@Strandjunker We *are* the ‘system’.

#Americans have *allowed* the #MAGA cult and #BananaRepublicans to ‘drain the Treasury’ and trash the reputation of the #UnitedStates by *refusing* to abandon the party system that the #FoundingFathers *intentionally* left OUT of the #Constitution. They saw that that it was a cancer on #UKpol - with Whigs and Tories responsible for the same corruption #Democrats and #Republicans wallow in now.

Use #math to flush the 💩, #PrimaryFromTheCenter.

Quote of the Day:

‘MAGA is the last breath of the Confederacy.’

Vote them out.

#Midterms #vote #elections #MAGA #trump #republicans #democracy #democrats #constitution #confederacy #EpsteinFiles #iran #news #politics #worldnews #war

Last May, #Comey posted a photo on social media of shells on a beach writing out the numbers “86 47,” which critics said referred to taking out or killing #Trump.

[can you imagine if this same principle were applied to trump?? & the horrid things he has posted???]

#law #DOJ #independence #RevengePolitics #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech

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Last May, Comey posted a photo on social media of shells on a beach writing out the numbers “86 47,” which critics said referred to taking out or killing Trump.

The Supreme Court will decide when the police can use your phone to track you

modern technology enables the government to invade everyone’s privacy in ways that would have been unimaginable when the Constitution was framed. The Supreme Court has spent the past several decades trying to make sure that its interpretation of the Fourth Amendment keeps up with technological progress.

#legal #SCOTUS #constitution #fourthamendment #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.vox.com/politics/485973/supreme-court-chatrie-cell-phone-geofence-warrant

Maybe it means one must be high on spirits during the crime ...

... or the crimes were committed while high?

If Drumpf had a son he would look like Afroman ...

... because he got high.

Drumpf + Afroman = High Crimes and Misdemeanours.

IMPEACH AFROMAN

Mandatory Brawndo dosage is the contraceptive antidote.

#Drumpf #Afroman #Impeachment #Constitution #Brawndo #Humor #Jokes

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Tryptich of Afroman wearing an American flag striped suit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCMNAVBGSQ

Age Verification is beyond Epstein 2.0.

"You are basically laying out your children on a silver platter in the name of protecting them."

"Once these OS-level age verification laws take hold, we're about 3 months from a real-time GPS-located database of verified children for creeps, politicians, and rich Ep-style people to use."

Any move to force changes to #state run ​#election systems is likely to face immediate #legal challenges.

#Trump claimed only a judge could block the order & complained that there were many "rogue" & "very bad" judges. "I don't see ​how they can challenge it," he said about the executive order.

#law #judiciary #privacy #InfoSec #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #Constitution #states #federalism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

The order would use federal #data to help state #election ​officials verify who is “eligible” to #vote in their jurisdictions. It would also require #AbsenteeBallots to be sent only to ⁠voters on each state's “approved” mail-in ballot list & mandate “secure” ​ballot envelopes with unique tracking barcodes.

#Trump #law #privacy #InfoSec #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #Constitution #states #federalism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

#Trump signs #ExecutiveOrder on #mail #ballots, escalating #election overhaul push

Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at tightening mail-in voting rules nationwide, including by ​directing his admin to create a list of confirmed #US #citizens eligible to #vote in each state, & said he did not see how the measure could be challenged.

#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #Constitution #states #federalism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #privacy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-order-mail-ballots-escalating-election-overhaul-push-2026-03-31/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Since the 1950s, the #federal govt has consistently operated as the predominant source of #research #funding for #universities, acc/to the #NSF.

One of the largest govt sources of research funding has been the #NIH, which disburses about $35 billion each year. The largest recipients of those NIH #grants are #MedicalSchools, acc/to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

#law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #education #privacy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump #science #medicine

Great. Let’s impede #medical #education./s

#Trump Admin Begins Investigations Into Three #MedicalSchools

The #DOJ’s demands for #admissions-related data from #Stanford, #OhioState & the University of California, San Diego [#UCSD], represent a flex of #federal #power.

