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So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
Murder by Trump, murder by Hegseth, murder by Adm. Holsey, murder by the CO of the ship that did this.
Folks, there's no law in the world that authorizes the president of the United States to intentionally kill refugees going from one foreign country to another. That's just murder.
They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
We have forgotten all the ways people used to get toxins out of their food before federal regulation. It's not that food and water used to be cleaner -- it's that domestic work used to include detoxing everything we put in our mouths!
every single rabid Newsom fanboy who isn’t doing Their Thing for Pritzker right now should disregard previous instructions and explain why
here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;
How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social
This video is fantastic and absolutely true. We're going to get to some of this later in the series on peasants but the time-labor demand of 'household chores' before ten seconds ago was enormous. One 1900 report put the average food prep per week per woman at 44 hours; another 14 hours on laundry.
NEW — “What we're hearing is that they'll be assembled, ready to go on Friday, and that they would begin actions on Saturday,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told reporters just now, speaking about Trump’s fed deployment. thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...
The city is now sharing know your rights info and other resources here: bit.ly/fafochicago
Daskalakis: There is a program called Vaccines for Children. It is the safety-net program that gets vaccines to kids. Over 50% of kids in the U.S. get their vaccines through this. If the ACIP says this vaccine should not be given to six-month-olds through 12-year-olds, the VFC won’t buy it
Yellowstone: America's First Best Idea
I wish that @democrats.senate.gov and @housedemocrats.bsky.social would get loud for Chicago. And for America.
holy shit dude using a fake deployment for wildland fire crews from a fire that’s only 13% contained during peak western US fire season to detain multiple firefighters and remove the crews from the fire is a scale of evil & dangerous I can’t fully communicate to people not from wildfire regions
Not sure if you have seen my zines, they may be helpful! “How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe” Chicago edition: drive.google.com/file/d/1e7Ym...
You were featured in a local paper! thetriibe.com/2025/09/we-k...
If you can: Be there Be there with others Film stops, arrests, detainments etc by ICE, feds, cops etc Film them walking down the street or standing around Warn others esp potentially vulnerable people Waste their time Monopolize their attention Distract them Make them a spectacle 1/3
I am organizing multiple workshops this week for Chicago activists and organizers as we prepare for a possible military occupation of our city. I am tired but moving fast.
Definitely a lost battle under this admin, but if we do eventually return to normalcy, would really appreciate a hard requirement that every announced use of force by the state be accompanied by stating the authority under which it occured
"I have been very clear about what we do want. What we do want is civilian law enforcement assistance. We want to make sure that we have enough FBI, ATF DEA on the ground.” I understand this calculation. It is the wrong calculation. Every one of these agencies is being used for immigration.
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker warned that a strike team of ICE agents accompanied by National Guard troops or other “armed military personnel” could hit Chicago’s streets as soon as Friday or Saturday. to.wttw.com/4mibw7f
"We need just two more signatures to force the release." TWO MORE Keep calling! ☎️ (202) 224-3121
It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
🚨 The Trump admin is moving to de-legalize more than a quarter of a million Venezuelans who have been here for at LEAST four years. The vast majority entered before Biden took office (often on tourist visas) and were previously granted deportation protections by Trump himself.
A California court yesterday slammed the Trump administration for trying to create a “national police force with the president as its chief." Let’s be clear: The military shouldn't be policing civilians.
Don't ya know - kitchen tables are the best kind for hiding under!
R no votes: Bacon, Flood, Joyce (OH), Turner (OH), Valadao
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
It was back in July that NYT began series of scoops, four so far, from unnamed sources saying Harvard was about to cave. Harvard has not yet caved. Could be true, but not yet. Wonder who these sources might be? (Spoiler: 100% in MAGA interest to say even the biggest domino is about to fall.)
Harvard Crimson - A federal judge rules that the Trump administration violated the Constitution when it froze more than $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard, striking down the freeze in its entirety.
Full list of zines as of 9/2: California, Chicago, Colorado, DC Metro, Florida, Indianapolis, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina Triangle Area, NYC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, Rhode Island, St. Louis Metro Area, Washington State, Wisconsin Zine request form in the drive folder.
Boiling milk before use was just what you did. They had dedicated cookware for it. (Specially shaped to contain boil-overs, which milk is really prone to.) Household hygiene had SERIOUSLY high stakes back before hot running water & pasteurization. That's… like… why they taught home economics.
For what it's worth, Chicago's German American parade is this Saturday at 2 pm, along Lincoln, from Irving Park to Montrose. germanday.com/oktoberfest/
Quote about vaccine mandates (measles, chickenpox, polio, etc.) from FL's surgeon general: “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Ladapo said. This fucker is even nuttier than RFK Jr.
The Republican Illinois State Rep. who wonders "why would you be bothered with troops marching in your streets?" is from the Barrington area and barely won his last election. I am definitely going to donate to whoever runs against him next time ballotpedia.org/Martin_McLau...
Media needs to be fully transparent. Those “agents” are there to specifically terrorize and brutalize Latinos and their businesses. It is not a coincidence that those THUGS picked Mexican independence week to unleash their terroristic actions against brown people.
NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz. -230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles -30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs -agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m. -new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones
They're right. RFK Jr. is a serious threat to public health and our lives. He is undermining vaccines, boosting dangerous conspiracy theories, and decimating lifesaving research. Resign or be fired. He needs to go.
Just 6 years ago anti-vaxxers were a laughable fringe group. Now their victory is so total they're setting government policy. This is like if schools started teaching Flat Earth. A complete failure of education and science comms. Kids will die because we couldn't convince their parents of the truth.
