Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
elephant like memory for every national Dem who betrays DC <333
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Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: “This president doesn’t care about gun violence. He just wants his own secret police force that would do publicty stunts whenever his poll numbers are sinking. That’s what this is about.”
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
I just found that this man was charged with "terroristic threat of family/household" in 2019 in Texas. Yet he still had guns and now a little boy is dead.
A man who was being held in a Manhattan police precinct station house on Friday was found unconscious and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to a city official. He is at least the fourth detainee in city custody to die in a little over a week.
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
This is the cop who was watching an anti-trans video when he hit a cyclist. According to this reporting he won't face any jail time.
Trump is trying to repeal a roadless rule that prevents loggers from denuding National Parks—something they just announced and which public only has a few weeks to speak against insideclimatenews.org/news/3008202...
This is what a regular traffic stop looks like in DC now.
Group of HSI agents walking around Shaw, shining flashlights in cars.
HSI and MPD working together in Shaw
It is unconscionable for baby formula to be sitting at the border of Gaza as newborns & infants die of starvation. Secretary Rubio must heed our calls to pressure Israel to surge humanitarian aid including ready to feed formula to families in Gaza. Lives depend on it.
Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the city's police from collaborating with federal officers on civil immigration enforcement operations, and U.S. military personnel on police patrols.
A specifically worthwhile piece but also a generally important corrective to the idea that a society’s reactionary extremists somehow have nothing to do with you
Myth: we’re here to make your city safer Reality: we’re endangering everyone with high speed chases
Good for the vets who are doing this.
Let’s be clear: what the federal administration is doing in DC is wrong, and they don’t plan to stop here. We must resist the normalization of federal overreach and attacks on our right to self-governance. Read the full article: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/31/t...
this is insane because all of the federal “police” cars I have seen have tinted windows…
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
“Sometimes they said things like ‘let me through, I’m trying to enter the library,’ which I assume they said for the benefit of those viewing the video online from places outside of UCLA, because a viewer of the video familiar with the geography of the campus could readily observe….” /1
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
“Full benefits begin only on day 31 and only apply from that point forward—not retroactively. By repeatedly cycling short orders—ending them on day 29 and restarting on day 31—the administration saved roughly $2,500 per service member per month.”
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
The Legal Aid Society asks the NYPD Inspector General to investigate department misuse of facial recognition technology, including in an incident THE CITY exposed in which detectives asked the FDNY to help ID a pro-Palestinian protester in an end run around NYPD policy.
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
In 2024 Sen. Merkley & I visited the Rafah gate on the Egypt-Gaza border. On the other side was Gaza’s thriving city of Rafah—home to 270K. Today we saw it reduced to rubble. The Netanyahu govt has gone beyond targeting Hamas to waging a war of destruction against all Palestinians. It must end.
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
US Park Police putting DC resident lives at risk by unnecessarily pursuing suspects on city streets. Of course, the do this to please Dump, who doesn't give a shit about the lives of DC residents. This federal occupation of DC cannot end soon enough. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
I got arrested yesterday! (real drop off from being a corporate law firm associate five months ago. or upgrade.) I was blocking vehicles leaving from ICE’s Broadview, IL, staging ground and de facto detention center at 1930 Beach St. full statement (for now) below.
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
'Nakba All Over Again': West Bank Palestinians Still Displaced More Than 6 Months After Israel Forced Them to Flee open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
i feel like the lot of the country stopped paying attention after the stories about how they're all just wandering the Mall harmlessly and then lost the thread from there like the oafishness here is truly very funny but also... they're just breaking into an apartment complex???
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records.
What are we even doing?
New footage shows Israel struck Gaza's Nasser Hospital four times www.bbc.com/news/article...
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
Current checkpoint on Georgia Ave at Dahlia
“On Sunday (Aug. 17), an usher for the evening Mass at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington's Columbia Heights neighborhood was detained by federal officials just three blocks away from the church while walking to worship.” www.ncronline.org/news/feds-ta...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”." WTF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mayor Muriel Bowser has praised the surge and reserved her criticisms for ICE wearing masks. But tonight at a local school it was MPD who pulled up their gaiter, put on gloves, and approached me masked.
Patrick Henry expressed concern that the President “may easily become king,” James Madison replied that this would not occur because “[t]he purse is in the hands of the representatives of the people.” Full Henry quote on "you Senate" below: teachingamericanhistory.org/document/pat...
As the humanitarian disaster in Gaza continues, we cannot look away from rising Israeli settler violence in the West Bank. @merkley.senate.gov and I met families of Americans killed there and visited a town subjected to attacks. Illegal settlements and violence MUST end.
“Chantilly has become this black box where people are being sent after they are being arrested in the streets of D.C. It is an office; it is not intended to detain people”
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
The transformation of the Seine really is remarkable
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
People around the country are protesting on Labor Day: maydaystrong.org
Opinion: "The past two weeks' arrests due to the federal expansion of law enforcement in the District have only added to an already swollen jail population, which had been ticking up thanks to local policies favoring incarceration." 51st.news/opinion-dc-n...
