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We now have three cases in the Chicago area where ICE agents' claims made to justify arresting (in one case shooting) protestors have been shown to be lies when the video finally came to light. Lies all the way from the very top top to the bottom.

When the guy at the top sets the tone, is it surprising that the underlings lie like oriental rugs too? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/oregon-republicans-protest-photo-south-america

We (Chicago) are now under martial law. Who would have believed it possible just a year ago?

Apparently I'm living in a war zone. Funny, my street seems remarkably quiet, as does everywhere I've driven in the city today. Just like it was yesterday, and last week, and last month. Only disturbances I've heard about are in places where a bunch of armed, masked thugs claiming to be federal agents seem to be doing their best to foment trouble. I wonder how a draft dodger knows what a war zone looks like, anyway.

The Gestapo is alive and well in Chicago: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/federal-immigration-agent-throws-tear-gas-canister-logan-square-street/

I just wish it were a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.

Just about everything about the current government is "sad". What's even sadder is the number of Americans who voted for it.

It makes more sense than the 2nd Amendment.

Troops to be sent into Portland, OR. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddmn6ge6e2o

I'll take (incompetent + decent) over (incompetent + evil).

Nobody knows more about anything than Donald.

All the time immigration laws are a political football and make no sense wirh respect tp the needs of the country, there will be illegal immigration. It's structural. You solve the problem by rationalizing the law, not by ill treating people.

A what?

Well, Comey's been indicted. DoJ is now totally under Trump's thumb with not even a pretense of independence. One more step on the march to fascism, and his enablers cheer.

Trump is pressuring the DoJ to indict former FBI director Comey. Assuming the DoJ is stupid enough to bring charges, how can any court give a fair trial after all the negative things that Trump, Navarro and Miller are posting online and in the right wing press? You'd think Trump would owe Comey after he basically torpedoed Hillary's campaign in 2016. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/politics/james-comey-justice-department-trump-bondi-perjury-virginia