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #privacy #InfoSec #dictatorship #authoritarianism #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #science #medicine #PublicHealth

#GiftArticle

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/trump-medical-schools-civil-rights.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.pWJo.d0KT6obrI1V6&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Representative Emmer,
I am deeply concerned over the fact that DHS is gathering personal data, including location data, social media data, photographs of people on the streets, and other data on American citizens. In some cases, they are purchasing data sets through 3rd party vendors; in other cases they are generating the data themselves (such as photographing faces of legal observers and protesters).

Regardless of how they acquire these data, it seems to be a clear violation of privacy laws and prior Supreme Court rulings (see Carpenter vs. United States). Furthermore, gathering data on American citizens is clearly outside of the scope of “immigration enforcement,” and therefore DHS and ICE have no valid reason to house such systems of records.

Congress needs to hold DHS and ICE accountable to the laws of the land, the courts, and Congress itself. The abuses of power the Trump administration is getting away with daily are wholly unacceptable.

These abuses have been widely reported. Here are two refs: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/dhs-is-circumventing-constitution-by-buying-data-it-would-normally-need-a-warrant-to-access and https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ice-agent-facial-recognition-video-protest-movile-fortify-photo-rcna257331

Sincerely, MB

#WriteYourRep #uspol #privacy #constitution

#GiftArticle

Defund #Science, Distort #Culture, Mock #Education

It’s not just about cuts to #research.
It’s about #power.

By Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum

#SevenMountainMandate #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/01/reality-reshaped/685289/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxVCfwC75UsaONz24l2NqAdQ

My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. He wrote on instagram “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated. #gettyreportage #getty at the #Whipple Federal building in #Minneapolis.”
Photo by Pierre Lavie.

#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung

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Getty photojournalist John Abernathy is seen face down on ground pinned & surrounded by federal agents. His arm is outstretched & his camera is midair as he tossed it to another photographer so it wouldn't be confiscated. Photo by Pierre Lavie.

Follow up on #Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy…

He later posted this image of his camera sitting on top of what appears to be a court date notice. The caption is very cryptic, but from the picture I infer his camera survived & he was in fact arrested. No word on whether he had any injuries, though at a minimum I’d expect bruises. An absolutely #unconstitutional #arrest.

#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #ICE #CBP

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Image posted by photojournalist John Abernathy of his camera sitting on top of what appears to be a court date notice on a table top

Trump’s Attempt to Abridge Free Speech
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/13/trumps-attempt-to-abridge-free-speech/
Andrew P. Napolitano responds to a memo by Donald Trump calling antifa — which is an ideology — a domestic terrorism “organization” and directing federal law enforcement to disrupt its gatherings. By Andrew P. Napolitano While the country’s attention was drawn to…
#Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #FreeSpeech #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #10ThAmendment #BrandenburgV.Ohio #FirstAmendment #NationalSecurityPresidentialMemorandum7(nspm7) #PresidentWoodrowWilson #SeditionActOf1918 #U.s.PresidentDonaldTrump #WorldWarI

Arrested for Telling a Cop to Shut UP-James Freeman is Suing to Rename This Texas City

https://youtu.be/zyLnHzg4Xrg

#Corruption #Cops #Police #Thugs #Tyranny #Government #Law #Legal #Courts #Lawsuit #Constitution

“If we believe that citizens should receive notice when the #government subpoenas their phone bill, great! Perhaps this revolutionary new policy—which #CivilLiberties groups would probably support—should be the law. But then the law should protect the civil liberties of all 320 million Americans, as the #EqualProtectionClause of the #Constitution demands, not just the 100 Americans in the #Senate,” #JamieRaskin added.

#law #Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #shutdown

But as fear spread, so did something else — neighbors stepping up for one another & finding creative ways to show up for vendors & restaurant owners. This includes a grassroots effort to organize so-called “buy out” events meant to allow vendors who fear being detained by #immigration agents to go home early.

