’s Friday decision “Matter of Hurtado.” find an ICE watch group in your neighborhood, NOW. open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...

Heads up, Chicagoland— Early reports of feds* spotted in the Sam's Club parking lot in Cicero. Shared ~54min ago. This is their MO: meeting up early to brief in parking lot somewhere and then heading out for the day for their targets.

No reports of ICE arrests yet so far today in Chicago, but rapid response is reporting feds are active and have been spotted on the Southwest Side again. Community alert: instagram.com/p/DOWAj-bjQGB/

475 South Korean nationals taken into custody by Trump‘s immigration authorities because they had the audacity to be WORKING in a $7.6 billion plant that’s the biggest economic development project in the history of Georgia. If you’re South Korea, would YOU continue to invest in a place like this?

heh that is my aggravating grating voice screaming “they are turning around”—another pal started an I believe that we will win chant right after and I had absolute goosebumps and still do. see you at Broadview? I’ll be back all day 9/12 xoxo

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Anyway in addition to teaching the law maybe elite legal institutions should also focus on teaching aspiring lawyers not to be morally bankrupt