It’s been a year since the Bell Riots and having the national guard in DC clearing out homeless encampments and CA policy to have state agencies do the same there feels a bit too real.
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It’s been a year since the Bell Riots and having the national guard in DC clearing out homeless encampments and CA policy to have state agencies do the same there feels a bit too real.
This is not to say I am not worried - I am. But I think how this plays out is Trump pressures the Senate to kill the filibuster to get a bunch of horrible voter suppression stuff through into actual law.
Most of the March 25 EO was quickly blocked by courts and the admin hasn’t been in the same kind of hurry it has in other cases to change that. Moreover, unlike the universities e.g., the amount of $$ the federal government contributes to elections is a tiny fraction off overall election cost.
Or they only put 76 on planes earlier - the rest were still in ORR custody.
Where has the admin tried to claim that? Not saying they haven’t just that I haven’t seen it.
Again, even the Wizards in Robes do not again desecrate the Constitution on this, every single one of these "national emergency" and "national security" loopholes, written into law during the Cold War, by both parties, need to go. They are simply incompatible with our current politics.
Really a great look that @ilattygeneral.bsky.social responded to my FOIA a day late and wrote the incorrect date I submitted it in the letter so it look like they responded in time. Also completely misread my request and suggested I not ask for things that I had, in fact, not asked for. Great look.
This was shared in the Second City Cop group today and the responses are predictably awful. Includes what appears to be a CFD Lieutenant (Leverenz) saying "get over it you baby." One of the other cops commenting here (Turney) is married to *another* cop who was at January 6th, so. That tracks.
PRETEXTUAL TRAFFIC STOPS: How to get those arrests numbers up the easy way.
(I would imagine it’s implied here but) we need PR with the MMDs!!!
Ah yes we know this works because it worked in a repressive authoritarian regime, a fascist regime, and *checks notes* the fictional book 1984. All notoriously reliable sources.
I don’t get how after everything that’s happened in this case the judge isn’t just saying “yes that is now ordered”
Remember when DHS in court was like “we don’t know what will happen when he gets released it’ll be up to the desk officer” and the judge pretty much called bs on that? Yeah it was def complete bs.
Treasury is required to produce a report to Congress related to Direct File, the free tax filing option that the current administration intends to kill. They've created a survey with a bunch of leading questions. The survey deserves some responses supportive of the program to counteract its framing:
Alternative question: even if we had nationwide independent redistricting, 30-45%+ in every district wouldn’t be really represented by whoever the majority elected - is that truly democracy?
Really super curious what Quincy PD said their reason for refusing the FOIA was since those are like, generally very FOIAable.
If he wants to get rid of voting machines he’ll have to take that up with the ADA and HAVA. Aka disenfranchise voters with disabilities. Or at least take away their ability to cast their vote in private.
NWSL has the best fans.
Peacock thinks I speak Spanish and I have no idea why.
Omg my dad’s family has used that phrase and I had no idea it was more widespread than just them. I thought it was some weird thing they just said because they’re from near Pittsburgh. But moreover yeah I literally can’t pick any of these boxes I’m all of them.
I’m more “American” than probably 99% of all the xenophobic racists around. I find this funny.
My ancestors fought in the Civil War. I believe naturalized citizens are just as American as I am and that JD Vance is an idiotic power hungry loser. Also let’s welcome way more people into the country.
While I agree Obergefell itself isn’t on the chopping block atm, SCOTUS is for sure going to say that it’s tots okay to discriminate against LGBT+ people in virtually every aspect of society. Because Christians who want to discriminate are the real victims.
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Fine, you can stay for life. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until you get your stuff together & stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25 of you, with 9 chosen by lottery for any one case.
Hm, looks like some people have noted the secrecy and tried poke a hole in it but not succeeded. tbh I thought that name might be an alias but then I found the following which does align with the bio on the site so maybe actually legit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I question the editorial decision to refer to CWB as a “news organization”
“The administration says the reports are shorter for ‘readability.’” Funny, I’d assumed it’s because they fired most of the people who wrote them. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
This Colombia v Brazil final has been something else I tell you.
There is one but it’s used just as a data point for deciding where future enforcement will happen.
See also: 🇦🇺🇧🇭🇨🇷🇩🇴🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇳🇮🇨🇱🇨🇴🇮🇱🇯🇴🇲🇦🇴🇲🇵🇦🇵🇪🇸🇬🇰🇷🇨🇦🇲🇽 No other president was allowed to just wave his hands, pretend there is a "national emergency" or fabricated "national security" reasons for ever-changing tariffs & violation of these agreements, & then have the media completely ignore the fact that these laws exist 🤷♂️
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
As someone who has managed just fine without a car in a Chicago for years now, the parking minimum has always bugged me. It represented the supremacy of cars in a city full of pedestrians & bikers. Glad to see it’s mostly going away.