#Trump #law #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

“Riots Raging”: The *Misleading* Story #FoxNews Told About #Portland Before Trump Sent #Troops

When #Trump told reporters on Sept 5 he’d started looking at sending the #NationalGuard to Portland, #Oregon, he said it was because of something he saw on TV.

He said the city was being destroyed by paid agitators. “What they’ve done to that place, it’s like living in hell,” he said….

#law #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #fascism #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-guard-fox-news-coverage

#Beatings. #SexualAssault. #PsychologicalAbuse. These are some of the horrors endured by the >250 men the #UnitedStates sent to #ElSalvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, acc/to a new comprehensive report released on Wednesday by #HRW & #Cristosal, a #HumanRights group focused on #CentralAmerica.

#Trump #law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CECOT #DueProcess #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity
https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/11/12/you-have-arrived-in-hell/torture-and-other-abuses-against-venezuelans-in-el

#Trump Sent Men to #Torture in #ElSalvador, Report Confirms

Human Rights Watch (#HRW) found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador by the #UnitedStates were beaten almost every day.

#law #Constitution #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CECOT #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #Judiciary #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #fascism #Tyranny #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/trump-cecot-torture-hrw-elsalvador-prison-venezuelan/

#CarlSandburg ‘#Chicago’ #poem finds fresh relevance in a city occupied by #ICE

Known for praising the city with “big shoulders,” the beloved 1914 composition recently was recited in a ruling addressing federal #immigration agents’ #UseOfForce. Literary scholars say they were “astounded” & “amazed.”

#Trump #law #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/11/carl-sandburg-chicago-poem-operation-midway-blitz-deportation-campaign-judge-sara-ellis

Here is #Chicago’s local coverage of the event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjJb7LCEwvw

POS #Bovino was there. The ass that lied in court & then admitted he lied about protesters throwing a rock at him.

#Trump #law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse #judiciary #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy

The video, filmed by Veraza’s wife in the passenger seat, shows a masked federal agent driving a black pickup truck & firing pepper spray into the open driver’s window of a vehicle. The video later shows his daughter, whose face is censored, crying as someone says, “You’re OK, Mama, you’re OK” & people wash out their eyes.

#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #judiciary #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy

“I didn’t have to go through this, & my daughter didn’t have to go through this,” Veraza said. “We aren’t protesters, we weren’t going after them, we weren’t attacking them.”

Veraza said his family is considering legal action to help pay for specialist care that he said his daughter now requires.

#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #judiciary #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy

1-yr-old pepper-sprayed by federal agent in #Chicago

Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam’s Club Saturday morning. The action obviously violates a judge’s restriction on use of force.

#Trump #law #immigration #judiciary #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/09/1-year-old-pepper-sprayed-by-federal-agent-in-cicero

Judge Permanently Blocks #NationalGuard Deployments to #Portland for #ICE #Protests

With her temporary block expiring, Judge Karin Immergut said the fascist #Trump admin had failed to prove that protesters were *hampering* Trump’s policies.

#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #CivilRights #DueProcess #military #PosseComitatusAct #HumanRights #ResistYAll #resist
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/portland-oregon-national-guard.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

AYFKM? cuz you know … #law #Constitution #emoluments etc!!!

Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury #Trump #Hotel on #Historic Bombing Site
Despite a #fraud investigation into officials who endorsed the project, Parliament used an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to push the plans through

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/world/europe/serbia-hotel-trump-kushner.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

“It’s about their practices targeting #journalists, targeting #clergy & people exercising their constitutional rights,” said Craig Futterman, atty for the #media orgs. “We have #children, #parents & #grandparents who will forever be afraid to exercise their very rights that make this country great, assaulted by the very people assigned to protect those freedoms.”

#Trump #Chicago #law #immigration #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #CivilRights #ICE #CBP

Attorneys for the plaintiffs told Ellis that federal agents repeatedly & brazenly violated the constitutional rights of #protesters & #journalists during aggressive #immigration raids, which began 2 months ago.

