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locals take on block-by-block

The agents' 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!"


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    says *help* [unsolicited interference] against Islamist insurgents must respect its

    Nigeria said on Sunday it would *welcome* US help in fighting Islamist insurgents as long as its territorial integrity is respected, responding to of action by over what he said was the ill-treatment of in the West African country.


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      renewed their request for more info about the strikes in a [strongly worded] letter on Friday to Secy of State , DNI & .

      "We also request that you provide all legal opinions related to these strikes & a list of the groups or other entities the President has deemed targetable," the senators wrote.

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        Mad with power

        threatens action in over treatment of

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


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          A 60-day clock started ticking after the admin informed on Sept 4 that it had conducted a strike on an alleged drug boat in the 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.

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            facility a ‘black box’ where denied access to , , lawsuit claims

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


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

              A driver crashed into a 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 in the crowd of were arrested as agents deployed pepper spray to disperse the crowd.

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                Agents issued one warning about but did not deploy it. They fired instead toward before 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.

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                  A reporter spotted one agent without a . 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 agents have not worn identifying information, against a judge’s order.


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                    About 5 neighbors stood nearby, shouting at the agents [] who gave verbal warnings they would deploy . 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 ’ money, if you ask me,” Ek, 30, said.

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

                      Alt...Aerial footage of federal agents deploying multiple rounds of tear gas into a residential Chicago neighborhood, it is clear there is no violence or threat. The agents simple shoot off the canisters then get in their SUVs.

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

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                          Since then, federal officers have thrown out of vehicles on city streets, creating a hazard for motorists. They have thrown canisters near stores & , exposing , women & people to the noxious gas. And on numerous occasions federal officers have fired pepper balls directly at protesters—in one case, striking a pastor in the head.

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                            & ’s use of injures, sickens & *tests* [breaks] the 

                            Federal agents say chemical agents are needed to disperse *violent* [people exercising their right to ] protesters. But videos show officers directly firing at people in aggressive & “unorthodox” ways.


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                              More than a dozen speakers excoriated both & for backroom dealing that produced a map they considered .

                              “You are like foxes guarding the hen houses & voters continue to be the hens,” said Michael Ahern, who spoke to the commission on Thursday wearing a baseball cap bearing the first three words of the , “We The People.”

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                                Finally, a brief by three Cato Institute researchers refutes the extralegal doomsaying the admin uses, perhaps to compensate for the weakness of its legal arguments. But synthetic catastrophizing is unlikely to sway the justices.

                                cato.org/news-releases/cato-sc

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                                  A bipartisan group of legal scholars & fmr govt officials argues that never intended the as a “backdoor” for turning the taxing power into “an executive instrument” that allows presidents to restructure the . In the IEEPA, Congress avoided standardless, open-ended delegation of power by using 7 different verbs, but not “tax” or its synonyms, in empowering the president to do things.

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                                    The IEEPA was written to provide presidents with “a temporary boost in power” (Brennan), while preventing the use of seismic emergency powers, allegedly implied by Congress, to address chronic conditions. Otherwise, as a justice wrote in 1952, “emergency powers would tend to kindle emergencies.” Besides, as a percentage of GDP, the overall U.S. trade imbalance is significantly less than 20 years ago (Brennan).

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                                      Brennan, too, says, in effect, that if Congress can address a condition, it is not an emergency. Emergencies are sudden, acute, unforeseen, extraordinary, dangerous and require instant action. The president sabotages his case by saying today’s “emergency” is a “persistent” condition — 50 years of trade deficits. They have coincided with soaring U.S. prosperity.

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                                        (Neither does the National Emergencies Act of 1976, which also is invoked by his defenders.)

                                        Goldwater cites numerous instances of judicial review of claims of emergencies. Judicial review of an executive’s assertion that an emergency exists is comparable to review of a legislature’s assertion that a particular piece of legislation is constitutional.

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                                          This momentous case must either undermine or buttress the ’s architecture: the . Six amicus briefs explain why.

