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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 18 hours ago • 260 comments

I know that many don't want to hear this but we've been moving towards this current state of affairs over the past 65 years. And it's really been a bipartisan project. The expansion of the carceral state is the fuel for fascism. Folks have been trying to make this case for a long time.

submitted 12 hours ago • 22 comments

The arrest of union leader David Huerta is galvanizing a new element—solidarity: “Right now, just in the last 14 hours, labor unions are joining together from far and wide, communities are reaching out in ways I’ve never seen,” Orr told me. “Something is different.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

How much are they paying ICE agents for each person they deport? I know they’re evil and would do it anyway, but I’m just saying, I watched some videos and got a feeling about the way they try to SNATCH as many people as possible…it feels like a bounty system is in place.

submitted 1 day ago • 956 comments

While working on this piece, I learned there are more "private security" guards than regular police. They do quite a lot of "policing," however. It's a shadow economy that is so under-studied, no one could tell me how big it was.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

It was a frantic day for Chicagoans yesterday as ICE operations in the city escalated. Agents abducted a longtime organizer at an ICE check-in site, and separated families inside immigration court. City council members and activists tried to halt the vans. CPD was there:

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‘Israelis’ claim to be indigenous to Palestine, but in addition to ethnically cleansing the indigenous population, they have systematically torn up native olive trees and planted invasive (and highly flammable) trees. They have behaved like quintessential colonizers. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8MXpYUu/

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

After yesterday’s display by CPD assisting ICE agents, who got physical with elected officials, seems particularly ill-advised to give Snelling more police powers.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

The Israeli army has killed over 100 Palestinians at the U.S.-run aid distribution centers in Gaza in under two weeks. By now, it follows a predictable script, either denying the massacre or claiming soldiers fired on “suspicious” individuals. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/ther...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Take it out of their pension fund or from their “union”.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Privatized ICE detention facilities are funded by our tax dollars through gov contracts that pay fees per inmate. They are given quotas and financial incentives to pack the places with maximum prisoners and to cut corners on food and overall living conditions. We pay the cost; they reap the profits.

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

Don’t fall for it.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"John Catanzara, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, [said] he watched surveillance footage that he claimed showed..." 1) Why does John Catanzara get to review video footage before anyone else? 2) Catanzara had a long record of misconduct, why should anyone believe what he says?

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

THREAD. A lot of attention is rightly going to Medicaid cuts and other very bad things in Trump's bill passed by the House, but there's something else that isn't getting enough attention, that is very difficult to find in any news coverage, but that will fundamentally alter life for all of us.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

All well and good, but “military collective bargaining”? Absolutely not. Military personnel, like law enforcement, are not workers and should not be welcome in a labor movement where they have actively repressed union rights. ACAB includes all branches along with DHS, TSA, CBP, ICE, etc.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

As repugnant as it is, this actually makes sense. Since his stint as Chicago’s mayor, the Democratic Party has lowered the presidential bar to genocide. He has the political strength and skill to dance right over that, and he’d get plenty of support from the imperialist/Zionist crowd.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is demonstrably true. The majority of Trump/GOP policies are escalations of extant bipartisan policies: all of them rely on structures and resources that were either put in place by Democrats or that Democrats refused to dismantle when they had opportunity. Don’t make me tap the screen cap

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

The Simpsons Shameless The Larry Sanders Show The Sopranos Six Feet Under

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Hard not to notice that ICE isn't breaking up drug rings or gangs (because we would ABSOLUTELY hear about it if they were), but instead are dressing up like bank robbers and doing the laziest shit possible, like hanging out at immigration court or grabbing people for busted taillights. Worthless

submitted 15 days ago • 537 comments

At Chicago’s immigration court. Just witnessed masked ICE agents seize two men immediately after DHS dismissed their cases and motioned for expedited removal. Unfortunately, recording is prohibited & ICE had security threaten to call “federal police” when they thought maybe that happened.

submitted 15 days ago • 29 comments

Captioning this as: "White Irish Catholic alderman who has insulted, disparaged, stalked, and retaliated against constituents, women, and other colleagues wonders if the city didn't cover more of his legal fees because he's white."

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

Tell me: if these dudes show up with guns in an unmarked van to grab someone, why don’t the Second Amendment fans think they should be shot?

submitted 16 days ago • 633 comments

NEW: We identified at least 14 officers in the Chicago Police Department who, according to disciplinary records, have faced multiple accusations of sexual assault or misconduct in the past 10 years. Most have not been convicted. With @invisible.institute

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Just a few months ago Nancy Pelosi whipped up votes from a hospital in Belgium to make sure this guy beat AOC for a committee position, so we now know with proof that the Dems would prefer a dead guy to someone on their left . . .

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

It is as pathetic as it was predictable: liberals waxing nostalgic for Obama and Biden instead of castigating them both for setting the table for Trump. It’s the reduction of politics to etiquette, the refusal to acknowledge cause and effect. Policy is whatever can be wrapped in vibes.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This is an alarming development and deserves more attention.

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

Both parties are openly committing genocide and gaslighting their cults into a morally-bankrupt stupor where they fight over who's more loyal to a centuries-old manifesto written by human traffickers whose original goal it was to gaslight working people into collectively funding their own repression

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments