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Two months now of this nightmare in Illinois, two months of abductions and chemical weapons and crying children and terror and despair.

Never forget or forgive. Come hell or high water, we *will* put Bovino and Miller and Noem and Trump in prison to rot out the remainder of their pathetic lives.
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Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
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In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
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They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer.

It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
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Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.
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Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.
This is awful news!!!!! Teen Vogue was one of the best things in US media!!! We need to take all the money away from the fuckers making these decisions, and give it to Lex and all the great independent and fired reporters to build the news media of the future.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
No!!!!!!!!! Teen Vogue was so amazing and important, this is awful. Thank you for all the incredible work you do!!!!
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People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
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Practically every day we encounter someone who still has no idea ICE shot and killed someone in Chicago already. This happened before many people tuned in (and many have already tuned out again).
Candles, candy and colorful flowers adorned the ofrenda, or altar, that a couple of dozen people helped build Saturday to honor Silverio Villegas González, the man shot and killed by an ICE agent in northwest suburban Franklin Park nearly two months ago.
Chicago-area man killed by ICE honored at Franklin Park Day of the Dead celebration: ‘Someone who was wanted’
Candles, candy and colorful flowers adorned the ofrenda a couple dozen people helped build Saturday to honor Silverio Villegas González.
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And for the record, there must be a plan to invalidate his pardons, because he will pardon himself and everyone in his govt on the way out the door, no matter what. It is not conceivable that a coup leader who tries to install a dictatorship should be able to use pardons to escape all consequences.
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Queens Neighborhoods United, a group representing Corona, Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights posted a statement about the abduction of 7 community members from the same corner in Corona, Queens. They describe that federal agents cycled in and out of the block kidnapping ppl throughout the afternoon.
A sympathetic Supreme Court would have legal ground to work with, and the SC can be made sympathetic with sufficient control of Congress, the presidency, and state govts. Sufficient political will can accomplish almost anything - and there is no path back to democracy without de-Trumpification.
I really think that every pardon and every appointment made by Trump, at least in his second term, needs to be invalidated. I know that sounds far-fetched, but he *is* ineligible for the presidency under the 14th amendment, section 3 - could that be a path to nullifying many of his actions?
Edmund LaCour, the solicitor general in Alabama since 2019, finally got a federal judgeship. After a failed nomination in Trump's first term, he was confirmed on a 51-47 party-line vote last week to a seat on the Northern District of Alabama bench.
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The Trump administration told a federal judge on Monday that it plans to use the SNAP contingency fund to cover 50% of November allotments to current eligible households — but that it might take states “a few weeks to up to several months” to disburse the money.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/snap-50...
Trump Admin Tells Judge It’ll Disburse Half of SNAP Benefits for Eligible Households in November, With ‘Significant’ Delays
The Trump administration told a federal judge on Monday that it plans...
talkingpointsmemo.com
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Faith leaders were again denied entry to the Broadview ICE facility on Saturday, but held Mass outside anyway. blockclubchi.co/47ZsDph
Two months now of this nightmare in Illinois, two months of abductions and chemical weapons and crying children and terror and despair.

Never forget or forgive. Come hell or high water, we *will* put Bovino and Miller and Noem and Trump in prison to rot out the remainder of their pathetic lives.
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NEW: Protestors turn up the heart on Fenway Health, an LGBTQ+ community health center that recently pulled transtion care from all patients under 19.

Evan Urquhart was on the scene for Assigned Media with exclusive interviews and photos.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Defiant Protests Target Fenway Health As Youth Care Ends — Assigned
Organizers spanning generations converged to demand the LGBTQ+ community health center reinstate gender-affirming care for patients under 19.
www.assignedmedia.org
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Over 100 people rallied in Brighton Park Saturday to support tamalero Fausto Valladares Alvarez, who was taken by federal agents.

“My dad is not a criminal,” his daughter said.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/01/b...
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ISP fired ~only a few~ rounds of pepper balls last night in Broadview and we really need folks who haven't experienced these to understand how irritating and noxious they are. I wasn't even in direct line of fire, but the powder lingers. This morning: throat/sinuses are still in awful shape.
Militarized local, state, & federal police used physical violence, chemical weapons, & the threat of dogs (as in, multiple - terrible) against people outside the Broadview ICE jail this afternoon. I still have a cough, sore throat, & breathing problems from it, even with a respirator mask.
Outside Chicago—

State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear.

A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection.

Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.
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ICE has been staging in this parking lot. Local patrolers called an impromptu protest. Thousands of honking cars affirm to neighbors that the invasion cannot stand. Dozens getting to know each other, exchanging tips on identifying ICE cars to stop the next kidnapping, etc. Little things help.
This is a gap that LLMs are now exploiting with their dangerous "therapists." Isolation is such a key factor in fueling and worsening mental illness, and by turning "traumadumping" into an antisocial act, we cut people off from the kinds of support that have kept human beings alive since ever!