“The agent then yelled ‘throw another one’ & prepared a second canister,” acc/to a filing by attorneys for the plaintiffs. “Similarly, one agent told another, ‘Hey, throw it (#TearGas) for fun.’”

Video of both incidents did not capture agents ordering the crowd to disperse or warning that they were going to deploy #ChemicalAgents, as required by Ellis’ order.

#Trump #Chicago #law #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #fascism #ICE #CBP #Gestapo

Ellis held an all-day hearing Wednesday in her courtroom at the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown #Chicago where she heard from members of the #clergy, #protesters & Chicago #residents that they had been terrified by the aggressive actions of federal agents carrying out what the #Trump admin calls “Operation Midway Blitz.”

#law #immigration #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #ICE #CBP #Gestapo

“The government would have people believe, instead, that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters & attacked by agitators,” Ellis said Thursday before announcing her ruling. “That simply is untrue. And the government’s own evidence in this case belies that assertion.”

#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #ICE #CBP #Gestapo

@jonesmurphy @cstross @geospaz @datarama Agree with everyone and also Jones with 'us' being also a factor and not just big bad guys...

As I've personally spent most of my life testing directly or indirectly and people, as nice as they are can't talk / or don't want face simple things like it's their money or choices, or eventually banks and that sub-system (or whole thing now) that is fueling #war (often paying for both sides to war #financially and profit from supplying it)

Even just day-to-day #finance is a kind of #fascism deciding who gets what money and never for anything good *because good things don't want to be paid or extort people* and bad things increase prices / declare more war even if #economicwar... so many things are a pattern as well as Jones' decent list of"

#bigotry, #hatred, #laziness, willful #ignorance & #illogic

of which I'll add #jealousy
and lacking:... #morality #patience #courage #will etc (not everyone but even those that claim to be Christian by their own label perhaps and not really basic principles enough)

If anyone would like to humanly chat about anything around I can send them a simple chat link - just browser needed (#Jitsi audio chat - no video needed)

Note to myself - fascinating computer chat follows after the bit i replied to!

❝ in a time of despair and rising #fascism you decided to support someone you barely know. thank you.❞

#NYC #2025ELECTIONS #ELECTIONS2025 #ZohranMamdani

Gizmodo: U.S. Immigration Enforcement Apparently Provides Facial Scanning Tech to Local Cops

"It's part of a program that essentially deputizes police into the federal mass deportation effort."

https://gizmodo.com/u-s-immigration-enforcement-apparently-provides-facial-scanning-tech-to-local-cops-2000681475

#privacy #fascism #ice #bigbrother

The liberal fallacy of ”being nice to fascists will shine a light to the corruption of their ideas” is bullshit.

No. No matter how you treat the fascists, they will always play victim.

Fascism is built out of fear, so no matter what you do or say it’ll always be your fault that they have to take your powers away and lock you up..

They came to table aiming to burn the fucking table, not to share it.

#fascism #liberalism

Oh, would you look at that? iBM has removed Ginni’s fawning open letter to Donald Trump after his election win.

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/policy/ginni_romettys_letter_to_the_president_elect

This from the company that, when asked about its complicity in The Holocaust, replied that they didn’t have any records from the period as they are tech company, not historians.

#IBM #Holocaust #Trump #fascism

#Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with #ICE demands accountability

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily #armed, #masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street.

#Trump #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/chicago-woman-collision-ice-accountability/

@wdlindsy

#Fascism and #corruption go hand in hand.

Its a #Feature not a #Bug

#ICE Shot a #US #Citizen Trying to Help #Kids

According to his lawyer, #immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that #children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.

#Trump #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/kids-bus-us-citizen-shot-by-ice-lawyer-report-los-angeles/

His ouster also came about as he was preparing to send a letter to #Congress, of which Pulte was aware, notifying lawmakers that the #FHFA was not cooperating with the #InspectorGeneral's office, 3 of the sources said.

…Pulte has circumvented the agency's Office of Inspector General in pursuing those three cases, Reuters previously reported.

#Trump #law #RevengePolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny

Allen received notice of his termination from the White House after he made efforts to provide key information to prosecutors in that office, acc/to 4 sources. The information he turned over was constitutionally required, 2 of them said, while a third described it as being potentially relevant in discovery.

#Trump #law #RevengePolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny

#LindseyHalligan, the interim #USattorney for the Eastern District of Virginia who was hand-picked for the job by #Trump, subsequently indicted #LetitiaJames after her predecessor declined to do so, citing a lack of evidence.