Pilsen Folks (and friends): Our Mexican Independence Day parade is Noon on Saturday, starting at 18th & Newberry. Turn out like our neighbors’ lives depend on it, because they may. Show tf up.
TONIGHT: Join my Tele-Town Hall at 6:00 pm CT. Bring your questions about my work in Washington and IL-06.
NEW: The plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration's holiday weekend effort to send children to Guatemala have filed their motion for a preliminary injunction in the case, along with many declarations from the children who are involved. It is as horrifying as it appeared over the weekend.
McGovern: "You guys think you work for Trump ... Let me repeat -- every single Republican on the Rules Committee voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every single one. We heard last night that all Republicans want full transparency. But that's just not true."
Trump called republicans and threatened them not to sign the discharge petition to release the Epstein files saying he would consider it a "hostile act" against him.
Two more Republicans. That’s all we need to force a vote in the House on releasing the Epstein files. If you live in a GOP district, your representative needs to hear from you: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
BREAKING: Epstein victms are holding a press conference saying they will release all the names. All networks covering except Fox News.
The democratic governors of Oregon, Washington and California are forming a new public health partnership aimed at preserving access to vaccines.
The most infuriating part of this is that no matter what, those mandates are going to be restored, it's just a question of how many kids have to die before it happens. Mass murder for the sake of short-term, temporary political point scoring.
NEW: Massie tells CNN that there is significant pressure from the White House to BLOCK the release of the Epstein files.
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
I don't think you can prevent impoundment in this environment But the Senate could attack the process from the side: refuse to fund other White House initiatives, block appointees, more aggressive oversight of collateral issues, etc bsky.app/profile/eoel...
Until Senate Rs take tangible action to stop the process, this is all just words And Senate Ds should refuse to vote for any budget until those tangible actions are taken
not unrelated: a recent study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism found that modern “AI” chatbots not only provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries, the LLMs are TERRIBLE at accurate citations, misattributing sources 115 out of 200 times in one instance
JD Vance, last week: The administration isn’t “forcing” Guard troops on any American cities, and the White House will wait for invitations. Trump, this week: We’re deploying Guard troops to Chicago whether state and local officials like it or not. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
I signed this. The truth must come out.
NEW: DC grand jurors reject more Justice Dept cases Former DOJ attorney: “Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening” www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached. The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.
i don't think it's great that there is no one in the GOP asking about congressional war powers
[sings softly] i see your truuuu colors, shining through.....
I really think they're going to go down in history next to antibiotics and the earliest vaccines. It's easy to over-weigh the significance of the moment we live in now, but the people who brought us this breakthrough are miracles
thank you for riding Metra today
While it's unclear what President Trump has planned, we know Chicago is ready. As always, we're getting organized to protect each other. Save these legal support hotlines! 2/2
While it's unclear what President Trump has planned, we know Chicago is ready. As always, we're getting organized to protect each other. Save these legal support hotlines! 1/2
The Chicago Police Department’s criminal homicide tally for June, July and August is the lowest in 60 years. And overall violent crime remains near its lowest point in more than four decades. trib.al/f4O8yRs
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
this is insane
People, get ready. Trump’s just a punk-ass chump, and I have faith in the people of Chicago. We’ve got this.
The other morning. Chicago.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
No problem! The file got updated on the 30th in the drive. I noticed to print ouf for an event on Monday.
The artist updated and said to only ask for full name and date of birth - i didn't catch the reason why.
CHICAGO - REPORTING ICE Let's keep printing, folding, & distributing @meganpiont.bsky.social's zine: How to Report ICE If you're unfamiliar with folding zines (I was!), there's even an instructions doc in the file ⬇️
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Idk why @govpritzker.illinois.gov would have misgivings about welcoming these friendly folks to Chicago, eh? These might be the scariest outfits I've ever seen U.S. cops/agents wear.
Tom Skilling too!
Trump administration have just released the video of the strike on the Venezuelan vessel. It’s the size of a very small fishing boat, blasted to pieces by multi-million dollar US hardware. It doesn’t look strong. It’s embarrassing.
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
How I became a #MutualAid snack stop for kids: In late 2022, I was COVID-conscious (just like now) and put out snacks for Xmas for all of the delivery people. I noticed they were taking a LOT of stuff but I shut it down in January 2023. But in 2023, "somebody" started sneaking around....
Chicagoans are an opinionated bunch. Thanks for asking.
“I refuse to accept this is normal.” - JB Pritzker. Amen, governor. Amen.
lake forever problems for now
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Look at this
Pawpaw leaves, late afternoon.
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I think there's a deeper point about the absurdity here: everything in Chicago is normal EXCEPT the threat looming over us
Adding to the chaos will be the legions of out of town press (both corporate and fascist) parachuting here that will push narratives very different from reality
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
They have not incentivized these young people to have kids and they know it. They neglected us Xers, snatched the rug out from under the Millennials’ finances, traumatized Gen Z… now they want the birth rate to go up?! Give folks single payer healthcare, UBI, housing & a year or two off. Or STFU!
Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq
it's a service you can sign up for to get text alerts from the City about things going on -- can get weather and traffic, big events, etc www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
What is NotifyChicago?
No one knows the terror. There are sooooo many bridges!
Per googling. The viaduct clearance is 12 feet. Tanks are 8-12 feet. Soooooo. Maybe it will be ok? They grease it up reeeealll good.
Iconic truck stuck under the underpass aint nothing compared to tank stuck under the L tracks.