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So it begins. Discussions are underway within the administration, and Pentagon, about deploying National Guard or active-duty troops to cities beyond Los Angeles. We’ll be sending updated guidance to all coalition members. Please follow every step, even if some sections seem irrelevant right now.

We're expanding reproductive rights. We're erasing medical debt. We're making going to college in-state easier than ever before. We’re investing in shovel-ready sites for new homes and businesses. And we're lifting the burdens Illinoisans face because it's the right thing to do.

Reporters observed *no* ICE arrests at Chicago's immigration court today. Agents arrived early in the morning as they have been. They were observed inside and outside by reporters and volunteers. At least one family with a removal order and continuance left safely.

Gavin Newsom and his team are doing a good job at social media. Using comebacks and memes to just straight up murder muffukahs. Pay attention, Dems. This is how it’s done.

SOLD passenger data to DHS. Sold it. I'm not especially shocked that DHS has passenger data, because security, but I'm offended that airlines are using passenger data as another income stream, apparently. www.wired.com/story/airlin...

We're not ever going to be normal about this, are we, Chicago?

The federal government has prepped Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactical teams for deployment to Chicago, city officials have learned. https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-ice-immigration-demonstration-06112025/ 

Foreign invasion? People demonstrating down US city streets while waving foreign flags. It's certain that some folks at the demonstration are recent undocumented immigrants, since there are 10,000 in the US.

Just saying, but if you’re having to deploy the national guard in *Texas* maybe you’re on the wrong side of this issue

Also, I doubt very much that the heavy car traffic on Glenwood is drivers avoiding Sheridan or Clark. Glenwood is SLOWER than either. Glenwood traffic, in my observation over decades, comes from its density, and all the one-way N-S and E-W streets make Glenwood an inevitable choice for many drivers.

For-profit colleges have avoided accountability for defrauding students by forcing them to give up their right to go to court. I introduced the CLASS Act with Rep. Maxine Waters to allow students cheated by for-profit colleges to have their day in court.

Every major Dem politician needs to realize that, in this environment, they can schedule a "speech to the nation," like Newsom did, and get tons of media coverage. Just do it.

Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

The sign on the train platform earlier said "protest activity" but this is good too. I'm headed home. Ordinarily I wouldn't take the train this late but it's a clusterfuck getting out any other way. Train to the west side is packed with people leaving the protest.

Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

Several thousand now marching through Lower Manhattan after a rally against ICE arrests at federal buildings in NYC

Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere

We can only hope.

We’re in the streets in downtown Chicago.

Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.

ICE took at least 55 people from Chicago communities today, including restaurant workers.

Instead of using this money to fund, say, the National Weather Service right before hurricane season, they're using it to send Marines to Los Angeles. THIS is waste and abuse.

⚠️ FAIR WARNING ⚠️ #Portland #OR Get ready. Spotted yesterday. #PeacefulProtest only.

One big problem with ICE doing WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING--besides the fact that it's straight-up evil? It's horribly destructive in the abstract, too. Because they're literally conditioning people to expect unidentified assholes with no accountability to assault and possibly kidnap them.

i really resonate with john’s discussion of faith in this last meal episode, and especially the idea of faith as a means by which to be engaged in community. it doesn’t matter to me whether god is real, it matters that i am part of a community that is doing justice and loving mercy in the world

Thou Shalt Not Fire Reporters for Standing Against Fascism.

The people on the side of mass deportation are never the good guys.

Every Democrat better have Newsom's back. This is not just a distraction

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

in my city which is apparently in a state of extended military occupation due to extreme and widespread unrest a really kind sanitation worker saw me sitting out front with my kids and gave them free toy trash cans and we talked about recycling

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I know folks in south Philly who proudly wave their Italian flags. I know folks in Boston and Chicago who proudly wave their Irish flags. Folks in LA can proudly wave their Mexican flags. Expecting anyone to believe any of this indicates some sort of invasion or takeover is insultingly stupid.

There are 19 states that allow recall elections. We can’t wait for the midterms.

God, little has fucked me up like seeing LA’s public library close branches to make sure ICE doesn’t come grab people. Several coworkers and I independently revealed we all had a plan if that happened the last go-round. Between that and learning we all knew what we’d do if someone came shooting…

Hey Chicago, heads up! 🚧 Monroe & Columbus area experiencing rolling street closures due to public gathering. Consider a detour! 🚗💨

There is NO MANDATE to put soldiers on American streets. There is NO MANDATE for disappearing people from out communities. There is NO MANDATE for killing scientific research.

Thou shalt not force good horses to trample peaceful protesters and pretend thou art the good guys.

We need a major national opposition figure who is willing to Do What Is Necessary

ICE protests are underway in downtown Chicago

Chicago is famous for a lot of things. The iconic Willis (Sears) Tower, the shiny Bean, the bustling Magnificent Mile, the Bears, deep-dish pizza, Italian beefs, and Chicago-style hot dogs. But if there’s one thing that truly stands out, it’s the unique Chicago lingo.

Note to my in-laws who are very concerned that we visited Chicago a couple of years ago