It's impossible to know for sure how non-RCV elections would have played out if RCV were used, especially since RCV changes how people run. The NYC dem primary was a great example of this with all the cross-endorsements that happened. And there totally would have been a "don't rank Vallas" push.
It’s not like they can pay the administration off and they’ll go away just read the Columbia agreement. If you give an inch they’ll take your whole university.
jsyk the linked profile isn’t for the fp (where article is from) it’s another org that doesn’t deserve to be associated with the fp
SCOTUS being the Cardassians seems about right.
Me, everytime SCOTUS issues a new shadow docket opinion:
A valid question might be, “why doesn’t that list include gender?” Well it’s taken straight from international law written post WWII. By a bunch of men. When someone said, “hey maybe we should include gender” all the men in the room were like “why would that ever be a problem?”
Okay let’s do that then. For all of them.
Probably why they didn’t try and explain themselves. Because they can’t.
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
Great time to become a fan of women’s sports! I mean yeah the Stars are losing all the time but the NWSL would never pull this crap.
there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
Trump's Justice Department is about to file a motion in every lower court where it faces a universal injunction citing this case and arguing that the injunction must be narrowed. This will have huge downstream consequences for a ton of other extraordinarily important and controversial cases.
Don’t rank Cuomo.
Again, the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from this to Jan 6 to torture to Iraq 2003 to Iran-Contra to Watergate to 1865 - is because there are any legal, personal, or political consequences for those things. We at elite accountability.
UPDATE — Mayor Brandon Johnson just announced that he will veto today's "snap curfew" ordinance. “We have made significant progress in our compliance with the consent decree, and now is not time to introduce new measures that could undermine those hard fought gains” thetriibe.com/2025/06/live...
The Illinois General Assembly is so broken. Leadership has way too much power. These omnibus bills are bs. There should be a "reform the system" Dem caucus. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/08/e...
anyway, "judging individuals by race instead of merit" is such a perfect example of how one literally begs the question. embedded in this sentence are a set of conclusions about how diversity programs operate and what constitutes merit.
Headline out of this should be ERO has access to LEADS, which has way more info than just the gang database. I don’t understand why they would ever enter into that agreement given the TRUST Act.
Article is from 2018 and nothing has changed. I’m waiting for a ruling on the request for review I submitted in Feb 2024. My emails to the person assigned my case asking for updates are usually ignored or have the vibe of “stf I’ll get to it when I get to it.” www.propublica.org/article/illi...
From inside the home connected to the yard, Nathaniel Fejerang’s neighbor Charles Cross heard him yell “I’m not resisting, I’m not resisting, I’ve been shot,” Cross told the Chicago Sun-Times. Then he heard four shots. “And then you didn’t hear his voice anymore,” Cross said.
Every time they show this girl’s school when she spells I’m like “why tf are any schools still named after the extremely racist mf woodrow wilson???”
I would have actually gone to my university commencement if Kermit was the speaker.
Not the most important thing out of this I know but this is not a correct usage of “begs the question.” There is no question here being begged. You are spending your time on a racist fishing expedition.
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There is 0 reason to have this woman on any news program whatsoever literally everything she says in this clip (and basically always) is a flat out lie. Not partisan shading of the truth - bald-faced lies. Cut her off and call out the bullshit.
Trump 1.0 didn't have the loyalty to the sovereign vetting that Trump 2.0 has. Nominees were curated by Leonard Leo. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are all extremely conservative as evidenced by their votes, but they don't seem to live in the MAGA media bubble that Alito/Thomas clearly do.
Law allows IRS to share info for *criminal* proceedings, so IRS/DHS wrote a memorandum of understanding saying “oh we’re only sharing info criminal proceedings” and the judge believed them. Scratch the surface though, and that agreement makes no sense.
The post indicates those wouldn't be included in this data, since it only covers cases that went to a hearing.
With a foreign government apparently set to gift a U.S. President a ~luxury plane~ it's maybe time to look back at how SCOTUS has been all in on the MAGA (Make America a Grift Again) project 🧵 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
That it is rapidly becoming normal for federal law enforcement to be masked and unidentifiable is terrifying. It is, frankly, the scandal here. It has no place in a free republic.