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

“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

#Sotomayor: “We’re forgetting here is a
very fundamental point, which is the #Constitution is structured so that if I’m going to be asked to pay for something as a citizen, that it’s through a bill that is generated through #Congress, & the president has the power to veto it or not, but I’m not going to be taxed unless both houses, the executive & the legislature, have made that choice, correct?”

#SCOTUS #law #tariffs #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #Trump #economy

An emerging theme, from the conservative justices, is that the president’s concededly broad power to shut down #trade generally may include the lesser power to impose #tariffs. That echoes the admin’s position.

Justice #Sotomayor jumped into the questioning & refocused the case back on a primary argument against the tariff programs, that the #Constitution gives #Congress, NOT the president, the #power to #tax.

#SCOTUS #law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #Trump #economy

Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, & her keys in plain view.

#DHS later released a statement claiming that Figueroa was at fault, saying “she crashed into an unmarked government vehicle & violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers.”

[Despite DHS claims,] Figueroa was released the same day a few hours later WITHOUT CHARGES.

#Trump #Chicago #law #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #ICE #Gestapo

#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/

For the second time in a little over a week, #ICE officers reportedly shot someone in #LosAngeles, #California. This time, it was a #US #citizen who ICE officers shot from behind while he was driving a car, acc/to a report from the Los Angeles Times.

The victim was a 25-yr-old named Carlos Jimenez, who is a father of 3.

#Trump #law #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-02/lawyers-say-ice-shot-us-citizen-from-behind-as-he-stopped-to-warn-them-of-childre

#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/

The pair — along with admin officials & friends — recently launched #ExecutiveBranch, a $500,000-a-head membership club for #Trump-supporting business leaders to hobnob in DC.

These organizations have a collective ambition, according to #ChrisBuskirk, which is to give the businesspeople he sees as vital to the country’s future a role shaping #government & lasting #political #power.

#law #Constitution #democracy #technocracy #plutocracy #aristocracy #oligarchy #USpol

With significant funding from #tech leaders, #RockbridgeNetwork aims to equip #MAGA to outlive #Trump. The group has no website or public-facing entity, but it has assembled pollsters, data crunchers, online advertisers & even a documentary film arm. It is gearing up to deploy its arsenal in the 2026 #midterms & in the 2028 presidential contest, when many Rockbridge members hope #JDVance will be the nominee.

#law #Constitution #democracy #technocracy #plutocracy #aristocracy #oligarchy #USpol

Today, #ChrisBuskirk helms the #RockbridgeNetwork, a secretive organization birthed out of the weekend gathering that has established itself as one of the most influential forces in #GOP #politics. Political strategists credit the close-knit network of businessmen-cum-donors with helping fuel #Trump’s reelection last year & propelling one of its own — #JDVance — into the vice presidency.

#law #Constitution #democracy #technocracy #plutocracy #aristocracy #oligarchy #USpol

In 2019, a small group of #RightWing donors rented a resort outside the 100-person town of Rockbridge, Ohio, for a summit to secure the future of the #MAGA movement. They aimed to turn a singular candidate — President Donald #Trump — into an enduring political coalition, with a pipeline of voters, donors & candidates that would cement a radical transformation of the #GOP.

#law #Constitution #democracy #technocracy #plutocracy #aristocracy #USpol

#GiftArticle

Inside the #billionaire network shaping #MAGA’s post-#Trump future

#ChrisBuskirk put #tech #elites at the center of power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory — an “#aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.

#law #Constitution #democracy #technocracy #plutocracy
https://wapo.st/3Jsvgrl

The case has divided the conservative legal community.

The #Constitution gives #Congress the power to impose #taxes. But soon after taking office, #Trump declared that a 1977 #law gave him the power to impose #tariffs unilaterally during “emergencies”.

#SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #economy

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

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