#law #RevengePolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny

Created after the 2008 financial crisis, the #FHFA is typically a low-profile regulatory office, but Pulte has launched a new hotline targeting mortgage fraud & made public criminal referrals against a series of #Trump foes including #NYAG #LetitiaJames, as well as #FederaReserve Board Governor #LisaCook & California Democratic Senator #AdamSchiff.

#law #RevengePolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny

The ouster of Joe Allen, #FHFA's acting #InspectorGeneral, follows the agency's director, Bill Pulte, becoming an outspoken voice in support of the #Trump admin. Across the government, the Trump admin has so far fired or reassigned close to two dozen agency #watchdogs, who police #waste, #fraud & #abuse. It has also defunded the group that supervises those offices.

#law #RevengePolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny

Exclusive: #Trump ousts #watchdog of US housing regulator involved in mortgage probes of his foes, sources say

The internal watchdog for the US Federal Housing Finance Agency [#FHFA] is being removed from his role, four people familiar with the matter said, at a time when the housing regulator is playing a role in Trump's targeting of perceived enemies.

#law #RevengePolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/watchdog-being-ousted-us-housing-regulator-involved-trump-crackdown-sources-say-2025-11-03/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

how it started / how it's going, indian american grifters edition

#Vivek #vivekRamaswamy #DineshDSouza #fascism #uspol #racism #MAGA #2000mules #KashPatel #Desi #indian #indianAmericans #leopardseatingfaces #LeopardsAteMyFace

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Dinesh D'Souza & X @DineshDSouza - Follow YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE GHETTO...Watch this vulgar man show his stuff, while America cowers in embarrassment 1% § J - & - / I 8 YZ | ime WW — — 10:48 AM - Feb 18, 2015 ® © 523 @ Reply (2 Copyl... Read 1.6K replies

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@DineshDSouza Look at the abuse Vivek is getting for posting an innocuous photo with his boys. This is the sh*tshow that Heritage and Tucker have brought upon us. If this continues, | would not be surprised to see mass desertions of blacks, Latinos and other minorities from the GOP. Unreal. T Vivek Ramaswamy & @VivekGRamaswamy - Oct 31 Happy Halloween!

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top replies are all various extremely racist anti-indian comments like "did you try to dress up as an american?" and "how do you do, fellow whites"

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Me sowing; haha fuck yeah!!! YES!! Me reaping: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.

@gooba42 @NadiaPurge @tshirtman

what we need for a sea change in sentiment is more mamdanis

achieved how?

by voting

then why aren't more on the left voting, if the example of #mamdani is so illustrative?

because of exactly what you say:

discouragement

they don't have a valid, coherent, rational reason not to #vote

they have feelings

well, fuck their feelings

the path of #alienation and #learnedHelplessness leads to #fascism

they have to get up, and fucking vote

it's *not* that hard

Karl Marx has multitudes more to offer to the problem of AI alignment than any of these machiavellian narcissists in Silicon Valley right now.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdTfREkk/

#ai #aialignment #siliconvalley #narcissim #marxism #tech #fascism

lessons of history from the mann family

#uspol #fascism #fascist #fascists #germany #nazis #nazi #ThomasMann #depol

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"As an American citizen of German birth… I am painfully familiar with certain political trends. Spiritual intolerance, political inquisitions, and declining legal security, and all this in the name of an alleged 'state of emergency'. ... That is how it started in Germany." - Thomas Mann

In Facebook groups & on Signal chats, tens of thousands of residents regularly #crowdsource information on #immigration agents’ last-known locations, neighborhoods being targeted that day & — importantly — the license plates, makes & models of the rental cars used by agents, which can change daily.

Some #ICE-spotting Facebook pages in #Chicago have up to 50,000 members.

#resist #Trump #law #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #Authoritarianism #fascism #Tyranny #ICE #CBP #Gestapo

That hyperlocal effort, spun off into dozens of chats on social platforms, has helped create a type of zone defense that - activists say - has slowed down #immigration agents & in some cases forced them to withdraw without making an arrest.

…Over 3,000 people have been detained in #Chicago since early September, acc/to #DHS.

#Trump #law #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #Authoritarianism #fascism #Tyranny #ICE #CBP #Gestapo

“We are not a violent city. This is not a war zone, & I think these guys are terrorizing us & trying to incite us,” said Conway. “We want them out. We want them to stop kidnapping our neighbors.”