                                          The conservative Goldwater Institute & the liberal Brennan Center separately argue that the statute says gives him unreviewable power to impose taxes (which are) of whatever amount, & for as long as, he chooses (the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977), does no such thing.

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                                            & ’ own stature ride on this case

                                            Decorum might dissolve during oral arguments on Wednesday in the Supreme Court. The justices might guffaw when admin lawyers say: The president’s should be exempt from judicial review because they respond to an “emergency,” emergencies, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder, & presidents alone are our designated beholders.


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                                              Later, the desperate desire of AG & President Joe to avoid any appearance of led the to put off looking into of a *potential* & gave an advantage that few appreciated at the time. Garland’s delays softened the ground & would eventually help Trump remake the Department into his own cudgel.

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                                                isn’t solely responsible for this. Through hundreds of interviews that Leonnig & longtime WaPo colleague Aaron Davis & conducted, we learned first hand how a mixture of fear & stubborn bravery, gutter politics & noble intentions ultimately paved the way for the unraveling of the we are now witnessing. This decline started Trump’s first term but gained momentum in the presidency.

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                                                  All It Took for to Dismantle the Dept.

                                                  by Carol Leonnig

                                                  The under Trump is still standing. But inside, he & his lieutenants have taken a wrecking ball to this core pillar of our nation’s system.


                                                  nytimes.com/2025/10/30/opinion

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                                                    A man with a heart vs a heartless man

                                                    , gov of , has urged the admin to suspend its crackdown in his state from Friday to Sunday, to allow to “spend weekend without ”.

                                                    In a letter addressed to Secy, [dog killer], & the heads of & , Pritzker said federal agents were “ignoring their duty to protect the public & uphold the ”



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                                                      experts said the administration’s moves hearken back to an earlier era when troops were frequently deployed to *quell* & *disturbances*, such as the 1970 shooting in which 4 unarmed college students were killed by the Ohio national guard.

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                                                        Among other things, the are to be trained how to “form Squad-sized Riot Control Formation”, how to “employ a Riot Baton as a Member of a Riot Control Formation”, & how to “Supervise a Riot/Crowd Control Operation”. members are also to be trained in de-escalation of force techniques.

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                                                          The 8 Oct memo says the will deploy trainers to every state & US territories as far away as Guam with the goal of making the quick reaction forces “operational” by 1 Jan 2026. Each state will also be provided “100 sets of crowd control equipment to be used to support this requirement”.

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                                                            As authority, Burkett cited Trump’s August executive order that deployed the guard to fight *crime* in . The same order required the secretary of to create “a standing National Guard quick reaction force 
 available for rapid nationwide deployment” in “quelling civil disturbances”.

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                                                              The memo, signed on 8 October by Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the ’s bureau, sets thresholds for the size of the quick reaction force to be trained in each state, with most states required to train 500 national guard members, for a total of 23,500 troops nationwide.

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                                                                A top US official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, DC & US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers & pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive reviewed by the Guardian.

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                                                                  As reported in August (see boosted thread)

                                                                  orders states’ National Guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’

                                                                  Pentagon memo details plan to train >20,000 members across the US to carry out ’s order on *subduing# civil *unrest*


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                                                                    Trump’s deployment of troops within will likely remain on hold through mid-November after sought more information from lawyers Wednesday.

                                                                    The request ended 12 days of silence from the justices. The admin asked the high court on Oct 17 to undo an order from US District Judge April Perry that’s blocked the troop deployment since Oct 9.

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                                                                      After 12 days of silence about the deployment of troops in , justices are now asking “whether the term ‘regular forces’ refers to the regular forces of the , &, if so, how that interpretation affects the operation” of the .


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                                                                        No ruling imminent as asks for more briefs in deployment case

                                                                        on Wednesday asked for more briefing in the ongoing fight over Trump’s ability to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois, signaling that the court’s highly anticipated ruling is still weeks away.


