There are far fewer police out here than I've seen at similar marches. Things remain calm regardless. Police do block the march from continuing south toward the Metro Correctional Center and the Chicago ICE field office. Chants continue: "From Minnesota to Palestine, occupation is a crime"

The crowd is so big there are mini-rallies taking place inside it. This group, dancing with puppets and an antifascist action flag, chants "general strike, shut it down!"

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

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hey you didnt vote for the incumbent vice president who did absolutely nothing to stop this very obvious outcome

Local police shouldn't work closely with federal agents actually

In fact, here are some examples of how authorities characterized Black activists in life and death from old newspapers. State violence and character assassination is part of US political culture. White supremacy lays at the root of this strategy. Renee Good and Alex Pretti are its latest victims

Cops are a remnant of feudalism, a kind of landlord/tax collector extracting extra-economic rents through political coercion. A feudal landlord doesn't "own land", it's more comparable to gang territory. It's the same thing with cops.

disciplinary supervision is not productive of value www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

this isn't true considering that when cops kill civilians the cop defense lawyers are employed not personally, not by their union, but by their employer. would you or i have that privilege? slave catchers have friends in high places. this is not labor rights. this is the privilege of gestapo

ICE Agents & other police are not workers. All cops are class traitors who have sold their souls to the oligarchy. Law enforcement protects private property & profits, not people. This is why so many call them pigs. Police unions are nothing more than state-sponsored extortion rackets.

Every senator is a traitor. I have the receipts, one need only ask.

we didn't finish denazification. we didn't finish desegregation. we didn't finish reconstruction. every opportunity for transformative change was deliberately sabotaged by american leaders who knew their wealth would not survive a world freed from eugenics, white supremacy, and war profiteering.

A perfect demonstration of how we do not currently live on a democracy, regardless of what happens with our next election.

Why would the best friend of Jeffrey Epstein do this?!

“Kamala warned us!” Motherfucker, no she did not. Please stop this revisionist bullshit. She ran on signing into law more funding for DHS, and supporting ICE. Please focus on the people being murdered on the fucking streets by Trump’s personal military.

People act like Kamala/Hilary were goddamned oracles. It's clear what Trump is. You don't need clairvoyance. Hilary propped him up for her hopeful slam-dunk win. Biden needed to step back and have a proper primary. Instead, they all lied about his readiness. Probably shouldn't have done that.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Most of the white Christians this country would cheer as ICE shot Jesus. They'd say he was in MS-13 because he had a Latino name. They'd say he was undocumented because he was Brown. They'd call him a terrorist because he was from Palestine.

need people to understand there’s a connection between Israel’s systematic execution of journalists covering the genocide in Gaza and Trump’s Gestapo murdering civilians in Minnesota observing and filming their crimes.

The USA cannot afford another 3yrs of this.

I think that this victim being a white man is what does the trick. People of color or a lesbian woman apparently don’t do the trick, but when they start killing white men the message ‘this could happen to you’ seems to start to land.

Reddit has a huge, mostly non-political audience and if every single sub, including non political subs, are dominated by "Fuck ICE," then that means things have broken containment.

The reason we don't have universal healthcare, the reason we gave 4% of the world's population and 20% of the world's prisoners, has always been so we can't fight back when the government does *this.*

So NOW can we have that conversation that the United States having the world's largest carceral state, the most (and most heavily armed) cops, the most prisoners, and the most cages, has never been about safety and always been about institutional racism and suppressing dissent?

it is unethical to make people look at ai

this is an ai photo. it is also UTTERLY TERRIBLE advice

Sighing about how there is a fascist paramilitary organization destroying lives executing people holding a state hostage, ready to do even more, and if we notice or object in slightly the wrong way we will get punished (banned, arrested, worse). It's absurd how we gotta watch our language about this

The problems that enabled fascism to come to power *and retain power* in USikkka are SYSTEMIC. They require SYSTEMIC fixes. Getting rid of one guy, or even that guy and its closest allies will NOT solve the problem.

White supremacy is not a “legitimate view.” Vilifying migrants is not “reasonable debate.” Eugenics is not a “controversial belief.” Genocide is not a “justified action.” These are all examples of violent racism. We should recognise this basic fact and reject such politics unapologetically.

Emerging from of a roiling, poisonous cloud like the king of winter himself.

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

I would like to gently request that AI pharmacy bots stop trying to kill my mother

We call on every person of integrity serving in the US Government to obstruct all government actions and freeze all governing activities until ICE has been abolished.

Weaponized civility has made a virtue out of "I'm not political" which is code for "I will not defend myself. Please beat me." And when ignorance is made virtue, voters go out of their way NOT TO KNOW what their reps are doing. Do you know who else does that? /1

Imagine watching a Star Wars show or movie where an imperial senator talked like this about Emperor Palpatine and his stormtroopers, everyone would rightly call the character a coward, an enabler an obstacle of justice

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

They're completely at these thugs' mercy and still standing up to protest violence done to others. Their courage is staggering

Everybody's not coming. You just get a critical mass. Everyone's not part of the collective making change, everyone doesn't want to be & some never will. There's no point building with republicans. A lot of white folks will never get over whiteness to be useful. We just build power with who we can.

The lady who abuses her staff is a freak who can barely pretend to have human emotions? No way

”It’s simply horrific,” the senator said with a huge grin.

What’s with the self satisfied, creepy smile? This is so disgusting it is making me feel sick at my stomach watching it

I'm just going to keep saying this until I die: In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy. Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't. Rinse, repeat.

The fact that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social did not whip this vote means that he staged this, like @schumer.senate.gov staged the ending of the shutdown. Seven is a suspiciously precise number. The leadership needs to go, and every corporatist Vichy Democrap with them.

you feel hopeless because you feel helpless. and it is true, you cannot directly stop this gang of losers murdering people in the streets. but there is so much you *can* do. every action will make you feel better.

no one action is the answer. it is all of our constant, little actions, that will see us through

A survival game where you're Sean Bean and you have to last 12 hrs on the set without dying

"reform the gestapo" is not the energy we need. get rid of all these assholes

socialism is the moderate position now