This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The orange demon hobbled their industry during his first term but they turned around and voted for him again (probably 3X). Why on earth should we keep bailing out people that willingly harm themselves?

"It doesnt matter, things are already bad and project 2025 is already here!!!"

Yes, precisely this. “We shouted and screamed about Trump being a dictator! And he won anyway!” No you most manifestly did not. I was there. You did exactly what you’re doing now: argued that overreacting to Trump would alienate voters, and you should keep your head down and focus on policy.

Home Sweet Home (in Carytown) has to be the most Cheerslike bar I’ve ever been a regular at. It’s also the only bar where the regulars routinely burst out song.

for the last 40 years or so, it’s been pretty unnecessary to sort out the ideological neocons from the fascists and the opportunists and the egomaniacs, but only the first group is of actual use to us now and it’s worth knowing who’s who

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

thank you brett kavanaugh!

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

Fuck Gavin Newsom. I will never vote for him and you shouldn't either.

Never, ever Newsom. Fuck that guy.

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children. That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court wants to allow conversion therapy so that's why we have oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar this morning. The Supreme Court wanted to allow Christian people to refuse to serve queers, so that's why they issued an advisory opinion in 303 Creative v. Elenis. Everything is rigged.

The final remedy for bad decisions by the Supreme Court is for the sovereign people of the USA to go through the arduous process of rewriting the constitution by amendment to correct the Court, and this Court is willing to ignore amendments when they feel like it.

What's happening in Chicago is not normal. The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

So Kroger carytown that I’ve been shopping at for at least 20 years bricked up one of their openings and put in a new cheese display and now there’s a bunch of red white and blue flags and signage about “grand (re) opening”

Fortunately once SCOTUS says courts can't stop Trump from sending Texans to kill Oregonians the Democratic leadership will have some strong points about kitchen table issues

As of now, me too

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

I think this is right: "We've slid into some form of authoritarianism," says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard. "It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy." www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

He didn't need to shit on it first. He could've said he thinks it's a great start. It expanded Medicaid more than private insurance. It was a strategy to make Americans comfortable with govt regulated healthcare and it did, even with Republicans. It'll make a govt option easier to pass one day.

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

Gonna go down in history the same as Nero fiddling while Rome burned I suspect.

I would (if I was a dinosaur)

I’m so down for this!

Honestly yeah I’m pretty worried about this. A large percentage of this country will not sufficiently morn/celebrate and the right-wing backlash to that could be used to cement Vance’s hold on power. This is if the rest of MAGA were to stay united behind Vance.

People going "America was always fascist" or "it's been like this since the 1980s" or making related claims don't seem to realize it, but they're telling everyone that nothing different is happening, nothing worse than usual, so if you weren't up in arms about eg 2013, you shouldn't be now either.

People... are allowed to come up with mean names for inanimate objects. If you compare this practice to racial slurs, I'm going to think you believe people of other races hold the same concrete significance and value as inanimate objects. This is one of those slips that does not look good on anyone.

Yikes.

Stephen Miller is such a dweeb. I’ll be damned if I let myself be terrorized by such a dweeb.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

I hope he changes the flag by the 250 at the anniversary of the declaration of independence as well at least make it super clear that this is no longer the United States

Again: Trump hasn't been SEEN or HEARD live, in real time, since Tuesday. Supposedly golfing today. Press pool literally prevented from seeing him. meidasnews.com/news/trump-h...

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Quickly had to type something up about the recent horrifying ICE raid in Chicago, and a passenger I had a conversation with about NPR. open.substack.com/pub/nataliec...

I walk into the bar after driving all day and four people give me hugs, and one person buys me a shot and a beer. I think i might actually be liked here :) That’s something ‘cause in the absence of signals I usually assume everyone hates me.

Next year, a lot of folks are going to see their premiums go up $1,000 or more per month because of a Republican policy. If you start having to pay $1,000 extra every month, what will you stop being able to afford? This is what Democrats are fighting to stop.

I think when Spanberger wins this race, it may show that turning the transphobia dial more and more isn't effective at moving the polls. People simply don't give a shit.

Republicans have a Nazi porn problem, again. Last year, it was North Carolina “Black Nazi” Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who lost his bid for governor. This year, it’s Virginia GOP lieutenant governor candidate John Reid. www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

This was always the plan. Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.

I would guess that that 1/3 who were Dems were people like me who are support trans rights and are absolutely disgusted by the Winsome Earle-Sears ads.

I'm convinced the only people who had their minds changed by the "Kamala is for they/them" ads were the Dem consultants and pundits whose brains they broke (or gave them a permission structure to do what they always wanted)

I am tired of hearing assertions that Democrats "threw trans people under the bus" in 2024 from people whose primary interest in the trans community is as cannon fodder for their revolutionary pipe dreams

These posts from @andr3wsky.bsky.social on threads (I checked to see if he also posted here but he didn't) were actually hard to read, because Black folks have said this *so* often and been argued *down* about it, reading someone say it as a 💡 feels damn near insulting. But maybe ppl will listen

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?

There's fundamentally no legal difference between allowing Trump to fire the FTC commissioner pending litigation and not allowing him to fire a Fed governor except that the latter directly implicates the investment portfolios of SCOTUS justices and their benefactors. It's comical how corrupt this is