I’ll hand it to them, the Trib Editorial Board really has cemented their absurd place in these absurd times.

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

i’ll never get over how some people pointed out trump was going to do project 2025 and then eventually the media asked trump if he was going to do project 2025 and he said “never heard of it” and the media decided he surely couldn’t be lying about that one

The rage.

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago:

Houston
Dallas
Lubbock
Amarillo
San Antonio
Corpus Christi

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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The Chicago FOP continues to be the Chicago FOP.

1) If you're in Chicago or the burbs, have a plan for what you will do if you encounter ICE terrorists -- this shit is too dire to improvise, and

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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1. Chicago doesn’t want this help. Wild (but unsurprising) that the word “no” doesn’t register w/ Trump.
2. The “help” isn’t “free.” It’s our taxes paying for tear gas canisters instead of schools, jobs, and healthcare.
3. We know what reduces violence. (See above) Keep your fed goons and guardsmen.

A day after Stephen Miller said judges are leading a “legal insurrection” and are part of an organized terrorist attack on America.

If you see Stephen Miller fighting a bear, help the bear.

Illinois attorney Christopher Wells tells Perry Texas troops may already be on the way, including some getting on a plane at 4 p.m. "When they set foot here, the sovereign injury grows only more grave.

He wants to move forward immediately.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

NEW: Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order prohibiting federal immigration agents from using any City-owned property in enforcement activity.

also hello hello white people did this intentionally because they CHOSE to abandon cities for the suburbs and then intentionally defund government, public schools, parks, and library systems

and the Black middle class was sacrificed so white flight could happen more easily

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

So yes, keep posting your beautiful food, park, neighborhood, and lakefront pictures. Keep sharing the horrifying news stories. Keep sharing the coexistence of it all.

They’re moving quickly because they get less popular every day.

They’ll never be more popular than they are now and they are extremely unpopular.

Narrator: This is fascism.