🚨The worst of the worst criminals are going after kids with backpacks and leaving their scooters in the road. 📌 WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA. We are running out of time. 🚨
ICE and fed police at Coolidge football game
5th and Sheridan. All this is doing is scaring the shit out of everyone.
Nothing like sending FBI, DEA, HSI, and MPD in mass numbers to a high school football game to sow chaos and fear and make things less safe.
Is this “what’s working” @mayorbowser.bsky.social?
surprise! he's a ceo www.themirror.com/sport/tennis...
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
Agents snatched this person out of his Uber ride this morning in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC. Per source, officers followed his Uber for a few minutes, and then swarmed the vehicle and dragged him out.
This moment of crisis in Gaza demands moral clarity & decisive action from the U.S. As newborn & infants die of starvation, we cannot look away. I’m leading 100+ of my colleagues with @pettersen.house.gov in calling for Secretary Rubio to facilitate aid and baby formula to enter Gaza.
We obtained emails that appear to show the White House ordered government officials to put Grok back on the list of approved vendors “ASAP” www.wired.com/story/white-...
Narrative buster: NYT finds that DC arrests were up only 13% over the previous two weeks and that the biggest change has been more arrests for minor infractions like smoking weed in a public place. (This does not include immigration abductions.) (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
L.A. teen is moved to ICE detention center out of state without parents' knowledge
Our client, Mohsen Mahdawi, just finished his citizenship interview when ICE arrested him in retaliation for his pro-Palestinian activism. Now, the government is asking an appeals court to re-detain him for no other reason than his speech. We won’t back down from protecting our right to dissent.
Masked federal agents and MPD are conducting a checkpoint on New York Ave in Ivy City in DC.
did you?
‼️ALERT‼️ MPD and Federal Agents stopping cars heading east on New York Ave NE near Target (16th St NE) as of 9pm 8/28
Metro Transit police backed up by Border Patrol officers just pulled a guy off the X2 for boarding without paying. Nobody else who boarded the bus paid either, mind you, but this guy was pointing and laughing at the police
“They were in my community around my neighbors, they were masked, and they felt like occupiers of our streets. I don’t believe they are keeping us safe ... I have a role to play in protecting my community.” 51st.news/dc-residents...
At least 13 people are charged with "assaulting" or "impeding" a federal agent in Trump's DC takeover. In several cases, what look like routine police scuffles have turned into federal cases carrying up to 8 yrs prison. The cases are "horseshit," an attorney said. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
MPD Officer Peter McCauley sped through traffic before crashing into another vehicle, sending himself, his girlfriend, and a civilian to the hospital. A Virginia State trooper hit 119 mph trying to stop him. More on the hearing:
Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK
Big rally of multiple unions in DuPont Circle in DC right now. “They want us to be quiet, but we’re just gonna get louder.”
A new story released by NPR earlier today further confirms what has already been perceived by many: Biden, Blinken, Sullivan and McGurk were personally favorable to Israel no matter its behavior and dismissed internal attempts to hold Israel accountable and to enforce US law on military assistance.
Things are clearly worse under Trump, but this is a damning account of the failures of the Biden administration when it came to Gaza. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
Profile of a resistance hero.
“nO oNe iS pRoTesTiNg iN dC”🤪🤪🤪🤪
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods
"Under no circumstances do I support nor do I believe that sending in a surge of federal officers is a way to keep our communities safe," says Ward 7 Councilmember Wendell Felder in a townhall for constituents.
No. www.boston.com/news/local-n...
New: Stephen Miller says Trump's focus on DC is meant to help Black residents. But people living in the city's historically Black wards don't want this kind of help So what could the feds actually do for wards 7/8? I asked and a federal police takeover didn't make the list: wamu.org/story/25/08/...
it's a little unclear what your point is. the US has aided and abetter and funded a genocide, so now...??? rural Americans should expect urban Americans to bail them out once again while urban Americans are also targeted for martial law crackdowns?
"D.C. residents are Constitutional second-class citizens and what’s happening to them now could happen to those of us who enjoy the full privileges of the Constitution if our elected officials, especially Democrats who should know better, do not start raising hell" newrepublic.com/article/1996...
This is obscene thehill.com/policy/defen...
NYT - Lisa Cook, a governor on the Federal Reserve Board, sued President Trump on Thursday, calling his attempt to fire her "unprecedented and illegal" and setting up a court fight with lasting implications for the central bank's independence.
ICE has stopped reporting number of transgender people in custody prismreports.org/2025/08/19/i...
what is the stupid shit you see them taking money from?
yes, it is crazy to acknowledge the specific political constraints of a given moment in time.
the federal government does, but state budgets are finite. when federal money gets cut, states have to dredge up that money from somewhere it has already been allocated.
I am saying urban areas should not face all the consequences of rural voters' choices. rural voters are constantly getting bailed out by urban voters, which in general is just kind of the price of federalism, but rn as we descend into fascism, is untenable. the federal government is targeting cities
do you want poor minorities in urban areas to suffer?
okay, tell me what you'd do
the pie doesn't have to be finite, but state budgets are.
let's hear your policy proposal