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                                                                          “This is a political prosecution & a gross attempt to silence , a right protected under the . This case is a major push by the administration to criminalize & punish anyone who speaks out against them,” Abughazaleh said in a video posted to BlueSky.

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                                                                            A congressional candidate in has been indicted along with 5 others over blocking vehicles during outside a federal enforcement building in suburban , according to court documents.

                                                                            The indictment, filed last week by a special grand jury, accuses Kat Abughazaleh of blocking a federal agent outside the detention center.


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                                                                              Border Patrol’s agrees to return to court daily, as he & federal judge talk , , IDs

                                                                              The top commander spent an hour on the stand Tuesday, responding to US District Judge Sara Ellis’ concerns about how federal agents have handled themselves, people they’ve detained, & .


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                                                                                has increasingly used speeches to the to air his grievances & bolster his accomplishments. Still, the scene was striking: a president defending & military deployments on US soil, & employing talking points on the global stage.

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                                                                                  Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the ’ Into US

                                                                                  In a speech to American assembled in Japan on Tuesday, Trump said he would escalate his orders to active duty branches of the if he decides it is appropriate.


                                                                                  nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/poli

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                                                                                    We Americans are by nature good people who believe in the inherent goodness of others, especially those we elect to represent us in the highest office in the land. But we ignore such statements & other expressions of ’s intent at our peril. The 47th president is a vain man, & nothing would flatter his vanity more than seizing another term. Doing so would signify the ultimate triumph over his political enemies.

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                                                                                      In September, after meeting with congressional leaders about the looming government shutdown, posted photographs on Truth Social in which trump 2028 hats rested prominently on his Oval Office desk. In October, when discussing the possibility of a third term, Trump said, “I would love to do it. I have my best numbers ever.”

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                                                                                        But also in March, Trump’s ally said that he is “a firm believer that President Trump will run & win again in 2028,” adding that he & others are working on ways to do it, which would require circumventing the . (Bannon later told The Economist: “ is gonna be president in ’28, & people just ought to get accommodated with that.” He added, “At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is. But there’s a plan.”)

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                                                                                          In March, refused to rule out a third term, saying that he was “not joking” about the prospect & claiming that “there are methods which you could do it.” He was asked about the idea of VP running for the presidency, getting elected, & then passing the baton back to him. “That’s one,” he said. “But there are others, too.” As he so often does, Trump later claimed that he wasn’t being serious.

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                                                                                            proved in 2021 that he would do anything to remain in the White House. Even after the violence of , his second , & the conviction & incarceration of scores of his followers, he reiterated his willingness to subvert the 2024 . That proved unnecessary. Yet since his victory, Trump has again told the American people that he is prepared to do what it takes to remain in , the be damned.

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                                                                                              Writing to James Madison from Paris in 1787, Thomas Jefferson warned that such an incumbent, if narrowly defeated, would “pretend false votes, foul play, hold possession of the reins of government.” Were that moment ever to come, the believed, it would mark the of the nation that they had conceived, bringing to a calamitous end the greatest experiment in self-government ever attempted by man.

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                                                                                                With his every word & deed, has given Americans reason to believe that he will seek a third term, in defiance of the . It seems abundantly clear that he will hold on to the office at any cost, including America’s ruin.

                                                                                                The of our nation foresaw a figure like Trump, a who would ascend to the presidency & refuse to relinquish to a successor chosen by the American people in a free & fair .

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                                                                                                  Since his second inauguration, has seized control over the & demanded the of the other powerful institutions of American society — , , companies [& more]. The question weighing heavily on the minds of many Americans is whether Trump will subvert next year’s or the 2028 presidential to extend his reign.

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                                                                                                    PRESIDENT FOR LIFE

                                                                                                    is trying to amass the powers of a .

                                                                                                    By J. Michael Luttig

                                                                                                    In the normal course of history, the president of the is a figure who inspires optimism in the American people. The 47th president prefers to stir feelings of fear, vulnerability, hopelessness, & political inevitability—the sense that he, & only he, can rescue the nation from looming peril.


                                                                                                    theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

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