as someone in chicago right now believe me we all find it extremely disorienting that national dems are broadly fine with the administration unleashing a terror campaign on our city. it won’t be forgotten next time someone shows up here begging for votes.
Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening
UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
From the Tao: “True leaders are hardly known to their followers. Next after them are leaders the people know and admire; after them, those they fear; after them, those they despise.” Lao Tzu, trans. Ursula K Le Guin