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Texas Guard arrives, feds protected

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About 200 Texas National Guard soldiers arrived in Illinois near Chicago to protect federal agents and property, despite lawsuits by state and city officials seeking to block the deployment.

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President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Reposted by: Steven Heydemann, Leah Stokes, Colin Woodard , and 1 more

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The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.
 
American citizens are being detained & brutalized.
 
This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.
Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
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by Michael A. Clemens

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Military troops from Texas are poised to enter and forcibly occupy the state of Illinois, on orders from the US President.

We will not get the slightest bit accustomed to this wildly illegal extremism.

Conservative and Liberal Americans reject military rule. We are accelerating toward a cliff.
Live Updates: National Guard Troops Assemble in Chicago Area as Trump Officials Make Visits
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by Robert B. Reich

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Trump has turned the Department of Justice into his own personal vendetta machine. And Pam Bondi has been happy to go along for the ride.

We're witnessing the most egregious politicization of the DOJ in recent memory — and I lived through the Nixon years.
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DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you

D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale?

B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump
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by Stephen I. Vladeck — Reposted by: Anna O. Law, David R. Miller

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The federal government does and should have the authority to deploy troops into our cities—even without local consent—*when the circumstances actually warrant it.*

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com, me on why the real issue in Portland, Chicago, and elsewhere is the missing / contrived factual predicate:
Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants
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by Joe R. Feagin

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants
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The Wall Street Journal
Local Politicians Defiant as National Guard Gathers Outside Chicago

Illinois Gov. says Trump wants us all, in big cities, to get used to the idea that it's OK to have military on the streets.

Local Politicians Defiant as National Guard Gathers Outside Chicago
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If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.
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Reposted by: Virginia Sapiro

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Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

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Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied. "Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."
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Reposted by: Robert C. Richards

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theatlantic.com
Donald Trump’s deployments of the National Guard to American cities “are best understood as an effort to erode the nation’s sense that such use of the military is unacceptable,” Quinta Jurecic argues.
Trump Is Destroying One of America’s Oldest Traditions
America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.
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Reposted by: Josh Pasek, Robert B. Reich, Ryan Enos , and 1 more

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DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you

D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale?

B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump
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Reposted by: Luis Enrique Otero Carvajal

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El Pais
The clash between Trump and the Democratic cities worsens with the arrival of the National Guard in Chicago

"If the governor can't do his job, we'll do it for him," says the U.S. president.

The clash between Trump and the Democratic cities worsens with the arrival of the National Guard in Chicago
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by Beatriz Gallardo Paúls

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"El choque"
El choque entre Trump y las ciudades demócratas se agrava con la llegada de la Guardia Nacional a Chicago
“Si el gobernador no puede hacer su trabajo, lo haremos nosotros por él”, asegura el presidente de Estados Unidos
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by Elizabeth Warren

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theguardian.com
Texas national guard troops arrive in Chicago amid Trump’s crackdown
Texas national guard troops arrive in Chicago amid Trump’s crackdown
Military presence comes after judge declined to block troops from entering, following lawsuit filed by city and state * US politics live – latest updates Texas national guard troops have arrived in the Chicago area, marking an escalation of Donald Trump’s crackdown on the city. Chicago has already seen a ramping up of immigration enforcement in the past few weeks, as well as increasingly violent altercations in the suburb of Broadview, where law enforcement has been filmed deploying tear gas and pepper gas against protestors. Continue reading...
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by James Grimmelmann

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It’s 1992 in Trump’s brain, and if there aren’t riots for him to send the National Guard against, he will manifest them.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11h
Trump wants to see troops in American cities. To him, the factual and legal rationale behind those deployments is unimportant.
Trump Is Destroying One of America’s Oldest Traditions
America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.
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Reposted by: David Kaufman

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As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next
We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.
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by Elizabeth Warren

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Donald Trump is deploying the military to our cities and using our servicemembers as political pawns.

Americans aren't asking for this. This is about one thing: Trump's agenda of fear and chaos.

Trump's authoritarian power grab must stop.
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by James Grimmelmann

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Bill Swerski’s Superfans deployed to Chicago

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Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Gov. Pritzker calls for end of Trump administration's 'authoritarian march'
Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Gov. Pritzker calls for end of Trump administration's 'authoritarian march'
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