#Chicago, a city of 2.7 million, has long been known as a patchwork of close-knit neighborhoods. And since the city took center stage of #Trump’s #immigration crackdown in September, those neighborhoods have mobilized against enforcement efforts, sometimes block-by-block.

#law #RightToProtest #fascism

The squad of agents had appeared in Lakeview last month, an upscale neighborhood dotted with dog daycares, medical spas & vegan restaurants, hopping over a gate to chase down a construction worker who was handcuffed & shoved into a vehicle.

When Courtney Conway, a 42-yr-old lifelong #Chicago resident, heard about the chase through FB groups & text message chains, she hopped on her bike to join the #protesters.

#Trump #law #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #fascism

#Chicago locals take on #ICE block-by-block

The #immigration agents' #TearGas #grenades clinked & then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder.
“We don't want you here,”yelled Rae Lindenberg. The 32-yr-old, who works in marketing, ran out of her apartment when she heard the shrill sound of whistles. "Get out of our neighborhood!"

#Trump #law #Constitution #CivilRights #fascism
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/were-not-violent-city-chicago-locals-take-ice-block-by-block-2025-11-02/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Today’s New York Times Sunday Opinion Pages asked “are we losing our democracy?” You know the answer. The Times laid out conditions for autocracy to exist and analyzed whether the Trump Regime is authoritarian. We know the obvious answer. Nonetheless, this is the spread they published today. Take a look and enlarge or zoom in to read it.

#trump #fascism #authoritarianism

The #US #military has carried out another lethal strike on alleged drug smugglers in the #Caribbean Sea, #Defense Sec #PeteHegseth announced.

#Hegseth in a social media posting said the vessel was operated by a US designated terrorist organization but did not name which group was targeted. He said 3 people were killed in the strike.

#Trump #criminal #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw #Congress #WarPowers #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #fascism
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/02/nx-s1-5594753/us-strike-caribbean-kills-3-drug-smugglers

#fascism

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Cartoon by Pat Bagley shows a woman protester on the ground being beaten with a club by a masked Federal goon yelling "Stop calling us fascists!" Her protest sign with the words "1st Amendment" lies on the ground. In the distance a crowd of protesters is seen on the left with a crowd of armed goons on the right.

Mad with power

#Trump threatens #US #military action in #Nigeria over treatment of #Christians

Trump said on Saturday that he has asked the #Defense Dept to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government "continues to allow the killing of Christians."

#law #Constitution #InternationalLaw #WarPowers #NewApostolicReformation #NAR #Congress #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/trump-threatens-us-military-action-nigeria-over-treatment-christians-2025-11-01/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Gaiser said the admin did not believe the strikes met the definition of hostilities under the #law & did not intend to seek an extension of the deadline nor Congress’s approval of ongoing action, acc/to 3 people familiar with the matter….

“The administration appears to be blowing through the 60-day limit,” said a senior congressional aide.

#Trump #law #WarPowers #InternationalLaw #HumanRights #DueProcess #Authoritarianism #fascism #CrimesAgainstHumanity

A 60-day clock started ticking after the admin informed #Congress on Sept 4 that it had conducted a strike on an alleged drug boat in the #Caribbean 2 days earlier. It has followed that with a series of other strikes & has killed dozens of people so far.

The 60-day window closes Monday, & up to now it’s been unclear what the admin would do.

#Trump #law #Constitution #InternationalLaw #HumanRights #DueProcess #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny

"why do they call us #fascists?"

#fascism #ICE #antifa #DHS #tuckercarlson #tucker #nickFuentes #Groypers #uspol

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@SendTheClips Asmongold agrees with Nick Fuentes. "That's right. Put the mayors in jail. Put the governors on the Insurrection Act. Put them in prison labor camps. Authorize the police to respond with violence. Put them in Guantanamo Bay. Crush them.”

#Broadview #ICE facility a ‘black box’ where #immigrants denied access to #lawyers, #medicine, lawsuit claims

The ACLU of #Illinois & others ask a federal judge to intervene against “inhumane” conditions. Federal #immigration officials [who no one believes anymore] say claims that there are “subprime conditions at the Broadview ICE facility are false.”

#Trump #law #Chicago #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/31/advocates-allege-inhumane-conditions-at-chicago-area-ice-facility-in-new-lawsuit

More pepper spray was deployed in #Evanston in the afternoon, acc/to the #DHS spox & Evanston police.

A driver crashed into a #BorderPatrol vehicle near Oakton St & Asbury Ave, drawing a large crowd to the area who shouted at the agents, some of whom allegedly spit on them, acc/to DHS. 3 #US #citizens in the crowd of #protesters were arrested as agents deployed pepper spray to disperse the crowd.