They gave some body cam footage to Fox News and they’re promoting it on the other site. It…doesn’t show what they say it does.
They use “recommended” in the first example, never explicitly stating that the statue was actually used. Seems intentional. Like some emails were sent “hey maybe we could use this law.”
What about ERO officers though?
So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight. THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY. "Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
This is stupid and may very well cost more and cause more tech issues.
What are the reasons for all the redactions here? Are depositions not part of the public record or would it be the substance of deposition info they included?
The order also supposedly addresses the motion to intervene/unseal but seems only mentions things going forward and doesn’t address the previous filings? Am I missing something here?
Asst DHS Sec. cites “court records” and points to…the government’s own filing. That’s literally the same thing as you just saying it. It doesn’t get more meaning just because you wrote it down for the court.
It is not a mistaken understanding. He is a far right authoritarian who knows exactly what he saying. This is the performative public lying of far right authoritarians. Let's not treat it as a comprehension problem.
BREAKING Jan Schakowsky, a leading progressive voice in the U.S. House of Representatives, announced Monday she would not seek a 15th term in office, setting off a free-for-all for a coveted seat representing much of Chicago’s North Side and north suburbs. @wttw.bsky.social
Publish the manifest of the third flight to El Salvador. The government claims all of them were deported under authorities later than the AEA but considering how rushed those deportations were I can’t imagine they were that organized.
Also, why are you copyrighting your policies? That is weird.
Like, handle traffic infractions that are safety issues for sure but stop patting yourself on the back for the few times out of thousands you found guns and go solve crimes.
Finally got around to reading CPD's draft traffic stop policy (www.chicago.gov/content/dam/...) and the fact that they want to make pretextual traffic stops an official thing is bananas. Straight up legitimizing pulling people over with the intent to go beyond the traffic infraction.
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That’s def him (based on bio and photo). Seemed to me like he was just there as a subject matter expert (I imagine he’s friends with someone). Alder Fuentes mentioned they were allowed to recommend subject matter experts (though all three of hers were refused).
Hard to overstate the extent to which opposition/support of the mayor permeates everything this City Council does now.
And everyone is seemingly pretending he didn’t just say that.
Alder Reilly notes that there will likely be increasing protests this summer so the police really need this. <— Evidence for this being a bad idea.
Alder Martin following up on the “why do you need this” - CPD guy still not answering that question. Just gives reasons why he thinks it’s a good idea and keeps using “constitutional” as a buzz word.
Committee hearing on snap curfew bill: Alder Hadden asks the obvious question of CPD, “why do you need this” - CPD guy doesn’t answer. Just says “it would be another tool to use” - no explanation of why existing rules aren’t sufficient.
Pretty sure he just doesn’t give a shit about the law.
The video makes clear Trump *legit* thinks that the photo with the added MS-13 text on the fingers was real which like, any third grader could tell you was photoshopped. Genuinely bizarre convo.
Obvious legal due process issues. Let’s not pass a law that we know will end up costing the city $$ to defend and will def lose in court.
Right I forgot that. My point is that it’s a black hole of information and we don’t actually know if everyone sent there, including the named plaintiffs, are still in CECOT now. We still don’t even have the names of everyone sent there. Description by location struck me as odd given the lack of info
I know that. But limiting to CECOT only seems potentially problematic, because if they move the named plaintiffs to another prison (or if they have already - we just don’t know) they’d no longer be representative of the proposed subclass.
We only learned they moved Abrego Garcia out of CECOT after he met with Sen. Van Hollen, what’s to say they haven’t moved others being held to other places as well? Why would you limit the proposed subclass to CECOT when you have no way of knowing if the plaintiffs are even still there?
It also doesn’t mention “oh btw we’re shipping you to a prison in El Salvador”
Interesting filing in the SCOTUS AEA case. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
Watched all three episodes of Andor and now I’m way too wired to fall asleep.
Those…do not seem excessive. Many pages have no footnotes at all. (Non-lawyer here also not understanding why you would ever fully embed a full citation to something like a news article entirely in text - that’d be way more difficult to read than footnotes…)
Stephen Miller called birthright citizenship “the biggest financial rip off of Americans in history” and like, nah bro that’d be slavery.
It's almost like he clearly wasn't qualified but Rs in the Senate decided it was more important to do what Trump wanted than like, idk have a functional and secure military.
They’re doing it again. He was not on the streets, he was in prison.
I knew it when he vetoed a bill to let more cities use RCV seemingly as retribution for having lost the RCV debate in SF when he was on the board of supervisors like two decades ago.
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