Enjoy your respite!

Anyway, now I know what a used tear gas canister looks like, up close. (Thankfully it had all dissipated by the time I got there)

This appears to be the tear gas deployed that was mentioned in this community alert earlier. ICE all over Albany Park this morning.

On here is good – for the 38 & up & already paying attention crowd. And I figure YouTube will fall eventually. Bots, I honestly don't know if that'd work 🤷‍♂️

Maybe tiktokked, but, that's not gonna happen either
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I can vouch that this is this accurate. I got there after the goons fled but joined the crowd milling. I heard people talking with cops (who were pleasant, FWIW) and lawyers. Graciela & Rossana were on the scene.

That’s right. Get tf out of my neighborhood, 🧊

Everyone in IL who thinks what the State Police are doing to protect ICE and violate the 1A rights of protesters needs to be calling JB’s office daily. Also call your state reps and senators and ask them to put pressure on JB to stand up for the right to protest.

But this actually suggests an answer to another question I'd had which is why ic e agents don't arrest more citizens for interfering with their work, which they're allowed to do. It could be because, to get anywhere with criminal charges, they'd have to sign affidavits, with their names.

It’s weird that the Chicago Tribune never ran a feature story on the South Shore apartment building raid…right? It’s mentioned in an article about warrantless arrests and that awful editorial about how we’re all overreacting. But no stories. Every other Chicago news outlet covered it. Why is this?

Happy Marathon day to all who celebrate (I'm still in my pjs drinking coffee).

If the AMA and the DNC ran the same, your doctor would be telling you that you need to meet the tumor in the middle.

I don't know, just start trying shit! lock him in the dungeon! the answer can't be "nothing, and also you're not allowed to criticize them"

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Northside ICRR update. 11:23am

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Spanish BlueSky spilled the tea on this lady as soon as the Nobel news dropped.

But she was endorsed by current U.S. regime leader earlier this year, that says it all.

alt-text: a tweet showing the Venezuelan politician that received Nobel Prize dedicating the award to the current US president

I expect that “should the troops get paid” is something most Americans would support if you polled it without any context.

The average American doesn’t give a shit how something happens, they just want good things to happen, however they define that.

Elected Dems haven’t adjusted to that reality.

The reason I say getting the troops paid is good for Trump’s brand is that I think one of the most valuable lessons of Trump 2 is that people only care about the result, not the legality of a given action.

Is illegally moving a bunch of money around to pay the troops good for Trump’s brand? Probably. Will it keep the government shut down even longer? Almost certainly.

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

What’s especially galling about these many of the CDC firings is these are technical positions, not political ones, yet there has been (and won’t be) any policy-based explanation, even a nonsensical one, from Kennedy et alia as to why they were fired. Impeach Kennedy. Impeach him now.