#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #fascism #Gestapo

Agents issued one warning about #TearGas but did not deploy it. They fired #PepperBalls instead toward #demonstrators before #Chicago police arrived & cleared the roadway, allowing the vehicles with agents & detainees to leave.

Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez (33rd) was holding a staff meeting in her ward office around the corner when she heard whistles & ran out the door.

#Trump #law #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #PoliceBrutality #fascism #MilitaryState #Gestapo

A reporter spotted one agent without a #BodyCamera. Another agent used a GoPro camera in addition to a body camera. Some agents had numbered identifiers on patches on their uniforms. Others had identifying numbers written on tape.

The Sun-Times reported Friday that several federal #immigration agents have not worn identifying information, against a judge’s order.

#Trump #law #Chicago #judiciary #Constitution #CivilRights #fascism #Tyranny #MilitaryState #Gestapo
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/31/ice-border-patrol-operation-midway-blitz-ids-gregory-bovino-immigration-enforcement-chicago-arrests-detention

A crowd gathered & shouted, “Let them go,” at the agents. Agents ripped another man from his car & detained him after other community members tried to put themselves in front of him.

“It’s actually horrifying,” said a friend of one of the men detained, who did not want to be identified. Minutes earlier, the person had just seen the man standing there.

“It happens so fast. You prepare, but then you don’t know what to do,” the person said.

#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #CivilRights #fascism

About 15 mins before that incident, #Bovino’s caravan stopped in the H Mart grocery store parking lot in Niles & detained another man who was just walking through the lot.

Friday’s arrests began around 9:30AM in the Albany Park neighborhood, when agents tackled a man to the pavement in the 3200 block of West Lawrence Ave after they accused him of assaulting one of them [no one including CST journos witnessed the alleged assault].

#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #CivilRights #fascism #Gestapo

About 5 neighbors stood nearby, shouting at the agents [#FreeSpeech] who gave verbal warnings they would deploy #TearGas. They never did.

Klim & the other man had been working on the house for a couple weeks, acc/to Brendan Ek, a neighbor across the street. “It seemed a little ridiculous, honestly. Big waste of #taxpayers’ money, if you ask me,” Ek, 30, said.

#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #fascism #Tyranny #MilitaryState #Gestapo

His co-worker, who Klim said also is a #US #citizen from #Poland, was arrested & taken away in the caravan of SUVs.

“I’m not [a] criminal. I’m just working,” Klim, 59, said shortly after he was released & the federal agents had driven away.

“I’m so stressed…I’m worried,” Klim said of his co-worker. “He’s got his car. He lives not so far from here, but I don’t know even [his] last name & I don’t have a phone number to his wife.”

#Trump #law #Chicago #immigration #CivilRights #fascism #Gestapo

#Bovino carries out #Halloween #arrests. 'They showed up here to terrorize people,' alder says

The agents swept through the #Chicago Albany Park & Edison Park neighborhoods, & suburban #Evanston, #Skokie & #Niles Friday morning & afternoon after [dog killer] #DHS Secy #KristiNoem said *enforcement* [terrorist] operations would continue on Halloween despite #Illinois Gov #JBPritzker asking they pause for the holiday.

#Trump #law #CivilRights #fascism #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/31/2-detained-pepper-balls-fired-by-federal-agents-in-albany-park-it-happens-so-fast

In #Chicago, residents & local journalists have captured footage showing clouds of #TearGas drifting toward #homes, #storefronts & #schools. Some residents said the tear gas has aggravated their #asthma. Others said they’ve experienced severe emotional distress [#trauma].

#Trump #law #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #fascism #Tyranny #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy

…The frequent use of #ChemicalAgents raises questions about training & tactics being used by #ICE officers & #BorderPatrol agents. The latter are now heavily involved in #immigration arrests FAR from the US-Mexico #border; most federal agents have scant experience dealing with #protesters in #urban areas. #DHS claims *assaults* [people defending themselves] against officers have risen significantly.

#Trump #law #Chicago #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #PoliceBrutality #fascism

“Generally, these kinds of crowd control devices are reserved for truly dangerous situations,” said Kevin Fee, legal director of the #ACLU of #Illinois, which is part of a legal coalition representing #journalists & #protesters in a lawsuit. “I cannot think of a good parallel for what the administration is doing right now.”

#Trump #law #Chicago #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #fascism #Tyranny #MilitaryState #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy